Andrei is an Innovation Researcher in the CTO Office at Komodor with 20+ years of engineering experience spanning startup co-founding (UP9), open source leadership at CA Technologies, performance testing at Yandex, and founding Loadosophia.org (acquired by BlazeMeter). He's the creator of multiple successful open source projects including Taurus, Helm Dashboard, Komoplane, and currently works on Klaudia AI assistant. As a passionate advocate for knowledge sharing, Andrei has been speaking at conferences worldwide for 15+ years, covering topics from performance testing to Kubernetes and AI. He believes in combining practical engineering with deep theoretical understanding to build technology that helps others succeed.