Ken is a Staff DevOps Architect and forward-deployed engineer on the ODST team at GitHub. He is a 4-time Microsoft Azure MVP (retired) and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and he was both an ALM | DevOps Ranger and a member of the Microsoft Azure Advisors. Ken is a frequent community speaker and has appeared at GitHub Universe, VSLive!, Live! 360, DevOps World, SQLSaturday, All Day DevOps, Global Azure, and TAG DevOps panels. When not speaking or coding, Ken enjoys playing multiple instruments and composing.

Ken is a Staff DevOps Architect and forward-deployed engineer on the ODST team at GitHub. He is a 4-time Microsoft Azure MVP (retired) and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and he was both an ALM | DevOps Ranger and a member of the Microsoft Azure Advis... Show more

Zackery is a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer working on Developer Tooling at Trumid. A Kansas City native, Zack has over five years of experience building software. After graduating from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2018 he began his career building frontends as Cerner. Soon after, Zack moved a local startup, C2FO, where he began learning DevOps and focusing his career on Developer Experience. Now he works on the DevOps team at Trumid. When not writing code or working you can find him reading, running or playing fighting games.

Zackery is a Senior Staff DevOps Engineer working on Developer Tooling at Trumid. A Kansas City native, Zack has over five years of experience building software. After graduating from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2018 he began his career... Show more

Anastasiia Gubska is the first Deaf CNCF Ambassador and Lead Software Engineer at Chase UK, focusing on cloud native ecosystems and software delivery best practices.

Anastasiia enjoys sharing practical insights on Argo and advocating for accessibility and inclusion in open source. She actively contributes to the CNCF Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group (DHHWG) and leads Deaf in Cloud Native, a global community that supports Deaf signing technologists through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and visibility.

Anastasiia Gubska is the first Deaf CNCF Ambassador and Lead Software Engineer at Chase UK, focusing on cloud native ecosystems and software delivery best practices. Anastasiia enjoys sharing practical insights on Argo and advocating for accessibi... Show more

A prominent Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast, cloud architects, container technologies advocate, and an official openSUSE Member based in Indonesia. He is heavily involved in the regional Linux community, particularly in Indonesia.

A prominent Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiast, cloud architects, container technologies advocate, and an official openSUSE Member based in Indonesia. He is heavily involved in the regional Linux community, particularly in Indonesia. Show more

Aman Bansal is the Founder of Guard0, where he is building the accountability layer for AI agents, giving organizations a single place to see what their agents are, what they've done, and who stands behind them. An engineer, AI researcher, and security expert, Aman was one of the earliest engineers at Traceable (an API Security Platform, acquired by Harness), where he spent years building and shipping a production-grade application security platform now used to protect Fortune 500 enterprises. He is also an active open-source contributor to projects including Dgraph and Hypertrace. Aman has also authored numerous peer-reviewed research papers published by IEEE, Springer, ACM, and Elsevier, spanning intelligent routing protocols, neural network applications, and image processing.

Aman Bansal is the Founder of Guard0, where he is building the accountability layer for AI agents, giving organizations a single place to see what their agents are, what they've done, and who stands behind them. An engineer, AI researcher, and securi... Show more

I'm an Open-Source enthusiast from Rahden, Germany. I am currently leading mittwald's Developer Relations team, and am a Board Member of the TYPO3 Association. In my free time, you might find me coding on one of my open source pet projects, building random stuff in my home woodworking shop, travelling, or reading a good classic sci-fi book.

I'm an Open-Source enthusiast from Rahden, Germany. I am currently leading mittwald's Developer Relations team, and am a Board Member of the TYPO3 Association. In my free time, you might find me coding on one of my open source pet projects, building ... Show more

Passionate software craftsman with 29+ years experience in a broad spectrum of software development technologies and platforms. Main focus on cloud-native software architectures and all major cloud environments. Passion for model-driven development, application modernization and Dapr. Observing and securing these environments are key aspects.

As a Developer Relations Engineer at New Relic, Harry helps software engineers, DevOps, SREs and operations experts to understand and implement proactive and scalable observability practices by leveraging open source technologies and the New Relic platform.

Passionate software craftsman with 29+ years experience in a broad spectrum of software development technologies and platforms. Main focus on cloud-native software architectures and all major cloud environments. Passion for model-driven development, ... Show more

Davide Imola is a Tech Lead at RedCarbon, where he leads the engineering team building an AI-powered cybersecurity platform. He is co-founder of Schrodinger Hat, an international open source community that has reached 20k+ people across Europe, and co-organizer of Open Source Day, a yearly conference in Florence dedicated to open source culture.

Over the years, Davide has spoken at conferences including GOLab, KCD Italy, DevSecOps Day, Incontro DevOps Italia, and WeAreDevelopers World Congress. His talks focus on Go, GitOps, platform engineering, security, and building open source communities.

He believes that sharing knowledge in public — through talks, writing, and open source contributions — is one of the highest-leverage activities an engineer can do.

Davide Imola is a Tech Lead at RedCarbon, where he leads the engineering team building an AI-powered cybersecurity platform. He is co-founder of Schrodinger Hat, an international open source community that has reached 20k+ people across Europe, and c... Show more

Software development is my passion. I'm a student at heart and love to challenge myself to grow. My experience is mostly in e-commerce with event-driven architectures and microservices, using .NET and Azure. My favorite hobbies are listening to music and reading books.

GitHub: https://github.com/BOLT04
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jose-david-pereira/

Software development is my passion. I'm a student at heart and love to challenge myself to grow. My experience is mostly in e-commerce with event-driven architectures and microservices, using .NET and Azure. My favorite hobbies are listening to music... Show more

A seasoned Platform & Systems Engineer with expertise in Cloud, Containers, and DevOps practices.
Skilled in Kubernetes, Keycloak, Vault, Terraform, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code, building resilient and scalable platforms.
Hands-on experience across AWS, GCP, and hybrid cloud environments, enabling secure and efficient operations.
Passionate about automation, observability, and platform reliability, bridging the gap between Dev and Ops.
Focused on delivering self-service platforms, streamlined workflows, and optimized infrastructure for teams.

A seasoned Platform & Systems Engineer with expertise in Cloud, Containers, and DevOps practices. Skilled in Kubernetes, Keycloak, Vault, Terraform, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code, building resilient and scalable platforms. Hands-on experience a... Show more

Anuj is Senior SRE with a decade of experience in Site Reliability, AI workloads, Production Engineering, DevOps, Cloud native enthusiast.

Anuj is Senior SRE with a decade of experience in Site Reliability, AI workloads, Production Engineering, DevOps, Cloud native enthusiast. Show more

I am a certified Microsoft Azure consultant from Belgium, who assists independent software vendors by leveraging Microsoft Azure and open source technologies.

Born and raised in East-Flanders, I started my journey into information technology at the age of six when my family bought a desktop computer that was powerful enough to run Windows 3.11. In the past, I have been a factory worker, a casual programmer and a Microsoft .NET consultant.

With my colleagues, I frequently produce presentations and workshops on the topic of DevSecOps. More recently I have discussed the workings of Windows Containers and how it fits into the container ecosystem. Along with Microsoft MVP Micha Wets, I was asked to talk about Kubernetes in a Microsoft world at the Microsoft Headquarters in Germany and about Azure Governance at CloudBrew in Belgium.

In May 2020, I was awarded the Azure Content Hero award by Microsoft for having created original content, sample code or learning resources and documented and shared experiences and lessons to help others to build on the Azure cloud platform.

Two years later, in 2022, I was honoured to receive the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the Microsoft Azure category.

I am a certified Microsoft Azure consultant from Belgium, who assists independent software vendors by leveraging Microsoft Azure and open source technologies. Born and raised in East-Flanders, I started my journey into information technology at th... Show more

Gantigmaa Selenge is a Senior Software Engineer working on Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka, where she focuses on evolving the Apache Kafka ecosystem into a scalable, high-performance distributed streaming platform. She is a maintainer of the CNCF project Strimzi and an active contributor to the Kafka community. She has presented at Kafka Summit London, KubeCon Europe, Devoxx UK, and StrimziCon.

Gantigmaa Selenge is a Senior Software Engineer working on Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka, where she focuses on evolving the Apache Kafka ecosystem into a scalable, high-performance distributed streaming platform. She is a maintainer of the CNCF pr... Show more

CNCF Abassasor, Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud, Grafana Champion and Platform Engineer at the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) working on NAIS - a platform built to increase development speed by providing the best experience to build, run and operate applications.

Co-organiser of KCD Oslo, Cloud Native and GDG meetups in Norway. Regular speaker at national and international conferences on all things cloud native.

CNCF Abassasor, Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud, Grafana Champion and Platform Engineer at the Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration (NAV) working on NAIS - a platform built to increase development speed by providing the best experience ... Show more

Johan is a Systems Engineer with over 15 years of experience. He began as a software developer and grew to be a leader in software architecture and DevOps projects, especially in banking and telecom.

Besides his main job, he's passionate about being a speaker and a writer. Johan has even written a book in Spanish called 'DevOps en nuestra lengua', sharing his knowledge and experiences.

He's worked in various fields like state banking and telecoms, always bringing his practical skills to each project. Johan likes to mix new ideas with good management, which has helped many businesses.

On the other hand, constantly seeking to train, learn, and explore new areas in the field of computer engineering.

Johan is a Systems Engineer with over 15 years of experience. He began as a software developer and grew to be a leader in software architecture and DevOps projects, especially in banking and telecom. Besides his main job, he's passionate about bei... Show more

Michael Rishi Forrester leads the AI workforce transformation stream at Accenture
LearnVantage, where he advises enterprise leaders and engineering teams on running
agentic AI in production. Thirty years across operations, DevOps, and cloud
infrastructure, most of it spent close to where systems actually break.

His work centers on Agentic Covenants, a governance and security model for agentic
AI built on a hard-won lesson: guardrails enforced by the AI tool are bypassable,
guardrails enforced by infrastructure are not. He builds MCP servers, runs Claude
Code daily, and grounds his sessions in real Kubernetes clusters rather than
slideware.

Speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, DevOpsDays, SREday, LLMday, KCD, and AI
Engineer World's Fair. Certifications across AWS, CNCF, and NVIDIA.
michaelrishiforrester.com

Michael Rishi Forrester leads the AI workforce transformation stream at Accenture LearnVantage, where he advises enterprise leaders and engineering teams on running agentic AI in production. Thirty years across operations, DevOps, and cloud infras... Show more

I design and deliver intelligent data and AI infrastructure, bridging principal-level engineering practice with peer-reviewed research and external technical leadership.

My work focuses on building reliable, governable, and observable systems for scientific and regulated environments—spanning agentic AI, data platforms, control planes, and emerging computational paradigms.

I am active across IEEE publications, conference presentations, technical writing, and open-source prototypes, translating research ideas into practical engineering approaches.

What I work on:

- Agentic AI infrastructure: semantic caching, control planes, lifecycle finite-state machines, and governed autonomy
- Security-critical patterns for autonomous and multi-agent systems
- Strategy and architecture for intelligent data services and Manufacturing Execution Systems
- Near-real-time telemetry, audit, provenance, and decision-record substrates across multi-terabyte environments
- Declarative policy, state, and intent expressed as code through custom resource models, GitOps, and control-plane patterns
- Technical mentorship and cross-functional influence across engineering, MLOps, SRE, and adjacent disciplines

I bring AIOps, MLOps, DevSecOps, and Site Reliability Engineering practices to systems that must remain reliable, explainable, and operable in regulated contexts.

My background spans distributed systems in high-reliability domains: reactive platforms in banking and finance, GxP-aligned pharmaceutical manufacturing systems, and industrial automation for semiconductor manufacturing.

I design and deliver intelligent data and AI infrastructure, bridging principal-level engineering practice with peer-reviewed research and external technical leadership. My work focuses on building reliable, governable, and observable systems for ... Show more

Erick Bourgeois is a platform engineering specialist focused on Kubernetes operators and infrastructure automation for regulated industries. Creator of Bindy, an open-source DNS controller built in Rust, Erick brings expertise in cloud-native architecture, compliance frameworks (SOX, NIST), and building production-grade Kubernetes operators for enterprise environments.

Erick Bourgeois is a platform engineering specialist focused on Kubernetes operators and infrastructure automation for regulated industries. Creator of Bindy, an open-source DNS controller built in Rust, Erick brings expertise in cloud-native archite... Show more

He is a co-founder of the Kubernetes Security CTF at DEF CON, a Kubernetes security expert, and a Cloud Native security consultant with eight years in the field. He competes with FluxFingers, the official CTF team of Ruhr University Bochum behind the annual hack.lu CTF, and passes on what he learns in talks, workshops, and trainings.

He is a co-founder of the Kubernetes Security CTF at DEF CON, a Kubernetes security expert, and a Cloud Native security consultant with eight years in the field. He competes with FluxFingers, the official CTF team of Ruhr University Bochum behind the... Show more

Jan Steffen is a Senior Cloud Engineer with over 15 years of experience in software engineering, platform architecture, and cloud infrastructure. Based in Hessen, Germany, Jan currently works at Schwarz Digits on the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE) team, where he develops customer-facing platform features and Kubernetes operators in Go, leveraging Gardener and upstream open-source technologies.

Throughout his career, Jan has focused on reducing developer friction while enforcing robust security standards. Prior to Schwarz Digits, he served as Lead IT Architect at BWI GmbH, contributing to the Open Defense Cloud and building secure artifact gateways across security zones for the German Federal Armed Forces. As Cloud Tech Lead at finleap connect, he architected Monoskope, a multi-cluster developer self-service platform.

Jan Steffen is a Senior Cloud Engineer with over 15 years of experience in software engineering, platform architecture, and cloud infrastructure. Based in Hessen, Germany, Jan currently works at Schwarz Digits on the STACKIT Kubernetes Engine (SKE) t... Show more

Principal Cloud Support Engineer at AWS, specializing in Amazon ECS and EKS with nearly 20 years in infrastructure and cloud. I work at the intersection of container orchestration and AI/ML, helping enterprise customers run complex workloads at scale.

I've spoken at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in North America and Europe, delivered workshops and chalk talks at AWS re:Invent, and presented at AWS Summits. My technical writing appears regularly on the AWS Containers Blog, covering topics from Amazon ECS networking to Kubernetes performance at scale.

Outside of AWS, I co-founded Cloud Native Dublin, a 350-member community for cloud-native practitioners in Ireland, and mentor engineers through the AWS Cloud Women Mentorship Program.

Principal Cloud Support Engineer at AWS, specializing in Amazon ECS and EKS with nearly 20 years in infrastructure and cloud. I work at the intersection of container orchestration and AI/ML, helping enterprise customers run complex workloads at scale... Show more

Tobias Massoth started his professional career in 2006 as a system engineer with an early passion for Microsoft technologies and later Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. He gained first hands-on experience with Kubernetes 1.10 and is committed to Kubernetes until today.
He is a regular attendee of KubeCon and Kubernetes Community Day (KCD) events but is also a visitor and speaker at Meetup events.
Reach out to him for any kind of tech discussions about Azure, Kubernetes and CNCF projects.

Tobias Massoth started his professional career in 2006 as a system engineer with an early passion for Microsoft technologies and later Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes. He gained first hands-on experience with Kubernetes 1.10 and is committed to Kubern... Show more

Ravindra Kumar is a Senior Platform Engineer at Admiral India with over 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and DevOps. He specializes in designing and operating scalable cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), with expertise in Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, Terragrunt, Azure DevOps, GitOps using Argo CD, and modern CI/CD practices.

He is passionate about Kubernetes, platform engineering, infrastructure as code, software supply chain security, and open source technologies. Ravindra actively explores emerging AI-powered developer tools to improve engineering productivity and platform automation. He enjoys sharing practical, real-world experiences through community talks, technical blogs, and open source contributions, helping engineering teams build secure, reliable, and production-ready cloud-native platforms.

Ravindra Kumar is a Senior Platform Engineer at Admiral India with over 10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, and DevOps. He specializes in designing and operating scalable cloud-native platforms on Google Cloud Platfo... Show more

Jason Farrell is a Senior Solution Engineer at Microsoft where he focuses on Cloud Apps and AI. The role seeks to provide technical help to larger customers who are either adopting or using Microsoft Azure services including AI. Jason also focuses on AI Engineering which involves understanding how applications can consume and leverage AI. Outside work, Jason spends time with his family and loves Lego Star Wars

Jason Farrell is a Senior Solution Engineer at Microsoft where he focuses on Cloud Apps and AI. The role seeks to provide technical help to larger customers who are either adopting or using Microsoft Azure services including AI. Jason also focuses on... Show more

work at DaoCloud as Quality Director, more than 20 years IT industry experience, China Mobile, Siemens, HP, EMC, and startup company. Newcomer in Cloud Native and open source fans. Would like to adopt open source projects to improve enterprise software quality with fast release.

work at DaoCloud as Quality Director, more than 20 years IT industry experience, China Mobile, Siemens, HP, EMC, and startup company. Newcomer in Cloud Native and open source fans. Would like to adopt open source projects to improve enterprise softw... Show more

Principal Platform Engineer, I design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable cloud platforms. I have over 15 years of experience in DevOps, API development, and RESTful services, as well as a certification in Kubernetes Administration (CKA).

I am also the founder of DCaballero LLC, a software development and consulting company that focuses on science and finance applications. I am passionate about researching new technologies, mentoring young talent, and delivering quality solutions. My mission is to leverage my technical skills and domain expertise to create value and impact for my clients and partners.

Principal Platform Engineer, I design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable cloud platforms. I have over 15 years of experience in DevOps, API development, and RESTful services, as well as a certification in Kubernetes Administration (CKA). I... Show more

Jintao Zhang is a Microsoft MVP, CNCF Ambassador, Apache PMC, and Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX maintainer, he is good at cloud-native technology and Azure technology stack.

Jintao Zhang is a Microsoft MVP, CNCF Ambassador, Apache PMC, and Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX maintainer, he is good at cloud-native technology and Azure technology stack. Show more

Jonathan Johnson has spent three decades designing software, from DNA sequencing pipelines at Roche to Kubernetes platforms at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Now an independent advocate, he builds and teaches at the intersection of Kubernetes and AI, running a homelab where operators orchestrate LLM-powered agents that collaborate, reason, and self-expand. He teaches cloud-native development at Trinity College, delivers O'Reilly live training, and speaks on Kubernetes, DevOps, and agentic AI.

Jonathan Johnson has spent three decades designing software, from DNA sequencing pipelines at Roche to Kubernetes platforms at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Now an independent advocate, he builds and teaches at the intersection of Kubernetes and AI, runn... Show more

Rey Lejano is a Solutions Architect at Red Hat and is the co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Docs. He contributes to Kubernetes SIG Security, Release, & Contributor Experience. He is a member of seven Kubernetes Release Teams including serving as the 1.23 Release Lead and 1.25 Emeritus Adviser. Rey leads the Kubernetes SIG Security Third-Party Security Audit subproject and helped release the last security audit in April 2023. Rey is a CNCF Ambassador and DevOps Institute Ambassador.

Rey Lejano is a Solutions Architect at Red Hat and is the co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Docs. He contributes to Kubernetes SIG Security, Release, & Contributor Experience. He is a member of seven Kubernetes Release Teams including serving as the 1.23 Re... Show more

Rafa Brito has over 30 years of industry experience, primarily designing and building systems involving distributed computing, Kubernetes, Cloud, grid/HPC, and high-frequency trading infrastructure (HFT). Rafa is a principal engineer at StormForge by CloudBolt, obsessed with providing Kubernetes optimization and scalability to customers. Before joining StormForge, Rafa worked at VMware as the inventor of a Kubernetes migrator, which moved stateful workloads across different Kubernetes distributions and cloud providers. Before joining VMware, he was the Senior Vice President and Global Engineer Lead for Containers and Grid Computing at Citigroup. Rafa co-organizes the KCD Texas and CNCF Austin Community Group, and he serves as co-chair of CNCF TAG Operational Resilience (as of 2025-2026) and a CNCF Ambassador. Rafa is the co-author of the best-selling book acingthecka.com. When not working with Kubernetes, you'll find Rafa training for marathons on the Lady Bird Trail in Austin, TX, and rooting for his soccer teams: Flamengo, Austin FC, and FC Porto.

Rafa Brito has over 30 years of industry experience, primarily designing and building systems involving distributed computing, Kubernetes, Cloud, grid/HPC, and high-frequency trading infrastructure (HFT). Rafa is a principal engineer at StormForge by... Show more