Thank you to all our previous CDF Ambassadors who were part of any cohort from 2020 to now.
CDF Ambassador Alumni

Adam Gardner
Dynatrace | Australia

Adam Gardner
Talks about security, open source, observability, and opentelemetry

Adam Roberts
Software Developer at IBM

Adam Roberts
Adam joined IBM six years ago out of university and has presented internationally on several occasions as a subject matter expert on a wide range of topics, including DIY machine learning and analytics, the use of GPUs from Java, and on the benefits of using Tekton and webhooks for CI/CD.

Adetokunbo Ige
AWS Community Builder | Canada

Adetokunbo Ige
Adetokunbo is very passionate about Technology, a Platform Engineer and certified ISO 22301 Lead Implementer on Business Continuity.

Ajashe Nwapa
Kingfisher Group | UK

Ajashe Nwapa
I help software teams to fully automate their release management processes

Aksel Filipovic
ALADOR e.U. | Germany

Aksel Filipovic
Advising Management, Developers, Testers, Release Mgmt & DevOps teams to achieve Continuous Delivery their way using best practices, techniques and tooling in an interesting, joyful and accountable manner.

Alejandro Mercado
Michael Page Consulting | Mexico City

Alejandro Mercado
DevOps Lead, 2 daughters & 2 cats

Alejandro Montenegro
Google | Denmark

Alejandro Montenegro
Has been building data intensive applications for two decades, when not writing code or optimizing pipelines he likes to spend the day with outdoors activities.

Alex Jones
VP SRE @ JPMorgan & Chase

Alex Jones
I focus time on translating technology into tangible benefits for end-users and lower the bar to participation whilst increasing the adoption of best practices. Container orchestration, cloud infrastructure design, microservice programming and SRE practices are activities that have drawn much of my focus. Working for companies such as American Express, Microsoft, BSkyB, Beamery and more.
As an engineering leader, I believe it is my social responsibility and privilege to reciprocate knowledge and help provide opportunities to others. My ambition is to help those without a voice within my organisation and in the wider community, to be heard and succeed.
Projects I have built recently that might be interesting:
– Jaeger span generator: https://github.com/AlexsJones/jaeger-bomb
– GitOps Kubernetes with ArgoCD: https://github.com/AlexsJones/gitops-kubernetes-cluster
– Operator template code for Kubernetes: https://github.com/AlexsJones/KubeOps
– Kubernetes Observability example: https://github.com/AlexsJones/kubernetes-observability-stack

Alexander Raul
CEO at Rackner

Alexander Raul
We’ve worked on projects as diverse as enterprise-focused VR apps, mobile POS systems, and business software for complex use cases & industries like Telecom, Shipping & Logistics, Higher Ed, and FinTech.
When I put on my engineer hat – I’m very experienced with:
– Amazon Web Services
– Azure, Google Cloud, etc
– Docker & other container runtimes
– Kubernetes
– React, Angular
– Node.js

Alexander Schaber
cuegee it gmbh | Germany

Alexander Schaber
Founder and CEO of a renowned DevOps company; helping clients accelerate their Digital transformation journey with expertise in DevOps, SRE and Cloud adoptions.

Amandeep Singh
Cloud Enablers Pty Ltd | Australia

Amandeep Singh
Forever apprentice, working in DevOps and cloud engineering

Anand Patil
Cognizant Technology Solutions | Australia

Anand Patil
Technology Architect and DevOps Expert with over 15 years of experience driving digital transformation through Kubernetes, GitOps, API management, and strategic cloud architecture, with strong pre-sales acumen and active community leadership.

Anchal Gupta
Accenture | India

Anchal Gupta
DevOps Leader & Cloud Architect with 15+ years of experience enabling scalable, secure, and automated software delivery through CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, and cloud-native solutions. Proven expertise in building DevOps ecosystems across data platforms and enterprise applications.

Andreas Grabner
Dynatrace | Austria

Andreas Grabner
Has a passion for DevOps and SRE and is helping users to automate performance and resiliency validation into continuous delivery.

Andres Almiray
Oracle | Switzerland

Andres Almiray
I code for fun and help others in the process. Java Champion. Co-founder of Hackergarten & Hack.Commit.Push. Creator of @jreleaser

Anna Daugherty
Opsera

Anna Daugherty
Anna Daugherty is the Director of Product Marketing at Opsera where she focuses on delivering Continuous Deployment solutions for all developers, at any scale.

Anshul Lalit
Director - DevOps & Quality Management at Kongsberg Digital

Anshul Lalit
The more I learned about it, the more I realized the importance of such norms in a work environment. I believe there is nothing greater than improving the quality of the solutions provided on a day to day business with an optimized strategic approach. One of the significant factors that help a company reach its maximum potential is Quality and Continuous Improvement with security practices in mind. I strive to bring 100% to the work that I do by setting clear goals and building a strong foundation.
▪️ I work in Kongsberg Digital as a leadership interface to empower Digital Transformation and Strategic Initiatives to evangelize DevSecOps, mentorship, Process Management and technical leadership for Development & Delivery Teams, cultivate a business-focused mindset and culture for continuous deliveries, ensure cloud & testing strategies, compliance, and continuous improvement. I am passionate about what I do and always remain hungry to learn more and contribute.
▪️ I am a Business Management Professional with a master’s degree in Information Technology. I have a unique skill to manage multi-disciplinary projects and can steer complex challenges, and that is the result of actual hands-on experience. I have developed strong communication and presentation abilities and fostered a reputation as a key contributor through critical thinking and leadership skills. I have successfully built multicultural international teams globally.
▪️ My Capabilities: Digital Transformation, Cloud Strategies, DevOps Evangelism for Cloud Initiatives and Continuous Delivery Model, Security Practices across SDLC facilitating DevSecOps, Agile/Scrum Leadership, Test Strategy, Process Management, ISO compliance (12207, 9001, 27001), Applied Lean, Lean Process Improvement, Quality and Change Management, Resource & Budgeting, Process Compliance, RFP & PRO reviews, Risk Management, Vendor Management, Proactive Sourcing, Talent Pools, Mentoring and Continuous Improvement.
▪️ It is my goal to drive our business forward by adopting the best practices and evolving to changing needs. If you fancy knowing more or talk, I’d love to chat.

Anurag Sharma
Zensar Technologies UK LTD

Anurag Sharma
Sr Product Manager/ Management Consultant, Passionate about Product Ops, SRE and AIOps

Aravind Arumugham
Fidelity Investments | India

Aravind Arumugham
DevOps/SRE enthusiast & practitioner. Passionate about solving software delivery friction across stages of SDLC.

Balaji Sivasubramanian
Vice President of Product & Business Development at OpsMx

Balaji Sivasubramanian
Balaji is VP of Product and Business Development at OpsMx, a provider of Spinnaker based enterprise continuous delivery solutions. Balaji brings 12+ years of experience in product management and marketing in the Enterprise software space. Prior to OpsMx, Balaji was head of product management at Cisco for cloud native solutions and network virtualization products portfolio. Before that Balaji led technical business development at Big Switch Networks. Balaji is a prolific speaker in major industry conferences and author of 2 books in the networking field. Balaji holds an MBA from Wharton School of Business and Masters in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona and a Bachelor of Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, India

Balasundaram Natarajan
Senior DevOps/System Integration Engineer at OnMobile

Balasundaram Natarajan
• Articulated communicator working as a liaison between Technical & Support functions with commitment of contributing to an organization’s bottom line. Experience in Development Life cycle from requirement gathering, analysis, designing, developing, testing, documentation, implementation and support.
• Part of team for kubernetes cluster deployment POC
• Part of Docker community in Bangalore and contributing Docker stack ready solution to collabnix dockerlabs. (https://github.com/collabnix/dockerlabs/blob/master/solution/django-postgres/readme.md)
• Presentation and webinar on Container Networking in the Docker community event.
Webinar: https://docker.zoom.us/recording/play/1yu_fGqwzB4pQj2hl3dFPgTjS5HeeJrHLrQJ3mtE2-pfdBLGgbR93uYl2ujXqixu?continueMode=true
Presentation:
https://www.slideshare.net/BalasundaramNataraja/demystfying-containernetworking/BalasundaramNataraja/demystfying-containernetworking

Batuhan Apaydın
Trendyol Group | Turkey

Batuhan Apaydın
Docker Captain 2023 KCD Turkiye Organizer• Best Sigstore Evangelist 2022• Software Supply Chain Security Enthusiast•⛵Kubernetes Addict

Bervianto Leo Pratama
Mitrais | Indonesia

Bervianto Leo Pratama
Software Engineer and DevOps Enthusiast, Focus on Microservices and Cloud Services

Binoj Melath Nalinakshan Nair
Oracle | USA

Binoj Melath Nalinakshan Nair
Site Reliability Engineer who modernizes applications and cloud systems, continually deepens the expertise in containerization and event-driven automation, shares insights through technical articles, and mentors aspiring engineers

BMK Lakshminarayanan
Solutions Architect at Bank of New Zealand

BMK Lakshminarayanan
* Passionate Solutions Architect over 20 years of ICT experience, a polyglot and polymath.
* Practice and advocate domain driven design, firmly believe and practice “design for failures.”
* Believe – Learning by doing; Experienced Lean and Agile practitioner; Lead by example the change for New / Modern ways of working.
* Advocate for modern engineering/ developer practices, Microservices for Enterprise Agility, containerization, architecting for Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, Observability, Event-driven architecture with Kafka/NATS, Cloud Native and Open source software.
* Strongly believe in simplicity and code liability – when it comes to System Architecture, Design and Development appreciating best practices for Software Development and finding the right balance between over and under engineering.
* I am a highly motivated individual, look for every opportunity to reduce cost-By automation: Continuous Integration, Automated Tests, Continuous Delivery; reduce overhead – by simple yet powerful system design: ask questions why, think before doing, test before commit code; Improve user experience: create engaging user experience design, exceeding expectations, simple User Interface;
* DevOps enthusiast, lead DevOps and continuous delivery community of practices; Co-organiser for DevOpsDaysNZ, participate and present in DevOps meet-ups;
* In earlier life – experience as Trainer over five years in Software Development Practices, Microsoft.NET, mentoring, coaching juniors, students, junior developers and encouraging experience Developers. Includes commercial training, corporate training and visiting/guest lectures for Engineering /Technology Students
* Held various positions and contributed to institutionalizing best practices in project and product development processes across the organization beyond the department boundaries/silos.
* Experienced Toastmaster and Competent communicator.

Brad McCoy
Play Travel | New Zealand

Brad McCoy
Head of Engineering, CNCF ambassador, passionate about open source and mentoring new contributors and helping organizations adopt open source to accelerate innovation.

Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez
Software Engineer | R&D Performance & Scale for OpenShift Performance & Latency Sensitive Application Platform (PSAP)

Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez
Eduardo is also a Computer Science PhD student at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, working on containerized distributed systems for research computing, with high focus on automated workflows, GitOps and CD for Research compute workflows. His research interests include High Performance Computing, Distributed systems, Dependency management, Linux containers and most recently, Container distribution and orchestration. Over the past 5 years Eduardo has focused on enabling researchers to build and deploy performance sensitive applications with containers on distributed environments.

Carlos Enrique Moreno Alvarez

Carlos Enrique Moreno Alvarez
Capable design and deploy technical solutions for high services delivery infrastructure platforms using the best practices on the market. Working as a team player assuming leadership responsibilities, focus on customer value and business value.

Carlos Tadeu Panato Jr
Chainguard

Carlos Tadeu Panato Jr
Carlos Tadeu Panato Jr. is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard and an open source leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling software platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and secure software delivery systems.
He is a Tech Lead for Kubernetes SIG Release and a leader within the Linux Foundation ecosystem, contributing to initiatives across Kubernetes and the CD Foundation to advance cloud-native technologies, continuous delivery, and software supply chain security.
His work bridges engineering excellence, technical leadership, and open source governance, with a focus on enabling organizations to build secure, resilient, and scalable software at global scale. Carlos is a regular speaker at international industry events, where he shares practical insights on Kubernetes, continuous delivery, software supply chain security, and the future of open source collaboration.

Chad Tripod
Sn. Deployment Engineer at Armory.io

Chad Tripod
Production deployment projects with some of the largest cloud services in the world ensuring that Millions of users and devices can connect with their most beloved applications and services. Taking into consideration the ever evolving market of the mobile user and the mirroring growth within the DataCenter to make those services available, secure, and optimized.
Goals:
Help our customers execute better business models with the use of technology. Deploying Applications and Services to production with best practices, simple configurations, and ability to reach extreme scale. Utilize Data to improve all facets of the business. Streamline application life cycle / rollout for continuous deployment from dev to production.
Specialized: HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, SSL-TLS, PFS, ECC, Mobile, TCP, MPTCP, DNS, GSLB, RHI, TCP-Fast Open, SSL Session Tickets, Containers, Virtual Machines, Application Monitoring / Visibility
Specialized Products: Netscaler, Nginx, Avi Networks, Splunk, Nutanix, PepperData, Dynatrace, Lucidworks
Newly Certified Splunk Architect. These services and infrastructure pieces are useless without insight and visibility to their health and usage.

Chaitali Kanetkar
Citi | India

Chaitali Kanetkar
A passionate DevOps leader and cloud advocate, I help organizations streamline delivery, enhance reliability, and drive innovation at scale.

Chamod Perera
Circles | Sri Lanka

Chamod Perera
Chamod Shehanka Perera is a software engineer II at Circles, an open source and cloud native enthusiast and interested in conducting tech talks in domains such as cloud native tools. He’s leading the KCD Sri Lanka and GDG Sri Lanka. Other than that he’s an ex GitHub Field Expert.

Chandan Sinha
Operations Engineer at Firstlight Media

Chandan Sinha
He is responsible for the uninterrupted delivery of content on various streaming platforms. He is self-motivated to learn & educate people about open source, its philosophy.c

Chandani Kumari
Consultant

Chandani Kumari
She worked as Linux admin with Wipro Technology for six years before stepping down for a career transition in DevOps & open source. She is also an ambassador for Fittr (a Fitness & Nutrition Community). In her leisure time, she loves to spread awareness about fitness and nutrition.

Chitrita Chakravarti
Slalom | USA

Chitrita Chakravarti
Senior Consultant with the Data & Analytics practice of Slalom working as a data strategist & architect and DataOps practitioner, modernizing data engineering solutions.

Chris Short
AWS | USA

Chris Short
Sr. Dev Advocate, AWS Kubernetes | EKS.news | Co-chair OpenGitOps | CNCF & CDF Ambassador | KubeWeekly | devopsish.com | Disabled Veteran | Views solely mine

Christian Hernandez
Red Hat | USA

Christian Hernandez
Kubernetes and GitOps Advocate working to containerize the world one application at a time working at Red Hat.

Clemens Reijnen
Global CTO of Cloud and DevOps leader at Sogeti

Clemens Reijnen
Leading and influencer in technology communities. Mentor, guide, trainer and team player. Frequent blogger, writer and speaker. Runner, Telemark skier and sailor.

Damian Naprawa
Apresly | Poland

Damian Naprawa
CEO apresly.com, Cloud & Kubernetes Architect, Docker Captain

Dan “POP” P.
Field Chief Technologist at Sysdig | Host of The POPCAST with DanPOP | CKA

Dan “POP” P.
Specialties:
Microservice and Container Orchestration Development, Runtime, and Monitoring including Kubernetes, Openshift, Docker EE, Hashicorp Nomad, and Mesosphere,
Container Security, Scanning, Runtime Enforcement, and Forensics
Hybrid Cloud leadership and solution consulting
Big Data architecure and overall thought leadership
DevOps and Cloud Native Application Practice
IT Transformation and Security Best Practice
Financial and Portfolio Accounting system architecture/Trade Workflow Systems
Large and small scale technology implementation and project management.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Virtualization and Storage Technologies

David Dennis
Seamfix | Nigeria

David Dennis
DevOps and Cloud advocate with a degree in computer engineering.

David Espejo
VMware | Colombia

David Espejo
Community builder at heart and platform engineer with a background on automation, K8s and cloud.

David Tsulaia
DataArt | Georgia

David Tsulaia
Engineer with passion for OSS, Linux and low level things.

Dheeraj Nayal
Global Community Ambassador at DevOps Institute

Dheeraj Nayal
This role is exclusive & people-focused evangelist to the global community of Enterprises, Channel Partners and individuals who are planning, embarking or already on a transformation journey in Digital world based on DevOps, Agile, emerging Technologies and standards. I build massive online, social Global community with thousands of members and practitioners . I am committed to connect the Humans of DevOps and Modern IT to advance the Skills, Knowledge, Ideas & Learning with ease and collaboration. I report directly to CEO & Director and works as a Chief Evangelist to drive the Community behavior at global scale.
I am also simultaneously managing the Asia-Pacific, Japan, Middle east, Africa region as Region Head where I am working with Global Thought Leaders, Elite Enterprises, Government Agencies, Specialized Agencies & Strategic Partners to evangelize the standardization of DevOps, Agile, IT Service Management, emerging technologies and standards, best Practices and skills adoption. I am passionate about developing a Global Continuous Learning Community around DevOps & Modern IT with Best Practices because of the evolution and revolution taking place across sectors due to adoption & Digitization at scale across economies.

Dinesh Nithyanandam
Sn. Performance Engineer at Target

Dinesh Nithyanandam
Primarily focused on implementing comprehensive performance engineering tool sets in open source space for ex – log analytics in ELK Stack and APM tool in Naver/pinpoint (Replacement to Dynatrace/AppD/NewRelic)
Seasoned professional with concrete proficiency in performance measurement, performance monitoring, performance analysis, performance tuning, capacity planning and volumetric workload modeling
Hands-on experience in developing Spring Boot Based Rest Stateless API’s
Architected and designed Highly scalable and Fault Tolerance Postgresql Partitioned Schema with parallel worker thread for higher concurrency in PG10 which could scale with Million of writes (Inserts/Updates) per sec.

Dong Ma
IBM | China

Dong Ma
Software Engineer at IBM, Open Mainframe Project Ambassador, DevOps & CI/CD Enthusiast

Ebin Babu
Stackgenie | India

Ebin Babu
A passionate cloud native advocate, application modernization, and cloud computing, continuously developing expertise in containerization and mastering Kubernetes.

Eddie Webbinaro
CircleCI | USA

Eddie Webbinaro
Now a Technical Sales Leader for software delivery solutions, Eddie started his career as a cloud native web-service developer in highly regulated enterprise.

Enric Forn Jorba
CaixabankTech | Spain

Enric Forn Jorba
IT Architect accelerating software development while increasing quality in large organizations.

Enrique Ramirez
Principal Software Engineer at Waters Corporation

Enrique Ramirez
Reputation for providing home-grown solutions borne out of expert technical insight and tenaciously acquired knowledge in the problem domain. Qualified by over 15 years of experience in:
– Work on Software Products and instruments from Inception to Launch
– Managing On-/Off-shore International Teams
– Complete Software Lifecycle for Desktop, servers, firmware, instruments
– Software Quality
– Functional, Performance, and Testing Tools and Technologies
– Developing Business and Technical Alliances
– Knowledgeable in life science instruments development and FDA compliances

Everest K.C.
Boise State University

Everest K.C.
Graduate Student in CS, DevOps and cloud native Advocate

Feynman Zhou
QingCloud | China

Feynman Zhou
Community manager and InfoQ DevOps editor, focusing on advocacy and outreach, technology evangelism and community growth

Forest Jing
DevOps Practitioner at Huayou Tech

Forest Jing
I am the co-founder of the local group, DevOps Times Community, where I help coordinate a total following of 30,000 subscribers through the group’s wechat official account. I am an active Jenkins and DevOps Institute Ambassador. I have also coordinated and organized events for Jenkins Area Meetup and Jenkins User Conference China for the past 3 years.
I have also been awarded by the Jenkins community as Most Valuable Advocate of Jenkins Community and Jenkins Ambassador in 2018.

Ganesh Sharma
LambdaTest

Ganesh Sharma
FOSS/DevOps/GitOps/CloudOps Enthusiast. 5+ Years into the Infra space.

Garima Bajpai
Canada

Garima Bajpai
Garima has been an outstanding Ambassador by volunteering her time for conference booths, participating in many outreach programs and always sharing great suggestions. In addition, she built a recognition program for the Ortelius project contributors; a critical part of forming an open source community that can recognize the hard work of being a committer.

Giovanni Galloro
Google | Rome, Italy

Giovanni Galloro
Customer Engineer at Google Cloud, specialized on container based runtimes and Continuous Delivery tools and practices.

Glaudia Califano
Agile & Lean Practitioner - Professional Scrum Trainer at Red Tangerine

Glaudia Califano
I have worked with software and non-software development teams in various capacities from facilitating training and workshops to getting deeply involved ‘in the trenches’ with teams. This includes coaching and mentoring individuals, teams and organisations.
I started my Agile journey in a Scrum team. I soon came to realise the benefit of being part of the bigger picture and getting a deep understanding of the Software Development Lifecyle and the end to end value stream.
Over the years I enhanced my skills and knowledge by taking on different roles and responsibilities across a variety of disciplines such as Scrum Master, Product Ownership, Business Analysisi, Service Delivery Management, Agile & Lean coaching. I have guided organisations along their journeys towards business agility, allowing them to inspect and adapt and focus on customer value.
I have extensive experience in helping organisations break down silos, enabling the creation of a continuous learning environment that encourages communication, collaboration and innovation. I am passionate about helping organisations identify how value to the customer is delivered, by evaluating what work is performed, where the bottlenecks and waste are and what steps organisations can take incrementally to improve future flow.
In 2018 I succesfully completed Kanban Train the Trainer Program from Lean Kanban University, enabling me to teach KMP1, KMP2 and TKP. In 2019 I became part of the scrum.org trainer community by becoming a Professional Scrum Trainer (PST). Additionally I am part of a team designing and delivering multiple training classes and workshops such as: ICAgile Product Ownership, Design Thinking, Design Thinking with Lego® Serious Play®, Design Thinking to map, bridge and integrate cultural diversity and inclusion. Aside from providing training I am far and foremost an Agile & Lean practitioner, working with teams and organisations on a day to day basis.

Gokul Prabagaren
Capital One | USA

Gokul Prabagaren
Developed distributed Cloud Native applications based on Spark, Cassandra and Mongo which are currently serving millions of customers everyday.

Gurumoorthy Raghupathy
DoIT International | UK

Gurumoorthy Raghupathy
Senior Engineering Leader / SRE practitioner with 22+ years of passion in delivering business applications & solutions.

Guto Carvalho
Nativetrail.io | Brazil

Guto Carvalho
Cloud Native Engineer living in the center-west of Brazil. DevOps Enthusiast, GitOps Practitioner and a Cloud-Native Believer 🙂

Helen Beal
Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute

Helen Beal
Ways of Working and DevOps coach, consultant and learning facilitator. Writer, speaker and analyst.

Hemant Jain
Oracle | USA

Hemant Jain
Hello, I am Hemant Jain and I am currently working at Oracle as Sr.SRE in the Cloud Computing Space.

Hongchao Deng
Alibaba Cloud | USA

Hongchao Deng
Co-chair of CNCF App Delivery TAG; Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba Cloud; Focus on DevOps, cloud native technologies, developer experience.

Ixchel Ruiz
Karakun AG | Switzerland

Ixchel Ruiz
Has developed software applications and tools since 2000. She travels around the world (sometimes virtually) sharing knowledge—it’s one of her main drives in life.

Janis Orlovs
CWISE | Latvia

Janis Orlovs
Has been building large and small scale software delivery platforms and solutions for last 10 years.

Jason Odoom
Cybersecurity Engineer at Clarity Innovates

Jason Odoom
Employs a deep understanding of computer networks and security to build and manage secure systems. Interested in exploring, implementing and improving ideas to advance the use of technology in society.

Jay Shah
Canada DevOps Community of Practice | Canada

Jay Shah
Cyber Security and Gen AI Professional. Academic Researcher & Publisher

Jesus Rodriguez
DevOps Ambassador | SAFe® 5 Program Consultant | Cloud Native enthusiasts | Head of Software Engineering at Sodimac Corp

Jesus Rodriguez
Head of Engineering at Sodimac Corp, SAFe Program Consultant, and DevOps & Cloud Native Enthusiast specialized in the development of Cloud Native applications, DevOps and Agile transformation, Cloud and Kubernetes adoption with more than 10 years of experience helping organization to embrace new technologies & practices to develop business solutions.

Jesus Rodriguez
ABCDin

Jesus Rodriguez
I’m a Tech Enthusiast focused on Cloud Native & DevOps adoption, developing high-performance teams and moderns Cloud Native Architectures Implementations.

Jinghe Ma (Mike)
JiHu(GitLab) | China

Jinghe Ma (Mike)
DevOps technical & Open Source Evangelist at JiHu(GitLab), focusing on Cloud Native as well as DevSecOps.

Jitander Kapil
GlobalPoint Inc | USA

Jitander Kapil
Jitander Kapil, who is a senior IT professional with extensive experience in DevOps, automation, and cloud implementation. He has held various leadership roles, including Director of DevOps, AVP DevOps, Senior Automation Manager, Architect, and Transition Leader. He is currently working as an Assistant Vice President at an MNC, providing leadership in DevOps and cloud strategies.
Jitander has worked across multiple business verticals, engaging with cutting-edge technologies such as big data, IoT, analytics, and digital transformation. He holds a Master of Computer Applications degree and has pursued various certifications in processes, technology, and leadership, including PMP (IIMR), Kanban, Scrum, Agile, DevOps, GCP, and AWS.

Jithin Emmanuel
Verizon Media

Jithin Emmanuel
Senior Engineering Manager & Product Owner for Yahoo Screwdriver, the flagship CI/CD product at Verizon Media https://screwdriver.cd/

JJ Asghar
Developer Advocate at IBM

JJ Asghar
Specialties: Linux Administration, Beer Brewing, Network Design, E-Mail Administration, Project Management, Puppet infrastructure and administration

Joel Vasallo
Manager, Cloud DevOps at Redbox

Joel Vasallo
Experience working in the field as an DevOps and Tooling Engineer; now Manager. My experience spans across many domains (some may call it full-stack) from architecture to delivery to security.
Most notably:
* Handled operations of both mutable and immutable production workloads using tooling/automation.
* In no particular order, experience writing in Bash, Python, Groovy, Go.
* Use Git for Source Control
* Continuous Integration using Jenkins, GitlabCI
* Continuous Delivery using GitlabCI, Spinnaker
* Experience in the cloud for 5+ years mainly in AWS and GCP
* Developer toolchain growing but notably using Packer, Ansible, Terraform
* Firm believer, user, and contributor to open source projects
Currently not looking for work.

Julie Horville
Sn. Marketing Mgr. at Cycloid

Julie Horville
Expertise:
Marketing and comms strategies, teams coordination, budget management, event, web, social, integrated campaigns, customer programs, CRM, community management, content writing, translation, providers/contractors management, PR
Experience:
IT (predictive analytics, Big Data, IoT, automation, real-time, collaborative cloud-based platform, deep tech/DevOps platform), environment (water treatment), cosmetics (hair products), communications (360°)
Start-up, SMB, agency, large group

Kailashpathi C Gujari
Ericsson | India

Kailashpathi C Gujari
18+ Years of experience in Cloud, Infrastructure Automation & DevOps/SRE.

Kais Salhi
Hydro Quebec

Kais Salhi
Entreprise architect, accelerating digital transformation. DevSecOps and Platform Engineering Evangelist. Cloud Natives Advocate. Passion for emerging technologies and fields that contribute to Continuous Delivery

Kevin Collas-Arundell
Annalise.ai | Australia

Kevin Collas-Arundell
Generic Linux Ops person with a dash of Kubernetes, Go and YAML.

Kierra Dotson
The Data Bloq | Austin

Kierra Dotson
At the intersection of Platform Engineering and Data/AI; passionate about building reliable data and AI platorms while sharing and helping others along the way

Lisa Cao
Datastrato | USA

Lisa Cao
Product lead at Datastrato passionate about bringing technical interoperability and collaboration between DevOps, Data Engineering, and Machine Learning teams through unified DataOps and Metadata-Driven Architectures.

Lori Lorusso
Percona | USA

Lori Lorusso
Open source advocate connecting devs and techies one enthusiastic chat at a time!

Luiz Bernardo
DB1 Global Software | Brazil

Luiz Bernardo
I’m lifelong learning, uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.

Marky Jackson
Sn. Software Engineer at Equinix

Marky Jackson

Matheus Paes Pereira
iFood | Brazil

Matheus Paes Pereira
Software Engineering Manager at iFood. Tech enthusiast focused on continuous delivery and improve experiences

Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino
Principal Software Engineer (Dev Rel) at Camunda

Mauricio (Salaboy) Salatino
Kubernetes-addict,
Open Source enthusiast
Spring Cloud Kubernetes, Contributor
Jenkins X, Contributor
JHipster fan.
Informatics Engineer (Mendoza University – Argentina)
For more information about the conferences where I presented or my profile visit:
http://salaboy.com/about

Max Knee
Senior Software Engineer at Comcast

Max Knee
Tools used: Javascript, Polymer, Git, Jenkins, AWS, Linux/Ubuntu/CentOS, CSS, CloudFoundry, Gulp.
Things I am interested in: Streamlined deployments and faster code builds, new tools for infrastructure management, well thought out frameworks for the web (front end and back end) to build great apps for mobile and desktop.

Michel Schildmeijer
Qualogy | Netherlands

Michel Schildmeijer
Michel has a broad but also deep experience in Information Technology, and is passionate about technology innovation, always exploring new grounds and areas.

Moïse Kameni
Hydro-Québec | Canada

Moïse Kameni
I have a passion for open source and believe that community, transparency, and shared innovation can shape the future of technology.

Moshiur Khondokar
Director of Global Engineering (QA, DevOps) at GroupM

Moshiur Khondokar
Experienced in SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Cloud, Big Data, IoT Industry.
Build and Leading High performing Global Team, Delivering Quality Product with ROI.
Expertise in full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), involved in product requirement analysis, design,architecture,development, testing, deployment and support.
Experienced in Agile development process and CI/CD implementation with Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes.
Experienced in DevOps process, automatic deployment using Chef/Ansible and Kubernetes cloud deployment in OpenStack, AWS,Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
Expertise in testing UI leveraging Selenium WebDriver.
Expertise in Microservices/ RESTful web service/API testing by incorporate JUnit and TestNG framework and SoapUI.
Experienced in Android Mobile app testing utilizing Appium, Espresso.
Experienced in JMeter, AppDynamics, dynaTrace for Load and Performance(LnP) testing.
Experienced in Security testing/Pen Testing utilizing ZAP, BURP Suite, Qualys, Checkmarx.
Expertise in Production monitoring using Grafana and production log search using Splunk.

Nagesh Goyal
Vice President of Global Delivery at Espire Infolabs

Nagesh Goyal
Nagesh has over 22+ years of experience in various technical and leadership roles. He has got technology background with experience in steering Product Development, Software Architecture, Consulting & Delivery Management in International environments. During his career, he has worked with some of the top Fortune 500 companies to support their CCM, CRM, Web Content Management, eLearning initiatives. Nagesh has Proven expertise in strategy, risk management and business planning, reducing waste and cost through process redesign and agile management. He has worked with some large IT services and Product development companies at leadership positions and passionate about DevOps and Agile processes. He is a certified DevOps Leader and Agile Coach. He had led several digital transformation projects using Agile, SCRUM methodologies. He has also led several CI/CD initiatives.

Najib Radzuan
Digi Telecommunications | Malaysia

Najib Radzuan
Global DevOps Ambassador and is committed to help organizations struggling with DevOps transformation & adoption.

Naresh Rayapati (Rao)
Software Architect at Cerner Corporation

Naresh Rayapati (Rao)
Software Architect at Cerner Corporation, a leading provider of healthcare information technology. Passionate about Agile, DevOps & Continuous Delivery, and all things Automation. Very strong developer, with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. In the recent years his focus has been on enabling DevOps practices in his current team. OSS Contributor, he is maintaining couple of Jenkins plugins since past several years.

Natale Vinto
Red Hat

Natale Vinto
Natale is a DevOps, Developer Advocate and books author that helps people within communities and customers have success with their Kubernetes and cloud native strategy.

Nikhil Pathania
Arla Foods | Denmark

Nikhil Pathania
Sr Cloud Solutions Architect specializing in Data Analytics Software Applications | DevOps guy | Author

Nirmalya Sen
Sn. Director of Software Engineering at OpsMx

Nirmalya Sen
Expertise: Cloud infrastructure, AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes/Openshift/Docker, Java/JEE, Web Services, SaaS, Software Life cycle management, High Availability, Security, Business Intelligence

Oleg Nenashev
Gradle | Switzerland

Oleg Nenashev
Serial open source community builder and DevRel consultant, former CDF TOC Chair and Jenkins governance board member

Oscar Medina
Developer Advocate at Cloudbees

Oscar Medina
Oscar’s software development coupled with cloud infrastructure(Dev and Ops) has been instrumental in helping companies realize the benefits of cloud solutions by mentoring teams in migrating legacy monolithic applications into Microservices, building CI/CD pipelines and orchestrating Docker containers using Kubernetes on three of the leading clouds AWS, GCP, and Azure.
He focuses on the following areas:
– DevOps practices with a focus on cloud agnostic solutions using open source tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Packer and Vagrant
– CI/CD Security
– Docker Image hardening and Security
– Cloud Greenfield projects (AWS, Azure, GCP)
– Cloud Development (migrate apps to the cloud, leveraging cloud-native services)
– Cloud security and privacy assessments, pen testing, complete initial setup of Policies, AD Federation, Roles etc.
– Custom modern app development in many languages
– API Management (security, rate limiting etc)
Oscar is also an Office 365 veteran (all workloads) previously at Microsoft helped large corporations adopt the cloud and provided guidance as per best practices.

Owen Bowers Adam
SRE Lead @ IGS

Owen Bowers Adam
My current focus is around how to make this work in a hardware and chip design setting, but I’ve been fortunate to be able to work with a variety of clients over the years with a huge range of problems and maturity levels.
Outside of my core work, I’m also pretty active as a mentor and judge for local hackathons.
You can find me on twitter at @obowersa and at linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owen-bowers-adams-8b179417/

Paul Dragoonis
Principal Architect & Quality Engineer at bexio AG

Paul Dragoonis
Open Source Involvement:
* Core contributor to PHP / A founder of PHP-FIG (official standards body).
* Author of many PHP standards (some are now reaching 100,000,000 installations)
* Member of the Jenkins Project. Involvement within Blue Ocean and JenkinsX projects
* Member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (Ambassador)
Key Areas of Expertise:
* I have 20 years experience in software engineering
* Service Oriented Architecture / Distributed Systems / Microservices
* Quality assurance / testing solutions / CI/CD solutions
* Software architecture / Infrastructure architecture
* Test Driven Development (TDD) / Behavioral Driven Development (BDD)
* Domain Driven Development (DDD)
* Teaching, mentoring, public Speaking, bringing teams together
Sectors I have experience in:
* Banking, FinTech
* Automotive (UK Gov and private sector),
* Health (NHS, UK Gov)
* Environmental Management
* E-Learning, Retail, E-Commerce, Customer Experience Management
* Travel
* Affiliate Marketing
Areas I’ve provided public speaking, public workshops and private workshops on:
* CI/CD solutions using Jenkins
* CI/CD solutions using JenkinsX
* Software design and architecture
* Docker-based CI/CD solutions
* Behavioral driven development
* Test driven development
* Software automation testing

Radek Antoniuk
IT Delivery Freelancer | DevOps & Solution Architect | Open Source contributor

Radek Antoniuk
Open source lover!

Raghavendra Guttr
Dell EMC

Raghavendra Guttr
Technical Director, DevOps Competency Lead, Strategist, Technical Advisor, and hands-on Individual Contributor with more than 20 years of experience.

Raghavendra Vema
Fannie Mae | USA

Raghavendra Vema
Software Delivery Enthusiasts passionate about optimizing and automating workflows. Curious and thrive to stay ahead in tech and sharing insights with the community.

Ricardo Castro
Blip/FanDuel | Portugal

Ricardo Castro
Principal Engineer, SRE at FanDuel/Blip.pt. MSc in Computer Science by the University of Porto. CK{AD, A, S} by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) | Linux Foundation. {Terraform, Consul, Vault} Associate by HashiCorp. Working daily to build high-performance, reliable and scalable systems. DevOps Porto meetup co-organizer and DevOpsDays Portugal co-organizer. A strong believer in culture and teamwork. Open source passionate, martial arts amateur, and metal lover.

Rob Jahn
Dynatrace | USA

Rob Jahn
DevOps solutions advocate based out of Boston, supporting technical alliances partners with industry leading DevOps ISVs and Cloud providers through open source projects, technical workshops, videos, meetups, webinars and blogs.

Robert Kelly
Liatrio | USA

Robert Kelly
Robert is a passionate and opinionated technologist focused on modernizing and improving software delivery within large enterprise organizations.

Romnick Acabado
Applications DevOps Leader & IT Manager at Lingaro | DevOps Institute Global Ambassador | DevOps Speaker & Blogger

Romnick Acabado
He leads a team that specializes in data analytics, which includes specializations like business intelligence, big data, data lake, enterprise reporting, and visualizations.
He is a well-rounded leader that is responsible for building and managing a team from hiring, resource management, skills and performance management, operations excellence, and implementing knowledge management strategy and best practices across their whole organization. He contributes to their business development and serves as a service partner to their Fortune 500 customers.
He also helps in coordinating their company-wide technical skills development and plans.
He is also active as a DevOps Institute’s Global Ambassador in the Philippines.
He supports, engages, and empowers the Humans of DevOps through interactions and collaboration with other ambassadors.
His mission is to use his creativity, authenticity, and accountability on learning and sharing best practices in executing strategic plans
to achieve the sustainable success of whomever, he is working with as an IT Leader.

Rosalind Benoit
Directory of Community at Armory.io

Rosalind Benoit
I work on building the Spinnaker community and ecosystem and would like to leverage the CDF’s network and support. I want to represent Spinnaker and the CDF and support the continuous delivery story.

Safeer C M
Independent Consultant | India

Safeer C M
Technology Leader | Author | Speaker – SRE | DevOps | Platform Engineering | Infrastructure | Cloud Architect

Saim Safdar
Rafay Systems | Pakistan

Saim Safdar
Developer Relations Manager at Rafay Systems. Co-Founder Cloud-Native Islamabad community and Traefik Ambassador.

Sandhya Rani Dodda
Cisco | USA

Sandhya Rani Dodda
Technical Leader with expertise in DevOps, Agile Transformation, Change & Release Management and have a strong passion for Continuous Delivery, Process Improvement, Strategy & Leadership.

Santanoo Bhattacharjee
Accenture | India

Santanoo Bhattacharjee
A voracious blogger, enthusiastic evolution debater & at last a Seasoned Transformation Architect practising DevSecOps, CloudOps, SRE implementations.

Santosh Kumar Perumal
Tata Consultancy Services | London

Santosh Kumar Perumal
Senior Cloud Consultant with extensive expertise in Microservices, DevOps and Application Modernization.

Sarah McCasland
Modus Create | USA

Sarah McCasland
Chief Strategy Officer @ Modus Create and Executive Sponsor of our OSPO

Saurabh Mishra
Vodafone Group | India

Saurabh Mishra
Saurabh is a DevOps,Cloud architect that has a particular interest in all things related to Cloud Native, DevOps and Automation.

Savinder Puri
TBC Bank, Tbilisi | Georgia

Savinder Puri
DevOps Evangelist | Speaker | YouTuber | Author | Purpose: Spirituality & Success

Shaaron A Alvares
Enterprise Agile and Devops Transformation Leader at T-Mobile

Shaaron A Alvares
– Technical Program Management – Release Train Engineer – Product organizational mindset – Scaled Agile and DevOps adoption – Tools operationalization.
**TECHNOLOGY**: Ability to translate products and technology requirements into enterprise infrastructure capabilities and continuous delivery. Partner with Business, Lead Engineers and Architects to deliver scalable fit for purpose solutions.
**TEAM LEADERSHIP**: Effectively mentored and trained 15+ Technical Program Managers/ Scrum Masters reports to support large scale organizational transformation. Introduced culture of open space agility, communities of practices, Test & Learn and Continuous Improvement patterns to effectively upskill and address technical impediment leading to improved developers’ productivity.
**ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCT & VALUE STREAM COACH**: Transitioned organizations from Project and Waterfall to Product and Value Stream Management increasing business alignment, agility, velocity and stability.
**PRAGMATIC EXECUTION**: Ability to leverage and customize Frameworks and Methodologies to make them ft for purpose and valuable for the current level of organizational maturity: DevOps, Scaled Agile, SAFe, RTE, LeSS, Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan, Extreme Programming (XP), Test-Driven Development, Lean Agile, Lean Kaizen, (CICD). Align strategic transformation goals to enterprise annual performance goal.

Shahriyar Al Mustakim Mitul
CNCF | Bangladesh

Shahriyar Al Mustakim Mitul
CNCF Ambassador, Cloud Native Dhaka & KCD Dhaka organizer, Quantum Neural Network Enthusiast, Machine Learning community lead

Shaleen Swatantra
OpsMx | India

Shaleen Swatantra
Marketing leader & dev advocate | almost 12 yrs in IT & software industry | DevOps enthusiast & community lead wanting to grow the CI/CD community | special interest in pipeline orchestration projects like Spinnaker & ArgoCD.

Shlomo Bielak
Chief Technology Officer at Benchmark Corp

Shlomo Bielak
His mantra to live by is: “I am here to help.” He is focused on supporting the practical side of DevSecOps which stems from his engineering and enterprise architecture background. He was previously a global head of Site Reliability Engineering and Application Security as a CISO for a Fortune 500. He is also the creator of Governance Engineering which is published in one of his whitepapers on DevGovOps. He has worked with niche companies in the container space to publish two case studies showing how a large corporation can modernize its applications using containers and microservices in the cloud, while supporting PCI compliance using CD pipelines. He participates heavily in the conference scene which includes keynotes in; Atlanta, San Francisco, New York City, Toronto, Niagara-on-the-Lake, and New Orleans. Shifting to numerous Webinars/BrightTalks in Q1 of 2020. He also provides thought-leadership and product management guidance to multiple partners at their CKO/SKOs to align better with the shift-left DevOps culture. Having successfully implemented digital transformation for a fortune 500 he plans to show others how to do so practically. Ask him anything on the spot. He loves it.

Stephane Montri
Docker | France

Stephane Montri
Passionate about cloud Native and DevOps technologies, I’m helping companies to enable a DevSecOps strategy in order secure their Cloud Native applications and CI/CD workflows.

Stephen Adeniyi
CloudKite | Nigeria

Stephen Adeniyi
I’m Stephen, a DevOps engineer at cloudkite.io, curious problem solver, Linux lover, and super passionate about solving software delivery and SRE.

Steven Terrana
Senior Lead Technologist at Booz Allen Hamilton

Steven Terrana
As the author of the Jenkins Templating Engine, he is passionate about bringing organizational governance to software delivery while enabling developer autonomy to simplify DevSecOps adoption across the enterprise. Steven helps organize the Jenkins community’s Pipeline Authoring Special Interest Group and contributes where he can to pipeline documentation and community plugins.

Suresh Babu
OpsMx

Suresh Babu
Sr. Marketing Manager, Passionate about DevOps, CI/CD, Open Source technologies and all things digital.

Sven Ruppert
JFrog | Germany

Sven Ruppert
The only one on Youtube that explains IT topics in the woods.

Szymon (Simon) Grzebieta
Innablr | Australia

Szymon (Simon) Grzebieta
Experienced Lead AWS/GCP Cloud Engineer dedicated to building highly available, robust, recoverable infrastructure and applications with a focus on automation, optimisation, CI/CD.

Thomas Schuetz
WhizUs | Austria

Thomas Schuetz
Cloud-native Engineer, Advocate and Educator, eager to find ways to make software delivery and troubleshooting easier and more reliable.

Tiffany Jachja
Technical Evangelist at Harness.io

Tiffany Jachja
Tiffany is passionate about better software delivery. She leverages her experience building cloud-native software solutions with DevOps practices to share applicable stories and content around software technologies.

Tom Tofigh
5G Network Architect at Facebook Connectivity

Tom Tofigh
Broad experiences in delivering complex design reliability for hardware & software, quality, new product introduction, customer engagement, industry & academia collaboration. Strong analytical skills, good interpersonal and communication skill. Strong Technical leadership in SDN, VFV, CI/CD, network automation and performance benchmarking. Worked for AT&T for 16 years as PMTS as part of advanced radio technology and SDN/NFV team. Among his tasks, Tom was leading technical evaluation of startups & Strategic relationship alignment with diverse cross organizational skills. Tom Is currently leading architecture and development of CI/CD for open and disaggregated 4G/5G RAN and Open core working from Menlo Park, Ca.

Travis Howle
John Deere | USA

Travis Howle
Passionate about automation at all levels with over 22 years of experience; works to streamline and automate machine learning at an enterprise level for everything data & analytics.

Varun Kumar
Amdocs | Canada

Varun Kumar
Varun Kumar is a Toronto-based Enterprise Cloud Solutions Architect, Senior DevOps Engineer, long-time AWS Ambassador, and security specialist who drives large-scale cloud-infrastructure and DevOps initiatives at Amdocs while actively engaging in community outreach and continuous upskilling.

Vasanthavishnu Vasudevan
Opsera | USA

Vasanthavishnu Vasudevan
Passionate Product development Servant leader looking for every opportunity to give back to the community.

Viachaslau Matsukevich
Highnote | USA

Viachaslau Matsukevich
Viachaslau is a recognized leader in the DevOps community, known for expertise in cloud computing, container orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines, and contributes as an author and expert in cloud-native technologies.

Viktor Farcic
Principal DevOps Architect at Codefresh

Viktor Farcic
He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences (latest can be found here).
He published The DevOps Toolkit Series, DevOps Paradox and Test-Driven Java Development., as well as courses in Udemy.
His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog TechnologyConversations.com.
He is a co-host of DevOps Paradox podcast.

Vladislav Bilay
Aquiva Labs | Poland

Vladislav Bilay
I’m a DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud native solutions and scripting, passionate about knowledge sharing through tech writing, mentoring hackathons, and training program creation.

Xiaojie Zhao (Rick)
Senior Software Engineer at Alauda

Xiaojie Zhao (Rick)
As the leader of the Chinese Localization SIG and press contact of Jenkins in China, where a large developer community exists invisible from the west. He has been promoting the Jenkins community in several ways, such as running the Jenkins official social media, encouraging people to contribute tech-articles, giving some speeches about Jenkins at the related conferences, maintaining the Chinese Jenkins website. He is the author of several open source projects, like Simplified Chinese Plugin and Jenkins CLI. He is also a participant in GSoC serving two years as a mentor.

Xuefeng Shi
Head of Engineering Productivity at JD.com

Xuefeng Shi
多年软件配置管理,工程领域(如持续集成,持续交付)和研发工具链平台建设经验。曾负责近四十人工程效率团队的管理和建设,支持全球化千人规模研发团队的产品交付,追求极致的工程效率水平,深信技术改变世界。国内DevOps的践行者和推动者,DevOps时代社区和DevOps行业标准工作组核心成员。认证DevOps Master和Jenkins专家,为人勤奋,敬业,乐观积极,终身学习,值得信赖












