Jason Baum has been building communities for the past 17 years. He is currently the director of community at Sauce Labs, a cloud-hosted, web and mobile application automated testing platform. Prior to Sauce Labs, he was the director of customer experience & community, and host of the award-winning Humans of DevOps Podcast, for the DevOps Institute. Jason is also a frequent host of the AI Time Journal and Retail Adventures podcasts.  Jason has been a jack of all trades within the community space with experience in operations, subscription management, membership engagement, chapter relations, marketing, event planning, volunteer recruitment, engagement, and board relationship management. In his free time, Jason loves traveling and spending time at the pool or the beach with his wife and daughter. 

Evelyn is a dedicated educator and lifelong learner who specializes in helping Sauce Labs customers get started. Through her previous roles as Solutions Architect and Technical Customer Success Manager, Evelyn developed a deep understanding of the challenges faced in testing and an appreciation for the craft of automation. She is now an advocate for low-code tools and loves finding ways to explain tough concepts in approachable terms. She operates on the belief that digital confidence should be accessible and easy. When she’s not simplifying content, you can find her reading Sci-Fi or taking classes at the local community college.

As Vice President of Technology Strategy at Sauce Labs, Marcus
uses experience from 20+ years in test to manage strategic technical alliances. Marcus works with external partners to build robust, customer-centric solutions around test automation, software architecture, and release management. With experience in gaming, eCommerce, marketing automation and nearly every part of the SDLC, Marcus enjoys sharing his expertise at conferences all over the world. He is also a member of the Selenium Project Leadership Committee. Marcus enjoys playing the piano, making robots, and living in San Francisco, CA.

Nikolay Advolodkin is a renowned software engineer who founded UltimateQA and serves as a Principal Developer Advocate at Sauce Labs. He has received multiple consecutive awards as one of the world’s top automation engineers from TechBeacon.com. In his free time, he enjoys staying active through exercise and spending time in nature with his beloved dog, Mia.