Guests of Can I get that software in blue?

Nick Drost

Nick Drost is a Senior Director of Pre-Sales and Solution Architecture at Elastic. He previously worked at large technology companies such as Oracle and Salesforce.

Noelle Silver is a multi-award-winning technologist and entrepreneur who specializes in helping companies with emerging technology, cloud, AI and Web 3.0. She has led teams at NPR, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon Alexa, and is a consistent champion for public understanding of the ethical use of AI and tech fluency. She is the founder of AI Leadership Institute and is an AI Executive at IBM.

Rasmus Makwarrth

Rasmus Makwarth is the Founder and CEO at Bucket. He was formerly a Sr Director of Product Management at Elastic, and the Co-Founder and CEO at OpBeat.

Rhett Garber

Rhett Garber is a senior engineering leader at GitHub/Microsoft and has previously led teams at Yelp and Postmates.

Rory Trifon

Rory Trifon is the President of the Estate of Richard Bernstein. While Richard Bernstein is most widely remembered today as the creator of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine distinctive covers, since the mid 60s he was one of the pioneers and architects of Pop Art. One of the first artists to blur the line between commercial and fine art, Bernstein’s technicolor work (whether on canvas shown in a gallery or a magazine cover at a newsstand) captured the glamour, extravagance, and innovation of the Pop Art era.

His works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Portrait Gallery, Stedelijk Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and has had exhibitions at the Iris Clert Gallery , Gallerie Barozzi, Byron Gallery “The Box Show,” among others, most recently exhibited at The Deitch Gallery, Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Nottingham Contemporary and upcoming Warhol Museum exhibition September 2022.

Shane Connelly

Shane Connelly leads the Product team at Vectara (product management, product marketing, design, developer advocacy/relations, and technical writing). Prior to Vectara, heI led the product management team for Kong’s flagship API gateway. Prior to Kong, he led product for Elasticsearch at Elastic.

Steve Mayzak (He/Him)

Steve Mayzak is Vice President, Global Solution Engineering at Grafana Labs. He is a builder of pre-sales teams having previously built the Solution Architect team at Elastic, Inc. from the ground up until post-IPO and is now working on doing the same thing at Grafana Labs.

Stormy Peters

Stormy Peters began her journey into the world of open source in 2002 when she created and managed HP’s Open Source Program Office and ever since then she’s been high-flying in various open source ecosystems. She was the executive director and later a board member of the Gnome Foundation, a director of the Mozilla development network, she sat on the board of directors for the Software Freedom Conservancy, she was VP of Developer Relations for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, and she was Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft. Currently she is on the board of directors at the Linux Foundation and is Vice President of Communities at GitHub and she also runs a non-profit called Kids on Computers which is a charity she founded to set up computer labs in schools for kids with no access to technology.

Tanya Bragin

Tanya Bragin is the VP of Product at ClickHouse, a very fast open source OLAP databases used by some of the biggest companies in the world. Tanya was hired to lead the effort to build a SaaS offering of ClickHouse, having previously served in similar roles as a VP of Product at Elastic.