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.
Hamid worked extensively on PostgreSQL for more than 12+ years now. As an architect and developer, he's working on multi-active solution with pgEdge, In the past, he's also worked on transparent data encryption, the observability extension (pg_stat_monitor), ORC FDW, and an auto-tuner for PostgreSQL. He has also managed the official PostgreSQL installers.
At pgEdge, Hamid contributes to developing the Spock extension, enabling active-active...
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’...
Joe is a Staff Software Reliability Engineer at Subsplash focusing on Kubernetes infrastructure and pretty much everything else hidden behind the curtain that no one wants to talk about.
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, is a Contributor to the PostgreSQL project, and an active member of PostgreSQL Europe. Jimmy is a regular speaker at conferences and events, sharing his insights with the community. Author of ...
CEO @ Sentinel.la. Computer Science Engineer from Chile with a vast experience on R&D and Cloud. I've deployed and worked with OpenStack clouds on production for 10 years. Followed by the desire to continue innovating and supporting OpenStack we founded Sentinel.la to help solve the main OpenStack pain points from a user's perspective in the real world from Chile and Mexico to Latin American markets, narrowing the gap between "everything works" in architecture and the...
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. After being kicked out of some of the best colleges in the country, and a short stint in telecom, he founded an open source-focused company and ran it for twenty years. Once that company was sold, he started working at Amazon Web Services with the goal of making AWS the most welcoming place to run open source...
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.
James is the project lead for the Zuul project gating system, and a
founding member of the OpenDev collaboratory team. As a sysadmin and
hacker he gets to write elegant code and then try to make it work in the
real world. He has previously worked for the Free Software Foundation,
UC Berkeley, and the OpenStack Foundation. He currently provides Zuul
support and services through Acme Gating.
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...
Peter is a Founding Engineer at Tigris. Before joining the Tigris team, he worked at Percona, Dropbox, Zuora and Sun microsystems. Peter’s background and professional interest is running databases at scale, he had the opportunity to work on very large MySQL deployments alone with other data stores. Also very performance minded.
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.
Bassam Chahine is a Principal Consultant at NetApp Instaclustr, which provides a managed platform around open source data technologies including Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka and Apache Spark. Bassam architects open source solutions for data analytics and AI
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.
Tim Dennis is the co-PI of the UCLA Open Source Program Office (OSPO), part of the UC OSPO Network, and the Director of the Data Science Center at UCLA Library. With expertise in data services in academia, he leads efforts to support data initiatives like the UCLA DataSquad and UCLA Dataverse. A regular user of R, Python, SQL, and command-line tools, Tim has extensive experience helping researchers and students apply these tools. As a member of The Carpentries, he co-leads workshops that...
Rebecca Dittmar is a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years at Nike. She's skilled in full-stack development and cloud technologies. Her work has directly impacted billions of annual Nike customer interactions. Beyond tech, she's an EMBA and enjoys an active lifestyle.
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...
Database administrator with extensive experience designing, administration, implementation and supporting next-generation MySQL and MongoDB database solutions in the hybrid Cloud. Looking for Python development with intermediate experience and Terraform projects.
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.
Rob Fletcher is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of DevZero, a Seattle-based startup specializing in cloud-based development platforms that enable developers to write and test code in production-like environments.
Before founding DevZero in 2021, Rob held significant roles in security engineering at major tech companies. He served as Head of Product Security at Uber, leading a team of over 45 security engineers, engineering managers, and product managers. Following his...
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.
Mikaël is currently a senior software engineer at Ticketmaster.
He enjoys spending time with family, taming complexity, and three-element enumerations.
Before working as a software engineer, he was a musician and a researcher.
Adrianna Frick leads Canonical's efforts to create exams and credentials that validate technical skills. Canonical is excited to share our plans for future exams with the community and provide a preview of an upcoming "Quick Certification" exam release, the first of three exams leading to the Canonical Ubuntu Essentials credential.
Adrianna began her journey in open source in the late 1990s at Walnut Creek CDROM working with teams from Slackware Linux and FreeBSD among...
Carl George leads the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) team in the Community Linux Engineering group at Red Hat. He participates in many open source projects, often related to his packaging activities in Fedora, EPEL, and CentOS. He is a member of the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Packaging Committee, and various Fedora Special Interest Groups.
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.
Federico is a seasoned leader with a global perspective and a deep commitment to advancing technology in Latin America and their home countries. I possess extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, as well as at national and international levels.
He is passionate and results-oriented innovator with a proven track record of leveraging technology for development, social inclusion, and technological sovereignty and independence.
A Mexican professional educated in...
Software, web, and game developer with a passion for Linux and open source.
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...
Magnus Hagander is a member of the PostgreSQL Core Team and a developer and code committer in the PostgreSQL Global Development Group.
Magnus is one of the original developers of the Windows port of PostgreSQL. These days, he mostly works on other parts of the PostgreSQL backend, recently with a focus on security features, monitoring and backup/replication interfaces and tools.
He is also one of the core members of the postgresql.org infrastructure team, maintaining the servers...
Jon "maddog" Hall is the Board Chair Emeritus of the Linux Professional Institute (lpi.org).
During his career in commercial computing which started in 1969, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, author and educator.
He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, SGI and Linaro...
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...
Currenty I'm an engineer at Meta where I've spent the last 6 years developing and applying software for C++ application observability. During my career I've has been fortunate enough to be involved in developing some interesting technologies including Sun Microsystem's Solaris Dynamic Tracing system (DTrace) and technologies within Oracle's RDBMS Database.
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...
From film to engineering, Annie’s career has seen many iterations. She is a keen observer of what works and what doesn’t, striving always to make the right thing to do the easy thing to do. Annie and her husband, Michael, are raising their three teenagers in Boulder, CO. She’s currently working on a project to make doing the right thing with your career the easy thing to do. Find out more at people-work.io.
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++.
Mark Hinkle is an emerging technology executive and CEO of Peripety Labs, a digital consultancy that helps users be more successful with AI in their enterprise. With over 25 years of experience, he has expertise in the use of enterprise software, including artificial intelligence. Hinkle has held executive positions at Cloud.com, The Linux Foundation, and Citrix, and was the CEO and cofounder of TriggerMesh, a cloud integration company that was venture-backed by Cisco, Index, and Crane...
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 Ingenthron is a VP of Software Engineering at Couchbase a software development background and experience with high-scale, high performance system design. He has deep expertise in building, scaling, and operating global-scale web deployments across many platforms. He has been a contributor to the memcached project and a core developer on Couchbase developing much of the early clustering platform interfaces. Matt's teams are currently building all of the SDKs/Connectors for Couchbase...
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.
Sinan Kefeli is an AI scientist with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and computer vision. At Verizon, he develops models to analyze customer call transcripts, improve customer interactions, and answer complex queries using large language models (LLMs). His work includes fine-tuning open source models like Mistral and Flan-T5, building graph databases, and creating tools for real-time information retrieval.
Prior to Verizon, Sinan earned his PhD in...
Fatima is an adventurous software engineer & open source contributor. She's passionate about civic tech and committed to building more inclusive tech communities. She loves coding challenges, storytelling, and simplifying technical concepts. As a Developer Evangelist at Gitlab, she connects with other developers and shares knowledge and experiences at conferences and meetups.
Better known on the internets as the “effervescent sugaroverflow”, she has been a volunteer for the...
Divya K Konoor is a Senior Technical Staff Member (Senior Product Development Architect) in IBM Z Systems and leads Confidential Computing offerings like IBM Hyper Protect Crypto Services, Hyper Protect Virtual Service, Crypto Appliance and other Hyper Protect On-Prem and IBM Cloud Offerings. She has 21 years of experience in the IT industry with around 18 years in Cloud Technologies, Virtualization, Systems Management, Security and Confidential Computing. She is a passionate speaker and...
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.
Bradley M. Kuhn is the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Kuhn began volunteering in the software freedom movement in 1992 — as an early adopter of Linux and contributor to many FOSS projects including Perl. As Free Software Foundation (FSF)'s Executive Director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led FSF’s GPL enforcement and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was SFC’s primary volunteer from 2006–2010 and its first...
I am an engineer of the virtualization platform group of the core network development department in NTT DOCOMO. I am designing the operation of the EPC, 5G core, IMS, other core network function and radio network using NFV specification, and developing MANO for commercial mobile systems.
- I developed OSS in DOCOMO to support operation of 2G/3G/4G core and radio network function by 2010.
- I developed MANO in DOCOMO to virtualized EPC and IMS network by 2015.
- I was bridge...
With more than 10 years of recruiting experience in the open source space, Mary specializes in creating positive candidate journeys that generate community advocacy and repeat applicants. Currently recruiting for DBeaver, her approach combines automation, transparency, and clarity, empowering companies to provide exceptional candidate interactions despite small hiring teams or limited tools. Through her commitment to hiring best practices, Mary has demonstrated that an optimized candidate...
Emily is a Developer Advocate at RisingWave Labs, working in the stream processing space, and curious about all data-related technologies. At RisingWave Labs, she builds demos, creates product videos, and writes tutorials, guides, and blogs.
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.
Stephanie Lieggi is executive director for the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) and the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office (OSPO). In her current role, she supports the work of academic-based open source projects and enables a sustainable contributor base through the establishment of hands-on mentorship programs. Stephanie promotes the use of open source in academic settings as well as increasing diversity and inclusion in open source ecosystems.
Joyce Lin is the head of developer relations at Viam, a robotics platform that connects software with smart machines in the physical world. Based in San Francisco, she is also a Tiktok influencer, dog mom, cat mom, and writer.
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...
Sean Marcia, pronouns he, him, his, founded Ruby for Good in 2013 to fill the gap created by inaccessible and uneconomical technology solutions for nonprofits. He built an inclusive community of gooders—technologists determined to make the world a better place—who build open source, technology solutions for individuals and nonprofits serving vital missions. Sean is a passionate zymurgist, avid coffee roaster, enthusiastic writer of screenplays, and connoisseur of practical jokes.
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.
Amy Marrich is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. She currently serves as the Chair of the CentOS Project, Vice Chair of the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra) Board of Directors, and is on the Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software (CHAOSS) projects governing board. In addition, she serves on the Red Hat OpenStack technical committee, is Chair of the OpenInfra Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, contributes to several OpenStack projects, and...
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...
Shaun is the CentOS Community Architect at Red Hat. He's an occasional developer and tech writer. He's worked on documentation and documentation systems in a number of open source communities, most notably as part of GNOME for the last two decades.
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...
Paul is an SRE and HPC automation engineer by day and wears his physicist hat by night to solve physics and engineering problems on computing systems using FOSS software. Motivated by a passion to bridge gaps between science, engineering, and computing, Paul stands on the proverbial shoulders of giants to demonstrate that difficult, time-consuming calculations can be codified to scale out and return desired results in a timely manner, and enjoys sharing that learning process with others.
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...
Jash Mistry is a Senior Software Engineer at eBay. As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, he played a crucial role in the evolution of monitoring—expanding on absolute error counts and average latencies to develop a highly reliable SLO-driven observability platform. He has a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Movie theatres are his second home, but he does not mind seeing one from the couch as long as it's on Mubi or the...
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.
I have spent over ten years helping launch Bloomberg's OpenStack private cloud. As part of this effort I was chairman and co-organizer of the Openstack Operators Meetups team and we successfully organized multiple meetups around the world including in New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin and Mexico City
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...
Distinguished Researcher, NTT Network Innovation Center. He is a PTL of Tacker from Victoria cyclea, and a maintainer of tosca-parser and heat-translator. He joined NTT in 2003. His research interests include distributed systems, network virtualization, and network architectures.
Heather Osborn, Engineering Manager, Developer Enablement, Zapier
Heather Osborn has been working in technology as a system and operations engineer and manager for the last 25 years, moving from physical to cloud infrastructure.
Heather is an avid long distance runner who has lots of time to think about these things while pounding the pavement.
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...
Jamie Parker is a Product Manager at Red Hat who specializes in Observability, particularly in the Logging and OpenStack areas. At Red Hat, Jamie works with organizations and customers to learn about their needs within the ever changing Observability landscape, and based on their feedback, Helps to guide upcoming products within the Red Hat Observability Platform. Jamie enjoys sharing lessons learned to the community by frequently speaking at meetups and conferences, and by blogging.
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.
Gilou is an opensource enthusiast, has been a Linux sysadmin for more than 20 years. He sometimes code using Python, and is a huge Proxmox fan. He runs his own company, plays the trumpet, hosts and produces radio shows.
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.
Allison is the VP of Marketing & Community at the OpenInfra Foundation (previously the OpenStack Foundation). Her mission is to continue the storytelling of the global community by building relationships with the developers, operators and ecosystem around global open source communities. In her free time, she likes to listen to Celine Dion, rank local margaritas, and travel.
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...
Tim has been a Linux geek since the 1.x days, he is currently a TMM at Coder. His days are spent working on Coder’s Cloud Development Environment, tinkering with Linux and Kubernetes, and trying to keep developers all around the world In Flow.
Nithish Raghunandanan is an engineer who loves to build products that solve real world problems in short spans of time. He has experienced different areas of the industry having worked in diverse companies in Germany and India. Apart from work, he likes to travel and interact and engage with the tech community through Meetups & Hackathons. In his free time, he likes to try stuff out by hacking things together.
Alok Ranjan is an Engineering Manager at Dropbox, where he leads the storage-platform team, delivering secure, reliable, and cost-efficient storage solutions at scale. With over a decade of experience at companies like VMware, Big Switch Networks, and Cisco, Alok specializes in scalable infrastructure and data encryption technologies. He holds a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is passionate about mentoring engineers and advancing cloud storage innovation.
Alok 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.
Rob received his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was admitted as a Regents Scholar. He is currently a Data Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence \& Analytics Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and serves as the Systems Integration Lead for various robotics projects, including NAISR/NeBula and EELS. Rob is a leading practitioner and subject matter expert in Generative AI (GenAI) at JPL, and is...
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.
Matthew is an engineering leader focused on building reliable, scalable, and observable systems. Matthew is known for using his breadth and depth of experience to add value in minimal context situations and help great people become great engineers through mentoring. In his spare time, Matthew spends time with his family, helps grow his wife's chocolate business, works on home improvement projects, and reads technical resources to learn and tinker.
Kerim is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp, where he coaches operators and developers on sustainable infrastructure and orchestration workflows.
Before he joined HashiCorp, Kerim worked on Industrial IoT for the Amsterdam airport and helped museums bring more of their collections online.
When Kerim isn't working, he's either spending time with his daughter, enjoying aerial photography, or baking a cake.
Guillaume Saunier is a professional focusing on the intersection of tech and politics. He is dedicated to helping organizations worldwide make pro-social technological choices. As the Partnerships and Fundraising lead at Octree, he spearheads civic-tech projects like Voca.city, creating sustainable, collective alternatives. Previously Guillaume worked at International Organizations where he was involved with fundraising and donor relations. With a Master's in International Business from...
I am the Chief Engineer at Veritas Automata, currently focusing on distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applications. I am an enthusiastic believer in blockchain technologies, supply chain, cold chain, pharma applications, and trust in automation. I actively work on innovation, following the latest technologies and integrations, including AI and controls in automation.
My current most involving activity is the development of the Hivenet platform for VA, to provide k-native...
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.
Maya is a Product Manager at Microsoft who is passionate about using data to drive product decisions. She has PM experience in Financial Services and Ed-Tech, and is excited to now work on the cloud and open source. Maya holds a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering and an MBA, both from the University of Virginia. She is a die hard UVA sports fan and loves to try new restaurants and play tennis in her free time.
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...
Masahji Stewart is the Chief Architect and founder of Synctree Inc., transforming ideas into successful product launches for over 15 years. Masahji has led Synctree to deliver high-profile projects across industries like media, healthcare, and finance. Over the last four years, he has directed Synctree’s expansion into cutting-edge AI solutions, helping businesses integrate AI to enhance operations.
With more than 25 years in software engineering and architecture, Masahji is also an...
Scott is a developer with over 20 years of experience in various languages. During that time, the only constant in his development stack has been MySQL. He has a passion for sharing what he has learned on his coding journey so others may learn from his mistakes.
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...
Joe Thompson's IT career is near the end of its third decade. He's been a Linux user since 1998, a professional sysadmin since 2001, and part of the cloud-native community since 2014. He's spoken at KubeCon, Cloud Native Rejekts and several local meetups and enjoys showing how well-known tools can help with new platforms.
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.
Aleksey Tsalolikhin started his career in system administration at a local ISP (EarthLink) in the mid-nineties. Aleksey's mission is increasing the productivity and quality of life (and prosperity) of IT Operations practitioners through effective training in excellent technologies. Aleksey is a member of the UNIX Users Association of Southern California (UUASC) and the Association for Computing Machinery.
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 with a passion for solid software architectures and smooth user experiences.
She’s always eager to learn and share her knowledge.
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, she has been advocating for web accessibility since 2016, working to make the web a more inclusive...
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.
olaph considers himself to be extremely lucky to have gotten involved with open source software, and more specifically the OpenStack project somewhere around the Essex release. As a terrible developer, he is grateful for the fact that administrators and operators are still required! olaph is always looking for an excuse to play putt-putt or pinball.
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...
I am working for OceanBase as the Global Technical Evangelist.
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.
Hazel spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, automation, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies, across a wide range of tech, and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. Hazel currently serves as a Director on the board of the Haskell Foundation, as a Fellow of the Nivenly Foundation, and is fondly known as the Infrastructure Witch of Hachyderm (a popular Mastodon...
Erik Wessel is a graduate student and PhD candidate at the Department of Physics at the University of Arizona. He works in the numerical relativity group of Professor Vasileios Paschalidis. He has received NASA's FINESST fellowship to support his work on developing a neutrino-transport code for modeling binary neutron star mergers. Erik is the lead author on two publications investigating the potential for instabilities in massive accretion disks to produce gravitational wave signals...
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.