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Dims

Davanum Srinivas (a.k.a Dims) is a Principal Engineer with AWS working full time on Kubernetes and related projects at CNCF. At CNCF, Dims has served as a member of the Technical Oversight Committee and as the chair and represented the TOC on the CNCF Governing Board. In Kubernetes project, Dims has served on the Kubernetes Steering Committee and actively involved in various Kubernetes SIGs and working groups like the Architecture, Testing, Node, Infrastructure etc.

Company AWS
Position Principal Engineer
Location Greater Boston Area

Kubernetes SIG Architecture Intro and Update - Derek Carr, Red Hat & Davanum Srinivas, VMware Kubernetes Steering Committee AMA - Lachlan Evenson, Microsoft; Aaron Crickenberger, Google; Paris Pittman, Apple; Nikhita Raghunath & Davanum "Dims" Srinivas, VMware ; Derek Carr & Christoph Blecker, Red Hat

Leena

Leena is currently a Senior UX Designer at the BBC and also co-founder for a creative initiative called CAPE (Creating A Positive Environment) The aim of CAPE is to promote the idea that differences in brain functioning, such as autism and dyslexia, are not disabilities, but natural variations and that differently-wired brains can help devise new design processes, drive innovation and find fresh perspectives.

Leena has Autism & ADHD but considers them her super powers. She is passionate about inclusion, raising awareness for Neurodiversity and promoting different thinking styles.

Company BBC
Position Senior UX Designer

Neuro-Inclusivity: The Future of the Tech Industry - Kiran "Rin" Oliver, Independent & Leena Haque, BBC

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Ryan Abrams

Ryan Abrams is a functional architect and engineering leader at Docker and now Mirantis. A frequent contributor to many open source projects, Ryan has also graced the mainstage at DockerCon, executing live demos in front of thousands.

Company Mirantis
Position Staff Engineer

Where to Put All That YAML: Secure Content Management for Cloud Native Apps - Ryan Abrams, Mirantis

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Srini Addepalli

Srini Addepalli has over 22+ years of experience in networking, security, analytics and automation. He has been in Intel for last 3 years working as Sr. Principal Engineer & Chief Architect. In his current role, he technically leads the software engineering & architecture activities related to network orchestration, analytics and network/infrastructure security with specific focus on ONAP, edge and Kubernetes. Previously he worked in many roles including CTO of a network security software company Intoto Inc., Fellow & Chief architect at Freescale leading advanced technology group.

Company Aryaka
Position CTO

Panel: Are Cloud Native 5G Core Network Functions (NFs) Truly Manageable & Secure? - Ramki Krishnan, VMware; Srini Addepalli, Intel; Heather Kirksey, The Linux Foundation; Tom Kivlin, Vodafone; & Balaji Ethirajulu, Ericsson

Bharti L Agrawal

Bharti Agrawal been in the software industry for over 20 years. Her career has taken her from working on mainframes, to web 2.0 sites, to SAAS applications, to advertising platforms. She has worked in a wide range of companies from small startups to Google and Yahoo. She currently works on the Nvidia GPU Cloud team. She has architected and built Atlas, the logging and monitoring stack that is used to monitor the Nvidia GPU clusters for AI/ML workloads.

Company NVIDIA
Position Senior Staff Engineer

Monitoring GPUs at Scale for AI/ML and HPC Clusters - Bharti L Agrawal, NVIDIA

Khalid Ahmed

Khalid Ahmed is an STSM, Chief Architect of Infrastructure Software at IBM Platform. He works on the design and architecture of large scale grid and cloud computing systems with focus on scheduling, resource, workload and data management. In over 20 years at industry experience he has worked in a number of roles including development, product management and architecture. His latest interests include big data systems, container technology and data center operating system concepts. Khalid has a M.A.Sc from University of Toronto.

Company IBM
Position Distinguished Engineer
Location khalida@ca.ibm.com
URL http://www.ibm.com

Intro + Deep Dive - Provider IBM Cloud - Sahdev Zala & Khalid Ahmed, IBM

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Taahir Ahmed

Taahir Ahmed is a Software Engineer with the GKE Security team in Google Cloud. He is an active contributor to Kubernetes, as well as other open-source projects. Prior to his work on GKE, he worked on software and security certification at Amazon.

Company Google
Position Software Engineer, GKE Security

The Kubernetes Bug Bounty Program - What Researchers and Users Need to Know - Taahir Ahmed, Google & Reed Loden, HackerOne

Samiya Akhtar

Samiya Akhtar is a software engineer at Microsoft, based in San Francisco. She spends most of her days contributing to various open source projects as part of the Commercial Software Engineering team. Samiya is passionate about open source, visualizing distributed workloads at scale using Kubernetes. She has a bachelor of Software Engineering degree from uWaterloo.

Company Microsoft
Position Software Engineer

Where's My Container? Visualizing the GitOps Container Journey at Microsoft - Andre Briggs & Samiya Akhtar, Microsoft

Dr. Jennifer Akullian

Jen is a former psychologist, focusing her work in technology since 2015. Founder and Executive Coach at Growth Coaching Institute, much of her work focuses on cognitive health and managing industry-specific challenges and burnout, to allow motivated top performers to excel and find joy in the work they do. Jen is an advisor on mental health in tech, where her mission is to de-stigmatize prevalent challenges and speak candidly about the impact of stress, mental health and burnout.

Company Growth Coaching Institute
Position Founder | Psychologist
Location Greater Denver Area

Stress and Mental Health in Technology - Dr Jennifer Akullian, Growth Coaching Institute

Eirik Albrigtsen

Eirik Albrigtsen is currently employed as an SRE at TrueLayer managing observability systems and improving developers' kubernetes experience. He has worked previously as a platform engineer at Babylon Health, and a platform engineer at Cisco. He has been speaking at public venues in London about rust, kubernetes, and devops at various London venues in 2018 and 2019, and at KubeCon in 2020 about kube-rs and the generic kubernetes api.

kube-rs started as a part-time project primarily maintained by Eirik, but thanks to community contributions and new maintainers it now lives under the CNCF umbrella... Read more

Location London
URL https://clux.dev

The Hidden Generics in Kubernetes' API - Eirik Albrigtsen, Babylon Health

Saad Ali

Saad Ali is a Senior Engineering Manager at Google. He works on the open-source Kubernetes project, and has led the development of the Kubernetes storage and volume subsystem. He serves as a lead of the Kubernetes Storage SIG, has served as member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, and is co-author and maintainer of the Container Storage Interface. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft where he led the development of the IMAP protocol for Outlook.com.

Company Google
Position Senior Engineering Manager
Location San Francisco Bay Area

Public Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Meeting – Liz Rice, Aqua Security; Katie Gamanji, American Express; Saad Ali, Google; Justin Cormack, Docker; Michelle Noorali, Microsoft; Sheng Liang, Rancher; Matt Klein, Lyft– Liz Rice, Aqua Security; Alena Pr

Walid Ali

Position Cloud and AI Solutions
Location San Francisco
URL https://www.linkedin.com/in/walidali/

An Open Platform for Trading Interconnected Equities and Assets - Walid Ali, Google

Tony Allen

Tony is a software engineer and Envoy contributor at Lyft. Most of his Envoy work deals with resource management and load shedding.

Company Lyft
Position Software Engineer

Envoy, Take the Wheel: Real-time Adaptive Circuit Breaking - Tony Allen, Lyft

Rohit Anand

Rohit is a cloud native enthusiast and active contributor in Kubernetes. Rohit is currently working as Technical Lead at NEC. He is working in primary as well as secondary software development work based on Kubernetes. Rohit has expertise in python, go, shell scripts, docker, kubernetes and having the rich knowledge in cloud computing domain specially in Kubernetes.

Company NEC Corporation
Position Technical Lead

Minikube - Rohit Anand, NEC Corporation & Medya Ghazizadeh, Google

Jessica Andersson

Jessica is Product Area Lead for Engineering Enablement at Kognic, providing products and services for internal development teams. Jessica is also a CNCF Ambassador and engaged in the Nordic and local Meetup communities, as an attendee, speaker and organizer.

Company Kognic
Position Product Area Lead Engineering Enablement
Location Gothenburg, Sweden

Panel: CNCF Ambassadors: Building the Cloud Native Community – Ihor Dvoretskyi, CNCF; Kasper Nissen, Lunar; Alison Dowdney, Weaveworks; Jessica Andersson, Meltwater; & Saiyam Pathak

Abubakar Siddiq Ango

Abubakar Siddiq Ango is a Developer Evangelism Program Manager at GitLab, where he finds better ways for the Developer Evangelism team to engage with the community and measure its impact. He is a Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist and when not working, he engages with the community through the CNCF, Google Developer & Hashicorp user groups and other developer communities. He is also the Lead Organizer of the Kubernetes Community Days Africa (KCD Africa) and a Google Developer Expert (Cloud).

Company GitLab
Position Developer Evangelism Program Manager
Location Den Haag, Netherlands
URL abuango.me

Why We Are Choosing Cloud Native Buildpacks at GitLab - Abubakar Siddiq, GitLab

Ricardo Aravena

Ricardo currently works at Truera as a Cloud Native Lead helping automate everything with cloud native technologies. He's an open source enthusiast and co-chair of the CNCF TAG-Runtime. He has been working in tech in software engineering roles for more than 20 years and comes from a diverse professional background, having been in different roles at large companies such as Rakuten, Cisco and VMware as well as startups such as Branch Metrics, and Coupa.

Company Truera
Position Cloud Native Engineering Lead
Location raravena80@gmail.com

In-place Upgrade Noway! Blue/Green Your Way to a New Kubernetes Version - Ricardo Aravena, Rakuten

Ivana Atanasova

Ivana Atanasova is an Open Source Software Engineer in VMware's Open Source Program Office, where she has contributed to a variety of projects, including Python-TUF, go-tuf, Sigstore, Tern, CHAOSS' Augur, Network Service Mesh, OpenFaaS and others. Previously, Ivana worked at the Bulgarian Academy of Science as a contractor for the Advanced Computing for Innovation project in Sofia, for generating emotional speech, a key technique towards a natural and realistic conversation between humans and machines. She is an active speaker and has spoken at various events, including KubeCon, Open Source Summit... Read more

Company VMware
Position Open Source Software Engineer

Building the Cloud Native Telco with Network Service Mesh - Ivana Atanasova & Radoslav Dimitrov, VMware

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Jonah Back

Jonah Back is a Principal Software Engineer at LegalZoom

Company LegalZoom
Position Principal Software Engineer

Observability at Scale: Running OpenTelemetry Across an Enterprise - Jonah Back & Kranti Vikram, Intuit

Kyle Bader

Kyle is the Data Foundation Architect covering both OpenShift Data Foundation and Red Hat Ceph Storage products at Red Hat. His focus is at the intersection of open source, distributed storage systems, data engineering, and machine learning.

Company Red Hat
Position Data Foundation Architect

Is There a Place For Distributed Storage For AI/ML on Kubernetes? - Diane Feddema & Kyle Bader, Red Hat

Rowan Baker

Rowan has extensive experience auditing, accrediting, and developing Kubernetes and containerised systems for high compliance commercial and public sector organisations. He is an author of the GKE CIS Benchmark, contributor to the CNCF Financial Services User Group Kubernetes Threat Models, and is Head of Security at ControlPlane.

Company ControlPlane
Position Head of Security
Location London

Threat Modelling: Securing Kubernetes Infrastructure & Deployments - Rowan Baker, ControlPlane

Justin Santa Barbara

Justin has been contributing to kubernetes since 2014, initially as the primary maintainer of the kubernetes AWS support, he also started the kOps project. He loves helping users adopt and grow their use of kubernetes, and believes that we have only scratched the surface of the kubernetes problem space. He joined Google in 2018 as a Software Engineer to work full time on Kubernetes, helping customers adopt kubernetes, and co-leads sig-cluster-lifecycle and multiple OSS kubernetes projects.

Company Google
Position Software Engineer
Location San Francisco, California

Introduction to SIG-Cluster Lifecycle - Lubomir Ivanov , VMware & Justin Santa Barbara, Google

Richard Belleville

Richard Belleville is a software engineer on the gRPC team at Google. He is a contributor to the Gateway API project, focusing on the GRPCRoute resource. In his free time, he tinkers on a server rack at home running Kubernetes.

Company Google LLC
Position Software Engineer
Location San Jose, California, USA

gRPC Easy - Richard Belleville, Google

Daniel Berg

Daniel is an IBM Distinguished Engineer responsible for the container and service mesh technical strategy within IBM Cloud. He has direct responsibility for the technical architecture and delivery of the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service providing managed Kubernetes clusters worldwide. Daniel has deep knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes and has extensive experience building and operating highly available cloud-native services. Daniel is a member of the Technical Oversight and Steering committees for the Istio open source service mesh project and he is responsible for... Read more

Company IBM
Position Distinguished Engineer
Location NC, USA

Panel: Ask Me Anything About Service Mesh - Lin Sun & Daniel Berg IBM; Christian Posta, Solo.io; Oliver Gould, Buoyant; & Sven Mawson, Google

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Laurent Bernaille

Laurent Bernaille worked several years as a consultant specializing in cloud, containers, and automation and helped organizations migrate to the public cloud and adopt containers. He is now Principal Engineer at Datadog and works closely with infrastructure teams, which are responsible for setting up and scaling Kubernetes platforms. Laurent has given several talks on the topic of containers in conferences such as Dockercon, Open Source Summit, Lisa, Velocity or Kubecon.

Company Datadog
Position Staff Engineer

Kubernetes DNS Horror Stories (And How to Avoid Them) - Laurent Bernaille, Datadog

Anne Bertucio

Anne leads program development in Google’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO). The Program Development Team helps teams at Alphabet develop, contribute to, and release open source software with an eye towards strategy, sustainability, and the spirit of the Open Source Definition. The Program Development Team works across domains, from cloud to data analytics to gaming to security.

Company Google
Position Open Source Programs Office, Sr Manager
Location annebertucio@google.com

Hidde Beydals

Hidde is a Senior Software Engineer at Weaveworks, and a seasoned maintainer of the CNCF Flux project. With over 15 years of experience in software development, he has been a significant contributor to the project since 2018, developing and maintaining key features such as the Helm and Mozilla SOPS integrations, and the security layer around Kustomize. He is passionate about software architecture, security, and finding ways to seamlessly connect different software projects.

Company Weaveworks
Position Senior Software Engineer
Location Rotterdam, the Netherlands
URL https://github.com/hiddeco

Flux Deep Dive: A GitOps Approach to Progressive Delivery - Stefan Prodan & Hidde Beydals, Weaveworks

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Aman Bhardwaj

Aman is a principal engineering manager working with Azure Container Compute team building programming models for distributed microservices applications and is an OSS advocate. He has built several actor developer frameworks in different language that have enabled developers to build high scale, cloud native services

Company Microsoft
Position Principal Engineering Manager

It’s a Polyglot World of Stateless Functions and Stateful Actors - Yaron Schneider & Aman Bhardwaj, Microsoft

Ria Bhatia

Ria Bhatia was a Program Manager for Upstream Azure Compute within Microsoft. She's been working with the community on different ways to scale in Kubernetes and operate Kubernetes. She actively maintains Virtual Kubelet and has spoken at multiple meetups and conferences, including KubeCon Seattle, Shanghai and San Deigo. She has a B.S. in Computer Science from Penn State.

Company Independent
Position Program Manager
Location Seattle

Panel: Navigating Your Career in Open Source - Megan Bigelow & Rachel Leekin, VMware; James Munnelly, Independent; Ria Bhatia, Independent; & Faz Sadeghi, Red Hat

Christoph Blecker

Christoph is an Architect and Senior Principal SRE at Red Hat. He's a long time maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and sits on the CNCF Governing Board.

Company Red Hat
Position Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer
Location Kelowna, BC, Canada

Kubernetes Steering Committee AMA - Lachlan Evenson, Microsoft; Aaron Crickenberger, Google; Paris Pittman, Apple; Nikhita Raghunath & Davanum "Dims" Srinivas, VMware ; Derek Carr & Christoph Blecker, Red Hat

Francis Bogsanyi

Francis Bogsanyi is a Technical Lead at Shopify responsible for distributed tracing and performance tooling. He previously led the team owning Redis and Memcached infrastructure at Shopify. Francis built and Open Sourced a Lua implementation in Go and leveraged it to build Shopify's scriptable load generation tool, Genghis. He is a major contributor to the Ruby implementation of OpenTelemetry.

Prior to Shopify, Francis was a Java Virtual Machinist on the J9 team at IBM. Past lives include several failed startups in wireless sensor mesh networking and hapto-visual virtual environments... Read more

Company Shopify
Position Staff Production Engineer
Location Ottawa, Canada

Migrating to OpenTelemetry From a Custom Distributed Tracing Pipeline - Francis Bogsanyi, Shopify

Uday Boppana

Uday Boppana is a Senior Principal Product Manager at Red Hat, responsible for Big Data and AI/ML data services . He has experience working in AI/ML, hybrid cloud, data center, data services and storage solutions in different roles and with a variety of technologies. In prior roles, he worked in product management, technical marketing, solutions architecture, and in leadership and technical positions in engineering. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events related to AI/ML and hybrid cloud data solutions

Company Red Hat
Position Senior Principal Product Manager

How to Use Kubernetes to Build a Data Lake for AI Workloads - Peter MacKinnon & Uday Boppana, Red Hat

Bryan Boreham

Bryan is a Distinguished Engineer at Grafana Labs, the observability company.
After first getting into programming as a kid, creating a video game called "Splat", Bryan's career has ranged from charting pie sales at a bakery to real-time pricing of billion-dollar bond trades.
At Grafana Labs, Bryan works on large-scale Open Source backends: Cortex for metrics, Loki for logs and Tempo for traces.
Outside of work he is a father, a helicopter pilot, and can cook a mean risotto primavera.

Company Grafana Labs
Position Distinguished Engineer
Location London
URL https://grafana.com

Introduction to CNI, the Container Network Interface Project - Casey Callendrello, Red Hat & Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks Deep Dive: CNI - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks & Bruce Ma, Ant Financial

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Daniel Borkmann

Daniel Borkmann is a Software Engineer at Isovalent working on eBPF, the Linux kernel and Cilium. He is a long-term Linux kernel core contributor in the eBPF and networking subsystem for almost a decade and co-maintains eBPF and XDP.

Company Cilium
Position Software Engineer

eBPF and Kubernetes: Little Helper Minions for Scaling Microservices - Daniel Borkmann, Cilium

Alex Boten

Alex Boten is a senior staff software engineer that has spent the last ten years helping organizations adapt to a cloud-native landscape by mashing keyboards. From building core network infrastructure to mobile client applications and everything in between, Alex has first-hand knowledge of how complex troubleshooting distributed applications is. This led him to the domain of observability and contributing as an approver and maintainer to OpenTelemetry.

Company ServiceNow Cloud Observability, formerly Lightstep
Position Sr. Staff Software Engineer

OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation Deep Dive - Carlos Alberto Cortez & Alex Boten, LightStep

Josh Bottum

I am a Kubeflow Community Product Manager and VP at Arrikto. We simplify storage architectures and operations for K8s platforms.

Company Arrikto
Position Vice President
Location josh.bottum@arrikto.com

Kubeflow 1.0 Update by a Kubeflow Community Product Manager - Josh Bottum, Arrikto

Erin Boyd

Erin is currently the Director of Emerging Technologies and Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat in the Office of the CTO. Erin was previously an Apple Cloud Services Engineer at Apple. Erin is a Kubernetes contributor and an Apache Ambari committer. Erin is an active contributor to the Kubernetes Storage SIG and is currently the co-chair of the CNCF Storage SIG. Erin's main focus today is centered around how to enable storage in a stateless, hybrid, multi-cloud environment. Prior to working at Red Hat, she worked at IBM for 14 years. Erin worked in embedded systems development for several years... Read more

Company Red Hat
Position Engineer
Location Montana

CNCF SIG Storage – An Intro to Cloud Native Storage - Alex Chircop, StorageOS & Erin Boyd, Red Hat

Brian Brazil

Brian Brazil is a core developer of Prometheus, and the founder of Robust Perception. He has developed and maintains components and features across the Prometheus ecosystem including the Python and Java clients, and many exporters. He wrote many of the best practices and guidelines for those looking to use Prometheus, and publishes regularly on the Reliable Insights blog.

Company Robust Perception
Position Developer
Location Dublin, Ireland
URL https://www.robustperception.io/

What You Need to Know About OpenMetrics - Brian Brazil, Robust Perception & Richard Hartmann, Grafana Labs

David Breitgand

David Breitgand is a technical leader at the Cloud and Data Technologies group in IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003. He is a member of the 5G-MEDIA and CloudButton projects focusing on applying serverless approach to NFV orchestration and big data analytics respectively. Recently David taught application of serverless at the 5G-MEDIA coding event. David published over 30 scientific papers and has a over 20 patents. His teaching experience include university level courses, tutorials and coding events.

Company IBM
Position Research Scientist, Senior Technical Staff Member
Location IBM Research -- Haifa, Israel
URL https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=il-DAVIDBR

Using Argo and Knative to Orchestrate Media-intensive Services in 5G Edge - David Breitgand, IBM

Andre Briggs

Andre Briggs is an engineering manager at Microsoft, based in San Francisco. He spends most of his days helping partners develop Kubernetes based solutions and sharing results as open source projects. Andre has worked in various product groups such as Azure, Bing, and Xbox with a focus on distributed workloads at scale.

Company Microsoft
Position Principal Engineering Manager

Where's My Container? Visualizing the GitOps Container Journey at Microsoft - Andre Briggs & Samiya Akhtar, Microsoft

James Brook

James Brook is a Solution Architect at Google. He works with Google's biggest customers to help them use cloud technology in new ways and solve complex problems. Before Google, James worked as an architect, engineer and manager in various industries, at a startup and even on submarines. James has a particular interest in DevOps, SRE and designing Kubernetes based platforms for effective software delivery and operations.

Company Google
Position Solutions Architect
Location Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
URL https://cloud.google.com/

Weaving a Mesh for Multiple Clusters at bol.com - Remco Overdijk, bol.com & James Brook, Google

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Erica von Buelow

Company Red Hat
Position Software Lead

Cloud Native Policy Deep Dive - Zhipeng Huang, Huawei & Erica von Buelow, Red Hat

Joseph Burnett

Joseph Burnett is a Senior Software Engineer working on autoscaling at Google Cloud.

Company Google
Position Senior Software Engineer
Location Seattle
URL http://josephburnett.me

Deep Dive into Autoscaling - Maciek Pytel & Joe Burnett, Google

Lee Calcote

Lee Calcote is an innovative product and technology leader, passionate about empowering engineers and enabling organizations. As Founder and CEO of Layer5, he is at the forefront of the cloud native movement. Open source, advanced and emerging technologies have been a consistent focus through Calcote’s time at SolarWinds, Seagate, Cisco and Schneider Electric.

Calcote chairs the CNCF TAG Network and is the author of the recently published Service Mesh Patterns. An advisor, author, and speaker, Calcote is active in the community as a Docker Captain, Cloud Native Ambassador and GSoC, GSoD, and LFX Mentor... Read more

Company Layer5
Position Founder and CEO
Location Austin, Texas
URL https://layer5.io

CNCF SIG Network Intro & Deep-Dive - Lee Calcote, Layer5 Discreetly Studying the Effects of Individual Traffic Control Functions - Lee Calcote & Prateek Sahu, Layer5

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Casey Callendrello

Casey Callendrello is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he works on Kubernetes networking and the libraries that support it. He is a maintainer of the CNI project as well as a Kubernetes contributor.

He is a Track Chair for Networking at KubeCon EU 2021.

Company Red Hat
Position Principal Engineer

Introduction to CNI, the Container Network Interface Project - Casey Callendrello, Red Hat & Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks

Maria Camacho

Software Architect, Nokia

Software Architect with focus on cloud-native DevOps and automation, analytics platforms, performance, Container runtime, Kubernetes deployment and operations. Currently a member in the Nokia Software team building and automating digital operations software. Before that Maria was in the Nokia Global Services team working on the development of a big data analytics platform.

Company Nokia
Position Software Architect
Location Helsinki Area, Finland
URL www.nokia.com

Live Migration of Production Workloads from Apache Mesos PaaS to Kubernetes - Maria Camacho & Gufran Lutful, Nokia

Nick Cameron

Senior engineer at PingCAP, Rust core team alumnus.
Talk to me about TiKV, TiDB, or Rust.

Company PingCAP
Position Senior Engineer
Location New Zealand
URL https://ncameron.org/blog/

TiKV: A Cloud Native Key-Value Database - Dongxu Huang & Nick Cameron, PingCAP

Srivathsan Canchi

Srivathsan leads the machine learning platform engineering team at Intuit. The ML platform includes real-time distributed featurization, scoring and feedback loops. He has a breadth of experience building high scale mission critical platforms. Srivathsan also has extensive experience with K8s at Intuit and previously at eBay, where his team was responsible for building a PaaS on top of K8s and OpenStack.

Company Intuit
Position Engineering Leader, ML Platform

SpoK - Running Big Data Applications @ Scale on K8s - Srivathsan Canchi & Nagaraj Janardhana, Intuit

Leigh Capili

Leigh is a Kubernetes Contributor and works in Developer Experience with Weaveworks. :wheel_of_dharma:
He authored kubeadm's etcd mTLS implementation and is currently working toward k8s component-standards and cluster-addons.
Previously, he helped design a functional state-store for data-centers at DIRECTV/AT&T and worked to change the way people experience music at Beatport.
Leigh is mostly concerned about helping people.
He has a heart for building community and sowing into others.
Leigh lives with his future wife, enjoys snowboarding, and has a 60lb dog named Pepsi. :dog:
... Read more

Company Weaveworks
Position Developer Experience Engineer
Location Denver, CO
URL https://github.com/stealthybox/

Dynamic Configuration with ComponentConfig and the Control Loop - Chris Hein, Apple & Leigh Capili, Weaveworks

Constance Caramanolis

Constance is a principal software engineer at Splunk, formerly Omnition, contributing to OpenTelemetry. Previous to Omnition, she worked at Lyft as part of the data platform and server networking teams. While at Lyft, Constance built, deployed, and configured Envoy internally, and maintained the open source project.

Company Splunk
Position Principal Software Engineer

Lightning Talks Closing Remarks: Constance Caramanolis, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chair Keynote: CNCF Projects Update - Constance Caramanolis, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chair & Principal Software Engineer, Splunk Keynote: Closing Remarks - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chairs: Constance Caramanolis, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk & Vicki Cheung, Engineering Manager, Lyft Keynote: Opening Remarks - Constance Caramanolis, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chair & Principal Software Engineer, Splunk Keynote: Closing Remarks - Constance Caramanolis, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chair & Principal Software Engineer, Splunk Keynote: My Stint as a Chameleon - Constance Caramanolis, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chair & Principal Software Engineer, Splunk Keynote: Closing Remarks - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chairs: Constance Caramanolis, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk & Vicki Cheung, Engineering Manager, Lyft

Taylor Carpenter

Partner at Vulk Cooperative - http://vulk.coop | Lead on CNCF CNF Testbed, Telecom User Group and CNF Conformance initiatives. OpenSource advocate, using Linux since 1994 with the 1.0 release and gnu tools on other unix systems before that. OpsDev geek. Elixir and Ruby programmer. Proponent of improving user experience (UX) in all endeavors including group collaboration, end-user applications, developer tools, APIs. Taylor has helped companies (startups to enterprise) with integrations and modernizing their platforms for over 18 years. This covers many domains such as networking, security and finance... Read more

Company Vulk Coop
Position Partner + Factotum
Location Austin, Texas Area
URL http://cncf.io/cnf

Birds of a Feather: Telecom User Group - Dan Kohn, CNCF & Taylor Carpenter, Vulk Coop

Chris Carty

He is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, panelist for the Kubernetes Office Hours and a member of the Kubernetes 1.16 /1.17 Release Notes teams.

Company Google Cloud
Position Customer Engineer
Location Ottawa, On

Managing Multi-Cluster/Multi-Tenant Kubernetes with GitOps - Chris Carty, Independent

Jorge Castro

Jorge is a Community Manager at VMware where he helps to support and advance the open Kubernetes ecosystem. He works in SIG Contributor Experience on the Kubernetes Office Hours, running the YouTube channel, forums admin, and a bunch of miscellaneous programs. He resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his lovely wife Jill, their son Rafael, and their beagle Oscar. Hobbies and interests include heavy metal, paleontology, motorsport, technology, and scouting out the best beers in the world.

Company VMware
Position Community Manager
Location Ann Arbor, Michigan

Intro: Contributor Experience SIG - Jorge Castro, VMware & Bob Killen, University of Michigan

Gaby Moreno Cesar

Company IBM
Position Design Principal
Location Austin, Texas

SIG Usability: Unifying the Experience for the Kubernetes User - Gaby Moreno Cesar, IBM & Pamel Shinh , VMware

Sanjay Chatterjee

Sanjay Chatterjee is a senior engineer at NVIDIA. He works on runtime system infrastructure and core Kubernetes components to support highly scalable HPC and DL/AI workloads. Previously he worked on DoE/DARPA funded research and advanced technology projects for exascale systems. His interests include developing novel programming models, parallel languages, compilers, and runtime systems. He holds a PhD from Rice University.

Company NVIDIA
Position Senior Engineer
Location Santa Clara

Production Multi-node Jobs with Gang Scheduling, K8s, GPUs and RDMA - Madhukar Korupolu & Sanjay Chatterjee, NVIDIA

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Qian Chen

Qian Chen is a staff cloud development engineer in Futurewei Technologies. Right now she is working on the multi-tenancy project in Kubernetes. She has been working as a software developer in Microsoft and Amazon. She has a Ph.D degree from National University of Singapore.

Company Futurewei
Position Sr.Staff Software Engineer

A Hard Multi-tenancy Solution: Use Case, Challenges and Work - Xiaoning Ding & Qian Chen, Futurewei

Vicki Cheung

Vicki is a staff software engineer at Lyft, where she helped drive the company-wide Kubernetes migration. Previously, she was the Head of Infrastructure and founding engineer at OpenAI, where she and her team built out their Kubernetes-based deep learning infrastructure.

Company Lyft
Position Staff Software Engineer

Lightning Talks Opening Remarks: Vicki Cheung, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chair Keynote: Closing Remarks - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chairs: Constance Caramanolis, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk & Vicki Cheung, Engineering Manager, Lyft Keynote: Kubernetes Project Update - Vicki Cheung, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chair & Engineering Manager, Lyft Keynote: Opening Remarks - Vicki Cheung, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chair & Engineering Manager, Lyft Keynote: Observing Kubernetes Without Losing Your Mind - Vicki Cheung, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chair & Engineering Manager, Lyft Keynote: Closing Remarks - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 Co-Chairs: Constance Caramanolis, Principal Software Engineer, Splunk & Vicki Cheung, Engineering Manager, Lyft

Alex Chircop

Chief Product Architect at Akamai. Previously a founder and CTO of Ondat (formerly StoraeOS), building software defined solutions for cloud native environments. Alex is also a co-chair of the CNCF Storage TAG (previously SIG). Before embarking on the startup adventure he spent over 25 years engineering infrastructure platforms for companies like Nomura and Goldman Sachs.

Company Akamai
Position Chief Product Architect
Location London
URL https://akamai.com

CNCF SIG Storage – An Intro to Cloud Native Storage - Alex Chircop, StorageOS & Erin Boyd, Red Hat

Karen Chu

Karen Chu is a Community PM on the Microsoft Azure Container Compute Upstream team with a focus on open source tools such as Helm, CNAB, Brigade, CNAB, and more. She is a CNCF Ambassador, meet-up organizer, and conference organizer. She has also worked The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes book series. When she’s not connecting dots in the community, you can find her traveling, pursuing photography, and enjoying awesome chai.

Company Microsoft
Position Community PM
Location San Francisco, CA

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 101: A Beginner’s Guide to The Conference - Karen Chu & Michelle Noorali, Microsoft

Cynthia Coan

Cynthia is a software engineer at tetrate trying to make networking a little less terrible for everyone. She works frequently on Envoy, and it's related projects.

Company Tetrate
Position Software Engineer
Location Salt Lake City, UT

Building a Distributed API Gateway with a Service Mesh - Rei Shimizu, Waseda University & Cynthia Coan, Tetrate

Ian Coffey

Ian Coffey has been in the platform and infrastructure business for 16 years and currently works on open source machine learning software at VMware. Away from work, Ian’s free time is usually spent adventuring with his wife and two little girls. He has an affinity for old amps and guitars, drum machines and software.

Company VMware
Position OSS ML Engineer

Cloud Event Horizon - Ian Coffey, VMware

Duffie Cooley

Duffie is a Staff Cloud Native Architect at VMware focused on helping enterprises find success with technologies like Kubernetes. Duffie has been working with all things virtualization and networking for 20 years and remembers most of it. He likes to present on topics ranging from How do I solve this problem with Kubernetes to What even is a CNI implementation and which one should I choose? A student of perspective, Duffie is always interested in working through problems and design choices from more than one perspective.... Read more

Company VMware
Position Duffie Cooley
Location San Francisco, CA

Seccomp Security Profiles and You: A Practical Guide - Duffie Cooley, VMware

Carlos Alberto Cortez

Carlos works as an Open Source Software Engineer at LightStep, being a maintainer for OpenTelemetry Java, and previously as a core maintainer in OpenTracing.

Carlos has worked for the last 13 years in different areas, such as desktop frameworks, compilers, class libraries and distributed systems, with special interest in the Open Source scenario.

Company LightStep
Position Open Source Software Engineer
Location Europe

OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation Deep Dive - Carlos Alberto Cortez & Alex Boten, LightStep

Kat Cosgrove

Kat Cosgrove is a chronic early-adopter of new technologies and a real-life cyborg. Her professional engineering background is in web development, IoT, and programming education, but today she's a Developer Advocate for JFrog. She loves finding creative solutions for hard problems, especially if they're a little hacky.

When she's not building demos or at a conference, she spends her time gaming, watching e-sports, and working on useless but entertaining side-projects. She also volunteers with area non-profits geared towards getting more women and other underrepresented minorities into tech... Read more

Company JFrog
Position Developer Advocate
Location Seattle, WA
URL http://jfrog.com

DevOps Patterns and Antipatterns for Continuous Software Updates - Kat Cosgrove, JFrog

Alban Crequy

Alban is Co-founder of Kinvolk and director of engineering for Kinvolk Labs. He has a particular interest in integrating BPF into Kubernetes. He’s a maintainer of the gobpf library and has worked on software in the cloud space using BPF with Golang: Weave Scope, Traceleft, Project Calico, and recently Inspektor Gadget, Traceloop and Network Policy Advisor.

Company Kinvolk
Position Co-founder and Director of Kinvolk Labs
Location Germany

Tutorial: Using BPF in Cloud Native environments - Alban Crequy & Marga Manterola, Kinvolk

Aaron Crickenberger

Aaron has been involved in open source since 2007, cloud since 2009, and Kubernetes since 2015. He co-founded the Kubernetes Testing SIG and K8s Infra WG, and is serving his second term on the Kubernetes Steering Committee since being elected in 2017.

Aaron has actively contributed to the Kubernetes Architecture, Contributor Experience, and Release SIGs. He participated in every Kubernetes release from v1.4 to v1.15, serving in roles such as release notes, issue triage, CI signal, and release lead. If you attend the Kubernetes Community meetings, chances are you've seen him (or at least his... Read more

Company Google
Position Staff Testing Engineer
Location Seattle WA

Aldo Culquicondor

Aldo is a Senior Software Engineer at Google. He works on Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine, where he contributes to kube-scheduler, the Job API and other features to support batch, AI/ML and HPC workloads. He is currently a TL at SIG Scheduling and an Organizer of the WG Batch. He is also a maintainer of kubernetes' Kueue and kubeflow's mpi-operator.

Company Google
Position Sr. Software Engineer
Location Canada

SIG Scheduling Deep Dive - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Mike Dame, Red Hat

Paul Czarkowski

Paul Czarkowski is a long-time practitioner of the dark arts of DevOps. Hailing from Australia, he moved to Austin,Texas to help build and run one of the largest and most successful online games. Now at Red Hat, Paul works to improve the operator experience by taking cloud native software development concepts and applying them to operations to create platforms that reduce toil and improve software delivery.

Company Red Hat
Position Managed OpenShift BlackBelt
Location Austin, TX
URL https://tech.paulcz.net

Deep Dive into Helm - Scott Rigby, Codeacademy & Paul Czarkowski, Pivotal

Mike Dame

Mike is an engineer for Red Hat OpenShift and a sig-scheduling maintainer.

Company Red Hat
Position Senior Software Engineer
Location Boston
URL github.com/damemi

SIG Scheduling Deep Dive - Aldo Culquicondor, Google & Mike Dame, Red Hat

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Mark Darnell

Mark has worked positions from senior engineer through C-level in verticals ranging from storage through ERP and aerospace and telecom to software-defined infrastructure. He currently works at SUSE as the senior product manager for networking across SUSE's product portfolio.

Company SUSE
Position Senior Product Manager

Performance Optimization – Rook on Kubernetes - Mark Darnell & Ryan Tidwell, SUSE

Samuel Davidson

Kubernetes Security for Google Cloud

Company Google
Position Security Engineer
Location samueldavidson@google.com
URL www.sambdavidson.com

Help! My Cluster Is On The Internet: Container Security Fundamentals - Samuel Davidson, Google

Doug Davis

Doug is currently focusing on improving the developer experience for cloud native computing in Azure Cloud. He’s been working on Cloud related technologies for many years and has worked on many of the most popular OSS projects, including OpenStack, CloudFoundry, Docker, Kubernetes and Knative. He’s currently a Technical Product Manager for Microsoft Azure, co-chairing the CNCF’s Serverless WG and the Cloud Events project.

Company Microsoft
Position PM Microservices

CloudEvents - v1.0 and Beyond - Discovery/Subscriptions - Doug Davis, IBM & Clemens Vasters, Microsoft

Hayley Denbraver

Hayley has a background in Python, developer advocacy, and security. When not hacking, she takes her Labrador on hikes in her home of Seattle, Washington.

Position Developer Advocate
Location Seattle, WA

Uncharted Territories: Discovering Vulnerabilities in Public Helm Charts - Hayley Denbraver, Snyk

Zahari Dichev

Zahari Dichev is a software engineer working at Buoyant, the creator of Linkerd. He is passionate about performance, distributed systems and cloud-native technology.

Company Buoyant
Position Mr

Deep Dive: Linkerd - Zahari Dichev, Buoyant

Liz van Dijk

T(h)inker, Freelancer, Operational Swiss Army Knife. Coming from an engineering background, currently 100% focused on building solutions that accelerate all areas of business operations. Though strongly rooted in tech, Liz's true passion lies in understanding the drive and motivations behind systems and people alike. She has previously spoken at conferences like Percona Live and Fosdem.

Company PlanetScale
Position Solution Architect
Location Lisbon, Portugal
URL http://www.planetscale.com

Zero Downtime Data Relocation with Vitess - Liz van Dijk & Deepthi Sigireddi, PlanetScale

Radoslav Dimitrov

Radoslav Dimitrov is working as a full-time Open Source Software Engineer at VMware. Currently, he’s contributing to the Network Service Mesh project, but before that, he was working on other open-source projects like OpenStack, OPNFV, QEMU and OpenFaaS. He has spoken at previous LF events like Open Network Summit and Open Source Summit. Prior to his work at VMware, he worked remotely for a French-based virtualization company focused on HPC systems and ARM devices.

Company Stacklok
Position Open Source Engineer
Location rdimitrow@gmail.com

Building the Cloud Native Telco with Network Service Mesh - Ivana Atanasova & Radoslav Dimitrov, VMware

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Xiaoning Ding

Xiaoning Ding is a senior principal architect and a senior director in Futurewei Technologies. He is leading the research and development projects about cloud infrastructure, including large-scale computing clusters, container technology and cloud networking. Xiaoning previously worked at Microsoft, and has a PhD in Computer Science.

Company Futurewei
Position Sr.Principal Architect

A Hard Multi-tenancy Solution: Use Case, Challenges and Work - Xiaoning Ding & Qian Chen, Futurewei

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Chandrasekhar Reddy Dodda

Company Mirantis
Position Senior DevOps Engineer

Using Kubernetes to Make Cellular Data Plans Cheaper for 50 Million Users - Chandrasekhar Reddy Dodda, Mirantis & Amar Padmanabhan, Facebook Connectivity

Leonardo Di Donato

Leo is an Open Source Senior Software Engineer with a fondness for Security, eBPF, and Linux in general. He loves to mix such low-level concepts with Kubernetes and Cloud Native stuff. He's a core maintainer of Falco, the CNCF tool for Runtime Security, focusing on its low-level tech stack. He's also involved in the Linux Foundation's eBPF project (IO Visor) as a co-author and maintainer of the kubectl-trace project, a kubectl plugin to schedule eBPF programs in Kubernetes clusters. He created other successful Open Source projects like go-syslog, a blazingly fast Go parser for syslogs and tran... Read more

Position Senior Software Engineer
Location Milan, Italy
URL https://github.com/leodido

Designing a gRPC Interface for Kernel Tracing with eBPF - Leonardo Di Donato, Sysdig Going Beyond CI/CD with Prow - Leonardo Di Donato, Sysdig

Alison Dowdney

Alison is a Customer Reliability Engineer at Weaveworks, a CNCF ambassador and an active member of SIG Contributor Experience for the Kubernetes project. She is passionate about helping others get more involved with the cloud native community. Coming from a startup background, she has a wealth of hands-on experience with Kubernetes. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the video game Destiny 2 and making memes. Previous talks: - GitOps Days NA 2020 https://youtu.be/Te9J5PzAY_g?t=1349 - NCW 2019, Intermediate Session Local Build and test https://youtu.be/067aUJPJSVk - Cloud Native Rejekts NA2019... Read more

Company Weaveworks
Position Customer Reliability Engineer

Panel: CNCF Ambassadors: Building the Cloud Native Community – Ihor Dvoretskyi, CNCF; Kasper Nissen, Lunar; Alison Dowdney, Weaveworks; Jessica Andersson, Meltwater; & Saiyam Pathak

Tasha Drew

Tasha has been an innovative product leader in Silicon Valley for over a decade. She is Senior Director of xLabs in the Office of the CTO’s Advanced Technology Group at VMware. She is co-chair of the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-Tenancy and co-chair of the Kubernetes SIG Usability. Previously she launched VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for vSphere, and was a member of the team that launched Project Pacific, Tanzu for SDDC, and vSphere with Tanzu at VMware. Tasha has also held product roles at Chef, Rentlytics, Engine Yard and Lockheed Martin. She was a core maintainer of Chef Habitat. Tasha... Read more

Company VMware
Position Senior Director, xLabs
Location San Francisco Bay Area

Intro to the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee - Tasha Drew, VMware

Bowei Du

Bowei is a lead on Kubernetes Networking at Google. He has worked on various topics in SIG-NETWORK, the most recent being helping shepard the new Gateway APIs (https://gateway-api.sigs.k8s.io/)

Company Google
Position Senior Staff Engineer
Location bowei@google.com

Kubernetes Networking Intro and Deep-Dive - Bowei Du & Tim Hockin, Google

Ihor Dvoretskyi

Ihor Dvoretskyi is a Developer Advocate at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), closely working with the open source communities within the Cloud Native ecosystem (including Kubernetes, Helm, and others).

At CNCF, Ihor helps in driving multiple developer relations programs, including the CNCF Meetup and Ambassadors programs, mentorship programs, and many others.

Ihor is a co-founder and emeritus chair of the Kubernetes Product Management Special Interest Group (SIG-PM); additionally, he held the role of Features Lead during multiple Kubernetes release cycles.

Company Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Position Developer Advocate
Location Lviv, Ukraine

Panel: CNCF Ambassadors: Building the Cloud Native Community – Ihor Dvoretskyi, CNCF; Kasper Nissen, Lunar; Alison Dowdney, Weaveworks; Jessica Andersson, Meltwater; & Saiyam Pathak

Elvira Dzhuraeva

Elvira Dzhuraeva is a AI/ML Technical Product Engineer at Cisco where she leads cloud and on-premise ML and AI strategy. She is a Technical Product Manager at Kubeflow and a member in MLPerf community.

Company Cisco
Position Technical Product Engineer AI/ML

MLPerf Meets Kubernetes - Xinyuan Huang & Elvira Dzhuraeva, Cisco

Patrick East

Company Styra
Position Senior Software Engineer
Location Bellevue, WA

Open Policy Agent Introduction - Rita Zhang, Microsoft & Patrick East, Styra

Lachlan Evenson

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lachlanevenson

Company Microsoft
Position Principal Program Manager - Azure
Location San Francisco

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Jean-Philippe Evrard

Jean-Philippe Evrard is a learner, problem solver, solutions bringer. Worked at SUSE, Rackspace, Belnet (Telco), and in multiple banks. He was member (and chair) of the OpenStack Technical Committee. He was the project team lead of an OpenStack community named OpenStack-Ansible. He was core reviewer on multiple open source projects, inside and outside OpenStack. He is a lover of open source software, and is involved or follows other open source communities when he can. He also helps at booths in FOSDEM, and he has a good understanding of open source software.

Company TLaaS
Position Owner

Open Source Adulthood: What We Learned About Growing Up - Jean-Philippe Evrard, SUSE & Kendall Nelson, OpenStack Foundation

Stephan Ewen

Stephan Ewen is a committer and Project Management Committee member of the Apache Flink project. He is one of the original creators of Apache Flink and a co-founder and CTO of Ververica (formerly data Artisans), a Berlin-based company that is bringing real-time data applications to the enterprise. He has a PhD in Computer Science from TU Berlin and has worked with IBM and Microsoft.

Company Ververica
Position CTO
Location Berlin

Stateful Serverless and the Elephant in the Room - Stephan Ewen, Ververica

Diane Feddema

Diane Feddema is a principal software engineer at Red Hat Inc, in the Performance and Scale team. Diane is currently focused on developing and applying machine learning techniques for performance analysis using hardware accelerators, automating these analyses and displaying data in novel ways. Previously Diane was a performance engineer at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, working on optimizations and tuning in parallel global climate models. She has a BS and MS in Computer Science.

Company Red Hat
Position Principal Software Engineer, AI/ML Performance on RHEL and OpenShift Operator Development

Is There a Place For Distributed Storage For AI/ML on Kubernetes? - Diane Feddema & Kyle Bader, Red Hat

Nicola Ferraro

Nicola Ferraro is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. He is Apache Camel PMC member and co-creator of Camel K, the serverless integration platform for Kubernetes. He often contributes to Knative, Syndesis and the Fabric8 development tools for Kubernetes.

Company Red Hat
Position Principal Software Engineer
Location Rome
URL https://nicolaferraro.me

Serverless Integration on Kubernetes with Apache Camel K - Nicola Ferraro, Red Hat

Stefano Fioravanzo

Stefano Fioravanzo is a Product Manager at Arrikto. His focus is on building a delightful and functional Machine Leaning development platform. OSS advocate and creator of the Kale project, he loves technical challenges and solving complex problems and always strives for clean and elegant solutions.

Company Arrikto
Position Product Manager

Tutorial: From Notebook to Kubeflow Pipelines with HP Tuning: A Data Science Journey - Stefano Fioravanzo & Ilias Katsakioris, Arrikto

Alastair Firth

Alastair Firth is a principal SRE at FATMAP in Berlin and a Kubernetes contributor. Prior to joining FATMAP he was an SRE at Scholastic, Camunda, and Flippa.com. After many years in proprietary infrastructure ecosystems, he hopped on the Kubernetes train in 2017 and hasn't looked back. He’s spoken at Kubecon, LISA and meetups and is excited to be a part of the CNCF community. In his free time he enjoys playing ridiculous sports like underwater hockey.

Company FATMAP
Position Principal SRE

Ingress on the Rails: Use Community Tools to Automate Ingress Provisioning - Alastair Firth, Camunda

Paul Fisher

Paul Fisher works on all things infrastructure related at Lyft, from monitoring software to the service provisioning stack. He’s currently leading the Lyft migration to Kubernetes. Paul tends toward work that lies at the intersection of systems programming and scale. He's previously spoken at Monitorama and has worked on systems at Twitter, UC Berkeley, Red Hat, and the Free Software Foundation.

Company Lyft
Position Software Engineer

Multi-cluster Made Reasonable: Envoy Service Mesh Control Plane - Ashley Kasim & Paul Fisher, Lyft

Steve Flanders

As Engineering Director at Splunk, Steve leads Observability “Getting Data In”: the top contributor to the CNCF OpenTelemetry project. Previously, he served as a founding member and Head of Product at Omnition; and Global Engineering Manager for log analytics at VMware. Steve’s background includes business strategy, software development, product management, user experience, and operations management. He uses data-driven decision-making, agile development processes, and teamwork to create innovative and sustainable solutions; and is distinctly passionate about open-source software and democratizing... Read more

Company Splunk
Position Director of Engineering
Location Boston, MA
URL https://sflanders.net

OpenTelemetry Agent and Collector: Telemetry Built-in Into All Software - Steve Flanders, Splunk & Trask Stalnaker, Microsoft

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Alessandra Forti

Alessandra is senior system administrator and coordinator at one of the large UK Worldwide LHC Computing Grid sites. She has 20 years of experience on grid computing and as the coordinator of the Workflow Management System of the ATLAS Experiment she is leading the effort of moving the existing infrastructure to a container-based cloud-native deployment.

Company University of Manchester

Reimagining the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid on Kubernetes - Lukas Heinrich, CERN & Alessandra Forti, University of Manchester

Dawn Foster

Dawn is the Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware within the Open Source Program Office. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, metrics, and more. She is passionate about bringing people together through a combination of online communities and real-world events along with analyzing the data associated with participation in developer and open source communities. Dawn is on the Governing Board of the Linux Foundation’s CHAOSS project and is a maintainer for several of the working groups... Read more

Company VMware
Position Director of Open Source Community Strategy
Location London
URL https://blogs.vmware.com/opensource/

Be a Good Corporate Citizen in Kubernetes - Dawn Foster, VMware

Hannah Foxwell

Company VMware Pivotal Labs
Position Director – Platform Services

Sponsored Keynote: Keep It Simple - A Human Approach to Coping with Complexity - Hannah Foxwell, Director – Platform Services, VMware Pivotal Labs

Anders Franzen

Anders Franzen is an engineer in Ericsson AB with 30+ years of professional experience in HA-systems, networking and operating systems for telco. Living in Stockholm, Sweden.
He is currently working with the transition into the cloud native paradigm.

Company Ericsson
Position Technology Specialist
Location anders.franzen@ericsson.com

Network Service Mesh to Address Cloud Native 5G Telco Networking Challenges - Roshini Ratnam & Anders Franzen, Ericsson

Andrea Frittoli

Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast. He is the co-founder of the CDEvents project and member of the project Governing Board. He is the chair of the CDF TOC and member of the Governing Board. He's a strong advocate for transparency in open source. Andrea has previously been a speaker at FOSSASIA, FOSS Backstage, KubeCon+CloudNativeCon, Open Source Summit, OpenStack summits, Devoxx Days, cdCon, DevOpsWorld and various other conferences and meetups.

Company IBM
Position Open Source Developer Advocate
Location Cardiff

Mario Meets the Robocat: Lessons From Dogfooding Tekton - Andrea Frittoli, IBM & Dibyo Mukherjee, Google

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Wei Fu

Company Alibaba
Position Software Engineer

containerd Deep Dive - Akihiro Suda, NTT & Wei Fu, Alibaba

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