Hello folks,

My name is Alex and I am excited to be a part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation community. I believe that the work we do here will help the world deliver faster through interoperability of technology and foundational component governance.

I am an open source contributor to many projects and also advocate for the work of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. I hold it a great privilege to help give a platform for those without a voice and act as a force multiplier to create opportunities for others.

I have worked for the past thirteen years at Microsoft, BSkyB, Blinkbox, Beamery and more. Working as both an individual contributor and engineering leader.

Now I am an engineering director at American Express.
I work on large scale serverless runtime observability, proliferating DevOps practices and hybrid-cloud cluster development on hyper-converged infrastructure.

It is my hope that I can bring real end-user community desires and feedback to the governance body of the CDF to help us understand and shape the activities that we invest time in. Equally I am looking forward to working as an ambassador to help the community gain tangible benefits of a collaborative vendor-neutral continuous delivery ecosystem.

– Alex

Near my home in the beautiful south of England.

Hi All,

I am Hector Calderon, an engineer, architect, or insert open source loving nerd adjective here. I have worked with companies of all sizes from small to enterprise. With a vendor/cloud agnostic mentality, I have had the chance to work with many open source projects, including all of the graduate CDF projects. When I am not trying to automate myself out of a position I am out exploring the world with my dog, Piper. 

My delivery journey started a few years ago when I was assigned to optimize RPM libraries for modernizing mainframes.. Yes, MAINFRAMES. It’s actually a lot cooler than it sounds and I had the opportunity to work with some of the best engineers I know to this day. 

Over the years and various companies, I noticed the most important requirement for delivering success is largely based upon the mentality of the team and company (below is a meme we put on the back of our CI team shirts). Note, huge fan of Napoleon Hill’s QQMA formula – quality, quantity, and mental attitude. 

At the end of the day everybody wants a high-quality product at a fast speed with least amount of overhead. 

I have not been much of a contributor in the past, but now I am looking to give back to the community that has taught me so much. My objective as Ambassador is to make delivery easier for everyone. Feel free to reach out.

Stay safe and stay tuned for my next post.

Hello CDF Members,

I am BMK Lakshminarayanan from New Zealand. I am excited to join on the other great ambassadors’ line-up with Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) as a newly appointed CDF Ambassador.

About me:

I am a passionate Solutions Architect over 20 years of ICT experience working with Bank of New Zealand. I am a hands-on engineer, architect and worked on various challenging assignments ranging from desktop applications to distributed systems.

I am #DevOps #ContinuousDelivery advocate and evangelist for modern engineering & developer practices including helping developer productive, effective and efficient at the same time simple methods, approaches to software architecture.

I am passionate about sharing and learning with the community. Outside of my work, I run community groups and host CNCF New Zealand #meetup for Cloud-Native enthusiasts and The Future ICT to help students, people returning to work or looking for career opportunities in ICT.

I am also CNCF & DevOps Institue ambassador with a commitment to connecting the Humans of DevOps and Modern IT to advance the Skills, Knowledge, Ideas & Learning (SKIL). I am a frequent speaker at local meetups and international in-person & virtual conferences and also the Core organiser of DevOpsDays New Zealand and co-chair Cloud-Native Summit Wellington conferences. I am passionate about engaging, connecting & learning with various community members & leaders.

I am excited to associate with CDF as an Ambassador in promoting core values of CDF, open-source and vendor-neutral CI/CD tools. I am enthusiastic about the opportunity of contributing to and supporting the global community of CD Foundation & growing continuous delivery ecosystem.

Let us learn, share, care and grow together.

Please feel free to reach me out on LinkedIn or Twitter: @LBMKRISHNA

Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez – Red Hat (carangog@redhat.com)

Eduardo is a performance engineer at Red Hat, working on the OpenShift performance & latency sensitive applications (PSAP) . 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 and GitOps.

His research interests include High Performance Computing, Distributed systems, Dependency management, Linux containers and most recently, Container orchestration. 

Over the past 5 years Eduardo has focused on enabling researchers to build and deploy performance sensitive applications with containers on distributed environments, by creating tutorials, talks and meetups around how to bridge Research computing and Cloud Native ecosystems.