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Scott is an experienced Executive with a demonstrated performance history in enabling clients to overcome management and technology challenges. Proven partnerships with clients in driving transformative change include outsourcing, globalization, large implementations and migrations (including Cloud and DevOps).

He is currently the President of LeapIT, a consulting organization that takes an unconventional approach to cloud workforce development, connecting under-resourced companies with overlooked talent.

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Guru Mony is currently the Director of DevOps and Quality Engineering at Markel, a Global Fortune 500 Insurance Company headquartered in Richmond. He has a passion for building and managing enterprise Agile QA solutions. His expertise is in building, coaching, and scaling Agile development teams with a penchant for TDD and BDD practice adoption for achieving Continuous Delivery for quality software.

Guru is a "fun filled guy and highly motivated with a go getter attitude."


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Tapabrata "Topo" Pal has over 20 years of IT experience in various technology roles (developer, operations engineer, and architect) in the retail, healthcare, and finance industries. Over the last 10 years, Topo has served in various positions at Capital One and for three years, a director of Capital One’s Enterprise Architecture group, where he led the company’s DevOpsSec initiatives. He is currently Sr. Director and Sr. Distinguished Engineer and is focused on next-generation infrastructure. Previously, Tapabrata spent some time in academics doing doctoral and post-doctoral research in the field of solid state physics. Topo has also traveled the country to speak at the DevOps Enterprise Summit for many years. 

Richard was born and raised in Geneva, Switzerland before coming to the states to attend James Madison University. He began his career in private banking for JP Morgan before making his move to Richmond, where he spent 14 years at ChamberRVA. He spent that time pioneering and launching multiple leadership programs designed to attract and retain emerging leaders in the Richmond region, and was recognized as one of Richmond’s Top 40 under 40. In his role of Executive Director, he is focused on the success of Startup Virginia, and the Richmond entrepreneurial community. Startup Virginia connects our startup community to exceptional mentors and extensive programs in a dynamic workspace to create businesses that dramatically shape the economic landscape. Their goal is to establish Virginia as a premier destination for high-growth startups making real impact in our communities and beyond.

Brian is currently an Engineering Manager in Infrastructure at Kickstarter, an organization that helps artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality. Brian spent time at Snag as both a Director and Principal Architect focusing in DevOps and Data Engineering. 

Brian is a technologist focused on the new, next, and evolving technologies regardless of
platform.  He enjoys a good challenge, so the most interesting projects for him tend to span disciplines (infrastructure, network, software, data, etc.) and involve a lot of moving parts. Firmly planted in the cloud, he finds that he is always looking for better ways to build more portable, scalable, and resilient systems to take advantage of the growing tide of networks oriented towards distributed workloads and highly available paradigms. 

Rvatech's annual Data Summit has seen yet another successful and intriguing year! A two day exclusive event consisting of in-depth workshops, and incredible presentations given by a diverse line-up of expert speakers + thought leaders in Data. 

We are joined by Miriam Friedel, Director of Data Science at Skafos and Zachary Brown, Manager of Data Science at Capital One live during the conference to get the exclusive insight on rvatech/Summit 2020. Miriam was our emcee and a Key Note Speaker for the 2020 Summit and Zachary was a speaker in 2019 and a major contribution to the rvatech/Summit Planning Committee for this year. 

Pablo Ormachea is a man of many talents. Pablo specializes in designing and executing on data-driven strategy. He enjoys building and developing crossfunctional teams that leverage complex data to deliver pragmatic solutions.  

Pablo is a Harvard Law School Grad and has served as a postdoctoral scholar at Baylor College of Medicine’s department of neuroscience. He has led data science consulting teams for Fortune 100 companies relying on his expertise in forecasting and applied machine learning. 

Today, Pablo is a VP at West Creek Financial, a fast-growing, Richmond born company where he is head of Data Science (which builds and deploys industry-leading risk, fraud, and cash flow predictive models using machine learning and deep learning techniques) and Sales Analytics (which empowers executive leader decision making by defining and monitoring key metrics, developing forward-looking forecasts, exploiting data to maximize return on assets across the company, and standing up industry-leading self-service platforms for sales staff). 

Chris Fauerbach is a Director & Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, Adjust Professor at VCU School of Engineering, and expert hobby farmer.

DETAILED BIO:

Chris is a technologist through and through. He has found a passion for cybersecurity through personal development and a history of startup life. He is currently a Director and Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, one of the country's largest banks. He is a Richmond native and holds his Masters in Information Technology from Virginia Tech.

Chris is also an Adjunct Professor at VCU, where he teaches a group of 25 seniors Advanced Programming. Previously, as VP of Engineering at Perch Security, Chris lead the engineering efforts to build the first community sharing platform for cyber intelligence and actual network sightings.

Not only does Chris have a passion for building things as an engineer, but he has a passion for mentoring and advising through his teaching, blogging, and podcasts.

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