Speakers

Nika Nikabadze

Nika Nikabadze

Chief Architect at Aurea

Versatile and highly driven senior IT architect with extensive experience gained within Enterprise, Solution and Infrastructure Architecture. Cloud and DevOps engineer.

 

 

Integration of Jenkins and K8S - Full chain CI/CD
Learn how to set up a workflow to automate your CI/CD pipeline for quick and easy deployments using Jenkins, Ansible, and Kubernetes.
Ioseb Meskhishvili

Ioseb Meskhishvili

Senior System Engineer at UGT

Sr. System Engineer Virtualization and Cloud Technologies at UGT. More than 10 Years of experience working with various Microsoft and VMware solutions.

 

 

DevOps for Hybrid Cloud
As DevOps is getting mainstream, more and more Organizations are looking for CI/CD, Containers and automation tools. Cloud technologies seem to be right fit but for different reasons not all workloads can be migrated to cloud. Microsoft answer to this challenge is to use Hybrid Cloud and bring Cloud technologies to your datacenter.
Vano Maisuradze

Vano Maisuradze

Chief Software Architect at Crossover

Software developer with 10+ years of experience. Interested in designing complex software architecture. Currently learning AI technologies.

 

 

What we need to know about Event Sourcing
Vano will talk about Event Sourcing. He will tell us when to use this pattern and how to apply it in conjunction with microservices. Based on his experience, he will describe the possible pitfalls and solutions, when using Event Sourcing.
Nino Gvazava

Nino Gvazava

Head of DevOps Department at HT Solutions

HT Solutions is the first company on georgian market, which assists businesses with deploying devops solutions and methodologies. Nino is an expert in various automatization solutions, which are used by leading Georgian and foreign companies within their devops cycles.

 

 

Singularity in Application Monitoring
Nino will talk about how to break down silos for successful DevOps; to understand in real time how application code running in your hybrid multi-cloud impacts your customers and your bottom line.

* Digital experience analytics
* Application performance management
* Cloud and infrastructure monitoring

Elene Latsoshvili

Elene Latsoshvili

Software Architect

Language agnostic software developer with 10+ years of experience. Blogger at samurai.ge. Highly interested in work process automation.

 

 

Test Automation in Practice
Elene will discuss how one can decide on the testing practice to match the project specifics and based on her personal experience, she will show technical details often necessary for building a self-testing application.
Erekle Magradze

Erekle Magradze

Lead DevOps & Data Scientist
Erekle Magradze
Erekle Magradze has an experience of 10+ years with high throughput and high performance computing platforms. His expert knowledge in grid distributed computing, cloud based and Big Data platforms is backed by solid theoretical and practical experience.

He enjoys planning an architecture and building large scale reliable and scalable, resilient infrastructures from scratch, using the cutting edge open source and commercial automation, monitoring and CI/CD tools.

Mikheil Akopov

Mikheil Akopov

Team Lead at APP3null GmbH

Mikheil has a versatile working experience – as a software developer analyst and architect of business processes. Also he is an experienced IT project consultant. Currently he is a team lead at APP3null GmbH.

 

 

Automating continuous development, testing and delivery of mobile applications
Mikheil will discuss the importance of CI and CD in the mobile application development. Namely – always accessible actual builds, prompt error detection, automatic Unit testing and Lint checks, reporting the build results, automatically deliverying the application to alpha testers. Jenkins will be used for the demo.
Alexander Sarkisov

Alexander Sarkisov

Software Development Team Lead at TWINO

10+ years of experience in Java development and architecture. Interested in software architecture, development and education.

 

 

Modern Application Metrics: why, when and how
Alexander will discuss why Application Metrics matter, when to implement them and will present a demo with Spring and Micrometer.
Alexandre Vardanidze

Alexandre Vardanidze

Technical Manager and Developer at Realtyna Inc

Full-time DevOps engineer and Software Developer with 4 years of experience.

 

 

Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is at the heart of DevOps. Alexandre will show how we can automate an infrastructure and treat it the same way that we treat any other code, making it self-documented and managed via source control. He will discuss the Configuration Management using Ansible.
Elene Metreveli

Elene Metreveli

Marketing Executive at Realtyna
How we do DevOps at Realtyna
Elene will introduce challenges faced at Realtyna, that are caused by a large client base and rapidly changing environment. She will talk about opportunities for developers and Alexandre will present one of their products to have a peek at company’s infrastructure. The product uses various technologies, such as containers, microservices, load balancing using Fabio load balancer and Consul
Konstantine Karosanidze

Konstantine Karosanidze

Crafting IT in Cloud9/XSG

IT Engineer of all and any kind

 

 

How we run 1000+ servers and 10+ projects
Konstantine will show us how they run more than 1000 servers with 10+ large scale projects in 5 datacenters using Opennebula and Ansible. He will discuss CI/CD and operation control.
Ioseb Dzmanashvili

Ioseb Dzmanashvili

Software Architect and Partner at AzRy LLC

Ioseb is a software architect and partner at AzRy LLC, leading Georgian hardware and software company. He has an extensive experience in designing and developing various software systems for embedded devices including POS terminals, card payments solutions for public transportation system and autonomous kiosk machines. Ioseb holds doctorate degree in engineering and is a professor at Caucasus University.

 

 

Linux container internals
Ioseb will discuss containers and Linux operating system working internals and capabilities that made it possible to level up traditional virtualization. How do containers work? How physical resources are virtualized? How security and isolation is achieved? If you have these and other questions, this talk is for you.
Givi Dochviri

Givi Dochviri

Head of IT Operations at TBC

Head of IT Operations

 

 

DevOps transformation of TBC Bank
Givi will tell us how automating IT processes can transform a bank to a digital enterprise making it more flexible. He will present the challanges, which the company is facing during this transformation process – a complex infrastructure, legacy systems, a wide range of supported technologies, deployments depended on various teams and systems. He will also go into details of several technology decisions.
Irakli Vashakidze

Irakli Vashakidze

iOS Software Architect at Aurea

iOS software Architect with more than 10 years of experience. He has created multiple interesting mobile projects and backend systems.

 

 

Mobilization Done Right
Irakli will share his experience about architecture and automation. He will discuss modern techniques, tools and their usage examples to automate mobile development.
Vano Narimanidze

Vano Narimanidze

Eastern Europe Operations at Horizen, CEO at Overclockers GE

Vano has more than 10 years of work experience in the Information Technologies sector.
Currently he works for Horizen in Eastern Europe region, he is the founder and the CEO of Overclockers GE, Co-Founder of Association Blockchain Georgia and the System Administrator at LEPL Education Management Information System (EMIS) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.

 

 

Blockchain vs DevOps
Blockchain and DevOps are among the hottest topics of tech world today. Vano will talk about the new possibilities and ways blockchain can enhance DevOps. At the same time, he will tell why blockchain is a threat and how DevOps engineers can respond, adapt and future-proof their jobs. Plus, Vano will present several breakthroughs of Horizen’s blockchain technology.
Vazha Pirtskhalaishvili

Vazha Pirtskhalaishvili

DevOps Engineer

Vazha has 8 years of working experience with linux and OpenSource applications. Currently he works at Qarva as DevOps Engineer. He is interested in automation, microservices and container architecture and DataOps.

Vazha will discuss what is DataOps, and show us how to build an automated pipelines for Apache Spark and Cassandra.

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