Wolfed

Lisa Hornschemeier is the Vice President of Software Engineering for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure at Oracle. She is an experienced engineering leader with a successful history at some of the world’s largest companies, including GE Aviation, Microsoft, and Oracle. She originally planned to use her passion for math and science to become a doctor. That changed when she fell in love with a Java class a...

Jimit Maheta is Cisco's Vice President of Engineering. He's known for his highly energetic, results-driven leadership and enthusiasm for creativity and innovation. Jimit is a Cisco “lifer.” He started in a contract role, and was brought on full time because of his work ethic, warm personality, and team mindset. For more than 25 years he has driven high performance teams and developed new l...

Rasmus Ekman is Oracle's Vice President of Cloud Engineering. He manages key partners like Uber and NVIDIA using his wealth of global leadership experience in Europe, Japan, and the United States. Through his successful 20-year track record, he's become the go-to leader at companies like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and IBM. Fellow executives call him a tech leader who produces ou...

Tara Ellis, Senior Engineering Leader at Netflix, has overcome the odds. She didn’t attend an Ivy League school and originally focused on IT roles before a stint working in Japan. Despite her non-traditional background, she’s coded through the ranks to become an engineering leader at world-renowned companies like Amazon and Disney before joining the streaming giant. She’s got unmatched communicati...

Artem Fishman is Dow Jones's CTO. He leads more than 2,000 people who work on products across the company's portfolio, including The Wall Street Journal , Barron's , and MarketWatch . If you're engaging with news, he's influenced its delivery to your mobile device. Becoming the CTO of Dow Jones is not a feat achieved overnight. Fishman is a technologist known for setting up tec...

Shawn Meyer is the Senior Director of Engineering at Okta. He’s responsible for making identity approachable for every step of the developer’s journey. His knack for driving engineering excellence has earned him respect and influence across the company. Meyer’s colleagues and peers admire his inclusive mindset, technical expertise, and commitment to making each project as successful as possible. H...

Brian Timmeny, the Chief Technology Officer at Walmart México & Central America, is the go-to leader for Fortune companies seeking a visionary in tech, business strategy, and culture guidance. Timmeny's career didn't reach this level overnight. His journey into tech started with a coding boot camp at Accenture. He applied his new skills to technology delivery before transitioning to th...

Eric Schvimmer is the Executive Vice President of Technology and Chief Technology Officer at the Bloomberg Industry Group. He has been around the block, fighting to get engineers to the table for major decisions. He’s a technology leader with extensive experience overseeing product-focused engineering teams. From in-house expert to consultant for Fortune 100 companies and start-ups, he’s the execu...

Irina Krechmer is the former CTO of Blue Apron, a tech investor, and a people leader who has been around the block. She wrote code before Agile was the name of the game for development and has guided many companies in the e-commerce, education, media, and food industries, both private and public, into the future of tech. She’s known for her knack for people and a passion for mentoring the next gen...

Javier López looks at engineering challenges differently. He became Vice President of Engineering at Carta after starting his career building web pages in his spare time. He eventually leveraged his development skills from Mexico City to emigrate to the United States and enter the world of start-ups. López is a self-made leader driven by a passion for learning. From his early days disassembling an...

Eldad Persky is Samsung’s Senior Vice President of Global Product, Engineering, and Business Development. He has more than 20 years of experience mastering the media and advertising industries and has unmatched technical general manager experience. In fact, he’s a big believer in the technical general manager role—a single person owning product management and engineering and providing strategic di...

Andy Parsons is Adobe's Senior Director of Content Authenticity. Not only is he an exceptional engineering leader who builds systems that improve how people interact with the media, but he also holds the "coolest cat in town" status in the tech sector thanks to his side hustle as a professional jazz saxophonist and composer. When he's not coding for fun or giving creators the attribution tools the...

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