CDF Ambassador Alumni

Manuel is a senior DevOps evangelist, with a 25+ years international experience in both Dev and Ops solutions; DevOps Institute and CD Foundation Ambassador, Public Speaker (in events like DevOps World, DevOps Enterprise Summit, DevOpsCon.io and BrightTalk’s and TechStrong’s programs and broadcasts), “DevOps-ologist” with an extensive knowledge of both technologies and markets to solve business and technical challenges.

Michel is an architect in the cloud native domain.

A seasoned technology veteran with 30 years in software development, he brings infrastructure expertise, DevOps leadership, and a historian’s perspective to the software development field.

DevOps Engineer and Open Source Enthusiast

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

Cloud Architect at Codeace, Co-Organizer of CNCF, Grafana, and AWS Kochi Meetups, and Speaker at 20+ tech events and conferences —I blend Kubernetes ☸️, AI , Security , and Observability to simplify DevOps and share real-world hacks at devsecopshacks.com

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.

Nikunj Doshi is a Cloud & DevOps Consultant and a Open Source Contributor and loves to learn new technologies

Man of DevOps, Lead DevOps at EPAM Systems

A co-founder and CTO with an ardent passion for cloud-native architectures, application modernization, and cloud computing.

Multi Cloud Solution Architect with 19+ years of experience and expertise in Full Stack Development, DevOps, Microservices, App Modernization. TCS Platinum Certified Mentor | Letterkenny AWS User Group Leader & AWS Community Builder | Letterkenny HUG Leader| DevOps Institute Ambassador

Cyber Security and Gen AI Professional. Academic Researcher & Publisher

DevOps Lead, 2 daughters & 2 cats

Cloud-Native & DevOps Enthusiast. Kubestronaut, Calico Big Cat Ambassador, Speaker & Mentor

Curious problem solver, explorer and in love with open source. Super passionate about Microservices, CICD, Observability, Developer productivity engineering and Distributed systems, also an alleged cynophile 🙂

Technical Customer Engineer passionate about Cloud Native and GitOps technologies, with a strong focus on Continuous Delivery

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.

DevOps Institute Ambassador. CD.Foundation Ambassador. AWS Community Builder. Engineer, leader, mentor, speaker. My focus is on CALMS.  I am building better understanding of DevOps as driver for the organization.I am devoted to Serverless and CI/CD. I authored the framework for design the CI/CD: https://www.cicd.run/

Host of Last Week In IT and DevOps In Agile Way podcasts.

I help software teams to fully automate their release management processes

DevOps Engineer passionate about cloud-native technologies, continuous delivery, and community building, serving as an organizer, speaker, and advocate for open source and automation best practices.

Enterprise Architect helping clients accelerate their Digital transformation journey with expertise in DevOps, SRE and Cloud adoptions.

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

Naveen Kumar, Founder and CEO of Truxt.ai, is a seasoned DevOps and AI innovator driving AI-powered continuous delivery and autonomous software operations.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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. 

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.

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

Sr. Distinguished Engineer, passionate about platform engineering and focused on simplifying CI/CD at scale through standardization, automation, and developer-centric design to empower teams to deliver high-quality software efficiently.

Software Engineer and DevOps Enthusiast, Focus on Microservices and Cloud Services

Jeremy is an international speaker and is currently the Director of DevRel at OneStream Software, previously at CircleCI, Solace, Auth0, and XDA, is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities and organizer for DevOpsDays Kansas City.

I like to build pipelines, software, and communities.

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

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

Instigator of the DevOps movement, long time CD advocate, open source advocate, experienced engineering leader

IT Evangelist | AI-driven DevOps Practitioner

DevRel Engineer at Harness | Security & Open Source Enthusiast | Tech Writer | Speaker | AWS Community Builder