Speakers
Jeremy has both a technical and a strategic streak. Passionate about people and entrepreneurship, integration and automation. He likes to work on tough, interesting problems that have a high impact (and to have fun while doing it). Jeremy is happiest when he's collaborating, learning, and sharing. DevOps, CI/CD, Platform Engineering, and automation are particular interest areas.
Usman is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.
He has over 15 years of experience in IT and in Cloud Support where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan, etc.
He is an active international public speaker participating in multiple conferences and events.
In his free time, Usman likes to spend time with his family, go out on occasional...
Bronwen Aker (M.S. Cybersecurity, GSEC, GCIH, GCFE) likes to describe herself as a “constantly evolving geek.” She has worked with computers since the dark ages when she was introduced to FORTRAN and bubble cards. These days, Bronwen works for Black Hills Information Security (BHIS) as a member of the Continuous Pen Testing team (AntiSOC), an AI researcher, and technical editor. When not working, she spends time playing with her dogs, LLMs, and studying data science.
Dr. Nikki-Rae Alkema, Doctor of Physical Therapy, is an orthopedic and pelvic health licensed physical therapist with a passion for improving quality of life through movement. In 2022, she received the esteemed Excellence in Biomechanics Award from the Doctor of Physical Therapy program at California State University, Long Beach. She believes in the power of using technological innovation to provide accessible and equitable healthcare. Some of her areas of special interest include Parkinson’...
Jimmy Angelakos is a Systems and Database Architect and recognized PostgreSQL expert who has worked with, and contributed to, Open-Source tools for 25+ years. He is passionate about participating in the community, and is an active member of PostgreSQL Europe and an occasional contributor to the PostgreSQL project. Jimmy is a regular speaker at conferences and events, sharing his insights with the community. Author of PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them, co-author of PostgreSQL 16...
Boaz Ardel
eBay, SRE
Experienced Site Reliability Engineer with mission-critical applications and working in large complex production
environments. Passionate about new technologies and challenges for building scalable and resilient systems. With 8 years of hands-on experience in development, cloud, service mesh, and networking. Willing to engage and deliver some of my insights to the community.
As a seasoned production engineer with a strong background in Kubernetes, public cloud infrastructure, and large-scale AI/ML clusters, I bring a unique blend of technical expertise and real-world experience to the table. With a proven track record of designing and operating complex systems at scale, I'm passionate about sharing my knowledge and collaborating with the community to drive innovation in the world of container orchestration and open source technologies.
Murat Aydemir is a cloud security architect with a strong background in offensive security, specializing in both dynamic and static analysis techniques to identify vulnerabilities. Renowned for discovering over 30 CVEs and identifying zero-day vulnerabilities, he leverages his expertise in both offensive and defensive security to secure AWS environments while continuing his research in offensive techniques targeting cloud infrastructures. He is a big fan of Serverless concept, embracing its...
Shirley Bailes has been involved in developer communities and building open source programs for over 15 years. She is the Director of Software Ecosystem Strategy in Intel’s Office of the CTO, where she leads thought leadership and strategic initiatives to accelerate startup innovation and developer ecosystem growth. She previously led open source programs at AWS and served as Co-President of the Women at Amazon Global Board.
Tarus Balog has been involved in managing communications networks professionally since 1988, and unprofessionally since 1978 when he got his first computer - a TRS-80 from Radio Shack. Having worked as a network management consultant for many years, he was constantly frustrated in the lack of flexibility involved in commercial solutions such as OpenView and Tivoli, as well as shocked by their high prices. Looking for a better solution, he turned to open source and joined the OpenNMS project...
Tim’s tech career spans over 25 years through various sectors, in large corporate environments and in small startups, honing his skills in systems administration, automation, architecture, and operations for large cloud-based datastores.
Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, & Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with the open source and cloud computing communities. Tim is also a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner and instructor. He is the 2-...
Patrick Beaucamp is founder of the Vanilla project, the only true Open Source Business Intelligence Platform, and Data4Citizen, one of the leading Open Data Platform
Patrick is Ceo of Bpm-Conseil, the company behind the Vanilla and Data4Citizen projects.
Patrick is a teacher in university to address data visualisation and search engine topics, and chairman of a chair : https://icom.univ-lyon2.fr/institut/gouvernance...
Josh Berkus spends his time messing around with containers, automation, and community-building for Red Hat Inc. Prior to that, he spent nearly two decades working on PostgreSQL. From his home in Portland, he cooks, makes pottery, and looks after a cat.
Jared is a proud father of five wonderful kids and a devoted husband. He is originally from Southern California, but now resides in a small Midwestern town. He works as an instructor at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, where he teaches courses in Linux System Administration, Cisco Networking, and Cybersecurity.
OpenStack user since Kilo and currently a Kolla core reviewer, I bring extensive hands-on experience managing Linux, AIX, and Kubernetes environments. With a strong focus on performance, scalability, and reliability, I’m dedicated to advancing open-source cloud technologies.
Jayme is a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Plane Team at Clickhouse. His current focus is AutoScaling Clickhouse Cloud to provide seamless vertical scaling, horizontal scaling and idling. Prior to ClickHouse Jayme worked on InfluxDB Cloud at InfluxData.
Scott Bly is the Director of the API Security Practice at iSOA Group where he leads customer DevSecOps transformations through an API-first journey of cyber maturity and continual improvement.
Scott has served as a Cybersecurity Technical Account Manager (TAM) at Noname Security, and he led teams of TAMs at AWS where he ran the Enterprise Support Security Improvement Program, which has assisted thousands of customers to measure and improve their cloud security postures.
Scott’s...
I am a software engineer dedicated to supporting and accelerating scientific research. I am currently working at CliMA, the Climate Modelling Alliance, where I contribute to the development of a next-generation Earth-System Model.
Before joining CliMA, I obtained my PhD in theoretical and computational physics focusing on simulations of black holes. During my PhD, I was a NASA Future Investigator for Space Science and a Texas Advanced Center for Computing Frontera fellow. As part of...
Tony came to Linux in 1994 and has never looked back. His entire professional career has been spent working with or on Linux.
Leigh is building Flox and is active with the Kubernetes and Flux projects.
He has a background in infrastructure software with a security niche.
He authored Flux 2's security model and kubeadm's mTLS implementation and is currently working on Kubernetes authorization with SIG Auth.
Leigh and his wife love to snowboard in Colorado and have 3 dogs.
Zoë Chalfant studied Political Science and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She worked for approximately 8 years at Facebook/Meta as a Production Engineer. Currently she is a Staff Engineer at BabyList, Inc working on infrastructure systems.
Partially trained as a psychotherapist, she volunteers as a phone counselor at the Seattle-based Crisis Connections hotline and volunteers with the Puget Sound Rangers (Burning Man affiliated) as an at-event...
Colin Charles is the Managing Consultant at GrokOpen. Previously, Colin was on the founding team of MariaDB Server, and has been around the MySQL ecosystem including being an early employee at MySQL, and worked actively on the Fedora and OpenOffice.org projects. Colin has been a MySQL user since 2000. He's well known within open source communities, enjoys building business and market entry in APAC and has spoken at many conferences.
I've spent twenty years in the bay area doing tech startups including Sauce Labs, Buoyant and now Stateful. My focus has been primarily at the cross section of devTools, test automation, cloud native and web. In time away from the screen I love spending time with my family, playing in the woods, traveling, and soccer.
Jon A. Cruz is a professional developer with over 20 years of experience, working extensively in multimedia, including programming and 3D art creation, and has developed for a wide variety of platforms. Work includes R&D for mobile and other devices, servers for large mail and messaging systems, enterprise security applications, and user interface design and development..
He had participated as a mentor in Google's Summer of Code since its first year with Inkscape and...
I'm a contributor to the OpenStack's Shared File Systems as a service. I been working in OpenStack upstream core features for Manila project, as well as maintaining CI/CD infrastructures and Storage Drivers. I am passionate about the open source community and its open culture since the first time he had contact with it. I have been serving as PTL for Manila for several releases.
Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya is a database researcher and practitioner with over 40 years of academic and industrial experience. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. At present she is
– Database Architect at DW Holdings in Chicago, IL
– Local Organizer of the Chicago PostgreSQL User Group
– Active community member, a frequent speaker at the PostgreSQL Conferences
– A researcher focused on developing efficient...
Katherine Druckman is an Open Source Evangelist at Intel where she enjoys sharing her passion for a variety of open source topics. She is a long-time open source advocate, developer, and podcaster, and is currently the host of Open at Intel and a co-host of the FLOSS Weekly and Reality 2.0 podcasts. Previously, Katherine spent over a decade as Director of Digital Experience at Linux Journal. A passionate Drupalist since she first downloaded a tarball in 2005, she has also been a Drupal...
Mohamed Elsakhawy received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt and his M.E.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is an industry expert in Cloud computing with expertise in large-scale multi-site Clouds. He served as the Operational Lead of Compute Canada’s Cloud National Team between 2017 and 2021. In 2022, Dr. Elsakhawy joined the Cirrus Lab at the University of British...
Greg Farnum is a long-standing member of the core Ceph development team and founding Inktank engineer. He has served in many roles as Ceph grows and is currently a member of the Ceph Steering Committee and manager of IBM's CephFS group. Greg is passionate about solving problems in distributed computing and expanding the Ceph community.
Andrew has more than 10 years of experience building database tools with a particular focus on databases in cloud native and SaaS environments. He currently works at Xata helping to build the next generation Postgres data platform. At Xata Andrew has a particular focus on building tools to help users achieve zero-downtime database migrations.
I am Jay Faulkner, an Open Source Developer and Advocate. I believe that through working with others around the world to solve problems we can make the world better. Open source is a great way to do that.
I have a long and varied contribution history in and around open source, including:
- Over a decade contributing to OpenStack, including two terms on the Technical Committee
- Over a decade as a core reviewer, and three-time PTL, on OpenStack Ironic
- Gentoo...
Infrastructure and cloud services developer. I'm deeply passionate about open source. Currently contributing to the Kanister project at Kasten by Veeam, we're reshaping data management for Kubernetes.
Dr. Armstrong is a researcher at the intersection of software ecosystem sustainability, affective computing, the trustworthiness of safety-critical systems, and software engineering for machine learning applications, including foundational models, AIWare, and Agentware. He mines massive datasets, including software repositories, and applies socio-technical data science techniques to uncover patterns and empirically make informed decisions.
Manish Gill works at ClickHouse Inc, where he is managing the AutoScaling team for ClickHouse Cloud. He is based out of Berlin and is deeply interested in Databases and Cloud challenges and runs https://berlinsystems.xyz/ on the side.
Proactive IT solution professional advisor with combined business and technical knowledge: experienced in enterprise software sales for cross sectors, building technical alliances, and supporting channel sales for years. Focused on open-source solutions constantly working with major players in the IT market. Always ready to share knowledge.
Marcin’s vision is that open source will be as sustainable in terms of product and revenue growth as proprietary solutions as more and more...
Nuri Halperin is a software architect, speaker, and author. He helps companies design scalable systems, websites, and business applications. He’s been turning projects into success stories for a variety of clients for over 2 decades.
He is the author of several Pluralsight.com courses. He's also a Microsoft MVP alum, a MongoDB Champions member, and recipient of MongoDB's William Zola Award for Community Excellence. He enjoys tinkering with Arduinos, 3D printing, and robotics...
Senior Developer Advocate at Datadog, focused on DevOps, SRE, and AI. Committed to empowering developers with modern engineering techniques for scalable, reliable, and explainable systems.
Addison Hart is a recent graduate of the Colorado School of Mines and a software engineer at Verizon on the infrastructure team in Aurora. In addition to his full time work on automation, he has 4 years of experience reverse engineering APIs and homebrewing embedded devices. His most well known work in that space is the public Mario Maker 2 API used by that community. He is an active contributor to local Linux User Groups in the greater Denver area and has given 7 talks on topics ranging...
By day, I'm the CFO and COO of PGX, Inc., a Postgres-only consultancy in Alameda, California. I'm also the President of the U.S. PostgreSQL Association (PgUS), a nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of PostgreSQL through education and advocacy. I'm an organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL Users Group. At conferences in the US and Europe, you'll often find me at the registration desk. I'm also the creator of the original PostgreSQL Community Code of...
Christian is a well rounded technologist with experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, enterprise architecture, tech support, advocacy, and product management. Passionate about OpenSource and containerizing the world one application at a time. He is currently a maintainer of the OpenGitOps project, a member of the Argo Project Marketing SIG, and co-host of GitOps Guide to the Galaxy. He focuses on GitOps practices, DevOps, Kubernetes, and Containers.
Software Engineer @ Meta working on scheduling with sched_ext. Experience deploying novel userspace schedulers to production and building the features needed to outperform existing kernel schedulers, debugging application performance along the way.
Previous experience working on debuggers and memory profiling, with a focus on writing high performance memory efficient C++.
Bryan's been interested in computing for as long as he can remember. Even studying electronic engineering, just to understand how a computer could add 2 numbers together on a transistor level.
Recently, he's been interested in the smaller details of operating systems. How they work, why they look they way they do, and why LISP machines never took off.
Please don't hesitate to approach him about anything tech, or music, related. But, be warned, he has a tendency...
Shaun is a Production Engineer at Meta, where they have been i shaping integrations with the public cloud infrastructure landscape. They specialize in creating intuitive platforms for container creation and Kubernetes management, with a particular focus on building infrastructure-level software to support both generic compute and large-scale Artificial Intelligence HPC training clusters. Shaun's work is dedicated to enhancing accessibility and efficiency for developers, driving innovation,...
Software engineer building observability platform at eBay
I'm a tech nerd, who's obsessed with any and everything related to robotics, renewables and infrastructure. I've been into robotics for as long as I can remember. When I was younger, I loved to take apart anything electronic, study it and reassemble it and now as an adult, I'm a STEM educator and building Arduino-based robots in my free time. I'm very happy to be alive in this period in time because I believe that we (humanity) are in the beginning of a tech/robotics...
I'm Xe iaso, a technical educator, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in the process. I live in Ottawa with my husband and I do developer relations professionally. I am an avid writer for my blog xeiaso.net, where I have over 500 articles. I regularly experiment with new technologies and find ways to mash them up with old technologies for my own amusement.
Matt is an experienced web architect with a software development background. He has deep expertise in building, scaling and operating global-scale Java, Ruby on Rails and AMP web applications. He has been a contributor to the memcached project, one of the maintainers of the Java spymemcached client and a core developer on Couchbase. He is currently heading up Couchbase's work in getting the right bits needed for PHP, Java, .NET, Ruby and node.js developers (among others) by building the...
Ryan Jarvinen is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat, focusing on improving developer experience in the cloud native community. He lives in Sacramento, California and is passionate about open source, open standards, open government, and digital rights.
Podcaster. Tailscalar. Linuxserver.io co-founder. Drone Racer. Photographer. Dog Lover.
UK raised but now living Raleigh, NC, USA, Alex is a container evangelist and tinkerer by nature.
He a host of the Self-Hosted podcast (https://selfhosted.show) and Head of Developer Relations at Tailscale. He is also the author of https://perfectmediaserver.com and is passionate about helping others get into...
Alexander is the CEO of Tempesta Technologies, Inc., and is the architect of Tempesta FW, a high performance open source Linux application delivery controller. Alexander is responsible for the design and performance of several products in the areas of network traffic processing and databases. He designed the core architecture of a Web application firewall, mentioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, and MariaDB system versioning.
Mitchell Levy is a recent graduate of the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. His interests center on tools and methodologies that help people write safer and more robust code.
Nick is an engineer at Flox, working to bring the power of Nix to the masses. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Puppet, rewiring his brain to see the whole world as a desired state problem.
Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional by using community metrics and analytics. Georg cofounded the CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several projects and often presents on open source topics. Georg has an MBA and a Ph.D. in Information Technology. As the Open Source Strategist and Director of Sales at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities adopt metrics and make open source more...
I’m an all around geek with a passion for systems administration and the DevOps culture who is always searching for a better way to accomplish a task or to solve a problem. I’m also a pragmatic systems architect who regularly looks for non-traditional solutions to problems. I believe in using the best operating system for the problem at hand, be it Linux, macOS, Windows, or something else. I’ve been working in IT for over 20 years and have been using all three of those the entire time.
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Jean-Charles "JC" Lopez, an Advanced Technology Specialist at IBM, has been in the field of storage for over 30 years. He has dealt with the challenges of each era over different operating systems and in different environments—from OpenStack to OpenShift and from mainframe to open systems. He likes to share his passion for storage while promoting open-source solutions. Since 2019 he's been working full time with Red Hat OpenShift customers and help them build data services platforms around...
Lori has a passion and enthusiasm for working with the developer and open source community. She is the Data on Kubernetes SIG Co-Chair, a CNCF & CDF Ambassador, former Chair of CNCF Marketing Committee and the CDF Outreach Marketing Committee, program chair of cdCon 2023, and is active in the OpenSSF DevRel committee. She co-hosts the CD Pipeline on behalf of the CDF with TechstrongTV. She is committed to helping open source and other tech communities grow and adapt in our ever changing...
Dr. Emily Lovell is an OSPO Incubator Fellow at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching use novel domains to invite broader participation in computing, with her postdoctoral work focusing on newcomers to open source. Emily previously served on faculty at Berea College, where she developed and taught courses on open source contribution and computational craft. She has a S.M. in Media Arts & Sciences from the MIT Media Lab and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz.
Federico Lucifredi is the Product Management Director for Ceph Storage at Red Hat and a co-author of O'Reilly's "Peccary Book" on AWS System Administration. Previously, he was the Ubuntu Server product manager at Canonical, where he oversaw a broad portfolio and the rise of Ubuntu Server to the rank of most popular OS on Amazon AWS. A software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, he was part of the SUSE Linux team, overseeing the update lifecycle and...
Justin is a technical support engineer at Akuity and Argo CD maintainer. He is passionate about open source and cloud native technologies that leverage productivity. In his spare time you will find him hiking with his family or scuba diving the California Channel Islands.
I started my career at VitalSource Technologies a decade ago, as a MySQL DBA. I've spoken at numerous database conferences across the US and in Europe, sharing insights on scalable database architectures and performance optimization.
In my current role, I lead the systems engineering team while championing initiatives that drive both technical and social impact. I established VitalSource's Cloud FinOps practice to optimize cloud resources and founded the company's...
At NGINX, Dave works with DevOps, developers and architects to realize the advantages of modern microservice architectures and orchestration in distributed systems, especially for today's fast-moving cycles.
Dave has been a champion for open systems and open source from the early days of Linux to today's world of clouds and containers. He speaks on topics such as the real-world issues associated with emerging software architectures and practices. He covers topics such as...
Ana Margarita Medina is a Staff Developer Advocate at Upbound, she speaks on all things SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering and Reliability. She is a self-taught engineer with over 14 years of experience, focusing on cloud infrastructure and reliability. She has been part of the Kubernetes Release Team since v1.25, serves on the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee, and is on the GC for CNCF's Keptn project, When time permits, she leads efforts to dispel the stigma surrounding mental health...
Tyler Menezes is the Executive Director at CodeDay, where he works to increase diverse Computer Science enrollment across North America by inspiring underrepresented students to give coding a try.
Born in Canada but raised in the Pacific Northwest, he briefly attended the University of Washington before dropping out to start a Y Combinator and venture-backed social video startup in 2011. This, combined with stints working in machine learning at Microsoft Research and as a programmer...
Nick Meyer studied physics and computer science at Caltech, and is currently a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering team at Academia.edu. A major focus during his tenure at Academia.edu has been streamlining and modernizing the data layer, in particular projects around operations of Academia.edu's PostgreSQL clusters, including upgrades, partitioning, and backup tooling.
Worked in the distributed computing field for over 25 years, starting with designing data serialization algorithms for MPI (PhD subject), time synchronizing multimedia network streams collected using commercial-off-the-shelf hardware, developing a job scheduler, architecting data-driven research evaluation platforms, and conceiving and leading the team building an agnostic benchmarking model to allow researchers to bring their algorithms to specialized datasets.
Co-chair of the...
Noel Miller is a Systems Administrator, Technical Account Manager at Red Hat, and the Project Manager at Universal Blue.
He has been working in IT for a little over 10 years, with most of his career being focused on Small and Medium Size businesses. For his day job, he works at Red Hat as a Technical Account Manager with a focus on Ansible.
He is the Project Manager and a Core Contributor at Universal Blue. Universal Blue builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating...
Kevin Mittman is a GNU/Linux enthusiast with a passion for automation. He is a system software engineer at NVIDIA, with a focus on the installer packaging and release process for CUDA, the NVIDIA driver, and other CUDA-X products. Before joining NVIDIA, Kevin began his career in the open source community, maintaining Debian packages for Maemo and later an ArchLinux-based kiosk Linux LiveUSB distro.
Skilled software architect with 20+ years of experience in crafting enterprise Edge and Multi-Cloud architectures for
High Performance Computing. Possess hands-on implementation experience in Equinix Data Center Digital Services and
hyper-converged multi-cloud infrastructure private connectivity solutions for Azure, GCP, AWS, and Oracle Cloud.
With over three years at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Software Development Engineer, I currently contribute to the Language and Runtimes team, specializing in the development and release of Amazon Corretto (Java) while actively engaging in the OpenJDK community. Prior to this, my role as a NoSQL Solutions Architect involved guiding organizations in selecting purpose-built NoSQL databases, utilizing Python and Java to unblock customers and contribute to educational content. In addition to...
Michal is a Senior Technical Lead at StackHPC. He has worked in OpenStack across different companies for 10+ years including Enterprise, Telco and HPC markets. He currently serves as a Project Team Lead for OpenStack Kolla and core team member for OpenStack Magnum.
Kendall first started working on OpenStack in 2015, and has since been bridging open source communities together (like OpenStack and Kubernetes) through her passion to collaborate.
When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of open source, creating a welcoming community, or generally making upstream development in open source a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.
Currently a Technology Evangelist at Severalnines, Divine Odazie is a Developer Relations Professional and Technical Writer with over 5+ years of experience in Technology and a track record in Backend Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Native and Developer Relations on a global scale.
He has given talks/workshops at developer conferences like Open Source Summit Europe, KubeCon North America, Cloud Native Rejekts, and Ansible Contributor Summit.
He also supports the cloud native...
Goutham has been a contributor to OpenStack since the Liberty release (2015). He has been most active within the OpenStack Shared File Systems (manila), Block Storage (cinder) and UX (openstackcli, openstacksdk) project teams. He is currently the Chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/. He's a Principal Software Engineer within the OpenStack Engineering team at Red Hat Inc. Prior to working on...
Murriel is a Customer Engineer with Google Cloud, and works with enterprise customers to solve technical and business challenges and build applications on the cloud. She is currently enthusiastic about DevOps and Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, and the Developer Experience. She leads the Social Impact committee for the local chapter of Women@Google and is an advocate for mentorship and community building. Murriel also holds a position on the executive...
Jonathan Perry is a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry eBPF network collector. His PhD research at MIT CSAIL focused on performance isolation in datacenter and cloud networks, aiming to enhance network efficiency and reduce latency. Jonathan founded Flowmill, where he developed eBPF-based network monitoring tools prior to the company's acquisition by Splunk. He is based in Austin, Texas.
Christophe has been working with PostgreSQL since 1997. He is the CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.
Elizabeth is a Software Engineer in Search Infrastructure at Airbnb and has a non traditional pathway from Customer Support Specialist to Software Engineering at Airbnb. Elizabeth actively contributes to fostering an inclusive and diverse tech community at Airbnb and beyond through mentorship and community building. Elizabeth's hobbies include thrifting, running, karaoke, computer projects with their husband, and ocean visits with family.
Steve is a dad, partner, son, a founder, and a principal developer advocate at Voxel51. He can teach you about Computer Vision, Data Analysis, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Microservices, and Kubernetes. He has deep expertise in GIS/Spatial, Remote Sensing, Statistics, and Ecology. Steve has a Ph.D. in Ecology and can be bribed with offers of bird watching or fly fishing.
Avi Press is a developer tool author, and functional programming language enthusiast, serving as a founder & CEO at Scarf. Avi loves thinking about and discussing how people can solve problems by more effectively sharing data, and how that applies to building a sustainable open-source ecosystem. He is also a host of the Hacking Open Source Business Podcast, where Avi continues to share insights, inspire discussions, and contribute to the ever-evolving open-source landscape.
Kyle is the creator of DockerSlim (aka MinToolkit/SlimToolkit), a popular tool to minify, inspect, build, run and debug containers. He's the founder/CEO of AutonomousLayer (aka AutonomousPlane) and he's also the founder/CTO of Slim.AI. He's building an AI agent to automatically fix vulnerabilities in the cloud native applications. Kyle has been building applications and platforms using many different programming languages since the early days of cloud computing. His "50 Shades of Go" is...
Kyle Rankin is a security and infrastructure expert with over two decades of professional Linux experience. He is the author of How To Write A Tech Book, The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks, DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Third Edition, Knoppix Hacks, 2nd Edition, and Ubuntu Hacks, among other books. Rankin was an award-winning columnist and tech editor for Linux Journal, and speaks frequently on Free and Open Source...
Ben Rockwood is the VP of Engineering & Operations at Mondoo
I hold a bachelor's degree in Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a master's degree in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.
Currently, I am a Software Engineer at Meta. I have worked as a developer at UCLA, Sarah Lawrence College, The City University of New York, Zeebox, and Spotify.
I also enjoy cooking, playing the guitar, horology, and taking long walks with my wife and dog.
Alexander is a Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading RDS security team.
Alexander worked with MySQL since 2000 as DBA and Application Developer. Alexander was working as MySQL principal consultant/architect for over 15 years, started with MySQL AB in 2006 (company behind MySQL database), Sun Microsystems, Oracle and then Percona. He helped many customers design large, scalable and highly available MySQL systems, optimize MySQL performance and improve MySQL...
Éamon is a Senior Principal Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he builds and maintains internal and external environments, builds out advanced workshops, provides input on product use-cases and acts as a subject matter expert in some specific areas.
Éamon has done the full rounds of customer-facing tech roles over the years: Support, Education/Training, Professional Services, Solutions Engineering and now Field Engineering, giving him tons of customer insights and viewpoints he...
Amber is a Senior Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, where she focuses on observability solution architecture, building and maintaining complex demo environments and observability workshops, and provides expertise for customer solutions requiring metrics, logs, and Grafana observability tooling.
Amber has a background in infrastructure and monitoring, primarily working in Customer facing roles for Solution Architecture and Customer Success Engineering at Pivotal/VMware, Sysdig...
Vijay Samuel works with eBay's observability platform as its architect. During his time at eBay Vijay has transformed eBay's observability platform into a cloud native offering that is primarily built on top of open source technologies. He loves to code in Go and play video games.
Evan Shortiss is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat, where he helps developers to be successful with cloud-native technologies. He has more than ten years of development experience, with a focus on building web applications and backends using JavaScript ecosystem technologies.
I'm a research software engineer passionate about developing cutting-edge technology to help alleviate real-world problems. I see climate change as one of the major issues threatening humans and life on Earth as a whole, and I want to use my technical skills to enact meaningful change in this area. At the same time, I strive to further develop my skills as a computer scientist, tackling interesting and exciting problems along the way.
Vincent is a Software Engineer based in Long Beach, CA, with over 20 years of experience specializing in e-commerce and crowdfunding. He has a proven track record of building secure, scalable systems and leading high-performing teams.
Pat is a member of Meta's Linux Userspace team. He currently works on the Sched Ext, helping to make Meta faster for everyone.
Jonathan Starr stands at the intersection of open source and open science as the program manager of The Open Source Science Initiative out of NumFOCUS, where he drives work on The Map of Open Source Science. In his spare time, Jonathan runs a workshop facilitation 501c3, hosting global workshops connecting technicians, researchers, and the public while facilitating the development of numerous deep tech infrastructures enabling open science. He is also a core contributor and designer of one...
Zubair Talib is a seasoned technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in AI and enterprise software. He has driven the development of innovative AI solutions, including voice-based restaurant ordering systems and conversational AI for recruitment. Zubair is currently the Executive Director at Celara, a leading technology services company specializing in building teams and solutions with a focus on AI, machine learning, and enterprise software.
Zubair has served as CTO...
Alkin Tezuysal is the Director of Services at Altinity Inc. He has extensive experience in open-source relational databases, working in various sectors and large functions. With over three decades of industry experience, he has led global operations teams for MySQL customers and users. He's a known speaker at worldwide open-source database events.
His recent achievements extend into open-source communities: He was awarded Most Influential in Database Community 2022 by The Redgate...
Just a guy who loves building things.
Kennedy Toomey is a Security Advocate at Datadog, specializing in application security. Previously she was an Application Security Engineer where she spent her time working with developers to help fix vulnerabilities and write more secure code.
Margaret Tucker is a Policy Manager at GitHub working on issues including intermediary liability, copyright, and open source security policy. Margaret is passionate about advocating for developers' interests to policymakers and hearing from developers about what policy issues matter to them. Prior to joining GitHub, Margaret was a Policy Fellow serving the Office of Science and Technology Policy and also worked as a Research Associate for Future Tense, a section of Slate covering the...
Tanja is a Software Engineer who loves building solid software and creating smooth, user-friendly experiences.
She’s always eager to learn, share her knowledge, and tackle challenging tasks by designing and implementing systems that effectively solve problems.
She's currently working on Nix-based developer tooling at Flox, where she's building FloxHub — a platform that enables developers to share reproducible environments.
With her background in web development...
Ildikó is working for the Open Infrastructure Foundation as Director of Community. As part of her role, she is the Community Manager for the StarlingX open source distributed cloud project and a co-leader of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group. Ildikó has been contributing to projects like OpenStack, Anuket and State of the Edge for over 10 years with focus areas of Edge Computing, Telecommunications and NFV. She is an evangelist of open collaboration and is using her experience to help...
Xpaul acquired his nickname in the late 1900s at dot-com incubator Idealab! while still pursuing undergraduate studies at Caltech.
The Internet was all the rage, compiling X11 frame buffer drivers on Linux for laptops was the new hotness, and the apps of the time were X11 widgets like xterminal, xcalc, and x-googly-eyes, so when it turned out there was already a "paul" on the qmail server, "xpaul" was born.
Reared by ethical hackers, he since developed,...
Adriana Villela is a public speaker, maintainer of the OpenTelemetry End User SIG, blogger, host of the Geeking Out Podcast, CNCF Ambassador (2023-present), and HashiCorp Ambassador (2022-present). By day, she is a Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace, with a focus on Observability and Platform Engineering. By night, she climbs walls. She also loves capybaras.
David is an AI/ML Engineer at DigitalOcean, where he’s dedicated to empowering developers to build, scale, and deploy AI/ML models in production environments. David brings deep expertise in building and training models for applications like NLP, data visualization, and real-time analytics. His mission is to help users build, train, and deploy AI models efficiently, making advanced machine learning accessible to developers of all levels.
I also have a background in storage drivers/...
Angelina is a software engineer on Micorosoft's Linux Emerging Technologies team.
Mandi Walls is Technical Community Manager at Chef. For Chef, she helps organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modernizing IT practices. She is a long-time sysadmin focusing on large complex web systems.
Daniel Walsh has worked in the computer security field for over 35 years. Dan is a Consulting Engineer at Red Hat. He joined Red Hat in August 2001. Dan leads the Red Hat Container Engineering team since August 2013, but has been working on container technology for several years. Dan currently focusess on the CRI-O Container Runtime, Buildah for building container images, containers/storage and containers/image. Dan has made many contributions to the Docker project. Dan has also developed a...
Shirley is a software engineer at Grafana Labs working on solutions to facilitate observability. She is passionate about test code, pair programming and believes in facilitating communication through listening, empathizing and clear and understandable explanations. Outside of work, she enjoys bike riding, knitting, and baking.
Scott Williams is a senior DevOps Engineer at University of California (previously Azusa Pacific University and Claremont McKenna College). He contributes to a number of open source software projects and Linux distributions and is an Ambassador for the Fedora Project, representing Fedora at SCaLE since 2010.
Mark Wong is a Software Development Engineer at EDB and is a PostgreSQL Major Contributor. He first introduced himself to the PostgreSQL community in 2003 with open source benchmarking kits and performance data. Since then, he has continued to contribute to various aspects of the community such as a Google Summer of Code mentor, Conference Organizer, Portland PostgreSQL Users Group Co-Organizer, PostgreSQL Fundraising Group Member, and a Director on the Board of the United States PostgreSQL...
Gülçin started working with Postgres at a startup company in 2012 and was amazed at how powerful Postgres truly is! Over the years, she has actively contributed to the PostgreSQL community by organizing conferences, delivering talks, and engaging as a dedicated community member. In recognition of her commitment, Gülçin was elected to the PostgreSQL Europe Board in 2017.
Fueled by her passion for PostgreSQL automation and cloud technologies, Gülçin took on the role of Cloud Services...
Tom Yin is a seasoned technology executive specializing in networking, telecommunications, and business development, launching several networking businesses. Here's an overview of his journey:
- Principal and managing director of TJTC LLC, provides consulting advice and solution development to investment institutions and startups. Showcased Multicloud networking solution using SONIC at ONE Summit. Please see...
Paul Yu is a Developer Advocate at Microsoft focusing on cloud native technologies and the Kubernetes landscape. Paul has well over a decade of industry experience working as a Software Engineer and Solution Architect. He is passionate about promoting cloud native and sustainable solutions to help organizations optimize processes and workflows.
Jimmy Zelinskie is a software engineer and product leader with the goal of empowering the world through the democratization of software through open source development. He's currently the CPO and cofounder of authzed where he's focused on bringing hyperscaler best-practices in authorization software to the industry at large.
At CoreOS, he helped pioneer the cloud-native ecosystem by starting and contributing to many of its foundational open source projects. After being...
Anita Zhang is the software engineering manager of Meta's Linux Userspace team. Her team connects Meta's infrastructure with the open source community. She is active on the systemd project and continues to support systemd at Meta as part of their userspace efforts.