Aishwarya Kala
Aishwarya is an Oracle aficionado working with Pythian and has spent a significant part of the last decade working with, exploring, migrating, upgrading and having fun with Oracle Databases and related technologies. She is a regular speaker across various Oracle User Group’s & a regular contributor to the Oracle Community via her blogs and posts. She’s an Oracle ACE, always keen to learn, discuss and explore new technologies.
@aishwaryakala13
Andy Rivenes is a Product Manager at Oracle for Database In-Memory. Prior to that Andy was a Product Manager for Heat Map, Automatic Data Optimization, SecureFiles and DBFS. Andy has spent a large part of his career managing Oracle databases and he now spends his time helping customers implement Database In-Memory as well as providing information about Database In-Memory through blogs, conferences, and customer visits. You can visit the Database In-Memory blog
@TheInMemoryGuy
ARSALAN Dehghani S.
Oracle Professional DBA with 19 years’ experience managing complex UNIX-based Oracle Databases. Experienced in a wide range of mission-critical technologies, specializing in database administration best practices for High Availability and Performance Tuning and Oracle Troubleshooting. Possess hands-on experience with real-world Production environments, and have risen from Oracle Developer to managing DBA.
@ArsalanTabriz
Dr. Burcin Kaplanoglu is a recognized industry technologist, innovator, thought leader, and keynote speaker. He is leading innovation for the Oracle Global Business Units (Industries) and is the Co-Founder of Oracle Industries Innovation Lab. Oracle Business Units provide best of breed industry solutions including Construction and Engineering, Utilities, Communications, Food and Beverage, Banking and Insurance Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Hospitality, Retail, Public Sector. He is Chair of the Board Committee at Institute for AI in Construction funded by National Science Foundation (NSF) and Discovery Partners Institute (DPI) since 2020. He was recognized as one of the “BuiltWorlds 2020 Mavericks” in the Technologists category and one of the 7 “AEC Innovators” by @BD+C magazine. He received Oracle Construction and Engineering “Let’s build” award in 2020. He was named one of Engineering News Record (ENR)’s “Top 20 Under 40” in 2016. He is also an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering. Kaplanoglu was previously vice president, director of operations at Lendlease’s Telecommunication’s infrastructure business unit, where he was responsible for innovation, strategy, and operations. During his 16 years at Lendlease, he led construction projects, spearheaded national real estate development programs, developed corporate operational systems, and initiated process improvements to operations. He frequently speaks and publishes articles related to the corporate innovation, Internet of Things, disruption of tech, investments, and construction technology, the next generation of wireless communication (5G), and innovation leadership.
@burcintech
Chaitanya Koratamaddi
Chaitanya is a Senior Principal Product Manager for Oracle APEX. He joined Oracle in 2005. Chaitanya has extensive knowledge and experience with various Oracle technologies such as Oracle APEX, SQL Developer, ORDS, Oracle Database, Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud Services, and Oracle Fusion Middleware. Chaitanya is a seasoned technology professional with more than 18 years of experience in various IT roles. Chaitanya spends his free time gardening, volunteering, learning music, and enjoys traveling. You can gain insights into what Chaitanya is up to by following
@chaitanya_in
Chris Saxon
Chris Saxon is an Oracle Developer Advocate for SQL. His job is to help you get the best out of the Oracle Database and have fun with SQL!
To help you with this he blogs at All Things SQL. He also create videos combining SQL and magic on YouTube at the The Magic of SQL.
If you have questions about working with Oracle technology, please reach out to him.
You can do this via @chrisrsaxon or on Ask Tom .
Christian Gohmann is currently working as Principal Consultant and Instructor at Trivadis Germany GmbH in Dusseldorf, Germany. His main focus lies in helping customers in the areas of architecture planning, implementation, and migration – with a specialization on high availability solutions, like Data Guard, Oracle RAC. Since 2006, Christian Gohmann is working with Oracle and the Oracle Database and was part of a huge amount of different projects for customers in the German-speaking areas. Besides his consultancy activities, he is the main developer and the responsible person for TVD-Backup – a product distributed by Trivadis, which is responsible for the intelligent backup and recovery of an Oracle database. In his spare time, he shares his knowledge on his blog https://www.christian-gohmann.de and spends as much time as possible with his two dogs Susi and Taran and for his hobbies climbing/bouldering, hiking, and watching movies.
@CGohmannDE
Christopher Jones is a Senior Principal Product Manager working with the Oracle Database Data Access team primarily on APIs for scripting languages including Node.js, Python, PHP and the ODPI-C library for Oracle Database driver writers. He has responsibilities for Oracle Call Interface (OCI) and related Oracle Database APIs; for Oracle Database clients such as Oracle Instant Client; and for general database adoption by developers. He co-released the popular book “The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual” and is the author of a number of technical articles. Christopher has presented at big and small conferences around the world including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention and Oracle OpenWorld.
He tweets @ghrd and blogs .
Connor McDonald is a Database Advocate for Oracle Corporation. Ever being frustrated as a child with the limits imposed by the single kilobyte of RAM in his Sinclair ZX80 computer, he has loved the challenges that come with storing data, which ultimately led to a career in database technology. When the infamous Y2K data issue did not end the world as people thought, he started presenting on his database passions, found that he loved doing it, and has spoken at over 120 conferences around the world since then. Due to his partners predilection for rescuing stray cats, he doesn’t just speak the phrase “as hard as herding cats”, he lives it every day.
@connor_mc_d
Dani Schnider
Dani works as Senior Principal Consultant, trainer and Data Warehouse Lead Architect for Trivadis, a database consulting company in Zurich/Switzerland. Since 1994 he has been working with Oracle databases (version 6 to 19c), since 1997 mainly in Data Warehouse projects. His main focus is architecture, data modeling and physical design of data warehouses, but he also works in development of ETL processes as well as SQL performance tuning.
@dani_schnider
Daniel Overby Hansen
Daniel is a Senior Principal Product Manager for Cloud Migrations at Oracle. He is part of “Database Upgrade, Patching & Utilities” and thus works with theentire portfolio of the team.
Before joining Oracle, Daniel had a long career as operational database administrator and database developer at a global provider of financial services.
Daniel’s motto is that “databases are fun” but when he is not messing with databases, he takes care of his family in Denmark and enjoys the outdoor life with farming, running and hiking.
@dohdatabase
Debra Lilley is an Oracle ACE Director recognised Fusion Applications and Technology expert. She has 25 years experience with Oracle applications and led the global user group input into Fusion Applications. She has been involved in over 100 implementations of Oracle ERP & HCM, advising customers on their application and implementation strategy. She has spoken at over 300 events worldwide.
@debralilley
Erik van Roon is an Oracle Database Developer and Oracle ACE who has worked with Oracle technology since 1995, specializing in, but not limiting to, SQL and PLSQL.
Since 2009 he is self-employed. His company is called EvROCS.
Prior to that he has worked for several consulting companies in the Netherlands.
He has worked on major projects for several clients in industries like entertainment, banking and energy.
Erik has been the technical lead of multiple successful high impact data-migration projects moving and transforming large amounts of data.
He’s been a speaker at several conferences in Europe and the United states.
He is a co-founder and core member of the MASH program which mentors new speakers during their first steps as a speaker.
@evrocs_nl
Fernando Simon
I am Database Architect and DBA specialized in Engineered Systems and MAA environments. Helping customers to design and implement high availability environments using systems like Exadata, ZDLRA, and ZDLRA and features like Data Guard, RAC focusing HA, and MAA.
Working with Oracle since 2004, Exadata since 2010, and ZDLRA since 2014 I am passionate and interested in MAA environments (Data Guard, RAC, Exadata, ZDLRA, Replication, etc) but also correlated areas like resource manager, capacity planning, architecture design, and database troubleshooting.
@FSimonDBA
Francesco Tissot
Francesco comes from Verona, Italy and works as a Developer Advocate at Aiven. With his many years of experience as a data engineer, he has stories to tell and advice for data-wranglers everywhere. Francesco loves sharing knowledge with others as a speaker and writer, and is on a mission to defend the world from bad Italian food!
@ftisiot
Franck Pachot
Franck is passionate about all databases. After 20 years of consulting on traditional databases (Oracle Certified Master / ACE Director as well as AWS Data Hero and AWS Academy educator) he is now a developer advocate for Yugabyte, a NewSQL open-source distributed database full PostgreSQL-compatible. Franck loves to learn and share in technical communities, very active on Twitter and multiple blogs.
@FranckPachot
Gustavo Gonzalez
Gustavo is IT Convergence’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) leading internal Cloud SaaS implementation as well as helping customers on their journey to the cloud.
Gustavo as a Chief Technology Officer from IT Convergence and Oracle ACE Director has delivered presentations in more than 200 conferences around the world in more than 25 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, and Asia, including Oracle Open World since 2006.
@ggonza4itc
Heli Helskyaho is the CEO for Miracle Finland Oy. Heli holds a Master’s degree (Computer Science) at the University of Helsinki and she specializes in databases. At the moment she is working on her doctoral studies, researching and teaching at the University of Helsinki. Her research areas cover Big Data, multi-model databases, schema discovery and methods and tools for utilizing semi-structured data for decision making.
Heli is an Oracle ACE Director, an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, and a frequent speaker in many conferences. She is the author of Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler for Database Design Mastery (Oracle Press 2015) and a co-author of Real World SQL and PL/SQL: Advice from the Experts (Oracle Press 2016).
Heli was listed as one of the TOP 100 influences on the IT sector in Finland in 2015, in 2016, in 2017, in 2018, and again in 2019.
@HeliFromFinland
Jim Czuprynski
Jim Czuprynski has over forty years of professional experience in Information Technology, serving diverse roles at several Fortune 1000 companies before becoming an Oracle DBA in 2001. He has been an Oracle ACE Director since 2014 and is a sought-after public speaker on Oracle technology, presenting often at Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle CODE, COLLABORATE, KSCOPE, Oracle Development Community tours, and Oracle User Group conferences around the world.
Jim has authored 100+ articles on Oracle Database administration, ML/analytics, and APEX since 2003 at databasejournal.com, IOUG SELECT, and ODTUG TechCeleration and has co-authored four books on Oracle database technology. Jim’s blog, Generally … It Depends, contains his regular observations on all things Oracle and the state of the IT industry. Jim also co-hosts the Beyond Tech Skills podcast, which discusses everything about tech … except tech.
@JimTheWhyGuy
Johannes Michler
Senior Principal Consultant with more than 15 years’ experience in the reengineering of business processes, the use of innovative digitization technologies, application development, system administration and the conception of complex technical information system solutions. Extensive experience in the productive use of the Oracle technology portfolio in different deployment models (Cloud, On Premise, Hybrid). A proven expert in the design and implementation of integration solutions (Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Integration Cloud and various Open Source integration platforms) and functional extensions for Oracle’s enterprise applications (Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Applications Cloud).
Industry know-how: supply and waste management companies, recycling, manufacturing industry, pharmaceutical industry, automotive suppliers, automotive glazing, service companies, trade, industry associations, real estate industry, and the public sector
Head of BU Platforms & Development at PROMATIS software GmbH
Julian Dontcheff is the Global Database Lead of Accenture and has more than 30 years of database experience. He is the first Oracle Certified Master in Europe (back in 2002) and he is also an Oracle ACE Director.
@JulianDontcheff
Julian Frey works as an Expert Oracle Database Consultant for Edorex AG in Ostermundigen (Switzerland). During his more than 10 years of consulting he has gained a lot of experience in many areas, especially in the areas of HA, Engineered Systems and Monitoring. He is a frequent speaker and founder of the Oracle Beer Bern Meetup Group. Julian is a member of the Oracle ACE Program as an Oracle ACE
@JulianFreyCH
Karen Jex
Karen was an Oracle DBA for over 20 years and presented several times at UKOUG special interest group meetings and conferences before moving over to “the dark side” a few years ago. She is now a Senior Database Consultant with EDB, working with PostgreSQL databases. She has recently started to talk about Postgres at various conferences, and in particular about her experience of learning PostgreSQL after so many years of working almost exclusively with Oracle databases.
She lives in a small village in the mountains where, when she isn’t busy playing with databases, she loves to cycle, mountain bike and ski (especially ski touring) with her family, her friends and her dog, Comet
karenhjex
Kashif Manzoor is a Technology Evangelist with 15+ years of experience in Information Technologies in different industries. Kashif is an accomplished technology professional, author, and speaker with expertise in the business process, technology, and people aspects of complex technology implementations. Currently, working as a Cloud Solutions Architect EMEA to work with customers to migrate Oracle Packaged (e-business suite, JDE, Hyperion, Siebel, Peoplesoft, UGBU, RGBU Applications workload to OCI.
He is a tech geek and has published 300+ tech articles/blogs, a Podcast on iTunes & google podcasts to share technology tips/tools, and hands-on experience with the fellow community. It is a give back to the community and the strongest believer of SocialLearning.
@kashifmanzoor
Kevin Wittek
Testcontainers co-maintainer, passionate about FLOSS, containers and Java. Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. Likes to write Python programs to support his wife in performing behavioral science experiments with pigeons. Plays the electric guitar and is a musician in his second life.
After many years working in the industry as a software engineer and a short detour into the world of academic blockchain research, Kevin is now working at AtomicJar Inc., trying to make developers more happy and productive, one container at a time.
@Kiview
Lino Schildenfeld
Oracle APEX consultant with 15+ years of experience. Consulted for APEX R&D, Skillbuilders team and most recently fab.earth.
Worked with clients in Europe, USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand across all sectors. AUSOUG Connect content chair for APEX and webinar organizer.
Regular speaker at ODTUG KSCOPE, DOUG APEX Connect, APEX World, APEX ALPE Adria, MAKEIT, HROUG, AUSOUG & APAC Groundbreakers tour conferences.
APEX blogger and Oracle ACE.
@LinoSchilde
Liron Amitzi Liron is an Oracle ACE Director and a senior Oracle DBA consultant, with more than 20 years of experience. During these years Liron worked as a senior consultant with a large number of companies in various fields and managed an Oracle Professional Services Team. He mainly specializes in high availability solutions, performance, backup and recovery, and other infrastructure and application database areas.
Liron is the president of BCOUG (British Columbia Oracle User Group), and he is also a well-known instructor and lectures in Oracle courses, events and forums
@amitzil
Lucas Jellema is solution architect and CTO at AMIS and member of the Conclusion Architecture Board, The Netherlands. The running theme through most of his activities is transfer of knowledge and enthusiasm (and live demos). Lucas is JavaOne 2015 Rockstar, Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador and ACE Director and a frequent speaker at conferences such as Oracle Code, Oracle OpenWorld, CodeOne (JavaOne), Devoxx and on Groundbreaker tours. He publishes techy stuff at Github, Medium, Slideshare, DZone, OTN, and the AMIS Technology Blog . He is the author of two books with O’Reilly Press.
@lucasjellema
Markus Flechtner is a Principal Consultant at Trivadis/Germany. Trivadis is an Oracle Platinum Partner based in Switzerland. Markus has been working with Oracle software for more than 20 years. He started as a developer for Oracle Forms and Reports, but later became a DBA. At Trivadis he specialized on Oracle Real Application Cluster and database upgrade and migration projects.
He is a teacher for the Trivadis trainings on Oracle RAC, Oracle Database New Features and Oracle Multitenant.
He likes sharing his experience in his blog and on national and international conferences and he is co-author of the (german) book „Der Oracle DBA“. In January 2020 he was nominated an „Oracle ACE“.
Blog: https://www.markusdba.net
@markusdba
Markus Kett and his team have been working on IDE tools for Java and database development for almost 20 years. He is the product owner of the RapidClipse IDE project, which is a free Eclipse distribution and visual Java IDE. Markus is co-founder and CEO at MicroStream – the company behind the MicroStream open source project, contributor to project Helidon, editor in chief for the free JAVAPRO magazine in Germany, and organizer of the Java conference JCON. He is an independent editor for various developer magazines, and speaker at numerous conferences, and user groups.
@MarkusKett
Mia Urman is an Oracle ACE DIRECTOR and world-class expert in Oracle development tools. She serves as CEO of AuraPlayer, a development house providing modernization solutions for back-office systems.
Presentation experience
Ms. Urman is an Oracle ACE Director and a sought after presenter on Oracle technologies. She has presented at numerous conferences and user group events including Oracle OpenWorld, Collaborate, ODTUG Kscope, UKOUG, DOAG and acted as the keynote speaker at many Oracle Technology events. She has been working in the Oracle world for over 20 years and presents on topics such as Digital Assistants, ChatBots, Mobility, Oracle Cloud and traditional tools such as Oracle Form/Reports.
@miaurman, @AuraPlayer
Michael J Gangler is a senior database specialist and architect. He’s also an Oracle ACE with expertise in database reliability and architecture and a strong background in operations, DevOps, consulting, and data analysis.
@mjgangler
Mike Dietrich is based in Bavaria, Germany and has almost thirty years experience in the information technology industry. He has spent 24 years at Oracle Corporation where he held senior and management roles in both the sales and support before joining the Oracle’s Database Development organization. For over a decade he is the Distinguished Product Manager for Database Upgrade and Migrations.
In his role, Mike is responsible for evangelizing, influencing and demonstrating Oracle technology solutions related to database upgrades, migrations and consolidation to Oracle customers and partners worldwide. Besides that he works consistently with customers in key reference projects, both onsite and remotely. He has become a patching specialist, troubleshoots upgrade and migration issues. and delivers technical workshops between Arctic and Antarctic. Furthermore he’s an experienced conference speaker. Mike holds a graduate engineer degree of Georg-Simon-Ohm University of Applied Sciences in Telecommunication Technologies and Computer Science. Y
Mike is eager to learn something new every day.
You can find out more about Mike on the Upgrade blog.
@MikeDietrichDE
Mónica Godoy is a Principal Product Manager for Oracle APEX in Cali, Colombia. She has been at Oracle since 2019. Mónica has experience with various Oracle Technologies such as Oracle APEX, Forms & Reports, SQL Developer, and ORDS. She has presented at conferences in Latin America like OTN, Oracle Code and Oracle Groundbreakers Tour.
Mónica also encourages women to be part of the APEX Community at www.womeninapex.com.
@signal006
Monika Lewandowska
Monika is an experienced Oracle architect, designer, and developer. She has started her journey with Oracle in the last century with Oracle DB 7, continues to this day. She emphasizes the solution’s simplicity, code quality, best practices, and above all – system performance.
She is an Oracle ACE and willingly shares her experience.
She loves fast motorcycles and databases!
@monika_mitura
Osama Mustafa Osama Mustafa is Founder of Gurus Solutions Company, First Oracle ACE Director In the middle-east, and the First AliBaba MVP Program, Creator/Director of Jordan Amman Oracle User Group the first Group in Jordan related to oracle technology, Author of two Technology Book, Osama is one of the leader for Cloud Technology and working with different Cloud Vendor Such as AWS, Google, and Oracle, Having experience in Automation, Implement different Project around the world, also solid knowledge in different databases, Osama presenting is different conferences around the world, and wrote more than 100 articles in different magazines such as IOUG, UKOUG and OTECH Magazine, include to this he is sharing his knowledge on his website http://www.osamaoracle.com
@Osamaoracle
Phil Wilkins
Phil has over 25 years in IT with experience of multinationals to software start-ups and consumer organizations. He started as a developer on real-time mi ssion-critical solutions and worked his way through technical and leadership roles primarily in Java environments.
Phil now works for Capgemini UK specializing in cloud integration and API technologies as part of a multi-award-winning PaaS team. Phil’s supports well know national and international brands, as well as supporting the wider team and leading the design authority.
Outside of work, he has contributed to supporting local community websites, input and support to the development of technical books (Packt Publishing, Prentice-Hall, etc) including co-authoring the books on Integration, APIs and now a book on Fluentd for Manning. He has also had articles published in technical journals and an active blogger. Phil is a co-organizer of the London Oracle Developer Meetup. Phil is TOGAF certified and Oracle have recognized his community contributions as an Ace Director.
@mp3monster
Philipp Salvisberg is a senior principal consultant, partner and member of the boards of directors at Trivadis and an Oracle ACE. He has been focusing on Oracle database based solutions since 1988. At that time with Oracle Database version 5. Since then, he is helping customers design, build and optimize their database centric solutions, teaching application development topics or speaking at conferences.
Philipp has a soft spot for doing as much as possible in a single SQL statement and is interested in pretty much everything to use the database as efficiently as possible. He likes to design model-driven software solutions using domain specific languages, while getting the most out of the underlying technologies.
@phsalvisberg
Piet de Visser is an experienced Database Consultant and DBA specializing in Oracle databases,
High-Availability and troubleshooting.
He is in IT since 1987, works with Oracle databases since 1994.
Independent since 2013, he now looks for short-term or part-time consulting assignments.
Piet combines technical knowledge with experience in global organizations.
His energetic personality, curiosity and language-skills make him ideal for pioneering projects or troubleshooting IT problems in a multi-national environment.
Piet also invests a lot of effort in maintaining a network of Like-Minded Oracle specialists worldwide and is a regular speaker at international user group events and symposia.
Oh, and Piet has a preference for Simple solutions.
@pdevisser
René Antúnez
Currently, I am an Oracle ACE; Speaker at Oracle Open World, Oracle Developers Day, OTN Tour Latin America and APAC region and IOUG Collaborate; Prior Co-President of ORAMEX (Mexico Oracle User Group) and Web Events Chair for IOUG Cloud Computing Special Interest Group (SIG); At the moment I am a Senior Cloud Architect at Eclipsys.
@ rene_ace
Richard Niemiec is the current Chief Innovation/Information Officer of Viscosity North America. He is an Oracle ACE Director, a world renowned IT expert, and was a co-founder and the CEO of TUSC, a Chicago-based systems integrator of Oracle-based business solutions started in 1988. Rich has served as President of Rolta TUSC and Rolta EICT. TUSC was the Oracle Partner of the Year in 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, & 2011 (Rolta TUSC). Rich is the past President of the International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and the current President of the Midwest Oracle Users Group (MOUG).
@richniemiec
Rishin Mitra is an Oracle Certified IT professional having 10 years of industry experience in Applications Development. Currently he is working as Senior Oracle Technical Consultant with Version 1. He has got extensive knowledge of working on Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle ERP Cloud, OBIEE and Informatica, and has been involved in development and large-scale global delivery of various projects in products and services. He worked as a Senior Applications Engineer at Oracle and has worked on multiple legislative projects for EMEA as part of the Oracle E-Business Suite Globalization team.
He has joined Version 1 in 2018 and has been working as a Senior Technical Consultant in Oracle E-Business Suite since. He regularly participates in UKOUG Conferences, and this is the first time he is submitting a paper for Oracle Groundbreakers Conference.
@RishOraDev
Ron Ekins is an Oracle ACE Director and certified Cloud and Enterprise Architect with over 30 years Oracle experience in development, database administration and the architecture and delivery of large IS solutions. Ron is an active member of the Oracle community, and regular presenter at technology conferences across the globe.
@RonEkins
Roy Swonger has over three decades of experience in commercial software development. His career at Oracle has included work on software development process and quality improvement as well as a progression of management roles in technical documentation, software development tools, and core database technologies. Roy has managed the Database Upgrade, Patching & Utilities group in the Server Technologies division for more than 15 years. In this capacity he is responsible for the development and product management of database features such as the Database Upgrade, datapatch, Data Pump, SQL*Loader, External Tables, and Transportable Tablespaces. In addition, Roy runs the global Upgrade Program for the database, coordinating worldwide efforts to make database upgrades faster, easier, and less risky for customers. Roy holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Master of Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
@royfswonger
Rustam D. Khodjaev is a Founder and President of the TAJOUG (Tajikistan Oracle User Group) and CASOUG (Cetral Asia Oracle User Group). Rustam has been working with Oracle technologies since 2005, particularly with Oracle Database and Engineering Systems. He has experience in implementing and administering Oracle databases for Core Banking and for the Processing Center Systems, as well as experience in implementing and administering high-availability information systems (including Oracle Database Standby Servers based on Data Guard) and administering Exadata Database Machines. He has PhD in Computer Science and gives lectures at the two majors technical universities in Tajikistan since 2007 – Tajik Technical University and Branch of Branch of Lomonosov Moscow State University in Dushanbe. His courses at the Universities are: Database, Operating Systems and System Administration. He launched and implemented Oracle Academy in these two universities of Tajikistan. It was first practical implementations of Oracle Academy Education Program in Central Asia. He uses in his lectures and labs materials and tolls from Oracle Academy Program, such as Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, SQL Developer, SQL Developer Data Modeler, APEX and presentations.
@rustam_dushanbe
Rutvik Prajapati
Rutvik has 7+ years of programming experience as an Oracle SQL, PL/SQL, and Oracle APEX Developer in the analysis, design, and implementation of business applications using the Oracle Relational Database Management System.
@rutveek
Sandesh Rao is a VP running the AIOps Automation for the Autonomous Database Group at Oracle Corporation specializing using AI/ML for different usecases from predicting faults before they happen to Anomaly Detection within log data , metrics data. His previous positions have focused on performance tuning , high availability , disaster recovery and architecting cloud based solutions using the Oracle Stack. With more than 22 years of experience working in the HA space and having worked on several versions of Oracle with different application stacks he is a recognized expert in RAC , Database Internals , PaaS , SaaS and IaaS solutions and solving Big Data related problems . Most of his work involves working with customers in the implementation of public and hybrid cloud projects in the financial , retailing , scientific , insurance , biotech and the tech space. He is also responsible for developing assessments for best practices for the Oracle Grid Infrastructure 19c including products like RAC (Real Application Clusters) , Storage (ASM , ACFS)
@sandeshr
Stewart Bryson is the Founder & CEO of Red Pill Analytics and has been building data-driven applications since 1996. He is an Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador, an Oracle ACE Director, and a Snowflake Data Superhero. Stewart is an internationally recognized writer and speaker in the data and analytics community, and a past winner of the ODTUG Innovation award and Best Speaker award for Big Data & Data Warehousing.
@stewartbryson
Sven Ruppert has been coding Java since 1996 in industrial projects, is working as Developer Advocate for JFrog and Groundbreaker Ambassador (former Oracle Developer Champion). He is regularly speaking at Conferences worldwide and contributes to IT periodicals, as well as tech portals.
He was working over 15 years as a consultant worldwide in industries like Automotive, Space, Insurance, Banking, UN and WorldBank. Additional to his main topic DevSecOps he is working on Mutation Testing of Web apps and Distributed UnitTesting besides his evergreen topics Core Java and Kotlin.
@SvenRuppert
Valentin Leonard Tabacaru Valentin Leonard Tabacaru is a Principal Product Manager at Oracle. He supports Oracle Database server technology programs to drive the adoption of products and cloud services, maintains and develops exchanges with Product Management teams, helps partners validate and certify their applications, delivers briefings, webcasts, and hands-on workshops.
Valentin also helps strategic partners and customers by handling technical request assignments in his area of expertise
Yves Chassein is Vice President Application Development of the PROMATIS Group. He has several years of experience in the realization of complex transactional and analytical add-on functions for Oracle enterprise applications. In addition, he was able to build up comprehensive expertise in the planning and implementation of extensive integration concepts.
@yvch14
Wei Hu is the Senior Vice President of Development for High Availability and Emerging Technologies at Oracle. He leads the development of mission critical database capabilities including Maximum Availability Architecture, Active Data Guard, Sharding, Recovery, RAC Cache Fusion, and Advanced Queuing. Mr. Hu also leads the development of technologies related to Blockchain, Microservices, and Globally Distributed Databases.
Mr. Hu has B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has been with Oracle since 1998, holds more than 30 patents, and is the author and co-author of several books and papers.
Zahid Anwar
I am an enthusiastic and knowledgeable Principal Consultant working within Version 1’s Advisory Services. In my career I have proven my ability to solve complex problems, deliver complex projects, be flexible and to positively adapt to changing environments. I find this has provided me with a good grounding for interacting with many different people, at all levels, both in my professional and personal life. I am proud to have attained both Oracle Certified Master (OCM) 11g and Oracle Ace. I am also certified and experienced with Oracle’s Exadata and Database Appliance as well as well versed in Maximum Availability Architecture including Real Application Clusters. My next professional goal is to attain certification in Oracle, Azure and AWS Cloud as well as OCM 12c (when becomes available again). I also regularly speaker at a number of UKOUG conferences, sharing my knowledge on Exadata, RAC, Databases, etc.
@ZedDBA