I am a Cloud Architect and Digital Transformation advocate, blogger, author and speaker. I have a particular interest for Hybrid Architectures, Modern Authentication & Security in general. I am a Kubernetes lover and an AI enthusiast. I manage to interact with every architecture stakeholder (EA, Security, Infra, Application) as well as C-levels. I cover the full spectrum as I am equally proficient in development, infrastructure and security.

Key competences : Mentoring, Results Driven, Technology Enthusiast and Cloud-minded.

I am a Cloud Architect and Digital Transformation advocate, blogger, author and speaker. I have a particular interest for Hybrid Architectures, Modern Authentication & Security in general. I am a Kubernetes lover and an AI enthusiast. I manage to int... Show more

Sai Mahit Vudi is a Cloud-Native Data Platform Engineer with over nine years of experience designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise-scale data platforms and high-throughput service infrastructure. He currently serves as a Lead Engineer at Fidelity Investments (contractor via Themesoft Inc.), where he architected the distributed caching layer, configurable canary routing infrastructure, and RushHour load-testing methodology powering a customer-facing enrichment API sustaining 6,000 RPS at P95 ≤ 80 ms latency in regulated financial services.
His technical focus centers on cloud-native distributed data platforms on AWS, high-throughput synchronous service infrastructure at SLA-bound scale, and machine learning operationalization at enterprise scale. He has extensive expertise with Apache Spark, PySpark, Hadoop, Airflow, NiFi, Databricks, Spring Boot, Kubernetes and AWS EKS, OpenTelemetry-based observability, and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform.
Across prior engagements with Nike (via Populus Group) and Novartis (via Soft Standard Solutions), Sai led machine learning operationalization work migrating R and Python data-science models into PySpark and H2O AI at enterprise scale and owned production Hadoop-on-AWS infrastructure in regulated pharmaceutical contexts. His experience spans financial services, healthcare, and retail, with particular emphasis on production data platforms serving customer-facing digital surfaces at Fortune-100 scale.
Sai speaks and writes on cloud-native observability, cost-aware architectural design (FinOps), distributed caching patterns for microservices, and machine learning operationalization for enterprise data platforms. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Lamar University and has published peer-reviewed research on signal processing and simulation techniques.

Sai Mahit Vudi is a Cloud-Native Data Platform Engineer with over nine years of experience designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise-scale data platforms and high-throughput service infrastructure. He currently serves as a Lead Engineer at Fid... Show more

Samuel is a Staff Software Engineer and CEO of Pisgah AI who has built software and infrastructure solutions for over six years across various industries, including fintech, healthtech, AI companies, Web3, and, most recently, healthtech. He has a flair for developer communities, platform engineering, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, and software.

Samuel is a Staff Software Engineer and CEO of Pisgah AI who has built software and infrastructure solutions for over six years across various industries, including fintech, healthtech, AI companies, Web3, and, most recently, healthtech. He has a fla... Show more

Aris is a Staff Software Engineer at RudderStack with over 20 years of experience building scalable, high-performance systems across telecommunications, banking, European institutions, and data infrastructure. A core contributor to the open-source rudder-server, he specializes in Go, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Aris is passionate about designing elegant solutions, driving engineering best practices, and sharing insights on scalable data pipelines, enterprise DevOps, and software architecture.

Aris is a Staff Software Engineer at RudderStack with over 20 years of experience building scalable, high-performance systems across telecommunications, banking, European institutions, and data infrastructure. A core contributor to the open-source ru... Show more

I am Kritik Sachdeva, and I am working as a Support Professional at IBM. I have been working on ceph & Openshift for three years now, and I started my journey in technology like k8s, containers, cloud or automation since my college.

Since, then I love to explore more in the domain of integrating multiple technologies together to solve a dedicated problem and use AI tools to make to improve the efficiency.

Over the past 2 years, I have give multiple sessions in community on different topics such as DevOps, Ceph Storage, Cloud Computing at GDSC CU. And these past sessions helped me to grow my knowledge, inspired me to share my knowledge in the community.

I am Kritik Sachdeva, and I am working as a Support Professional at IBM. I have been working on ceph & Openshift for three years now, and I started my journey in technology like k8s, containers, cloud or automation since my college. Since, then I... Show more

Pavneet is a Staff Product manager at Together AI leading IaaS and GPU clusters product for AI native startups. Previously he was a product lead at Azure Kubernetes Service focusing on Scale and Performance. He has 7 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 Staff Product manager at Together AI leading IaaS and GPU clusters product for AI native startups. Previously he was a product lead at Azure Kubernetes Service focusing on Scale and Performance. He has 7 years of experience working in co... Show more

Gaurav Saxena is an engineering leader in the field of platform and cloud engineering with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. His technical expertise includes Stream-based architectures, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Software Supply Chain Security, and Observability.

Gaurav Saxena is an engineering leader in the field of platform and cloud engineering with over 20 years of experience in the software industry. His technical expertise includes Stream-based architectures, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Software Supply Ch... Show more

Cloud / Site Reliability Engineer with 3+ years supporting enterprise systems across banking, fintech, and telecom. Strong in AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, incident response, CloudWatch observability, Python automation, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and database migrations (DMS for PostgreSQL/MySQL). Delivered 35% cost reduction, improved uptime and incident recovery through monitoring, automation, and operational hardening.

Cloud / Site Reliability Engineer with 3+ years supporting enterprise systems across banking, fintech, and telecom. Strong in AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, incident response, CloudWatch observability, Python automation, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation),... Show more

Emanuel is a Microsoft MVP who loves to solve problems using code. Whether it's Infrastructure-as-Code, pipeline automation or cloud native platforms, with PowerShell, Bicep and C# as his tools of choice he soars through the clouds of Azure on a daily basis.

He works at Unwonted in Sweden as a Cloud Specialist, enjoys public speaking and he blogs about Azure, PowerShell, .NET and various IT adventures on https://pipe.how. He enjoys open source, roasts his own coffee, plays D&D and sometimes combines his interests into quirky apps.

Maintainer of open source tools such as the PowerShell modules PSBicep, AzAuth and AzBobbyTables.

Emanuel is a Microsoft MVP who loves to solve problems using code. Whether it's Infrastructure-as-Code, pipeline automation or cloud native platforms, with PowerShell, Bicep and C# as his tools of choice he soars through the clouds of Azure on a dail... Show more

Matthew Cascio leads product teams that go-to-market with award-winning customer experiences for the world’s most-recognized brands. Matt values people and relationships first, providing vision, strategy and leadership that drives value at scale. He’s an organizer of Kubernetes Community Days in both Washington, DC and Medellín, Colombia. Matt is a proud CNCF Ambassador.

Matthew Cascio leads product teams that go-to-market with award-winning customer experiences for the world’s most-recognized brands. Matt values people and relationships first, providing vision, strategy and leadership that drives value at scale. He’... Show more

I'm Dheeraj, a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I contribute to open-source projects like Konflux—an all-in-one solution for securely building, testing, and deploying source code through CI/CD—and Conforma, which enables orgs to verify supply chain artifacts and enforce build and test policies in a scalable, declarative way.

My tech journey is driven by a passion for open source—I began as a GSoC 2022 contributor with Jenkins and later returned as a mentor to give back to the community.

I'm Dheeraj, a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I contribute to open-source projects like Konflux—an all-in-one solution for securely building, testing, and deploying source code through CI/CD—and Conforma, which enables orgs to verify supply chai... Show more

Grad student at MIT. Supply-chain security researcher. 24 published CVEs credited by name, including a critical authorization flaw in pgAdmin 4 and several in Red Hat products, where the vendor advisories carry a named acknowledgement. Over 650 merged contributions across 200 open-source organizations including apache, google, kubernetes-sigs, containerd, prometheus, sigstore, OWASP, NASA and NIST, most of them security or supply-chain hardening. Builds mitigation-aware CI/CD vulnerability scanners. Active contributor to CNCF, sigstore and SLSA, OpenSSF, and US federal government projects.

Grad student at MIT. Supply-chain security researcher. 24 published CVEs credited by name, including a critical authorization flaw in pgAdmin 4 and several in Red Hat products, where the vendor advisories carry a named acknowledgement. Over 650 merge... Show more

I am a Tech Lead and Platform Engineer based in the Netherlands with over a decade of experience in software development and cloud infrastructure. I specialize in Go, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation. I build open-source tools including Deployah, Nabat, Wait4X, Rivaas, and Gopherly, focused on simplifying deployment, CLI development, and platform operations. I am passionate about developer experience and reducing complexity in cloud-native workflows.

I am a Tech Lead and Platform Engineer based in the Netherlands with over a decade of experience in software development and cloud infrastructure. I specialize in Go, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation. I build open-source tools including Depl... Show more

I work at the intersection of large-scale data engineering, cloud platforms, and applied AI. I currently build and lead modern data platforms at a major U.S. bank, where I design Lakehouse and streaming architectures that operate at multi-billion-record scale across cloud environments.
My background spans the full evolution of enterprise data systems, from mainframe and Teradata warehouses to cloud-native lakehouses built on Spark, Iceberg, Kafka, and Kubernetes. Over the past decade, my work has focused on building production-grade data platforms: high-throughput ingestion pipelines, real-time analytics systems, and ML-ready data infrastructure used by data scientists, analysts, and AI teams.
In addition to data engineering, I have deep experience in full-stack platform development using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern front-end frameworks. This allows me to design data systems not just as pipelines, but as products — complete with APIs, services, governance layers, and developer tooling.
My current interests include open table formats (Apache Iceberg), lakehouse architecture, metadata-driven governance, and building scalable AI-ready data platforms. I enjoy sharing practical lessons from real production systems — what works, what breaks, and how to design data infrastructure that lasts.

I work at the intersection of large-scale data engineering, cloud platforms, and applied AI. I currently build and lead modern data platforms at a major U.S. bank, where I design Lakehouse and streaming architectures that operate at multi-billion-rec... Show more

Graduate student researcher focused on scheduling and performance optimization for LLM inference engines. Delved into Kubernetes projects hands-on, working with OS and cloud infrastructure at Nvidia and Portworx by Everpure.

Graduate student researcher focused on scheduling and performance optimization for LLM inference engines. Delved into Kubernetes projects hands-on, working with OS and cloud infrastructure at Nvidia and Portworx by Everpure. Show more

Sergey is a product leader focusing on delivering robust open-source solutions. After having consistently contributed to the growth of Percona and its product open source culture as a VP of Product, he is now leading the OpenEverest open source database platform. Digital nomad, who enjoys spreading the word about data on Kubernetes.

Sergey is a product leader focusing on delivering robust open-source solutions. After having consistently contributed to the growth of Percona and its product open source culture as a VP of Product, he is now leading the OpenEverest open source datab... Show more

Jorge works as a Customer Delivery Software Architect at Cisco CX. He helps customers to adopt DevOps practices in their Data-Center Automation journey. He is passionate about Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes networking and CI/CD processes. During his free-time he is either learning how to improve his coding skills or reading Geopolitics books. Jorge holds a Master in Communications Engineering from the Technical University of Munich.

Jorge works as a Customer Delivery Software Architect at Cisco CX. He helps customers to adopt DevOps practices in their Data-Center Automation journey. He is passionate about Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes networking and CI/CD processes. During ... Show more

Principal SRE at Bitso and CNCF Ambassador. Working in the field since 2006, working with containers and Kubernetes in production since 2018. Content creator in YouTube and passionate about Open Source.

Principal SRE at Bitso and CNCF Ambassador. Working in the field since 2006, working with containers and Kubernetes in production since 2018. Content creator in YouTube and passionate about Open Source. Show more

Isala’s Linux and open-source journey began in his early teens. As a certified Kubernetes administrator (CKA/CKS), he’s spent 7+ years in the ecosystem as an SRE, building tools for SUSE’s Rancher and creating open-source projects like lazy-koala and GhostWatch. Passionate about AIOps and eBPF, he’s now focused on enhancing WSO2’s observability stack, blending cutting-edge tech with practical solutions to simplify cloud-native troubleshooting and system insights.

Isala’s Linux and open-source journey began in his early teens. As a certified Kubernetes administrator (CKA/CKS), he’s spent 7+ years in the ecosystem as an SRE, building tools for SUSE’s Rancher and creating open-source projects like lazy-koala and... Show more

Tuomo is a telecom software engineer with 20+ years of hands-on experience across major industry giants. With vast and versatile experience in product security, incident response, and penetration testing, he is currently a Principal Security Developer at Ericsson and is Maintainer and Security Lead for Metal3.io, CNCF Incubating project. Tuomo drives contributions to FOSS projects that enhance security, compliance and scalability, and is deeply involved in AI SecOps.

Tuomo is a telecom software engineer with 20+ years of hands-on experience across major industry giants. With vast and versatile experience in product security, incident response, and penetration testing, he is currently a Principal Security Develope... Show more

Technology professional with 7+ years of cloud infrastructure experience, including 4 years at Microsoft and currently 3+ years as a Solutions Architect on AWS specialized on software companies building SaaS B2B products. Throughout my career, I've helped organizations architect scalable, resilient cloud solutions across diverse services and technologies. My expertise and passion focus on three key areas: platform engineering, Kubernetes orchestration, and AI/ML implementations. I'm dedicated to building robust platforms that enable development teams to deploy and scale applications efficiently while leveraging cutting-edge AI capabilities to drive business value.

Technology professional with 7+ years of cloud infrastructure experience, including 4 years at Microsoft and currently 3+ years as a Solutions Architect on AWS specialized on software companies building SaaS B2B products. Throughout my career, I've h... Show more

Kfir Toledo is an AI platform researcher at IBM Research Israel and a contributor to llm-d, vLLM, and the Gateway API Inference Extension. His work focuses on AI inference, AI networking, and multi-cloud systems, with a particular interest in making large-scale LLM inference affordable on commodity Kubernetes clusters. Before IBM, he worked at AWS. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Kfir Toledo is an AI platform researcher at IBM Research Israel and a contributor to llm-d, vLLM, and the Gateway API Inference Extension. His work focuses on AI inference, AI networking, and multi-cloud systems, with a particular interest in making ... Show more

Ezra Silvera is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research. His interests include AI inference, RL post training, AI infrastructure and cloud management. Ezra is passionate about open-source technologies and has been involved in several notable open source projects such as llm-d , Kubevirt, Docker, and more. Ezra is a maintainer of the Kubestellar project, and lately also focuses in ways to leverage Kubernetes to manage AI workloads.

Ezra Silvera is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research. His interests include AI inference, RL post training, AI infrastructure and cloud management. Ezra is passionate about open-source technologies and has been involved in several notable ... Show more

I am a Software engineer on Akamai's managed Kubernetes platform team that works on building an opinionated K8s platform, including autoscaling, GitOps-driven cluster lifecycle, and custom Operators, giving users with a clear golden path to deploy containerized applications.

I'm also interested in the intersection of AI and Infrastructure particularly agentic management of infrastructure itself.

Outside of tech I love to sketch and paint. I also enjoy hiking and playing soccer in my free time.

I am a Software engineer on Akamai's managed Kubernetes platform team that works on building an opinionated K8s platform, including autoscaling, GitOps-driven cluster lifecycle, and custom Operators, giving users with a clear golden path to deploy co... Show more

Vinod Vydier is an Observability Architect at Splunk. He works in Cloud Native and container/Kubernetes environments and has been OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry contributor/approver since 2017. He works with some of the largest companies in Financial sector and helping them in their cloud journey and adopting Opentelemetry based Observability solutions in their environments. He is also the organizer for the local STL chapter of CNCF meetup and STL Go meetups.

Vinod Vydier is an Observability Architect at Splunk. He works in Cloud Native and container/Kubernetes environments and has been OpenTracing and OpenTelemetry contributor/approver since 2017. He works with some of the largest companies in Financial ... Show more

I'm an entrepreneur dedicated to developing and delivering highly available DevOps-centric tools and software, strongly emphasizing OpenSource principles and active contributions to the community.
I firmly believe in the transformative power of DevOps and OpenSource to drive innovation, foster collaboration, and create impactful solutions, I love to learn and talk about Containerization, Docker, Cloud Technologies, Kubernetes, The CNCF, AI & ML, and more.

I'm an entrepreneur dedicated to developing and delivering highly available DevOps-centric tools and software, strongly emphasizing OpenSource principles and active contributions to the community. I firmly believe in the transformative power of Dev... Show more

Madison Grubb is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Elastiflow, working on network observability for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. He helps bridge the gap between network operations and the observability stack teams already run, and contributes to elementary OS whenever he has some free time. He is based out of Macon, Georgia.

Madison Grubb is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Elastiflow, working on network observability for Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure. He helps bridge the gap between network operations and the observability stack teams already run, and ... Show more

Umang Kedia is a Principal Cloud Developer at HPE's Office of the CTO, where he works on innovations in AI, security, and hybrid cloud. He holds CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, and AWS Solutions Architect Professional certifications. Umang has deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native security, and agentic AI frameworks. He is passionate about building secure, scalable systems and sharing practical solutions with the community.

Umang Kedia is a Principal Cloud Developer at HPE's Office of the CTO, where he works on innovations in AI, security, and hybrid cloud. He holds CKAD, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, and AWS Solutions Architect Professional certifications. Umang h... Show more

Direttore dell'area tecnology con responsabilità anche del project management, nel suo passato ha "messo il naso" su tutto: grafica 2d e 3d, frontend, sysadmin, dbadmin. Alla fine si è deciso a specializzarsi in ambito sviluppo, prima con tecnologie Microsoft, poi su praticamente qualsiasi linguaggio sia riuscito a provare. Inoltre, adora devops e Kubernetes.

Direttore dell'area tecnology con responsabilità anche del project management, nel suo passato ha "messo il naso" su tutto: grafica 2d e 3d, frontend, sysadmin, dbadmin. Alla fine si è deciso a specializzarsi in ambito sviluppo, prima con tecnologie ... Show more

Chai Jun Kin is a Platform Engineer and open-source advocate who believes in automating everything. With expertise spanning cloud and on-prem environments, he bridges the gap between enterprise Platform and hobbyist HomeOps, managing his own self-hosted Kubernetes cluster to stay on the bleeding edge of cloud-native tech.

Chai Jun Kin is a Platform Engineer and open-source advocate who believes in automating everything. With expertise spanning cloud and on-prem environments, he bridges the gap between enterprise Platform and hobbyist HomeOps, managing his own self-hos... Show more