Experienced professional with a diverse background in Software, Architecture, infrastructure, SRE, OpenSource. Versatile in Research and Development. Proven track record in various roles across startups and corporations. Committed team player, thriving in collaborative environments, and dedicated to continuous learning.

I love sharing what I learn, which is why I actively participate in tech communities, organize events, give talks, and create content on platforms like YouTube, X, and GitHub.

My goal when giving a talk is always to provide practical value by sharing real-world lessons, tools, and best practices that attendees can apply the very next day. If you join one of my sessions, you'll leave with clear ideas, real examples, and the motivation to try it yourself.

Experienced professional with a diverse background in Software, Architecture, infrastructure, SRE, OpenSource. Versatile in Research and Development. Proven track record in various roles across startups and corporations. Committed team player, thrivi... Show more

Tom van den Berg is a lead developer at Info Support.
As a developer he is part of a team that realizes new and innovative solutions.
Tom likes to think outside of the box and he gets a lot of energy from sharing knowledge and encourage other people to think outside of the box.

Tom van den Berg is a lead developer at Info Support. As a developer he is part of a team that realizes new and innovative solutions. Tom likes to think outside of the box and he gets a lot of energy from sharing knowledge and encourage other peopl... Show more

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer at eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium project, and now part of Cisco. She is an award-winning speaker, and the author of O'Reilly books on "Container Security" and "Learning eBPF". She has held many roles with the CNCF, including as a governing board member, chair of the Technical Oversight Committee, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. She was also previously on the board of OpenUK.

She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, competing in virtual races on Zwift, and making music under the pseudonym Insider Nine.

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer at eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium project, and now part of Cisco. She is an award-winning speaker, and the author of O'Reilly books on "Container Security" and "Learning eBPF". She has held ma... Show more

Jonah Andersson is a tech entrepreneur, Principal Cloud Engineer Architect and published book author.
She works as a IT Consultant with different tech hats. With a background in Computer Science and System Development, Jonah specializes in .NET technologies and excels in cloud development, particularly within Microsoft Azure. Passionate about solving complex problems and crafting modern applications, Jonah works with cloud platforms like Azure, and her expertise in cloud computing and development has earned her international recognition. She is recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and Microsoft Certified Trainer for her contributions to the tech industry.

Her book, 'Learning Microsoft Azure: Cloud Computing and Development Fundamentals' (O'Reilly), further highlights her expertise and the depth of her technical knowledge.

She actively engages in tech communities and international events such as Microsoft Ignite. She values genuine inspiration and connections, and shares insights with fellow developers. Jonah's leadership extends beyond her technical expertise. As the founder and leader of the Azure User Group Sweden, she guides, inspires, and leads others in tech. She is also an MCT Community Lead from Sweden, helping and supporting fellow Microsoft Certified Trainers in the community.

Her advocacy for gender equality and inclusion in tech, recognized by her Developer of the Year awards in 2023 at the Nordic Women in Tech Awards and in 2024 at Developers Day, is a testament to her commitment to making the tech industry a more inclusive space. She actively mentors aspiring women in tech careers and co-hosts the Extend Women In Tech Podcast, to inspire inclusive tech for all.

Jonah Andersson is a tech entrepreneur, Principal Cloud Engineer Architect and published book author. She works as a IT Consultant with different tech hats. With a background in Computer Science and System Development, Jonah specializes in .NET te... Show more

A developer, business owner, consultant, cloud architect, Microsoft Azure MVP and an online instructor, Mike Benkovich is an alumni of Microsoft from 2004 to 2012 where he helped build developer communities across the US, thru work on Microsoft Across America, MSDN Events, MSDN Webcasts, DPE and Channel 9. He's helped to create and grow developer conferences and user groups in various cities across the US. While at Microsoft he helped create the Azure Boot Camp events that were run in cities across the US and at PDC and TechEd before it was transferred to the community. In 2009 he started a Toastmaster club for Geeks called TechMasters in Minneapolis where we still grow speakers for Conferences. He's a LinkedIn Learning Instructor for Azure, have developed many online courses. Mike actively works in Azure Cloud Governance, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, Application Architecture and Software Delivery consulting.

A developer, business owner, consultant, cloud architect, Microsoft Azure MVP and an online instructor, Mike Benkovich is an alumni of Microsoft from 2004 to 2012 where he helped build developer communities across the US, thru work on Microsoft Acros... Show more

I started my career in a service desk role, which quickly sparked my interest in how technology is built, operated, and scaled. From there, I moved into data center hosting where I gained a solid understanding of infrastructure, reliability, and what it takes to keep critical environments running. I don’t have any formal education in IT, but I’ve always been a lifelong learner who grows through curiosity, hands‑on experience, and a drive to constantly improve.

Almost a decade ago, I discovered my passion for the cloud and specialized in Microsoft Azure. Since then, I’ve focused on modern Ops, platform engineering, and enabling teams by taking ideas from early concepts into secure, scalable, production‑ready solutions. Over the years, I’ve expanded my expertise across data, AI, and IoT and IIoT, and I most often work with clients in the role of Solution Architect, helping them design and build practical, outcome‑focused architectures tailored to real enterprise needs.

I’ve worked across a wide range of domains including defense, public sector, manufacturing, and energy, which has shaped how I approach architecture, security, and complex enterprise environments. I also contribute to the open‑source and enjoy collaborating with others to advance how we build and deliver modern solutions.

🗣 Sharing knowledge is a big part of who I am. I’m passionate about public speaking and mentoring, and I enjoy helping others grow by making technology more accessible and actionable.

Today, I work with enterprise‑scale AI, data, and IIoT solutions with large companies, turning ideas into real, measurable impact.

I started my career in a service desk role, which quickly sparked my interest in how technology is built, operated, and scaled. From there, I moved into data center hosting where I gained a solid understanding of infrastructure, reliability, and what... Show more

Rockford Lhotka is VP of Strategy at Xebia. He is the creator of the CSLA .NET and RockBot open-source projects, the author of numerous books, and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a member of the Microsoft Regional Director and MVP programs. For more information go to https://lhotka.net.

Rockford Lhotka is VP of Strategy at Xebia. He is the creator of the CSLA .NET and RockBot open-source projects, the author of numerous books, and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a member of the Microsoft Regional ... Show more

Ryan is passionate about transforming complex challenges into elegant software solutions and is a Microsoft MVP in Azure/Cloud Native, a conference speaker, and a community leader. With 2 decades of experience in software development and leadership, Ryan possesses a strong skill set in coding, software architecture, design principles, and cloud technologies, particularly with Azure. He is dedicated to leading software development teams and providing technical guidance to deliver exceptional software products.

Ryan is passionate about transforming complex challenges into elegant software solutions and is a Microsoft MVP in Azure/Cloud Native, a conference speaker, and a community leader. With 2 decades of experience in software development and leadership, ... Show more

Stas Lebedenko is a full-stack cloud architect and platform engineer at Eficode. He is also a co-organizer of the Odesa Microsoft. NET User Group, a speaker and author, and an active member of the international and Ukraine .NET/Azure/Operations communities. He has been building and designing software for the last twenty years and has been the Microsoft Azure Most Valuable Professional since 2020.

Stas Lebedenko is a full-stack cloud architect and platform engineer at Eficode. He is also a co-organizer of the Odesa Microsoft. NET User Group, a speaker and author, and an active member of the international and Ukraine .NET/Azure/Operations commu... Show more

Mihaela is a Senior Software Architect at Systematic, Romania, and an Oracle ACE Associate for Java. PhD in Artificial Neural Network algorithms, Associate Lecturer at the University of Cybernetics and Informatics in Bucharest, she is passionate about building production-grade systems and bringing real-world experience to the stage.

In her professional career, spanning over 15 years, she has worked in the telecom and defence domains with a focus on Java, Spring Boot, C, C#, Scala and Angular, and a growing interest in AI systems and agentic architectures.

Outside of tech, she holds a black belt in traditional Jiu-Jitsu, runs marathons, and travels the world whenever she gets the chance.

Mihaela is a Senior Software Architect at Systematic, Romania, and an Oracle ACE Associate for Java. PhD in Artificial Neural Network algorithms, Associate Lecturer at the University of Cybernetics and Informatics in Bucharest, she is passionate abou... Show more

• Software and Solutions Architect with more than 20 years of experience designing and implementing enterprise, mission-critical solutions.

• Extensive experience building agents and AI-based solutions with Python using LangChain/LangGraph, Google ADK, Microsoft Agent Framework, and Java using LangChain4J, Spring AI, LangGraph4J, and Tribuo (Machine Learning). Deep knowledge of AI-related concepts, including vector search, RAG workflows, context engineering, SDD, and agentic protocols such as MCP and A2A. Experience with several LLM models and SDKs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Cohere, Meta, xAI, NVIDIA and open-source models.

• Certified Java professional with expert-level knowledge and experience in Java, using Spring Boot, Jakarta EE, Hibernate, GraalVM, Micronaut, and Helidon. Front-end (JavaScript, Typescript, React), APIs (GraphQL, REST, JSON, XML), and tools such as VS Code, OpenAI Codex, Cline, and Claude Code. Relational, NoSQL, and vector databases.

• Master’s degree in DevOps, with extensive experience in SRE and IT Infrastructure projects (several awards), Terraform, Ansible, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud using Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, AWS, and GCP. Other DevOps-related tools I’ve worked with are GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, PowerShell, Maven, Gradle, YAML, and Jenkins. Linux, IBM zLinux, AIX, and Windows operating systems.

• I have extensive experience with large enterprise systems and environments with companies like Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, Unisys, Nokia, Accenture, and a few medium-sized companies and startups (two as a founder). I have mastered presenting to technical and non-technical audiences and engaging the C-Level in technology and business transformation journeys.

• From a leadership and management standpoint, I have held senior leadership roles in software engineering and developer relations, focusing on developer audiences, subject-matter experts, customers, and business partners. I have also served as a mentor for Microsoft for Startups, working with startup founders, accelerators, incubators, mentors, and venture capitalists.

• I have received many awards, such as Oracle Customer Excellence 2025, Oracle ACE Mentor 2022, IBM Technical RockStar for Cloud, IBM Redbooks Thought Leader and Evangelist for IBM Mobile, Nokia Developer Champion, IBM Manager’s Choice Award, Superior Community Service Contributions—Forum Nokia Wiki, IBM Hall of Fame Awards, IBM Common Development and Test Outstanding Contribution Awards, and IBM Mobile Enterprise Social Media Residency Outstanding Contributor.

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• Software and Solutions Architect with more than 20 years of experience designing and implementing enterprise, mission-critical solutions. • Extensive experience building agents and AI-based solutions with Python using LangChain/LangGraph, Google... Show more

Jayita Bhattacharyya, a Generative AI Engineer, international conference speaker, and Co-Organizer of the Bangalore Python User Group, one of India's largest Python communities under the Python Software Foundation ecosystem. Jayita specializes in Agentic AI, RAG systems, Knowledge Graphs, and production AI engineering, and has spoken at global conferences including PyData Global, PyCon Finland, Open Source India, NVIDIA AI Inference Day, and AI_dev Europe. Known for combining deep technical expertise with practical industry insights, she is passionate about helping organizations and developers build reliable, scalable, and impactful AI systems.

Commudle Acc - https://www.commudle.com/users/jayita13

Invited Speaker Events:
* AI DevCon - AI Developers Conference & Expo'26
* DevFest Mumbai'25
* Open Source India'25
* Pydata Global'25 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFOqSFW08Qg&list=PLF_cX--VXT_6nE5-05zvemH6IVD6qenwR&index=3&pp=iAQB
* Neo4j Hyd First Meetup
* PyCon Finland '25 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQXnPgA_Ww&list=PLF_cX--VXT_6nE5-05zvemH6IVD6qenwR&index=1&pp=iAQB
* HOW2025 Postgresql IvorySql Conf - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThejXQnVZOA&list=PLF_cX--VXT_6nE5-05zvemH6IVD6qenwR&index=2&t=2394s&pp=gAQBiAQB
* Neo4j GraphDB Blr June Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/graphdb-bengaluru/events/307880427/
* ML Kolkata Summer of AI Agents - Google I/O Recap
* NVIDIA AI Inference Day by Collabnix - https://www.meetup.com/collabnix/events/306235173/
* GeekyAnts Build With AI - https://www.meetup.com/geekyants-events-meetup-group/events/305937394
* GDG BLR AI Connect - https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-bangalore-presents-the-ai-connect/
* Codebasics AI & Data Fest 2025 - https://codebasics.io/lp/ai-and-data-fest-2025
* Confluent Current BLR 2025 - https://current.confluent.io/post-conference-videos-2025/building-knowledge-graph-rag-using-neo4j-bng25
* TechNexus MS AI & Chai meetup - https://www.meetup.com/technexus-community/events/306378851
* Graph DB BLR March Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/graph-database-bengaluru/events/305954200/
* WiDS Worldwide Datathon Workshop 2025 - https://community.widsworldwide.org/posts/78340552
* PyData BLR feb meetup 2025 - https://www.meetup.com/pydata-bangalore/events/305935351
* Internation Conference on AI & Data Science - https://datascience.averconferences.com/speakers.php
* Devdotcom Podcast on AI, Hackathons, and Data Science 101 - https://www.devdotcom.in/events/datascience-101
* K8sBLR February 2025 Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/kubernetes-india-meetup/events/305496181/
* FOSS United Hyderabad 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbFK41HRKDY&t=1085s
* Analytics Vidhya Datahour - https://community.analyticsvidhya.com/c/datahour/rag-brag-supercharging-with-groq
* Analytics Vidhya DataHack Summit 2024 - https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/datahacksummit/sessions/jayita-bhattacharyya
* Google Cloud Community Days Kolkata 2024 - https://ccd2024.gdgcloudkol.org/speakers
* Infosys TechCohere WIT Q2-FY25
* GDG Durgapur Developer Summit 2024 - https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-durgapur-presents-developer-summit-durgapur-2024/
* GDSC AOT Build with AI 2024 - https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-on-campus-academy-of-technology-hooghly-india-presents-build-with-ai/
* GDG Delhi DevFest 2024 - https://www.commudle.com/users/jayita13
* GDSC IIIT Kalyani Build with AI 2024 - https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-on-campus-ideal-institute-of-engineering-kalyani-india-presents-build-with-ai/
* GDG Siliguri DevFest 2024 - https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-siliguri-presents-devfest-siliguri-2024/
* GDG Mangalore DevFest 2024 - https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-cloud-mangalore-presents-devfest-mangalore-2024/
* ROAD to AI Community Day 2024 - https://www.commudle.com/communities/machine-learning-kolkata/events/road-to-ai-community-day

I took part in multiple hackathons to build end-to-end solutions, won some, learned from all, and gained much experience interacting and networking with diverse mindsets.

* YourStory | Snowflake - Hero Challenge - https://www.hackerearth.com/challenges/hackathon/yourstory-snowflake-hero-challenge/
* Indegene Hackathon 2025 Winner
* ATMECS Gen AI Hackathon 2024 2nd runner-up
* TIU AI Unite Hackathon 2024 Finalist
* Unisys UHackHive 2024 Judge's Choice Award
* M&G Global innovAIte knacktohack 2024 Finalist
* Infosys Data For AI 2024 Winner
* Informatica Data Engineering 2024 Winner
* Google GenAI APAC top 50 teams
* Lablab.ai Vectara Unhallucinate Challenge 1st runner-up
* Intel OneAPI Hackathon 2023 2nd runner-up
* TBO Voyagehacks 2023 Finalist
* Cyient CyientifIQ 2023 Finalist
* KPMG world after Covid 1st runner-up
* Intel GenAI hackathon 2023 Finalist
* Kaggle AI report competition 2023 top 7%
* H2S TPF GenAI rush buildathon 2023 Finalist

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Marino Wijay is a Canadian, Traveller, International Speaker, and Open Source Advocate and Architect for AI, API Platforms, Service Mesh, Kubernetes, and Networking. He is a CNCF Ambassador, Organizer for KCD Toronto, and Founder of EmpathyOps. He is passionate about technology and modern distributed systems. He will always fall back to the patterns of Networking and the ways of the OSI. Community building is his driving force; A modern Jedi Academy.

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Mohammad-Ali A'râbi is a Senior Backend Engineer at JobRad GmbH, Docker Captain 🐳, and Snyk Ambassador 🛡️ with over 20 years of coding experience and a deep passion for DevSecOps and container security.

He is the author of "Docker and Kubernetes Security", a hands-on guide to securing containerized environments from build to runtime. As a community leader, Mohammad-Ali founded the Docker Meetup in Freiburg (now Cloud Native Freiburg), organizing dozens of events that connect developers across the Black Forest region.

Beyond his book, he shares advanced Git and Docker insights through his Git Weekly newsletter and frequent conference talks. When he's not securing supply chains or hosting meetups, you'll probably find him building side projects, collecting superhero figures, or playing Mortal Kombat. 🎮

Mohammad-Ali A'râbi is a Senior Backend Engineer at JobRad GmbH, Docker Captain 🐳, and Snyk Ambassador 🛡️ with over 20 years of coding experience and a deep passion for DevSecOps and container security. He is the author of "Docker and Kubernetes... Show more

Pavan Madduri is a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at W.W. Grainger, where he runs the Kubernetes platforms behind a Fortune 500 company's workloads. He is the elected Tech Lead of CNCF's TAG Workloads Foundation for the 2026 to 2028 term and leads the CNCF TOC's Distributed Agentic Systems initiative. His analysis of scale-out model loading is part of the CNCF AI Scheduling Challenges whitepaper.

Pavan contributes to Dragonfly, a graduated CNCF project, where he wrote the Hugging Face and ModelScope backends for peer-to-peer model distribution. He created keda-gpu-scaler, an open source KEDA scaler for GPU workloads, and gpu-mcp-server, an MCP server that gives AI agents live NVIDIA GPU metrics.

He is an IEEE Senior Member, a peer reviewer for IEEE journals, and a CNCF Golden Kubestronaut. He writes about AI infrastructure and agentic systems for the CNCF and AAIF blogs, Cloud Native Now, VKTR, and Platform Engineering, and his research has been published by IEEE. He has spoken at HPSFCon 2026 and KyvernoCon 2026 and speaks at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026.

Pavan Madduri is a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at W.W. Grainger, where he runs the Kubernetes platforms behind a Fortune 500 company's workloads. He is the elected Tech Lead of CNCF's TAG Workloads Foundation for the 2026 to 2028 term and leads th... Show more

Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Experience Manager, specializing in software automation and agentic applications. Involved in Open Source for over 20 years, he is the author of the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and a member of the Apache Software Foundation amongst other open source groups, contributing to several projects, such as Kubernetes, Jenkins or Apache Maven.

Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Experience Manager, specializing in software automation and agentic applications. Involved in Open Source for over 20 years, he is the author of the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and a member of the Apache... Show more

Michael is a Microsoft Azure MVP with over 20 years experience in both On-premises , Hybrid and Cloud environments with a particular focus on giving customers trusted advice in their Cloud Migration strategy.

Michael has spoken at both user groups and in-person conferences covering topics across the entire Azure platform from Azure Core Compute to Azure PaaS services. He has published LinkedIn Learning courses on the AZ-801 exam objectives, and regularly blogs at michaeldurkan.com. He contributes regularly to the Microsoft Q&A platform as an Azure Community Champion.

He works for Accenture as their Lead Azure Architect, where he designs and leads the delivery of complex Azure solutions for enterprise customers in Ireland and the UK .

Michael is a Microsoft Azure MVP with over 20 years experience in both On-premises , Hybrid and Cloud environments with a particular focus on giving customers trusted advice in their Cloud Migration strategy. Michael has spoken at both user grou... Show more

Diana is a CNCF Ambassador and Operational Resilience TAG lead, co-leads the Neurodiversity Merge Forward community, and organizes Cloud Native Days Romania. Professionally, she is the Head of Developer Relations Engineering at VictoriaMetrics, where she works at the intersection of developer experience, observability, and open source community engagement.

Diana is a CNCF Ambassador and Operational Resilience TAG lead, co-leads the Neurodiversity Merge Forward community, and organizes Cloud Native Days Romania. Professionally, she is the Head of Developer Relations Engineering at VictoriaMetrics, where... Show more

I'm Mahendran Selvakumar, a Cloud Native technologist and Open Source advocate with deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and HashiCorp tools and Service Mesh. I'm a HashiCorp Ambassador, Linkerd Ambassador, AWS Community Builder. I organize the AWS West Midlands, West Midlands HashiCorp, and Cloud Native Birmingham user groups.

I’ve delivered talks at DevOps Live, HashiTalks, Hashicorp User Groups and other industry events, focusing on Kubernetes,platform engineering, secure infrastructure, and service mesh adoption. I also mentor students through free AWS and Terraform training and publish technical blogs on https://devopstronaut.com to make Cloud Native and Open Source technologies more accessible.

I'm Mahendran Selvakumar, a Cloud Native technologist and Open Source advocate with deep experience in Kubernetes, AWS, and HashiCorp tools and Service Mesh. I'm a HashiCorp Ambassador, Linkerd Ambassador, AWS Community Builder. I organize the AWS We... Show more

Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Forrester Research, Searce, and is currently positioned at SailPoint as a Senior DevOps Engineer. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He is a CNCF Ambassador, and AWS Community Builder for 4 years He leads AWS, CNCF, and HashiCorp user groups for Rajasthan State in India. He has spoken at many conferences, both in-person and virtually.

Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Forrester Research, Searce, and is currently positioned at SailPoint as a Senior DevOps Engineer. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, an... Show more

Chris Ayers is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he builds AI-driven tooling to analyze outages and incidents across Azure. His work focuses on improving the way engineers understand failures, uncover risks, and strengthen reliability at cloud scale.

With a background spanning DevOps, cloud architecture, and modern application design, Chris brings both engineering depth and practical experience to the challenge of making large systems more resilient. He’s also a frequent international speaker who loves sharing real-world lessons about developer productivity, reliability, containers, and automation.

Outside of work, Chris is a proud dad, lifelong gamer, avid reader, and unapologetic nerd.

Chris Ayers is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft, where he builds AI-driven tooling to analyze outages and incidents across Azure. His work focuses on improving the way engineers understand failures, uncover risks, and strengthen reliability... Show more

I am a Tech Lead and Azure Solution Architect from the Netherlands, with over a decade of experience spanning startups, enterprise organizations, and international teams. I thrive at the intersection of technology, strategy, and leadership, helping companies deliver software to customers using DevOps practices and Cloud-Native architectures.

Being on the line between IT and business is where I feel most at home—creating technical solutions that address real user needs while driving teams toward success. I enjoy coaching and leading teams to embrace new technologies and ways of working, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.

Outside of my work for clients, I have a passion for sharing knowledge. I am a co-author of Azure Infrastructure as Code (https://www.manning.com/books/azure-infrastructure-as-code), occasionally write blogs, and regularly speak at international conferences.

I am a Tech Lead and Azure Solution Architect from the Netherlands, with over a decade of experience spanning startups, enterprise organizations, and international teams. I thrive at the intersection of technology, strategy, and leadership, helping c... Show more

Mauricio Salatino, also known as salaboy, works for Dash0 as an Ecosystem Engineer. He is a Java Champion, Cloud Native Ambassador, published book author and international Keynote speaker. Before working at Dash0, Mauricio spent the last 15 years building tools for Cloud-Native developers at companies such as Red Hat and VMware. When he is not writing tools for developers or contributing to open source projects in the Cloud Native space, he teaches about Kubernetes, Cloud-Native and agentic engineering on his blog salaboy.com

Mauricio Salatino, also known as salaboy, works for Dash0 as an Ecosystem Engineer. He is a Java Champion, Cloud Native Ambassador, published book author and international Keynote speaker. Before working at Dash0, Mauricio spent the last 15 years bui... Show more

Jakub is a CNCF Ambassador and engineer at Cloudera with deep expertise in Kubernetes, streaming, and messaging. As a co-founder and maintainer of the Strimzi project, he has spent years bridging the gap between Apache Kafka and cloud-native infrastructure. Before his time at Cloudera, Jakub worked at Red Hat and in the financial sector, bringing a wealth of real-world operational experience to the open-source community.

Jakub is a CNCF Ambassador and engineer at Cloudera with deep expertise in Kubernetes, streaming, and messaging. As a co-founder and maintainer of the Strimzi project, he has spent years bridging the gap between Apache Kafka and cloud-native infrastr... Show more

Meet Seema, the tech whiz at Autodesk. She's not just about fixing things – she loves sharing what she knows! Whether speaking at cool events like GitLab Commit, and GitHub Universe or breaking down tech on her YouTube channel, Seema makes the complicated stuff easy and fun. Join her on a tech adventure where learning and sharing go hand in hand! 🚀

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Mabrouk Mahdhi is the Founder and Managing Director of Prosiria, a technology company focused on building innovative software solutions, developer tools, and cloud-based platforms. A Principal Software Engineer and recognized Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in .NET technologies, he specializes in modern software architecture, distributed systems, AI-powered applications, and the Microsoft technology stack.

With extensive experience in ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, cloud-native development, and enterprise software engineering, Mabrouk helps organizations design and deliver scalable, high-performance solutions that solve real-world business challenges.

Beyond his professional work, he is the founder and organizer of Tunisia Dev Days, one of North Africa's leading software engineering conferences, bringing together developers, architects, Microsoft MVPs, and technology leaders to explore the latest trends in AI, cloud computing, DevOps, and modern software development. He is also a frequent international conference speaker, author, and community leader passionate about empowering developers and fostering innovation across the global technology ecosystem.

Mabrouk Mahdhi is the Founder and Managing Director of Prosiria, a technology company focused on building innovative software solutions, developer tools, and cloud-based platforms. A Principal Software Engineer and recognized Microsoft Most Valuable ... Show more

Solution Architect focused on designing scalable and resilient systems for large scale operations and digital platforms. Experienced in Cloud Native architectures, Kubernetes ecosystems and enterprise modernization across mission critical environments.

Outside of my daily role, I actively contribute to the tech community as AWS Community Builder and Panama Java User Group Leader, promoting knowledge sharing and the adoption of modern engineering practices.

Solution Architect focused on designing scalable and resilient systems for large scale operations and digital platforms. Experienced in Cloud Native architectures, Kubernetes ecosystems and enterprise modernization across mission critical environment... Show more

Meet Rajaniesh Kaushikk – a Microsoft MVP and TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect with over 22 years of experience in delivering complex software architectures for Fortune 500 companies. Rajaniesh specializes in data integration, governance, and analysis, with a proven track record in defining technical architectures, designing analytic solutions, and developing agile frameworks. His expertise spans Hybrid Cloud, Azure Cloud, Power BI, Kubernetes, Databricks Lakehouse, Snowflake, and more, making him a trusted partner in solving intricate business challenges and driving market growth.

As a hands-on technical architect, Microsoft Certified Solution Architect, and Databricks Champion, Rajaniesh excels in translating complex concepts into actionable strategies, whether through pre-sales technical presentations or public speaking at Microsoft events. A Microsoft Certified Trainer, he is committed to sharing his knowledge and staying at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring scalable and innovative solutions for modern software architecture needs.

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David vonThenen is an AI/ML Engineer where he focuses on production AI systems, enterprise AI data retrieval strategy, and architectures for explainable, governable, and reliable AI. His work spans agentic solutions, various RAG architectures, AI memory systems, multi-agent solutions, OpenSearch, data lineage, provenance, and AI governance.

David has more than 20 years of experience building production software across AI/ML, speech and NLP, Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, storage, virtualization, and backup/recovery. He combines hands-on engineering with technical strategy, open-source leadership, developer advocacy, and customer integrations.

He has spoken at NVIDIA GTC, Devoxx (France, Poland, Greece, UK, Morocco), Open Data Science Conference (ODSC), WeAreDevelopers, and SCaLE on topics including explainable AI, agentic systems, model quantization, multimodal ML, and small language model training. His mission is to help teams move beyond AI prototypes and build systems that are observable, reproducible, trustworthy, and ready for production.

David vonThenen is an AI/ML Engineer where he focuses on production AI systems, enterprise AI data retrieval strategy, and architectures for explainable, governable, and reliable AI. His work spans agentic solutions, various RAG architectures, AI mem... Show more

Known across the cloud-native community as Maharaj, I make complex technology accessible - from KubeCon stages to community meetups to client boardrooms. What started as a manual QA engineering career over a decade ago has evolved into leading developer relations at scale as a Principal Developer Advocate.

With a B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering and a PGDM in Marketing, I combine engineering depth with narrative instinct - debugging a Kubernetes operator in the morning and crafting a developer content strategy by afternoon.

Speaker at every KubeCon since Chicago 2023, Co-Chair of KubeCon India 2025, Co-Chair of the CNCF Platform Engineering Technical Community Group, and organiser of Cloud Native Hyderabad.

Known across the cloud-native community as Maharaj, I make complex technology accessible - from KubeCon stages to community meetups to client boardrooms. What started as a manual QA engineering career over a decade ago has evolved into leading develo... Show more