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Aruna Ravichandran is Vice President of DevOps Product Marketing and Solutions Marketing at CA Technologies. She has over 20 years of experience in building and marketing products in various markets such as IT Operations Management (APM, Infrastructure management, Service Management, Cloud Management, Analytics, Log Management, and Data Center Infrastructure Management), Continuous Delivery, Test Automation, Security and SDN. In her current role, she leads the product and solutions marketing, strategy, market segmentation, and messaging, positioning, and competitive sales enablement across all DevOps products which spans revenues over $1B. She is the key spokesperson for DevOps with analysts, press, customers and major events.   
Prior to CA Aruna worked at Juniper Networks and Hewlett Packard where she led executive leadership roles in marketing and engineering.  
Aruna frequently blogs for various publications such as SYS-CON Media, Wired Insights, Tech Target, Information Week DevOpsDigest.com, DevOps.com  Cloud Tweaks to name a few. She frequently presents at various industry conferences and has presented at Gartner Symposium 2016, Gartner ITOM 2014, Gartner Data Center 2014, DevOps Summit 2014, Cloud Expo 2014, CA World 2014, 2015, and HP Discover (2008-2012). She has authored several articles and other publications.
Aruna earned her Masters in Computer Engineering and MBA from Santa Clara University. 
In 2016, Aruna was named one of Top 100 The Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal, and received the 2016 Most Powerful and Influential Woman Award  by the National Diversity Council.
Kieran Taylor is Senior Director of Product and Solutions Marketing at CA Technologies, responsible for thought leadership and sales enablement for APM and CA solutions that help enterprises implement DevOps methodologies. He has 20 years of high-tech product marketing experience with a focus on application performance management, cloud computing, content delivery networking, and wide area network technologies. He previously led product marketing teams at Adobe, Akamai, DataPower/IBM, and Nortel Networks. His career began as an editor of high-tech publications at McGraw Hill.
Peter Waterhouse is Senior Director of DevOps Solutions Marketing at CA Technologies. He was formerly Senior Director of Product Marketing and Australia-New Zealand Country Manager of Pre-Sales at Computer Associates. He writes and blogs extensively in such publications as Information Week, Wired Insight, Heller CIO Search, SC Magazine, Network World, and Dark Reading. He co-authored Service Management Process Maps: Your Route to IT Excellence. Waterhouse is ITIL-certified at Foundation and Master levels and holds a BS in Economics from the University of Manchester.