Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity working on the core Argo team. He is a maintainer of the CNCF-graduated project Argo CD and a former Release Team member of the Kubernetes project. Outside of work, Nitish enjoys playing chess and travelling.

Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity working on the core Argo team. He is a maintainer of the CNCF-graduated project Argo CD and a former Release Team member of the Kubernetes project. Outside of work, Nitish enjoys playing chess and travelling. Show more

Fabian Kammel is a Senior Security Consultant at ControlPlane, where he helps to make the (cloud-native) world a safer place. His goal is to bring hardware security and cloud-native security closer together, as well as, improving the developer experience in the security space. He previously spoke at KubeCon, SigstoreCon, was a guest on the Kubernetes Podcast, and regular host of the CNCF TAG Security.

Fabian Kammel is a Senior Security Consultant at ControlPlane, where he helps to make the (cloud-native) world a safer place. His goal is to bring hardware security and cloud-native security closer together, as well as, improving the developer experi... Show more

Bruno Chauvet is Compute Platform Lead at Rokt, where he builds and scales modern cloud compute platforms using platform engineering practices. He specializes in Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer enablement, helping teams deliver reliable, high-performance systems through automation, standardization, and thoughtful platform design

Bruno Chauvet is Compute Platform Lead at Rokt, where he builds and scales modern cloud compute platforms using platform engineering practices. He specializes in Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer enablement, helping teams deliver... Show more

Scott is an artist, engineer & dad, collaborating on a different kind of world. Into collective art, activism, therapy & open source nerdy stuff. Scott is a Cloud Native Ambassador, speaker, organizer of CNCF community events including the New York Kubernetes Meetup and New York KCD, and international conferences including GitOpsCon. He enjoys helping develop Free and Open Source Software that anyone can use, including co-maintaining CNCF projects Helm, Flux and OpenGitOps.

Scott is an artist, engineer & dad, collaborating on a different kind of world. Into collective art, activism, therapy & open source nerdy stuff. Scott is a Cloud Native Ambassador, speaker, organizer of CNCF community events including the New York K... Show more

Maia is an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Research specializing in platform engineering and cloud-native security. While deeply experienced in zero trust - a dedicated maintainer of SPIFFE's Tornjak project - her research now tackles the infrastructure demands of the AI era. An active and passionate speaker and blogger, Maia now explores the intersection of agentic workloads and Kubernetes, and how cloud-native platforms must evolve to make AI agents run reliably and securely.

Maia is an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM Research specializing in platform engineering and cloud-native security. While deeply experienced in zero trust - a dedicated maintainer of SPIFFE's Tornjak project - her research now tackles the infrastru... Show more

Passionate by technology and automation, I started my DevOps 🚊journey🚊 roughly 10 years ago in creating a first CI Jenkins pipelines. Few years later, I spread the DevOps culture across the DXC company as DevOps Coach.

During the DXC hours, I have been in charge of the AWS Cloud hosting the CI/CD tools chain. Among those tools, as administrator, I had the opportunity to scale the company Jenkins infrastructure to host more than 20K company jobs spread across more than 200 teams, to administrate JFrog Artifactory, and to deploy a monitoring stack to keep everything stable.

This CI/CD tool chain administrator role allowed me to discover the AWS cloud. In accordance with my DevOps culture and because I had to provide the company client with services, I embraced the SRE path.

At the same time, I also discovered Kubernetes and I self-educated until I had enough knowledge to become a Kubernetes evangelist.

Nowadays, I am still passionate about :

* ❤️Cloud
* ❤️Infrastructure
* ❤️Kubernetes
* ❤️Coaching
* ❤️DevOps
* ❤️Automation

and I do my best to remains at the cutting edge of this technologies and movement.

Passionate by technology and automation, I started my DevOps 🚊journey🚊 roughly 10 years ago in creating a first CI Jenkins pipelines. Few years later, I spread the DevOps culture across the DXC company as DevOps Coach. During the DXC hours, I ha... Show more

Stefan is a Principal Engineer at Nvidia, working on control planes, Kubernetes, kcp, and as a tech-lead in Sig API Machinery. He contributed a major part of the CRD feature set. Stefan is a 2nd time GoogleSummer of Code mentor with CNCF, loves to teach and help people to learn. Before Nvidia, he worked at Upbound on Crossplane based control planes and at Red Hat as architectural lead of kcp and apiserver lead. By trade, Stefan is a Mathematician and Computer Scientist, with a PhD in Mathematical Logic.

Stefan is a Principal Engineer at Nvidia, working on control planes, Kubernetes, kcp, and as a tech-lead in Sig API Machinery. He contributed a major part of the CRD feature set. Stefan is a 2nd time GoogleSummer of Code mentor with CNCF, loves to te... Show more

Nick has been working to prevent the entropic downfall of systems for 25 years, across datacenters, clouds, networking, and others. He's a Staff Engineer at Isovalent, a committer on Cilium, and a maintainer on the Kubernetes Gateway API project, where he works on improving the ingress and mesh experiences. In his spare time, he spends time with his young family, then with whatever's left he keeps up with stereotypical nerd hobbies. Random fact: he took notes at university in the Tengwar, Tolkien's elvish script.

Nick has been working to prevent the entropic downfall of systems for 25 years, across datacenters, clouds, networking, and others. He's a Staff Engineer at Isovalent, a committer on Cilium, and a maintainer on the Kubernetes Gateway API project, whe... Show more

Sam Cogan is a senior cloud solution architect at Microsoft and a former Microsoft Azure MVP. Sam is focussed on delivering applications into the cloud using IaaS, PaaS, Serverless, Containers and Kubernetes.
Sam is particularly focussed on automation and DevOps, including Infrastructure as Code, Cloud automation tooling, PowerShell and CI/CD tooling.

Sam Cogan is a senior cloud solution architect at Microsoft and a former Microsoft Azure MVP. Sam is focussed on delivering applications into the cloud using IaaS, PaaS, Serverless, Containers and Kubernetes. Sam is particularly focussed on automat... Show more

Tracy Ragan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DeployHub and a recognized leader in secure software delivery and software supply chain defense. She has served on the Governing Boards of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) and currently serves on the Technology Advisory Committees of both organizations, helping shape industry standards and practical guidance for securing modern DevOps pipelines.

With more than 25 years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, and delivery automation, Tracy focuses on closing critical security gaps in live, deployed systems. She is also the Community Director for Ortelius, an open-source project under the Linux Foundation, and is widely known for bridging DevOps workflows with open-source security tooling to enable faster, risk-driven vulnerability remediation at scale.

Tracy Ragan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of DeployHub and a recognized leader in secure software delivery and software supply chain defense. She has served on the Governing Boards of the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the... Show more

Danish is a Software Engineer at SUSE and one of the maintainers of Podman. He contributes to open source container technologies and maintains downstream integration and packaging of container tooling for SUSE Linux.

Danish is a Software Engineer at SUSE and one of the maintainers of Podman. He contributes to open source container technologies and maintains downstream integration and packaging of container tooling for SUSE Linux. Show more

Aishwarya Sharma is a DevOps Specialist with around 10 years of extensive experience in cloud computing and DevOps practices.
Aishwarya's expertise extends to container orchestration platforms, particularly Kubernetes, where she has demonstrated her ability to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications efficiently. She also got CKAD and few AWS certifications as well

Aishwarya Sharma is a DevOps Specialist with around 10 years of extensive experience in cloud computing and DevOps practices. Aishwarya's expertise extends to container orchestration platforms, particularly Kubernetes, where she has demonstrated he... Show more

Former VP on Cloud Native Strategy at SAP turned NeoNephos Ambassador. After establishing Kubernetes in the enterprise foundation at SAP, he’s now focused on the cloud-native ecosystem and mindset for digital sovereignty.
He previously led SAP's substantial project within EU IPCEI-CIS and established NeoNephos as its "OSS Infrastructure". Vasu holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück but refuses to be tied down to any geography. He prefers it in the cloud.

Former VP on Cloud Native Strategy at SAP turned NeoNephos Ambassador. After establishing Kubernetes in the enterprise foundation at SAP, he’s now focused on the cloud-native ecosystem and mindset for digital sovereignty. He previously led SAP's sub... Show more

I’ve been working as a Solution Data Architect @ DocExploit, Managing Director @ Funneld and Community Lead, focused on designing and building scalable, distributed and cloud-native data platforms. My work sits at the intersection of Big Data, massive data processing, Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation and Artificial Intelligence, helping teams move from isolated systems to reliable platforms capable of ingesting, processing and operating large volumes of data in real-world environments. With experience across enterprise environments, infrastructure and platform engineering, I bring a practical perspective on how to design architectures where scalability, reliability, observability and automation are as important as performance. In addition, I’m actively involved in the tech community as a speaker and organizer, creating spaces for developers, engineers, students and technology professionals to share knowledge, connect and learn around Cloud, Data, AI and modern software architecture.

I’ve been working as a Solution Data Architect @ DocExploit, Managing Director @ Funneld and Community Lead, focused on designing and building scalable, distributed and cloud-native data platforms. My work sits at the intersection of Big Data, massiv... Show more

I am a seasoned software engineer with a strong background in Java development, now specializing in big data cloud environments and K8s. I began my career as a Java developer, quickly gaining recognition for my problem-solving skills.

As technology evolved, I transitioned to cloud native environment. I now design and implement scalable, efficient, and secure data processing systems using a variety of big data tools, cloud services, and Kubernetes for orchestration.

I am a seasoned software engineer with a strong background in Java development, now specializing in big data cloud environments and K8s. I began my career as a Java developer, quickly gaining recognition for my problem-solving skills. As technolog... Show more

Almog Baku is a hands-on AI engineering expert with a track record of deploying dozens of LLM apps and agents to production over the past 4 years. As a serial founder and a Kubernetes contributor since 2016, he brings a decade of production-grade distributed-systems scars to the way he builds AI.

He founded GenAI Israel, the largest LLM developers community in Israel (8,000+ members), and Clawders, its 2,000-strong sub-community of harness hackers. He writes and speaks — often bluntly — about what actually breaks when you run AI agents in production, and what it takes to make them reliable.

Almog Baku is a hands-on AI engineering expert with a track record of deploying dozens of LLM apps and agents to production over the past 4 years. As a serial founder and a Kubernetes contributor since 2016, he brings a decade of production-grade dis... Show more

Khushan Adatiya is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, specializing in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and AI-driven platforms. With 10+ years of experience, he has led the design of high-throughput, production-critical systems, including API management, anomaly detection, and observability pipelines. Khushan combines expertise in microservices, Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies, and generative AI, including AI agents and retrieval-augmented reasoning systems. He is passionate about building scalable, secure, and intelligent cloud solutions. Khushan regularly mentors students and engineers and delivers technical talks on AI architectures, cloud observability, and modern platform design. In this session, he will share lessons from evolving systems from microservices to AI-agent-driven architectures.

Khushan Adatiya is a Senior Software Engineer at Google, specializing in distributed systems, cloud architecture, and AI-driven platforms. With 10+ years of experience, he has led the design of high-throughput, production-critical systems, including ... Show more

Andy is an experienced software architect with a strong track record of leading research and engineering teams on hybrid cloud and Kubernetes-based platform development. He has a wealth of experience in software development, cloud computing, and data analysis.

Andy is particularly adept at combining continuous integration and delivery practices, containerization and orchestration technologies, and cloud computing products and services for use with platform engineering efforts.

Andy is an experienced software architect with a strong track record of leading research and engineering teams on hybrid cloud and Kubernetes-based platform development. He has a wealth of experience in software development, cloud computing, and da... Show more

Ryan Etten is a CNCF Ambassador and Principal Solutions Architect at Broadcom, working at the intersection of cloud-native architecture and the human systems that sustain it. A Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA), he guides organizations through secure digital transformations built on Kubernetes, GitOps, and Zero Trust. Beyond the stack, he co-charis the CNCF Merge Forward Neurodiversity group, and through his "Agile for Every Brain" framework, works to refactor community structures for diverse cognitive styles. He founded MOSAIC — Madison's Open Source and AI Communities — and organizes local CNCF and AAIF chapters along with DevFest Wisconsin, driven by the conviction that the human architectures behind open source should be as resilient and scalable as the code.

Ryan Etten is a CNCF Ambassador and Principal Solutions Architect at Broadcom, working at the intersection of cloud-native architecture and the human systems that sustain it. A Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA), he guides organizations through secur... Show more

Team leader, system architect, designer, software developer with 10+ years of experience across a variety of industries andtechnology bases, including cloud computing, machine learning, bigdata and financial services.

Founding Volcano & Flame; emeritus leader of Kubernetes SIG-Scheduling , CNCF TAG-Runtime and CNCF WG-Batch. Global Team Lead of IBM Spectrum Symphony CE & L3, Chief Architect of Batch Container at Huawei Cloud. Currently, Architect and R&D at Nvidia Technologies.

Team leader, system architect, designer, software developer with 10+ years of experience across a variety of industries andtechnology bases, including cloud computing, machine learning, bigdata and financial services. Founding Volcano & Flame; eme... Show more

Andrea is a technical consultant passionate about infrastructure, cloud, and automation. Throughout his career, he has worked in different roles, from an individual contributor building infrastructure as code to an engineering manager growing a team from the ground up.

He likes to space from technical consulting to organizing workshops and meetups about Kubernetes and cloud technologies. He has been involved with the community as a CNCF Ambassador, KubeTrain organizer and public speaker.

Andrea is a technical consultant passionate about infrastructure, cloud, and automation. Throughout his career, he has worked in different roles, from an individual contributor building infrastructure as code to an engineering manager growing a team ... Show more

Orlin Vasilev is Open Source and Cloud Native Technology Advocate at SAP. Community and Governing Board Chair for NeoNephos Foundation. Community Manager for Project Harbor and Project K3s as part of the Cloud Native team. CNCF Ambassador and driving the biggest Meetup Group in Bulgaria and Kubernetes Community Days Sofia organizer.. KubeCon CfP review board member and co-chair for Track 101 and Community. Previously SysAdmin/Dev/SRE/System engineering roles for over 15 years! Located in Bulgaria, Europe! Father of two - a girl and a boy! Passionate snowboarder, DIY and semi-professional BBQ Pitmaster and baker.

Orlin Vasilev is Open Source and Cloud Native Technology Advocate at SAP. Community and Governing Board Chair for NeoNephos Foundation. Community Manager for Project Harbor and Project K3s as part of the Cloud Native team. CNCF Ambassador and drivin... Show more

Deepu K Sasidharan is a Software Engineer by passion and profession. He is a Java Champion working as a Staff Developer Advocate at Okta. He is the co-chair of JHipster and the creator of KDash and JDL Studio. He is a polyglot programmer working with Java, Rust, JavaScript, Go, and so on. He is also a cloud technology advocate and an open-source software aficionado. He has authored books on Full-stack development and frequently writes about Java, Rust, JavaScript, Go, DevOps, Kubernetes, Linux, and so on, on his blog.

Deepu K Sasidharan is a Software Engineer by passion and profession. He is a Java Champion working as a Staff Developer Advocate at Okta. He is the co-chair of JHipster and the creator of KDash and JDL Studio. He is a polyglot programmer working with... Show more

Garvit Kataria is a technical leader specializing in large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems. At Intuit, he leads the development of Kubernetes-based infrastructure and shared platforms that operate across hundreds of clusters.

His key contributions include building infrastructure resiliency and disaster recovery systems that safeguard thousands of services, continuously evaluating the health of more than 300,000 assets. He has also driven initiatives to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency in complex, production-grade environments.

Currently, Garvit spearheads the delivery of statically stable, fault-tolerant disaster recovery solutions, ensuring high availability and performance for Intuit’s critical business applications.

Garvit Kataria is a technical leader specializing in large-scale, high-traffic distributed systems. At Intuit, he leads the development of Kubernetes-based infrastructure and shared platforms that operate across hundreds of clusters. His key contr... Show more

Mithun Banerjee is a Technical Leader at Cisco specializing in enterprise observability, cloud native infrastructure, and AI-powered applications. With 18+ years of experience, he works daily with OpenTelemetry, AppDynamics, and Splunk Observability Cloud — instrumenting applications and helping teams get real value from their telemetry.
A highly rated Cisco Live speaker (sessions scored 4.7+/5.0 by attendees), Mithun has delivered instructor-led sessions on AI/LLM monitoring and eBPF/Cilium networking to enterprise audiences. He holds CKA, CKAD, KCNA, AWS AI Practitioner, Isovalent Cilium, and Observability certifications, and has built AI agent applications using LangChain and Amazon Bedrock on Kubernetes. He is a confirmed panelist at Unscripted Conference's AI Adoption Patterns panel (September 2026).

Mithun Banerjee is a Technical Leader at Cisco specializing in enterprise observability, cloud native infrastructure, and AI-powered applications. With 18+ years of experience, he works daily with OpenTelemetry, AppDynamics, and Splunk Observability ... Show more

Marco Pernigo is a DevOps Engineer at Zextras, where he contributes to the infrastructure behind Carbonio, an open-source email and collaboration platform.
He is passionate about observability, making systems transparent and debuggable through OpenTelemetry, and about the open-source ecosystem that makes it possible. When he's not instrumenting code or wrangling Kubernetes clusters, he's tinkering with his homelab, testing new tools and ideas to bring back to his daily work.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Verona.

Marco Pernigo is a DevOps Engineer at Zextras, where he contributes to the infrastructure behind Carbonio, an open-source email and collaboration platform. He is passionate about observability, making systems transparent and debuggable through OpenT... Show more

Netanel Kadosh is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Kaltura, an AWS Community Builder, and a B.Sc. Computer Science student at The Open University of Israel.

He is a contributor to CNCF projects including Argo CD, Karpenter, and Kyverno, with contributions spanning new features, improvements, and community-driven fixes.

His work focuses on GitOps, Kubernetes, AWS, cloud infrastructure, and platform engineering, with hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native systems at scale.

Netanel Kadosh is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Kaltura, an AWS Community Builder, and a B.Sc. Computer Science student at The Open University of Israel. He is a contributor to CNCF projects including Argo CD, Karpenter, and Kyverno, with contributi... Show more

Ronald Harmsen has a slightly old-fashioned belief: the software you ship today should still be running, and still be a pleasure to work on, ten years from now. He has spent over 25 years putting that belief into practice as co-owner of NForza, where his team runs the systems their customers genuinely depend on. Some of those partnerships are now past two decades.

Whether the topic is AI-assisted development, Kubernetes platforms, software architecture, or pragmatic security, Ronald likes to ask the question most talks skip: what does this look like from year three forward? Expect concrete examples, strong opinions, and honest trade-offs.

A regular speaker at international conferences and trainer to thousands of developers and engineers across NL, NO, DK, SE, and the UK

Ronald Harmsen has a slightly old-fashioned belief: the software you ship today should still be running, and still be a pleasure to work on, ten years from now. He has spent over 25 years putting that belief into practice as co-owner of NForza, where... Show more

Experienced Technical Architect with 18+ years specialising in DevOps, Cloud Architecture, and Platform Engineering. I have successfully driven digital transformation across diverse industries, including Retail, Airline, Healthcare, Automotive, Banking and Entertainment. My expertise spans Containerisation, CI/CD, IaC, Observability and Monitoring and Agile methodologies with focus on designing scalable, efficient, and resilient cloud solutions.

I bring deep proficiency in end-to-end Software Delivery Lifecycle (SDLC) toolchain and processes, including GitHub, GitLab, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana with good hands-on experience with AWS and Salesforce cloud. Additionally, I have good hands-on experience with scripting languages like Shell, Ruby, and Python. I excel in mobile application architecture and build tools, managing complex requirements to deliver high-quality, robust solutions aligned with business goals.

As a technical leader, I oversee architectural strategy, guiding development teams to ensure quality and alignment with industry best practices. Passionate about advancing Platform Engineering, I am dedicated to optimising operations and enabling organisational growth with scalable and self-service IDP (Internal Developer Platform) designs using frameworks like Backstage, ArgoCD, CNOE and Harmonix on AWS.

Experienced Technical Architect with 18+ years specialising in DevOps, Cloud Architecture, and Platform Engineering. I have successfully driven digital transformation across diverse industries, including Retail, Airline, Healthcare, Automotive, Banki... Show more

Daniel currently works as a Senior Platform Advocate for NETWAYS Web Services, a public cloud provider and MSP from Germany.

In the past, he has helped clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to SMBs with adopting cloud native solutions like Kubernetes, GitOps, and Observability as a consultant and systems engineer.

His work and personal interests have led him to become a Grafana Champion as well as a CNCF Kubestronaut, and he enjoys sharing his experiences at meetups, conferences, and through blog posts on his website.

Daniel currently works as a Senior Platform Advocate for NETWAYS Web Services, a public cloud provider and MSP from Germany. In the past, he has helped clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to SMBs with adopting cloud native solutions like Ku... Show more