TConf 2019
Software Quality

Ruchika Mittal Lead Test Analyst, Intelematics

Ruchika Mittal is a seasoned software professional who is passionate about quality. She identifies as an empirical technologist, a tester and a hack programmer, who enjoys programming to bring efficiency in her work. Her day job is working with in-house Backend and API software product development team as well as IoT and Mobile App external vendors to coordinate testing. In addition, she contributes to various guilds within her organisation to promote process improvements. Ruchika is a Bollywood buff and loves watching Bollywood movies in her spare time

Lars Klint A Cloud Guru Instructor | Microsoft MVP | Lenovo Insider | Mentor, A Cloud Guru

Lars is an author, trainer, Microsoft MVP, community leader, expert in all things Windows Platform and part time crocodile wrangler.

Lars is heavily involved in the space of HoloLens and mixed reality, as well as a published author and writer for numerous publications.

Lars has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organises the DDD Melbourne community conference, organises developer events with Microsoft, and also runs a part time car restoration business.

Lars has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.

Sarah Young Azure Cloud Security and Compliance Specialist, Microsoft

Sarah is a cloud security architect working for Microsoft and based in Melbourne, Australia. She has a decade of experience in tech and is particularly interested in cloud security, container/orchestrator security and good old fashioned networking and infrastructure security (having previously worked as a network engineer). Sarah has spoken around the world at a variety of info sec conferences about a range of security and technical topics

Sam Chalela Lead Technologist, ThoughtWorks

Sam is a lead consultant and tinkerer at ThoughtWorks. He started his career 15 years ago as an electronics engineer but quickly switched to software development as the co-founder of an IoT startup in Colombia. During the last 5 years, he has been working as a developer and tech lead for cross-functional teams in diverse industries and studying the role of technology as an enabler for innovation.

Yaser Adel Mehraban Lead Consultant, Readify

Although it doesn't look like it, Yaser is an almond croissant addict cleverly disguised as a successful web developer. Since it was relatively clear early on that it would be slightly more than difficult to make a living out of thin air and sitting in a café eating a croissant and drinking a cappuccino, he’s focused his energy on the web, which happily has proven itself to be a wonderful decision.

Apart from that, he has a hunger for public speaking, hence a number of talks in big conferences like NDC and Voxxed Days around the world under his belt.

Diana Duan Quality Analyst, REA Group

I am Diana, a mobile app tester in REA’s mobile architecture team. After I graduated from Uni with a computer science degree, I started working as a software tester in a gaming company in Beijing - China. It did not take long for me to fall in love with my job. With patience and curiosity, I discovered the multiple ways to break the apps. Five years ago, I landed in Melbourne as a skilled immigrant. It wasn’t easy to leave everything that we’d built in China and get everything re-established from scratch in a foreign country. Five years later, my family and I are very proud of what we have achieved so far. I have enjoyed everything in Melbourne without ever having to look back. I am representing DevOps Girls in a lightning talk at TConf.

Bibi Hagan Associate Developer, SEEK

Bibi Hagan believes strongly that the whole team is greater than the sum of the parts. Her current role is as a backend/AWS developer, automating the sending of thousands of (non-spam) emails every day. She is a self proclaimed dreamer and food addict, wishes she was a halfling druid, and believes that we need to work harder at not losing our humanity to technology. She is representing DevOps Girls in a lightning talk at TConf.

Megan McKeough Associate Developer, REA Group

Megan is an Associate Developer at REA Group, and started her journey into tech about a year ago. She delved into coding after several past lives as a film student, psychology student, writer, film critic, English teacher in Tokyo, and market and social research consultant. Her first intro to coding was a Code in 90 Mins class which resulted in a hideous static HTML/CSS website with too many borders, but was the first step in starting a new career. She is a Western Bulldogs fan; a Ravenclaw; and co-hosts a weekly science fiction and fantasy radio show that broadcasts on Melbourne community radio station Triple R.She is representing DevOps Girls in a lightning talk at TConf.

Nancy Do Associate Developer, SEEK

Nancy Do is an associate developer at Seek on the Jora team, working with React and React Native. After discovering the wonders of coding in one of her Science classes at University, she made the move to pursue a career in tech. Nancy is passionate about encouraging and empowering young girls and women into the tech industry through her involvement in CS in Schools, an industry-supported program providing assistance to teachers for teaching code, as well as Camp Seek, a bootcamp allowing young girls to gain exposure to the various careers available in the tech industry. She is representing DevOps Girls in a lightning talk at TConf.

Christina Wang Quality Analyst, REA Group

I’m Christina Wang, working mum, Senior Quality Analyst in REA. I have been in REA for 9 years, and very lucky to have the opportunity to work in different areas of testing including Selenium/Cucumber automation, contract testing, browser testing, API testing, performance testing, etc and now I am working on data testing. My biggest achievements are my two girls, they are highly sensitive kids but they are angels. Also I’m leading a group of over 30 people with my husband for encouraging each other through life journeys. I am representing DevOps Girls in a lightning talk at TConf.

Drew O’Hare Solutions Architect, Planet Innovation

With a career spanning an array of roles continually blending a mix of technical and people management focus and overarching personality trait is that of someone driven to “get things done, and done right” life has seen Drew being called on to wear a number of different hats, sometimes bearing no relation to the job title on the business card. His foremost passion, and skill, is in solving problems, and he loves doing this in collaboration with a team of similarly committed individuals. A solution exists for every problem, and it is easier to find when all of the stakeholders are involved in the search. Very close on the heels of this primary drive is an all-consuming love of technology, and empathy for people. Technology can be leveraged to do good things for humanity and this can be done ethically, cost effectively and to a high standard.

Harinder Seera Performance Engineer, NAB

Harinder is a management consultant & leader with over 10 years of experience across several different industries. He balances deep analytical skills with strategic thinking, empathy, and curiosity to help clients solve their problems and drive change. He is on the technical advisory board of Global Skill Development Council. He is also the author of "Introduction to Blockchain" ebook and a co-author of an IBM Redbook on "Performance and Capacity Implications for Big Data". He regularly speaks at various conferences/meetups and is a contributor to various publications.

Joel Ryden Senior Developer AKA Quality evangelist, Atlassian

Joel is an Optimist at heart and believe that questioning is the road to great accomplishments, hence testing comes naturally. Starting his career in testing MedTech products with a strong end user focus he continued into the world of testing mission critical jet fighter software, where quality control is the focus of the software development. This gave a unique perspective on how an rigours effort in testing and quality control pays off, then the question rose, how can we get comprehensive testing into the agile culture? After joining Atlassian and transitioning to a full time developer, the quality passion is still there and the continuous thrive to make sure that robustness and perceived quality is not forgotten.