Open Source Technology in an Open Architecture World

Architecting for Innovation Meet-up group is proud to present a meet-up on Open Source Technology with WSO2 https://wso2.com and ManTech www.mantechit.com.au
Open architecture and open source go hand-in-hand, whereby collaboration, reuse and security play key roles in creating great software. We’ll look at what open source is and what prompted its meteoric rise over commercial closed-source software. We’ll then look at how open source is paving the way for open data, finishing up with how open source plays a role in WSO2’s middleware stack that powers enterprises all over the world

5:30 – Arrive. Drinks and networking
6pm-6:10 – Introduction
6:10 Presentations
6:45 Panel Q&A
7:30 Final questions
7:40 Lucky door prize
7:40-8:30 Drinks and networking

Introduction

David Hymers
Regional Account Lead, Australia & New Zealand,
WSO2
www.linkedin.com/in/david-hymers-2b51844/
https://wso2.com

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Andrew Blades
Client Solutions Director
ManTech
www.linkedin.com/in/andrewblades
www.mantechit.com.au
Andrew is a seasoned recruiter mainly around Architecture, Transformation and Change. He runs the Australasian Architecture Network www.linkedin.com/groups/1822816/ and Architecting for Innovation meet-up group www.meetup.com/Architecting-for-Innovation/

Presentations

Gokul Balakrishnan
Associate Lead - Solutions Architecture
WSO2
www.linkedin.com/in/gokul-balakrishnan
https://wso2.com
Gokul is an Associate Lead in the Solutions Architecture team at WSO2. He was a core developer of the WSO2 Analytics Platform for over 5 years prior to switching to Solutions Architecture, where he now oversees pre-sales in a technical point of view.

Peter Liu
CDN Architect
Optus
www.linkedin.com/in/petertwliu
www.optus.com.au
Peter is a Docker Advocate, Cloud Evangelist, DevOps Supporter & Protagonist for Transformational Change. Peter Liu created TankSwarm (tankswarm.com) whilst working with the TV & Content team at Optus to enable robust and distributed performance testing of critical OTT media delivery systems.

Panel

Jason Fischer
Head of Development
Bambora
www.linkedin.com/in/jasonfischer
www.bambora.com
Jason is a mobile enthusiast, developer, admirer or simple, elegant design and leads the development teams at Bambora. He has designed and developed software for web, desktop and mobile for individuals, business and customer-facing applications in different industries. Jason enjoys geeking out to cool new tech, brainstorming about future technology, admiring great design and a good dose of Sci-Fi.

Andrew Burgess
Practice Lead, Enterprise Architecture
Tquila ANZ
www.linkedin.com/in/andy-burgess-349ba351
www.tquilaanz.com
Andy has been an IT professional for 20 years specialising in Architecture and development. Andy specialises I’m increasing efficiencies, minimising deployment costs to become operational faster while adhering to architecture and development frameworks and best practice to provide governance to effectively manage solutions and evaluate architecture pattens.
Andy specialises in modern-day architecture and technical architecture in cloud computing.
Andy heads up Tquila Anz’s Enterprise Architecture Practice

Sam Harley
Senior Solutions Architect
MongoDB
www.linkedin.com/in/samharley
www.mongodb.com
Sam is a Senior Solutions Architect with MongoDB and is based in Sydney. Sam has worked in the IT industry for fifteen years and is recognised as a trusted advisor to customers throughout Australia, providing best-practice recommendations to assist in designing and building reliable, scalable solutions using MongoDB

Kevin Kwast
Chief Data Architect and VP Ops/Infrastructure
Previously with Indeed.com
www.linkedin.com/in/kevinkwast
Kevin recently moved to Sydney after 11 years as an engineering leader with Indeed in Austin and Tokyo. He enjoys creating and scaling global platforms for online services. He believes that data can improve the product, platform and people's lives. Kevin is currently looking for an ambitious company to join.