Sam Doran is a Senior Software Engineer working on Red Hat Ansible Engine. He served in the US Air Force as an aircraft mechanic and is a proud alumnus of the Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets. He worked for the US Government as well as private industry in jobs ranging from professional photography and graphic design to Site Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, and Information Security. He has used Ansible since 2013 to automate security monitoring infrastructure, cloud provisioning, application installation and configuration as well as helped Fortune 500 companies implement large scale deployments of Red Hat Ansible Tower. Sam loves automating anything and everything using Ansible.

Madhu Akula is a cloud native security researcher with extensive experience in cloud, containers, Kubernetes, and automation security. He frequently speaks and trains at security conferences around the world, including DEFCON, BlackHat, USENIX, GitHub, OWASP Appsec, AllDayDevOps, DevSecCon, Nullcon, and c0c0n. His research has identified vulnerabilities in 200+ companies and products like Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Wordpress, Ntop, and Adobe. He is a co-author of Security Automation with Ansible 2, a book that is listed as a technical resource by Red Hat. Madhu is an active member of international security, DevOps, and CloudNative communities and holds industry certifications like OSCP and CKA.