speakers.md - summit/2024 - Git at Google

 # Gerrit User Summit 2024 - Speakers

 ### Daniele Sassoli - GerritForge {#dsassoli}

 Daniele is a Senior Software Engineer with a long experience in highly scalable
 systems hosted in the cloud. As a member of the GerritForge team he has had the
 chance to design, mantain and improve high throughput multi-site installations.
 He also gets to learn from the team's wealth of experience in all things Gerrit
 and contribute to the long list of plugin's maintained by them.

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielesassoli/)

 ### Nasser Grainawi - Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc {#nasser}

 Nasser is a Senior Staff Software Engineer who has been working with Gerrit
 since the beginning. Initially posting to the repo-discuss list, he made his
 first contribution in 2011, became a Maintainer in 2020, and has been a
 Community Manager since 2021. He enjoys understanding and solving performance
 and other "big system" challenges, both in Gerrit and in other systems
 integrating with Gerrit.

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nassergrainawi/)

 ### Kaushik Lingarkar - Qualcomm Technologies, Inc {#kaushikl}

 Kaushik joined Qualcomm over 15 years ago and has had a variety of
 roles, often related to Gerrit or workflows using Gerrit. He made his
 first Gerrit contribution in 2013 and has made many more since 2020 as a
 full-time member of the Qualcomm Gerrit team. He became a Gerrit Maintainer in
 2022.

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaushiklingarkar/)

 ### Vasdev Gullapalli - Qualcomm Technologies, Inc {#vasdevg}

 Vasdev joined Qualcomm in 2013, and he is a senior staff Devops/SRE engineer.
 He has worked in various teams and currently managing various git based
 systems as a Technical Lead / Platform Owner.

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasdev-gullapalli-b3450374/)

 ### Tushar Himmat Dahibhate - Qualcomm Technologies, Inc {#tdahibha}

 Tushar joined Qualcomm over four years ago and is a Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer.
 He has been involved in various development activities, such as migrating
 on-premise systems to Kubernetes, designing and developing automated
 deployment pipelines, and enabling monitoring and alerting via Datadog etc

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tushar-dahibhate/)

 ### Fabio Ponciroli - GerritForge {#fponciroli}

 Fabio is a Senior Software Engineer at GerritForge, where he contributes to the OpenSource Gerrit Code Review project.
 He has been involved since the beginning in the design and development of Gerrit DevOps analytics tools,
 multi-site plugin and many other.
 He has also created the Gatling protocol manager for Git which has finally provided a real E2E test suite
 for the validation of the Gerrit Code Review releases.
 He has extensive experience in working on backend systems, on-premise and cloud-based,
 with different programming languages, such as Scala, Java, NodeJS and related ecosystems.

 [LinkedIn](www.linkedin.com/in/fponciroli)

 ### Shane McIntosh - University of Waterloo {#smcintosh}

 Shane McIntosh is the current Ross & Muriel Cheriton Faculty Fellow and an
 Associate Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University
 of Waterloo, Canada. At U. Waterloo, Shane directs the Software Repository
 Excavation and Build Engineering Labs (a.k.a., the Software REBELs). Shane and
 his trainees investigate how peer code review can be made more effective, how
 devops pipelines can be made more efficient, and how software can be produced
 with higher quality.

 [LinkedIn](www.linkedin.com/in/shane-mcintosh/)

 ### Matthias Sohn - SAP {#msohn}

 Matthias Sohn is a Product Expert at SAP hacking on versioning systems since 25 years
 and leading its Gerrit team. He is a Gerrit maintainer and community manager and leads
 the JGit and EGit projects at the Eclipse Foundation.

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthiassohn)

 ### Trevor Getty - Cirata {#trevorgetty}

 Trevor Getty is a Software Architect and Technical lead of the DevOps team at Cirata.
 He has been involved with the ongoing development and support of several replicated SCM products including
 Subversion, Git and Gerrit Multisite products for medium to large scale sites.
 He has been contributing to Gerrit since 2018, and uses the Gerrit Summit and Hackathons as a great
 opportunity to integrate fixes and features from the Cirata replicated forks of JGit and Gerrit into the main
 community versions.
 A previous hackathon allowed the merging of Offline Reindex performance changes, including lucene configuration extensions.
 This was to allow considerably better throughput of indexing operations in versions of gerrit from 2.13 onwards,
 where the indexing performance of some operations was reduced from weeks to hours.

 [LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/trevor-d-getty-7050b722)

 ### Luca Milanesio - GerritForge {#luca}

 Luca is co-founder of GerritForge and has over 32 years of software development
 and application lifecycle management experience.
 He has been Gerrit contributor since 2012, Gerrit release manager,
 member of the Gerrit Engineering Steering Committee and maintainer of
 GerritHub.io, the Open Service for Gerrit Code Review on top of GitHub
 repositories.

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamilanesio/)

 ### Eryk Szymanski - Digital.ai {#eszymanski}

 Eryk is leading Digital.ai's TeamForge Git Engineering team in Berlin.

 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eryk-szymanski-94b92ba/)
	# Gerrit User Summit 2024 - Speakers

	### Daniele Sassoli - GerritForge {#dsassoli}

	Daniele is a Senior Software Engineer with a long experience in highly scalable
	systems hosted in the cloud. As a member of the GerritForge team he has had the
	chance to design, mantain and improve high throughput multi-site installations.
	He also gets to learn from the team's wealth of experience in all things Gerrit
	and contribute to the long list of plugin's maintained by them.

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielesassoli/)

	### Nasser Grainawi - Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc {#nasser}

	Nasser is a Senior Staff Software Engineer who has been working with Gerrit
	since the beginning. Initially posting to the repo-discuss list, he made his
	first contribution in 2011, became a Maintainer in 2020, and has been a
	Community Manager since 2021. He enjoys understanding and solving performance
	and other "big system" challenges, both in Gerrit and in other systems
	integrating with Gerrit.

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nassergrainawi/)

	### Kaushik Lingarkar - Qualcomm Technologies, Inc {#kaushikl}

	Kaushik joined Qualcomm over 15 years ago and has had a variety of
	roles, often related to Gerrit or workflows using Gerrit. He made his
	first Gerrit contribution in 2013 and has made many more since 2020 as a
	full-time member of the Qualcomm Gerrit team. He became a Gerrit Maintainer in
	2022.

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaushiklingarkar/)

	### Vasdev Gullapalli - Qualcomm Technologies, Inc {#vasdevg}

	Vasdev joined Qualcomm in 2013, and he is a senior staff Devops/SRE engineer.
	He has worked in various teams and currently managing various git based
	systems as a Technical Lead / Platform Owner.

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasdev-gullapalli-b3450374/)

	### Tushar Himmat Dahibhate - Qualcomm Technologies, Inc {#tdahibha}

	Tushar joined Qualcomm over four years ago and is a Senior DevOps/SRE Engineer.
	He has been involved in various development activities, such as migrating
	on-premise systems to Kubernetes, designing and developing automated
	deployment pipelines, and enabling monitoring and alerting via Datadog etc

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tushar-dahibhate/)

	### Fabio Ponciroli - GerritForge {#fponciroli}

	Fabio is a Senior Software Engineer at GerritForge, where he contributes to the OpenSource Gerrit Code Review project.
	He has been involved since the beginning in the design and development of Gerrit DevOps analytics tools,
	multi-site plugin and many other.
	He has also created the Gatling protocol manager for Git which has finally provided a real E2E test suite
	for the validation of the Gerrit Code Review releases.
	He has extensive experience in working on backend systems, on-premise and cloud-based,
	with different programming languages, such as Scala, Java, NodeJS and related ecosystems.

	[LinkedIn](www.linkedin.com/in/fponciroli)

	### Shane McIntosh - University of Waterloo {#smcintosh}

	Shane McIntosh is the current Ross & Muriel Cheriton Faculty Fellow and an
	Associate Professor in the Cheriton School of Computer Science at the University
	of Waterloo, Canada. At U. Waterloo, Shane directs the Software Repository
	Excavation and Build Engineering Labs (a.k.a., the Software REBELs). Shane and
	his trainees investigate how peer code review can be made more effective, how
	devops pipelines can be made more efficient, and how software can be produced
	with higher quality.

	[LinkedIn](www.linkedin.com/in/shane-mcintosh/)

	### Matthias Sohn - SAP {#msohn}

	Matthias Sohn is a Product Expert at SAP hacking on versioning systems since 25 years
	and leading its Gerrit team. He is a Gerrit maintainer and community manager and leads
	the JGit and EGit projects at the Eclipse Foundation.

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthiassohn)

	### Trevor Getty - Cirata {#trevorgetty}

	Trevor Getty is a Software Architect and Technical lead of the DevOps team at Cirata.
	He has been involved with the ongoing development and support of several replicated SCM products including
	Subversion, Git and Gerrit Multisite products for medium to large scale sites.
	He has been contributing to Gerrit since 2018, and uses the Gerrit Summit and Hackathons as a great
	opportunity to integrate fixes and features from the Cirata replicated forks of JGit and Gerrit into the main
	community versions.
	A previous hackathon allowed the merging of Offline Reindex performance changes, including lucene configuration extensions.
	This was to allow considerably better throughput of indexing operations in versions of gerrit from 2.13 onwards,
	where the indexing performance of some operations was reduced from weeks to hours.

	[LinkedIn](https://uk.linkedin.com/in/trevor-d-getty-7050b722)

	### Luca Milanesio - GerritForge {#luca}

	Luca is co-founder of GerritForge and has over 32 years of software development
	and application lifecycle management experience.
	He has been Gerrit contributor since 2012, Gerrit release manager,
	member of the Gerrit Engineering Steering Committee and maintainer of
	GerritHub.io, the Open Service for Gerrit Code Review on top of GitHub
	repositories.

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucamilanesio/)

	### Eryk Szymanski - Digital.ai {#eszymanski}

	Eryk is leading Digital.ai's TeamForge Git Engineering team in Berlin.

	[LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eryk-szymanski-94b92ba/)