Prakash Sethuraman

Chief Information Security Officer | CloudBees

Prakash joined CloudBees in 2021 as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Head of Security and Compliance. He drives innovation and trust across our security compliance capabilities as we scale for the future.

Prakash brings over 20 years of experience in technology strategy, architecture, security and compliance.

Prior to his appointment at CloudBees, Prakash worked at HSBC. During his tenure, he led digital strategy and architecture, helped the organization drive public cloud and container adoption and led the creation of a global Open Banking platform that is used across 19 countries. In his most recent role at HSBC, Prakash led a dedicated cybersecurity team focused on cloud and container security and helped institute new security processes to protect the U.K.-based bank as it accelerated its journey toward cloud and container ecosystems operating at scale.

After earning his bachelor’s degree in engineering, he also earned a Master of Business Administration from Henley Business School.

Prakash grew up in Mumbai, India but along with his family has resided in the U.K for 26 years. A passionate fan of peace and solitude, Prakash, his wife Gayatri and their two daughters live in beautiful Buckinghamshire.

Manav Tyagi

Principal Solution Architect | CloudBees

Manav is a Principal Solution Architect at CloudBees for Global System Integrators and Alliances based in Delhi, India. Manav brings over 20+ years experience as a technologist across software development and architecture, agile transformation, solutioning DevOps stack,manageability, security, hybrid cloud, K8s, embedded system solutions. Prior to CloudBees, Manav worked with Digital.ai, Micro-Focus and Serena Software in various roles including, director pre-sales, solution engineer and project manager.

With a Masters Degree in Physics and Computer Science, Manav is an advocate of Agile, Journey-to-Cloud (adoption and execution),  DevOps automation, VSM and AIOps based solution adoption. He is also a certified SCRUM and SAFe associate  His interest in AI based DevOps solutions helps him to drive and educate customers more on predictive analysis in DevOps.

David De Paula

Sr. Director of Sales for Asia Pacific and Southern Europe | CloudBees

David is CloudBees Sr. Director of Sales for Asia Pacific and Southern Europe. With over 20 years experience in sales and sales leadership in the IT and software engineering industries, his last 6 years has been focused on promoting DevOps solutions.

He has served customers across multiple vertical market segments including FSI, government, embedded systems, auto and aero. David has proposed software solutions which enabled customers with their digital transformation journey, improved customer experience and agility while at the same time enabling several US and European software companies to expand in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to CloudBees, David was the VP of EMEA and APAC sales with US-based Perforce Software, a DevOps company. With a Master in Sales from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, he has held various sales leadership roles in technology and enterprise software companies in the domain of Cloud, ALM, PLM and CAD.

Mohd Zeeshan Zakee (Zee)

Software Engineering Senior Manager | Accenture

Zee leads the DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE as well as Agile practice in the ASEAN region for Accenture. For over 14 years he has worked on accelerating software delivery and operations through innovative approaches in Agile, DevOps and SRE. He supports major public and private sector companies in Singapore and other ASEAN countries in their search for efficient IT delivery & operations.

Paul Yang

Senior Solution Architect | CloudBees

Paul is a senior solution architect at CloudBees for the APAC region and based in Sydney, Australia. He enjoys solving business problems with technologies, and is passionate about cloud native, devops and automation technologies and loves working as an evangelist for them. Before joining CloudBees, Paul has been a solution engineer for Pivotal/Vmware, and has extensive experience with the technology/methodologies driving digital transformation including microservices, container, Kubernetes, PaaS, Agile, etc.

Vasantharaj Soundarapandian

Associate Director, DevOps & Test Automation

Vasantharaj Soundarapandian is a DevOps professional with experience in project management, Test automation, CI and CD. He has successfully enabled financial institutions to adopt DevOps, DevSecOps and SRE practices. With a blend of managerial, technical and functional skills he has rolled out new tools and technologies supporting digital transformation in Agile environments. His current focus is DevOps on cloud platform.