Learn from the Testing Experts

Featured Speakers

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Arash Taheri

Director, QA/QE, Central 1

Denys Kunytskyi

Lead Engineer, Benevity

Panel Discussion Speakers

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Snehal Lohar

Sr. Manager – Technical Program manager, Broadcom

Engineering leader with 22+ years of technology leadership, including deep experience owning platform engineering teams at the intersection of engineering, product, and finance. Proven track record leading backend and infrastructure teams delivering complex, high-reliability systems where accuracy and scale are non-negotiable.

Experienced partnering with Product, Finance, and Go-to-Market stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions – driving architectural decisions, managing technical debt, and maintaining engineering best practices across the full delivery lifecycle.

Known for building and growing high-performing engineering teams through mentorship, inclusive culture-building, and clear execution discipline. An empathetic, accountable leader who communicates technical complexity and trade-offs with clarity to senior leadership, and who brings the operational rigor that mission-critical platform engineering demands.

Bahar Rostamkhani

AI Architect, Sycle

Experienced software engineering manager with a proven track record of leading high-performing teams. Skilled in project management, technical architecture, and cross-functional collaboration. Passionate about delivering innovative solutions and driving team success.

 

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Mike Hrycyk

Mike Hrycyk is passionate about quality. Quality in software, quality in requirements and quality in management. The biggest strength Mike brings to any organization is his ability to form the big picture of the entire enterprise in his head. This allows Mike to use this knowledge in figuring out the true requirments of the stakeholder, to better know the factors that will then be required in producing a properly integrated functional design or to know which systems will be impacted so that an appropriate test strategy and plan can be formed. Mike likes to build relationships within an organization to allow communication to become easy, productive and efficient.