Manuel Gilioli is the CEO of SORINT.lab Poland, the Polish arm of SORINT.lab - an Italian IT powerhouse founded in 1985 with 1,500+ engineers and offices across 17 countries. A bioengineering graduate of the University of Padova with a Stanford credential, Gilioli followed a distinctly Silicon Valley arc: he co-founded Axwave in Palo Alto in 2012 alongside a nuclear physicist and an algorithmic trader, built proprietary automatic content recognition (ACR) technology used by the BBC, Comscore, and the NBA, won Top 5 Most Innovative at SXSW 2014, and saw the company acquired by Samba TV in 2019. He then channeled that startup DNA into leading SORINT.lab's Eastern European expansion, driving DevOps, cloud adoption, and digital transformation for enterprise clients.
Yevgeniy 'Jim' Brikman is the co-founder of Gruntwork and one of the most influential voices in infrastructure-as-code. Author of three O'Reilly books — 'Terraform: Up & Running' (now in its 3rd edition), 'Hello, Startup', and 'Fundamentals of DevOps and Software Delivery' (2025) — he has spent 15+ years building infrastructure that served hundreds of millions of users at LinkedIn, TripAdvisor, Cisco Systems, and Thomson Financial. At Gruntwork, he helped pioneer the idea of treating infrastructure like software: testable, reusable, and versioned.