Cloud Adoption Engineer | Blogger "DevOps Experiences" 🚀 | Speaker | User Group Leader | Microsoft MVP | HashiCorp Ambassador

Cloud Adoption Engineer | Blogger "DevOps Experiences" 🚀 | Speaker | User Group Leader | Microsoft MVP | HashiCorp Ambassador Show more

George is a distributed systems expert and a hands-on engineering leader. He is a Director of Engineering at MongoDB, focusing on implementing cloud native technologies at enterprise scale. He is an Ambassador of the Data on Kubernetes community and the author of The Platform Engineering Playbook, by Packt. Most recently, he has been a speaker at global events like Kubecon, OpenSource Summit, Hashiconf, LeadDev, SaaStr, and more.

George is a distributed systems expert and a hands-on engineering leader. He is a Director of Engineering at MongoDB, focusing on implementing cloud native technologies at enterprise scale. He is an Ambassador of the Data on Kubernetes community and ... Show more

Arnav Tripathy is a Cloud Security Engineer based in Dublin with over three years of experience across DevSecOps, DevOps, and incident response. He's worked across the full stack of securing modern engineering — from embedding security into pipelines and cloud infrastructure to being the person on call when things go sideways at 3am.
OSCP certified and a Kubestronaut, he brings both the attacker mindset and the engineering depth to understand how systems actually break in production — not just in theory.
He builds open source security tools on the side, most recently Kubedecoy, a lightweight Kubernetes honeypot for threat detection which has been presented at community conferences across Ireland and the UK.
When he's not responding to incidents or breaking his own infrastructure, he's usually travelling somewhere new.

Arnav Tripathy is a Cloud Security Engineer based in Dublin with over three years of experience across DevSecOps, DevOps, and incident response. He's worked across the full stack of securing modern engineering — from embedding security into pipelines... Show more

Lucas is a Kubernetes and cloud native contributor since 10+ years. He is and has been a CNCF Ambassador for over 7 years, and was awarded Top CNCF Ambassador 2017 with Sarah Novotny. Lucas is a Cedar Policy maintainer, contributes to Kubernetes SIG Auth, and works on integrating Cedar Policy's automated reasoning access control capabilities with the cloud native ecosystem as a Senior Applied Scientist in the open source Cedar team at AWS. Lucas is running meetups and KCD Helsinki in Finland, and has spoken at 10+ KubeCons. Previously, Lucas was a Staff Software Engineer at Upbound, co-led SIG Cluster Lifecycle, co-created kubeadm, and ported Kubernetes to ARM.

Lucas is a Kubernetes and cloud native contributor since 10+ years. He is and has been a CNCF Ambassador for over 7 years, and was awarded Top CNCF Ambassador 2017 with Sarah Novotny. Lucas is a Cedar Policy maintainer, contributes to Kubernetes SIG ... Show more

Great people build great technology. That belief shapes how I lead.

I’m an Engineering Manager with experience across fintech, banking, and automotive. I started out building engineering teams from scratch at fast-growing startups in digital healthcare and entertainment, and that early work still informs how I approach team design and culture.

My work centers on three things: simplifying complexity, reducing friction in how developers build and ship, and applying AI-assisted workflows only where they genuinely empower engineers. I also coach and mentor others, especially women, to pursue careers in tech.

Great people build great technology. That belief shapes how I lead. I’m an Engineering Manager with experience across fintech, banking, and automotive. I started out building engineering teams from scratch at fast-growing startups in digital healt... Show more

He pasado por todos los sabores del mundo del dato: desde entornos on-premise hasta arquitecturas cloud, trabajando con tecnologías Microsoft , Databricks y Snowflake en proyectos de analítica, integración y gobierno del dato.

Actualmente formo parte de Prodware, donde lidero la práctica de Microsoft Fabric, impulsando la adopción, la estandarización y la innovación dentro del ecosistema de datos de la compañía y de nuestros clientes.

Dirijo equipos técnicos multidisciplinares y coordino proyectos end-to-end, desde la definición arquitectura hasta la entrega. Mi foco está en combinar visión técnica y liderazgo para transformar los datos en decisiones, fomentar la colaboración entre perfiles y garantizar la calidad y gobernanza en cada entrega.

Apasionado por la tecnología, la mejora continua y el aprendizaje compartido, busco siempre crear entornos donde los datos se conviertan en el motor del cambio.

He pasado por todos los sabores del mundo del dato: desde entornos on-premise hasta arquitecturas cloud, trabajando con tecnologías Microsoft , Databricks y Snowflake en proyectos de analítica, integración y gobierno del dato. Actualmente formo pa... Show more

Leif Larsen is a software architect and tech lead at Novanet, working mostly in .NET and Azure. He has spent a good part of his career untangling systems that grew one reasonable decision at a time. In 2025 he was at Microsoft, helping development teams adopt GitHub Copilot, and these days he builds most of his side projects together with AI. That's where his opinions on AI agents come from, the enthusiastic ones and the worried ones.

He also wrote a book on Microsoft's AI services, mostly at five in the morning before work, which is how he ended up with opinions on burnout, and on what AI is doing to the pace of work.

When he's not at a keyboard, he's running, dabbling with music, or losing an argument with pizza dough.

Leif Larsen is a software architect and tech lead at Novanet, working mostly in .NET and Azure. He has spent a good part of his career untangling systems that grew one reasonable decision at a time. In 2025 he was at Microsoft, helping development te... Show more

Pritesh Kiri is a DevRel Engineer at Harness and a community manager and maintainer of LitmusChaos, an open-source cloud-native chaos engineering platform.

He works at the intersection of AI agents, MCP, agent protocols, platform engineering, and cloud-native technologies. He regularly speaks at technical conferences and contributes to open-source projects, developer education, and technical documentation.

Beyond his engineering work, Pritesh organizes AI Dev Circle by ReactPlay and the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) Bengaluru community, bringing developers together through technical meetups, workshops, and hands-on learning.

Pritesh Kiri is a DevRel Engineer at Harness and a community manager and maintainer of LitmusChaos, an open-source cloud-native chaos engineering platform. He works at the intersection of AI agents, MCP, agent protocols, platform engineering, and ... Show more

Building intuitive products

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Maria is a Data Platform Microsoft MVP and a technology expert with more than 20 years of experience, a community leader with a profound knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products, and solutions, to solve real-world problems.
She has a hands-on experience managing various data management technologies in Azure, AWS and Google public cloud platforms, including SQL Server, Azure CosmosDB, AWS DynamoDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgresql, Snowflake, Redis, Amazon Redshift, Couchbase and Elasticsearch, Spark, Databricks, Big Query. She is the main organizer of the Israel annual conference "DATA TLV" datatlv.com, one of the featured authors at mssqltips.com (mssqltips.com/sqlserverauthor/305/maria-zakourdaev) and her personal blog is queryqurious.com

Maria is a Data Platform Microsoft MVP and a technology expert with more than 20 years of experience, a community leader with a profound knowledge of Microsoft products and services, while also being able to bring together diverse platforms, products... Show more

Developer with kids. Geek entrepreneur and lifelong tech enthusiast. C# magician, Azure friendly, and passionate about building useful things. Works at dizzy.hr and founded Sessionize.com. Always curious, learning, experimenting, and turning ideas into software.

Developer with kids. Geek entrepreneur and lifelong tech enthusiast. C# magician, Azure friendly, and passionate about building useful things. Works at dizzy.hr and founded Sessionize.com. Always curious, learning, experimenting, and turning ideas in... Show more

Lakshmi is a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), focusing on data and analytics across EMEA. As a core subject matter expert in data governance, she helps global enterprises architect scalable, secure and compliant data ecosystems that drive innovation. With a deep passion for knowledge sharing, Lakshmi is a published author of a leading data and analytics study guide, helping professionals achieve industry-recognised certifications.

She is also a frequent contributor to AWS Big Data Blog, where she shares technical insights on data governance and modernising data platforms for the AI era. Drawing on extensive experience from international stages, Lakshmi brings a practitioner's perspective to the podium, deconstructing how modern data architectures must evolve to support the “Data-to-AI” pipeline.

Lakshmi is a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS), focusing on data and analytics across EMEA. As a core subject matter expert in data governance, she helps global enterprises architect scalable, secure and compliant ... Show more

George Coldham is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, helping enterprise and public-sector organisations tackle identity, cloud security, and the growing challenges of securing AI. His work spans Zero Trust, securing agentic systems, and using AI to improve security operations—with a focus on reducing risk without making life unnecessarily difficult for the humans involved.

An international speaker, educator, and community organiser, George turns complex security concepts into practical stories, demonstrations, and guidance. His talks explore everything from why passkeys finally make sense to what happens when AI agents gain the ability to act, and who remains accountable when they do.

George is the founder of Global Security Community and lead organiser of the Perth Microsoft Security Meetup. He brings a practitioner’s perspective, a willingness to question assumptions, and occasional hardware experiments that demonstrate why “it works” and “it’s trustworthy” are different conclusions.

George Coldham is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft, helping enterprise and public-sector organisations tackle identity, cloud security, and the growing challenges of securing AI. His work spans Zero Trust, securing agentic systems, and using A... Show more

I'm an Infrastructure Engineer at SEVIMA, focused on internal developer platforms and observability for multi-cloud systems. As an AWS Community Builder and teaching assistant at BINUS Online, I actively share my expertise by speaking regularly at OpenInfra, AWS User Group, and GDG events

I'm an Infrastructure Engineer at SEVIMA, focused on internal developer platforms and observability for multi-cloud systems. As an AWS Community Builder and teaching assistant at BINUS Online, I actively share my expertise by speaking regularly at Op... Show more

Erland Sommarskog is an independent consultant based in Stockholm. He has worked with SQL Server since 1991. He was first awarded SQL Server MVP in 2001, and he has been re-awarded every year since. His focus is on systems development with the SQL Server Database Engine and his passion is to help people to write better SQL Server applications.

Erland Sommarskog is an independent consultant based in Stockholm. He has worked with SQL Server since 1991. He was first awarded SQL Server MVP in 2001, and he has been re-awarded every year since. His focus is on systems development with the SQL Se... Show more

Margarita is a big Kotlin fan and Kotlin GDE. Knows both conference sides: speaking and organizing. Organized a KUG in her native city Kyiv because she believes in Knowledge Sharing and Collective Intelligence. For her everyday job, she's building Static Code Analysis tools for Java/Kotlin/Scala and other languages.

Margarita is a big Kotlin fan and Kotlin GDE. Knows both conference sides: speaking and organizing. Organized a KUG in her native city Kyiv because she believes in Knowledge Sharing and Collective Intelligence. For her everyday job, she's building St... Show more

Abhinav Agarwal is an independent security researcher, software engineer at Rubrik, and open-source maintainer. His work focuses on vulnerability discovery, secure-by-default engineering, and the security maturity of widely deployed software. He has reported vulnerabilities across AI infrastructure, cloud platforms, cryptography, Linux/open-source components, and ICS/OT software, including issues coordinated through CISA and major vendors. He is a maintainer of sshfs and a collaborator in the libfuse ecosystem.

His current research examines the security posture of self-hosted AI platforms that enterprises are rapidly adopting under pressure. The work focuses on recurring vulnerability patterns, engineering-maturity signals, and practical review rubrics that security teams can apply before deploying the next AI tool.

Abhinav Agarwal is an independent security researcher, software engineer at Rubrik, and open-source maintainer. His work focuses on vulnerability discovery, secure-by-default engineering, and the security maturity of widely deployed software. He has ... Show more

I am a Consultant at Avanade, helping clients solve real-world challenges through technology. With more than 10 years of experience in software development, architecture, and cloud solutions, I have spent most of my career working with .NET and Azure.

Beyond my client work, I am actively involved in people development as a People Lead Ambassador, Trainer Counselor, and Early Career Lead. Together with my passion for community building through Tech Riders, these experiences strongly influence the way I approach my sessions.

My talks are usually built around real-world experiences: challenges I've faced, decisions we've had to make, and sometimes mistakes that taught us valuable lessons. I aim to keep them practical, engaging, and easy to follow, while going beyond the theory.

And if we can learn something new, share a few laughs, and leave inspired to build something ourselves, even better.

I am a Consultant at Avanade, helping clients solve real-world challenges through technology. With more than 10 years of experience in software development, architecture, and cloud solutions, I have spent most of my career working with .NET and Azure... Show more

Sagar is a Staff Android Engineer who has been building apps for 11 years now. He is also a Google developer expert in Android and a co-organizer for Google Developer Groups at Boston and enjoys educating for the mobile dev community.

Sagar is a Staff Android Engineer who has been building apps for 11 years now. He is also a Google developer expert in Android and a co-organizer for Google Developer Groups at Boston and enjoys educating for the mobile dev community. Show more

Mert has been working in the IT/software industry for over 9 years and currently serves as a Senior Software Engineer at Sompo. He focuses on full stack development, primarily with Microsoft / .NET technologies, specializing in software architecture, system design, clean code, and secure software development.

He is passionate about contributing to communities by sharing knowledge, inspiring others, and learning together. With this motivation, he writes technical articles and speaks at events.

Mert has been working in the IT/software industry for over 9 years and currently serves as a Senior Software Engineer at Sompo. He focuses on full stack development, primarily with Microsoft / .NET technologies, specializing in software architecture,... Show more

Imma is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, passionate about simplifying Observability, OpenTelemetry, and Cloud-Native technologies. In her past life, she worked as a consultant, trainer, and support engineer at @elastic, and was a proud organizer of Software Crafters Barcelona from 2018 to 2025.

She currently focuses on creating accessible technical content and driving the adoption of best practices within the community. She is deeply committed to clean code and the art of automation.

She is also a passionate community builder and ally. As a WomenInAPIs champion, she advocates for underrepresented groups being seen and heard in the public domain. You will find her co-organizing Grafana meetups in Barcelona, Madrid, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Zurich, and Lisboa; Cloud Native Barcelona; DevOpsDays Barcelona, Green Software Barcelona; and TechFems.

She is an aquafitness enthusiast and a huge Bruce Springsteen fan. No surrender!

Imma is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs, passionate about simplifying Observability, OpenTelemetry, and Cloud-Native technologies. In her past life, she worked as a consultant, trainer, and support engineer at @elastic, and was a proud org... Show more

Joakim has a background in Mathematics and is working as Knowledge Graph Lead for Capgemini. He has experience running Knowledge Graph project both from the public and private sector - in Sweden and abroad.

Joakim has a background in Mathematics and is working as Knowledge Graph Lead for Capgemini. He has experience running Knowledge Graph project both from the public and private sector - in Sweden and abroad. Show more

I started programming in VB when I was 6 taking advantage of my father’s strong passion for computer science. I’ve always dreamt to be an engineer and I’ve worn different “hats”: data scientist, data analyst, web developer, sysadmin… This gave me the opportunity to gain experience in the design and dev of solutions from scratch. During the day I’m an Enterprise Architect, while I love writing at night when I get a hot cup of tea!

I started programming in VB when I was 6 taking advantage of my father’s strong passion for computer science. I’ve always dreamt to be an engineer and I’ve worn different “hats”: data scientist, data analyst, web developer, sysadmin… This gave me the... Show more

Back in 2007, Gregor started his career as a consultant for financial planning software, delivering training sessions and leading workshops. Shortly thereafter, he began exploring the underlying technical details to deepen his understanding of the processes involved. His curiosity about data transfer, modeling, and presentation has remained with him ever since. Since 2020, Gregor has proudly led a team of more than 20 data and analytics consultants based in Vienna.

Back in 2007, Gregor started his career as a consultant for financial planning software, delivering training sessions and leading workshops. Shortly thereafter, he began exploring the underlying technical details to deepen his understanding of the pr... Show more

Anders Norås started out in arts and design, but for the last 25 years he has been creating magic with code instead of paint. Blending creativity with technical skill, he brings a perspective on technology that is as much about people as it is about software.

He has given more than 100 talks at conferences around the world. His presentations are not just lectures, they are experiences. With a sharp delivery and high energy, Anders turns even dry technical material into something lively, memorable and often funny.

Whether you are into computer science, design, media or anything else, Anders offers insights that will make you think and probably make you laugh. He does not just talk about technology. He brings it to life.

Anders Norås started out in arts and design, but for the last 25 years he has been creating magic with code instead of paint. Blending creativity with technical skill, he brings a perspective on technology that is as much about people as it is about ... Show more

Davide Bellone is a Principal Backend Developer, Content Creator and Microsoft MVP.

He loves exploring new tools and libraries, going the extra mile in writing blog posts and delivering tech sessions.

He also runs Code4IT.dev, a tech blog where he publishes articles about .NET, Azure, Software Architecture, Testing, and other stuff that most Backend Developers will find interesting.

He's one of the community leads of the Torino.NET User Group.

He's the creator of the Testing Vial, a new testing strategy focused on describing entities to better understand the system.

Davide Bellone is a Principal Backend Developer, Content Creator and Microsoft MVP. He loves exploring new tools and libraries, going the extra mile in writing blog posts and delivering tech sessions. He also runs Code4IT.dev, a tech blog wher... Show more

Hrishikesh Yadav is a Developer Advocate at TwelveLabs, an AI Engineer, and a researcher with experience across diverse AI domains, including multimodal AI, semantic retrieval, knowledge graphs, and agentic systems. Passionate about bridging research and real-world applications, he enjoys building intelligent systems and sharing practical insights to the community.

Hrishikesh Yadav is a Developer Advocate at TwelveLabs, an AI Engineer, and a researcher with experience across diverse AI domains, including multimodal AI, semantic retrieval, knowledge graphs, and agentic systems. Passionate about bridging research... Show more

I'm David Rodriguez, a Spanish Microsoft Regional Director and Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, living in Tenerife, Canary Islands. On 2011, I co-founded Intelequia, a company focused on helping customers to adopt the cloud model, as well as the TenerifeDev user group.

Over the last years I worked at DNN Corp. (a.k.a. DotNetNuke) as the Cloud Team Lead engineer, building Evoq OnDemand and the new microservices architecture for DNN Platform based products and services. I have authored some open source modules for DNN and Azure available at GitHub, allowing to integrate Azure AD, Redis, Application Insights and many other services in the platform.

You can find me organizing the local user group once or twice per month, mainly talking about cloud related matters, and lately on building intelligent apps and bots with cognitive services, and of course, at the Global Azure Bootcamp in Madrid. I don't miss any Microsoft Inspire conference edition, so if you plan to go there we can meet and talk with a cup of coffee. BTW, if you come to the island, I will be happy to show you the best "guachinches" on Tenerife, only local people know the best ones.

I'm David Rodriguez, a Spanish Microsoft Regional Director and Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, living in Tenerife, Canary Islands. On 2011, I co-founded Intelequia, a company focused on helping customers to adopt the cloud model, as well ... Show more

David Alzamendi is the Founder and Principal Data Architect at Level Up Your Data, where he helps organisations modernise their data platforms, implement effective governance frameworks, and unlock the true value of their data.

A DAMA Master and Microsoft Data Platform MVP, David has been delivering data analytics solutions across both on-premises and cloud technologies since 2011. He is also a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert, Change Practitioner, and international conference speaker.

As an active leader in the data community, David has organized more than 50 data events, including conferences, bootcamps, and workshops, and has spoken at over 100 events worldwide. His work bridges technical depth with strategic vision, helping businesses design and execute modern data strategies, governance programs, and analytics solutions built on best practices and cutting-edge technology.

Driven by a passion for the transformative impact of data on business, society, and the environment, David combines creativity, technical excellence, and community leadership to deliver insights that inspire action and innovation.

My Company: https://levelupyourdata.com/
Blog: https://davidalzamendi.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dalzamendi/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/david_alzamendi

Brisbane DAMA Branch Committee member
Azure Data Services User Group Organiser
Brisbane Data, Power BI and AI Bootcamp Co-organiser

David Alzamendi is the Founder and Principal Data Architect at Level Up Your Data, where he helps organisations modernise their data platforms, implement effective governance frameworks, and unlock the true value of their data. A DAMA Master and M... Show more

Carol is a Cloud Architect with a strong focus on security and observability, boasting over 7 years of experience in cloud-native technologies. She is an open-source contributor to Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes Release, and CNCF Glossary. Carol is an active member of the community, serving as a TAG Lead in Operational Resilience, CNCF Ambassador, AWS Community Builder, and Cloud Native chapter organizer, together with KCD events in Brazil.

Carol is a Cloud Architect with a strong focus on security and observability, boasting over 7 years of experience in cloud-native technologies. She is an open-source contributor to Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes Release, and CNCF Glossary. Car... Show more