CDF Ambassador Alumni

Talks about security, open source, observability, and opentelemetry

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Forever apprentice, working in DevOps and cloud engineering

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

• 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:

I am always excited to meet new people.

🐳 Docker Captain 2023 🇹🇷KCD Turkiye Organizer•🥇Best Sigstore Evangelist 2022•🔐 Software Supply Chain Security Enthusiast•⛵Kubernetes Addict

* 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.

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

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.

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 Panato is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, Inc., specializing in development and infrastructure with Kubernetes and containers. He has a diverse background in development, testing, processes, and management. Carlos actively contributes to several Linux Foundation projects and is a prominent member of the open source software community.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Making everyday a happy day for deployment.

DevOps and Cloud advocate with a degree in computer engineering.

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

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

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.

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.

Tech & people

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

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

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

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

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

Graduate Student in CS, DevOps and cloud native Advocate

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Enterprise Digital Strategy & Transformation Consultant

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

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

Ask me about Tekton!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Generic Linux Ops person with a dash of Kubernetes, Go and YAML.

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.

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

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

DevOps Engineer

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

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

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.

A focus on data, protecting, moving and using it.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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/

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

Open source lover!

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

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

Open source and DevOps Enthusiast

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

DevOps and plumbing distributed systems

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

– 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.

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

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.

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.

People learn by teaching others.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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