Lukas Gentele is the CEO & Co-Founder of vCluster Labs, a venture-backed startup virtualizing Kubernetes to enable advanced tenancy models that increase utilization, reduce cost, and make Kubernetes more dynamic than ever. vCluster allows platform and infrastructure teams to create virtual Kubernetes clusters that are as scalable and isolated as traditional clusters, but far more lightweight and flexible. Trusted by companies like Deloitte, FICO, Niantic, Nscale, and Aussie Broadband, vCluster powers fully isolated tenant clusters across public clouds, private data centers, and even GPU-powered AI supercomputers. Lukas is a frequent speaker at global events including KubeCon, NVIDIA GTC, AI Infra Summit, DevOpsDays, ContainerConf, and numerous AWS and Kubernetes Community Days.

Lukas Gentele is the CEO & Co-Founder of vCluster Labs, a venture-backed startup virtualizing Kubernetes to enable advanced tenancy models that increase utilization, reduce cost, and make Kubernetes more dynamic than ever. vCluster allows platform an... Show more

Matt Jarvis is Director of Developer Relations at Snyk. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences across the world, including KubeCon, Open Infrastructure Summit and All Things Open, a past winner of the OpenStack Outstanding Community Contributor award, and in 2021 was named one of the Top 100 influencers in Open Technologies in the UK. Matt is also a board director of OpenUK, the co-founder of Cloud Native Manchester and Kubernetes Community Days UK, and a CNCF Ambassador

Matt Jarvis is Director of Developer Relations at Snyk. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been fo... Show more

I have been a cloud engineer for the last 9 years. Working in Golang for the last 6. Before that I was a web developer. I have spoken at Kubecon, Djangocon.Eu and EuroPython as well as many times at local techie groups, including my local Golang meetup.
Currently I spend my time developing microservices for EDB's cross cloud or appliance Postgres AI product.
A Sovereign AI and Analytics platform built on Postgres, since EDB is the #1 Postgres open source contributor.
I am interested in improving DevX for the full lifecycle of Go microservices.

I have been a cloud engineer for the last 9 years. Working in Golang for the last 6. Before that I was a web developer. I have spoken at Kubecon, Djangocon.Eu and EuroPython as well as many times at local techie groups, including my local Golang mee... Show more

I am an Engineering Manager at RapidFort, where I lead the India Technology Center and work on runtime-driven container security, vulnerability management, and image hardening for Kubernetes environments. My focus is on reducing CVE noise by correlating runtime behavior with actual application dependencies, helping teams ship smaller, more secure, and compliance-ready container images.

I have over a decade of engineering experience across cybersecurity, cloud platforms, and large-scale distributed systems, and have previously worked at Walmart Global Tech and ColorTokens. My work has involved building security-critical systems such as firewalls, vulnerability scanners, and SaaS platforms, with a strong emphasis on performance, scalability, and practical security outcomes in production.

At KubeCon, I share hands-on, engineering-led approaches to Kubernetes runtime security, container hardening, and scalable vulnerability management.

I am an Engineering Manager at RapidFort, where I lead the India Technology Center and work on runtime-driven container security, vulnerability management, and image hardening for Kubernetes environments. My focus is on reducing CVE noise by correlat... Show more

Dr. Frank Munz works on large-scale data and AI at Databricks. He authored three computer science books, built up technical evangelism for Amazon Web Services in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and once upon a time worked as a data scientist with a group that won a Nobel prize.

Frank realized his dream to speak at top-notch conferences such as Devoxx, Kubecon, and Java One on every continent (except Antarctica because it is too cold there). He holds a Ph.D. with summa cum laude in Computer Science from TU Munich. Enjoys skiing in the Alps, tapas in Spain, and exploring secret beaches in SE Asia.

Dr. Frank Munz works on large-scale data and AI at Databricks. He authored three computer science books, built up technical evangelism for Amazon Web Services in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and once upon a time worked as a data scientist with ... Show more

Shivji Kumar Jha is a Staff Engineer at Nutanix, where he leads the charter for analytics, time-series, and streaming platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. He focuses on building scalable ingestion systems and designing high-performance OLAP architectures, with deep hands-on experience extending ClickHouse for production-grade analytics. A contributor to Apache Pulsar, MySQL, and ClickHouse, Shiv approaches distributed systems as a builder—prototyping core components, shaping system design, and driving platform evolution from the ground up.

Beyond engineering, Shiv is an active community leader and speaker. He has delivered 30+ talks at conferences including ApacheCon, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, and Postgres community events. He also curates deep-tech meetups in Bangalore, bringing together practitioners passionate about databases, streaming systems, and open-source infrastructure

Shivji Kumar Jha is a Staff Engineer at Nutanix, where he leads the charter for analytics, time-series, and streaming platforms across cloud and on-prem environments. He focuses on building scalable ingestion systems and designing high-performance OL... 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

Prakash Rao is a Principal Cloud Engineer with an impressive tenure designing advanced cloud-based solutions. Currently excelling at AIG, Prakash showcases his expert knowledge in automation and configuration management in cloud platforms, notably AWS. He is highly experienced in transforming complex IT infrastructures into optimized, scalable cloud environments.

Prakash Rao is a Principal Cloud Engineer with an impressive tenure designing advanced cloud-based solutions. Currently excelling at AIG, Prakash showcases his expert knowledge in automation and configuration management in cloud platforms, notably AW... Show more

Abhishek Kumar is an LFX Mentee with the KubeEdge SIG AI community, where he led efforts to restore and modernize the distributed synergy AI benchmarking toolkit. His work focused on debugging dependencies, fixing broken examples, and automating CI/CD for long-term project stability. With a passion for making edge computing approachable, he brings hands-on experience in Python environments, GitHub Actions, and distributed AI systems and shares lessons on tackling technical debt in open-source.

Abhishek Kumar is an LFX Mentee with the KubeEdge SIG AI community, where he led efforts to restore and modernize the distributed synergy AI benchmarking toolkit. His work focused on debugging dependencies, fixing broken examples, and automating CI/C... Show more

Pavneet is a Sr. PRODUCT MANAGER at Azure Kubernetes Service focusing on Scale and Performance. He has 4 years of experience working in containers and cloud platform. Prior to that he worked in Digital marketing, and data science and co-founded 2 startups with successful exits.

Pavneet is a Sr. PRODUCT MANAGER at Azure Kubernetes Service focusing on Scale and Performance. He has 4 years of experience working in containers and cloud platform. Prior to that he worked in Digital marketing, and data science and co-founded 2 sta... Show more

Pavan Madduri is a Platform Engineer at Grainger and a CNCF Golden Kubestronaut, one of an elite group globally recognized for mastering the full spectrum of Kubernetes expertise. With over 11 years of experience across AWS and Azure, Pavan specializes in architecting resilient, cloud-native platforms and high-velocity CI/CD ecosystems for the enterprise.

A dedicated contributor to the cloud-native community, he has made significant impacts on CNCF projects like Dragonfly,Keda, Volcano focusing on optimizing container image distribution at scale. At Grainger, he bridges the gap between complex infrastructure and developer productivity, leveraging advanced observability and autoscaling to drive performance. Pavan is a frequent speaker and thought leader committed to advancing the global standard for platform engineering.

Pavan Madduri is a Platform Engineer at Grainger and a CNCF Golden Kubestronaut, one of an elite group globally recognized for mastering the full spectrum of Kubernetes expertise. With over 11 years of experience across AWS and Azure, Pavan specializ... Show more

I’m a Cloud and DevSecOps enthusiast with a strong passion for Kubernetes and the broader cloud-native ecosystem. A continuous learner at heart, I thrive on exploring new technologies and staying updated in this rapidly evolving space. I enjoy attending technology conferences, not just to expand my knowledge, but also to connect with like-minded professionals and exchange knowledge and ideas.

I’m a Cloud and DevSecOps enthusiast with a strong passion for Kubernetes and the broader cloud-native ecosystem. A continuous learner at heart, I thrive on exploring new technologies and staying updated in this rapidly evolving space. I enjoy attend... Show more

Mohammad Imran is a dedicated professional, who is DevOps Engineer and also the Co-Founder and Community Manager of GrowInCommunity, an inclusive open-source community. He is also a recognized AWS Community Builder.
Imran's journey in technology reflects his unwavering commitment to self-improvement and continuous learning. He has successfully transitioned from Civil Engineering into the field of DevOps and Golang development.
Imran believes in learning in public, sharing his knowledge & experiences with the community.

Mohammad Imran is a dedicated professional, who is DevOps Engineer and also the Co-Founder and Community Manager of GrowInCommunity, an inclusive open-source community. He is also a recognized AWS Community Builder. Imran's journey in technology ref... Show more

I've more than 18 years of experience defining and implementing software architectures by leading
high-performance teams and improving best practices for software development. I help connect people
with technology by bringing value to their businesses. Passionate about cloud computing, Kubernetes, AI,
and distributed systems. I have presented as a speaker at several events, including KubeCon, KCD NY, OSS, and others.
I am Project Maintainer for Kubeflow.

I've more than 18 years of experience defining and implementing software architectures by leading high-performance teams and improving best practices for software development. I help connect people with technology by bringing value to their busines... Show more

Ronit Banerjee is a DevOps Engineer (R&D) at Keysight Technologies and a CNCF Ambassador passionate about cloud-native ecosystems and open source. Based in Kolkata, India, he leads the Cloud Native Hooghly community chapter. Ronit has been a Google Summer of Code Mentor at DBpedia since 2024. He is also a UbuCon Global Committee member and organiser, and has volunteered with CNCF's SIG Contribex at KubeCon Contributor Summits.

Ronit Banerjee is a DevOps Engineer (R&D) at Keysight Technologies and a CNCF Ambassador passionate about cloud-native ecosystems and open source. Based in Kolkata, India, he leads the Cloud Native Hooghly community chapter. Ronit has been a Google S... Show more

Christopher Nuland is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager for AI at Red Hat. He specializes in cloud-native migrations, metrics-driven transformations, and the deployment and management of modern AI platforms as a Senior Architect working almost exclusively with Fortune 50 companies. Christopher has spoken worldwide on the adoption of AI platforms at conferences such as KubeCon EU/US, IBM Think, PyTorch Con, and Red Hat Summit.

Christopher Nuland is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager for AI at Red Hat. He specializes in cloud-native migrations, metrics-driven transformations, and the deployment and management of modern AI platforms as a Senior Architect working almost ... Show more

Anita is a developer advocate and technical writer specializing in cloud native and DevOps engineering. She champions the growth and adoption of cloud-native solutions in Africa as an organizer of Kubernetes Community Days(KCD) Nigeria and the CNCF Abuja community group. She is an Open source evangelist and has led great efforts around DEI, Documentation, and Community growth. She has spoken at various international conferences, like KubeCon and DevConf.cz, FOSSBackstage, FOSDEM, and more.

Anita is a developer advocate and technical writer specializing in cloud native and DevOps engineering. She champions the growth and adoption of cloud-native solutions in Africa as an organizer of Kubernetes Community Days(KCD) Nigeria and the CNCF A... Show more

Raj is a Former Principal Specialist SA at AWS, and Distinguished Cloud Architect at Verizon. Raj has architected high profile applications serving millions of customers. He is a published instructor on Kubernetes, Serverless, DevOps, and System Design, has published blogs, and presented well-received talks at major events, including AWS Re:Invent, Kubecon, AWS Summits, etc. Raj is passionate about teaching newcomers about cloud and Kubernetes, and does so using his YouTube channel "Cloud With Raj" which has over 120,000 subscribers.

Raj is a Former Principal Specialist SA at AWS, and Distinguished Cloud Architect at Verizon. Raj has architected high profile applications serving millions of customers. He is a published instructor on Kubernetes, Serverless, DevOps, and System Desi... Show more

AI Lead Engineer at OpenText with 7+ years of experience building agentic AI systems, RAG pipelines, and secure MLOps architectures across companies including Dell Technologies and Quest Software. Published researcher in NLP and AI security, co-inventor of patents on AI agent orchestration, and holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence with First Class Honours from Munster Technological University. Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and scheduled speaker at KubeCon 2026 in the Netherlands.

AI Lead Engineer at OpenText with 7+ years of experience building agentic AI systems, RAG pipelines, and secure MLOps architectures across companies including Dell Technologies and Quest Software. Published researcher in NLP and AI security, co-inven... Show more

Alessandro Pilotti is the CEO of Cloudbase Solutions, a company focused on cloud computing interoperability with a strong open source contribution background, especially around OpenStack, Kubernetes and Ceph. Alessandro has been a speaker for many years at key international industry conferences, including the OpenStack / OpenInfra Summits, Cephalocon, //Build, Oracle OpenWorld, KubeCon and many other cloud related events. He recently completed a Master of Research (MRes) in Bioinformatics at Birkbeck, University of London, where his research focused on applying AI/ML methodologies to immunology.

Alessandro Pilotti is the CEO of Cloudbase Solutions, a company focused on cloud computing interoperability with a strong open source contribution background, especially around OpenStack, Kubernetes and Ceph. Alessandro has been a speaker for many ye... Show more

Amine is a Platform Engineer at Air France-KLM and an open-source enthusiast passionate about Kubernetes, GoLang and cloud native tooling. As CNCF-certified Kubestronauts, Amine has completed all five official Kubernetes certifications. This will be their first KubeCon talk, motivated by a strong desire to share real-world insights and contribute back to the community. He aspired to become a CNCF Ambassador and actively promote knowledge sharing and open collaboration.

Amine is a Platform Engineer at Air France-KLM and an open-source enthusiast passionate about Kubernetes, GoLang and cloud native tooling. As CNCF-certified Kubestronauts, Amine has completed all five official Kubernetes certifications. This will be ... Show more

- CNCF AI Working Group Member

- DaoCloud Software Engineering VP

- Regular KubeCon "Program Committee" : 2023 EU, 2024 HK, 2024 India, 2025 EU
- Regular KubeCon Speaker: 2023 SH, 2024 EU, 2024 HK
- CNCF wg-AI (AI Working-Group) member + CNAI white-paper co-author
- Maintainer of below CNCF projects : cloudtty, kubean, hwameistor
- GithubID: panpan0000

- CNCF AI Working Group Member - DaoCloud Software Engineering VP - Regular KubeCon "Program Committee" : 2023 EU, 2024 HK, 2024 India, 2025 EU - Regular KubeCon Speaker: 2023 SH, 2024 EU, 2024 HK - CNCF wg-AI (AI Working-Group) member + CNAI... Show more

Yuval Lifshitz works as a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. His current focus is enriching the Ceph ecosystem by adding connectivity between the Rados Object Gateway and external message brokers (Kafka, Knative, RabbitMQ, etc.). He also added Lua scripting into the Rados Object Gateway to allow users customized behavior and more ecosystem interactions.
Yuval did public speaking in: Kubecon, Cephalocon, Open Source Summit, FOSDEM and local events.

Yuval Lifshitz works as a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. His current focus is enriching the Ceph ecosystem by adding connectivity between the Rados Object Gateway and external message brokers (Kafka, Knative, RabbitMQ, etc.). He also added Lua... Show more

Paolo is a Senior Principal Software Engineer working for IBM on the messaging and data streaming team. He is a maintainer of Strimzi, a CNCF incubating project for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes using operators. In his previous role, he worked on different integration projects such as an AMQP bridge for Apache Kafka and Spark, and on the EnMasse messaging-as-a-service project to enable the integration with MQTT. He is also a maintainer for different IoT related components in Eclipse Vert.x and Eclipse Paho projects. He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences about Kafka, Strimzi, and IoT, including KubeCon and DevNation. Finally, he is CNCF ambassador and he is a former Microsoft MVP for the Azure category (for 11 years).

Paolo is a Senior Principal Software Engineer working for IBM on the messaging and data streaming team. He is a maintainer of Strimzi, a CNCF incubating project for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes using operators. In his previous role, he worked o... Show more

Kailun Qin is a maintainer of Gramine Library OS (https://github.com/gramineproject), leading the development and innovation for its SGX and TDX backends at Intel Product Assurance and Security Group.

Kailun has published research in ACM (CCS, Middleware) and IEEE (SRDS, CLOUD, TDSC) and given 10+ talks at conferences including KubeCon, Cloud Native SecurityCon, IstioCon and OpenInfra Summit. He has also contributed to RISC-V CoVE and OCI specifications to help shape the future of secure systems.

Kailun Qin is a maintainer of Gramine Library OS (https://github.com/gramineproject), leading the development and innovation for its SGX and TDX backends at Intel Product Assurance and Security Group. Kailun has published research in ACM (CCS, Mid... Show more

Imre is Google Developer Expert in cloud category and also Cloud Platform Engineer at GoTo Financial, Indonesia. He has several years of experience building infrastructure at any scale and developing platforms to improve developer productivity and enable infrastructure migrations. He also talked at several notable conferences like GopherCon and KubeCon NA.

Imre recently moved to Baltimore. Prior to this, Imre was an active community contributor and also the first Google Developer Expert Cloud from Jakarta, Indonesia.

Imre is Google Developer Expert in cloud category and also Cloud Platform Engineer at GoTo Financial, Indonesia. He has several years of experience building infrastructure at any scale and developing platforms to improve developer productivity and en... Show more

Shankar specializes in 5G, ORAN & eBPF. He has contributed to multiple open-source projects & has experience in eBPF testing with multiple 5G UPF, ORAN E2E testing & working with commercial Radio Units, presented on many topics at various industry events, including CNCF Meetups & OpenInfra Days & is a TSC Member at L3AF and 5G-SBP project under LFN. He was invited to speak at DNTF(Budapest), OpenSSL Conference(Czechia), etc. where he delivered talks on implementing eBPF on Windows and PQC Migration Strategies.

Shankar specializes in 5G, ORAN & eBPF. He has contributed to multiple open-source projects & has experience in eBPF testing with multiple 5G UPF, ORAN E2E testing & working with commercial Radio Units, presented on many topics at various industry ev... Show more

Sampath Rajapakse is a Technical Lead at WSO2, with expertise in API Management and API/AI/Kubernetes Gateway solutions.

He has been a part of the WSO2 API Manager product team for over seven years, playing a key role in the design and development of core features for WSO2 API Manager, Microgateway, and Kubernetes Gateway(APK) and API Platform.

He has represented WSO2 at industry events such as APIDays NY 2025 as a speaker and in KubeCon North America 2024 and EU London 2024 showcasing product advancements in API management and AI technologies.

Sampath Rajapakse is a Technical Lead at WSO2, with expertise in API Management and API/AI/Kubernetes Gateway solutions. He has been a part of the WSO2 API Manager product team for over seven years, playing a key role in the design and development... Show more

Yash is working with Google as Software Engineer, and has 8 years of industrial experience with cloud architectures and micro-service development across Google and VMware.

He is been a speaker at multiple international conferences such as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon and Serverless Practitioners Summit for some of his open source projects and contributions across open source projects like K8s.

He is currently working with Security Command Center, a cloud security offering by Google Compute Platform.

Yash is working with Google as Software Engineer, and has 8 years of industrial experience with cloud architectures and micro-service development across Google and VMware. He is been a speaker at multiple international conferences such as KubeCon ... Show more

I'm Felix, a 28-year-old golden Kubestronaut who is really enthusiastic about all things Dev and DevOps. I like taking on challenging tasks and working through challenging issues.

In my spare time, I enjoy diving into books on new topics and have been happily running my own k8s cluster as a homelab for years. I started programming when I was fifteen, and I truly enjoy exploring new technologies and subjects all the time!

Outside of work, I spend time with my Labrador, Fred, and occasionally play chess—though I’m not particularly great at it! I thoroughly enjoy attending events like KubeCon to expand my network and deepen my knowledge.

I'm Felix, a 28-year-old golden Kubestronaut who is really enthusiastic about all things Dev and DevOps. I like taking on challenging tasks and working through challenging issues. In my spare time, I enjoy diving into books on new topics and have... Show more