Jae Evans is chief information officer at Oracle. She’s responsible for accelerating Oracle's cloud transformation and improving employee productivity and user experience, anytime and anywhere. Jae also has responsibility for enhancing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s developer productivity and infrastructure services for deployments, builds, and ongoing operations and management of Oracle’s global cloud regions.

Prior to joining Oracle in 2020, Jae was senior vice president of global infrastructure engineering and operations at Walmart Labs. Her responsibilities included running the full lifecycle of the private cloud, hybrid cloud, network, and connectivity for internal- and external-facing production workloads. Jae has more than 20 years of experience building and leading global teams and managing mission-critical production services across various industries including telecommunications, online gaming, retail, ecommerce, and enterprise cloud.

Jae is passionate about bringing diversity and inclusion (D&I) into the workplace. She is the executive sponsor of D&I for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and was previously the executive sponsor for the African American Business Resource Group, an active participant in various Pan-Asian–American D&I events, and executive champion for Women in Tech, where she spearheaded the She Rocks Tech mentorship programs.

Kalyn Chang is a product manager in the ERP Financials Cloud expenses team, which builds features to streamline and automate digital expense management. Kalyn is currently working on building intelligent expense management capabilities using machine learning. She joined Oracle as a software engineer and transitioned to a product manager role last year. She also interned at Oracle prior to joining full time. Kalyn holds a BS in computer science from Caltech.

After 15 years in software development roles at Oracle, Leor Chechik now builds technical initiatives with a focus on diversity in her current role as director of technical programs at Oracle.

Leor has worked on diverse teams and projects at Oracle, including full-stack development of server technologies and cloud applications, and front-end UI development. As the leader for the Oracle Women’s Leadership Tech Community, she organizes a wide range of events with a focus on women in technology, including career panels, tech talks, and lean-in circles. Leor earned her MS in computer science at Stanford University and her BS in computer science at the University of Glasgow in the UK.

Kay Malcolm leads a team of database product managers who develop key initiatives, infrastructure, and programs. They enable our customers, sales consultants, and implementers to work smarter, not harder, and get direct access to Oracle Database technology in combination with our other platform solutions. Last year, Kay defined and created a hands-on workshop platform, Oracle LiveLabs, after identifying a need in the Oracle ecosystem. To build the platform, she used existing technologies such as Oracle Application Express, Oracle Database, and Oracle Cloud.

Kay has been with Oracle for nearly 14 years, starting her career as a sales consultant specializing in Oracle Real Application Clusters and Exadata. Kay is also an active diversity ambassador for Oracle and a mentor for a number of people. Her passion is increasing the impact and visibility of women in technology and STEM careers. Kay has a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland. She is married, with two teenage boys. Her hobbies are dance—she’s a certified hip-hop instructor—and crafting.

Rama Pyarasani is a principal engineer in Oracle hardware development. She earned a BS in electrical engineering and an MS in physics from BITS in Pilani, India.

Rama has 15 years of experience in software architecture, implementation, analytics, and quality assurance of enterprise solutions. She is an evangelist for new technologies and promotes adoption of data analytics and machine learning tools.

Rama cofounded the Oracle Women’s Leadership Technology community in New England and leads the fast-growing community. She organizes tech talks, hands-on workshops, hackathons, and tech panel discussions that have catered to 1,500 attendees to date.