Payal Godhani is a Principal Member and Architect of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Deployment Service, specializing in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and cloud-native technologies. She is also a founding member of Women in Tech Network. Her focus is on architecting efficient DevOps deployment services for distributed systems, optimizing Kubernetes environments, and ensuring reliable CI/CD automation. She leads teams in designing scalable, innovative solutions that enhance the deployment and management of cloud-native applications.
She is speaker of KCD Events Texas , KCD Washington, Conf42, and upcoming STARWest 2025, Kubecon NorthAmerica 2025 .

Payal Godhani is a Principal Member and Architect of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps Deployment Service, specializing in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and cloud-native technologies. She is also a founding member of Women in Tech Network. Her fo... Show more

Hi, I am Nikunj Goyal, a Machine Learning and Systems Engineer at Adobe, building scalable products at the intersection of Generative AI and vector graphics. My work spans full-stack engineering, model training, GPU optimization, and vector graphics bringing creative tools to life with deep learning.

I have been a speaker at KubeCon North America, Europe, and India speaking on topics such as GPU scheduling, intelligent orchestration, and AI in cloud-native areas. I love to explore more of cloud native stuff and be part of vibrant CNCF community.

Hi, I am Nikunj Goyal, a Machine Learning and Systems Engineer at Adobe, building scalable products at the intersection of Generative AI and vector graphics. My work spans full-stack engineering, model training, GPU optimization, and vector graphics ... Show more

I am a Principal Product Manager working on our Cloud Native Platforms and AKS. My role is to support our customer and community efforts. I have been working in technology for over 25 years and have a mixed background from application development to infrastructure. I am based in Denver, CO.

I have spoken at a number of public events including KubeCon (Austin, Copenhagen, Shanghai, & San Diego) as well as the Open Source Summit (Tokyo, Scotland, & San Diego).

I am a Principal Product Manager working on our Cloud Native Platforms and AKS. My role is to support our customer and community efforts. I have been working in technology for over 25 years and have a mixed background from application development to ... Show more

I have a proven track record in transforming, scaling and managing large and distributed organisations operating in complex regulatory environments. What sets me apart is my ability to drive change at the intersection of business and technology. With a legacy of scaling engineering teams and managing complex transformations, I excel in integrating strategic thinking with hands-on expertise in AI, DevOps, and cloud solutions.

Over the last 15 years I have built and led engineering teams in Financial Services and Insurance, cloud infrastructure and startups. I also contributed to global communities such as Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF), co-authored several research papers on AIOps and Decision Making and publicly spoken on different events such as Kubecon, Deloitte NextGen(AI) Cloud Transformation Summit and Cloud Native Days.

I have a proven track record in transforming, scaling and managing large and distributed organisations operating in complex regulatory environments. What sets me apart is my ability to drive change at the intersection of business and technology. With... Show more

Ryan Carl is a software engineer with over 12 years of experience. He has a strong background in full stack application development in multiple different languages and platforms. In his free time, Ryan contributes to open source projects and explores new technologies.

Ryan Carl is a software engineer with over 12 years of experience. He has a strong background in full stack application development in multiple different languages and platforms. In his free time, Ryan contributes to open source projects and explores... Show more

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I'm an AI Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat and a passionate technologist who believes in the power of integration to transform businesses. With a rich background in middleware and software development, I've evolved my expertise to focus on AI solution architecture, bringing together my love for Apache Camel and integration frameworks with cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies.

I'm an AI Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat and a passionate technologist who believes in the power of integration to transform businesses. With a rich background in middleware and software development, I've evolved my expertise to focus on AI... Show more

Bhavani is a skilled Senior Platform Engineer at DigitalOcean, CNCF Ambassador, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 Co-chair. She also plays an active role as an Organiser at Women in CNCF, championing diversity and community engagement within the cloud-native ecosystem.

Recognised as an inspiring speaker and thought leader, Bhavani passionately shares her expertise on the transformative impact of Platform Engineering and DevOps, empowering audiences to embrace modern engineering practices that drive innovation and scalability.

Bhavani is a skilled Senior Platform Engineer at DigitalOcean, CNCF Ambassador, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 Co-chair. She also plays an active role as an Organiser at Women in CNCF, championing diversity and community engagement within th... Show more

Vedant is a Senior Software Engineer 2 at Harness, where they lead the release and QA efforts for the Chaos Engineering team. With 4 years of hands-on experience in Chaos Engineering, He is also a maintainer of the CNCF incubating project LitmusChaos, contributing to its release, testing, and automation efforts.

They have previously shared their expertise at industry events like ChaosCarnival, LitmusChaosCon, KubeCon India 2024 and KubeCon Europe 2025, bringing insights from their deep involvement in the chaos engineering space.

Vedant is a Senior Software Engineer 2 at Harness, where they lead the release and QA efforts for the Chaos Engineering team. With 4 years of hands-on experience in Chaos Engineering, He is also a maintainer of the CNCF incubating project LitmusChaos... Show more

Mayank is an Architect at Salesforce who is passionate about building large scale distributed systems and policy based datacenter and compute management solutions. He has previously worked at Microsoft and Cisco. He has been an active contributor and reviewer to open source projects like core Kubernetes since its early days. He drives architecture and product strategy for the Salesforce Hyperforce and HyperCompute (managed K8s) offerings. Mayank actively shares his knowledge and his work using blogs and by speaking at conferences like KubeCon, DeveloperWeek Enterprise and CloudWorld. He has spoken previously at four KubeCon sessions.

Mayank is an Architect at Salesforce who is passionate about building large scale distributed systems and policy based datacenter and compute management solutions. He has previously worked at Microsoft and Cisco. He has been an active contributor and... Show more

Liang Yan is a senior software engineer at Coreweave, specializing in AI Infra, heterogeneous architecture acceleration and distributed machine learning systems from the cloud base. He collaborates closely with upstream communities and leading vendors like NVIDIA, AMD and ARM, delivering creative solutions to the teams and customers. He has also been passionate about open source and Linux for over a decade. Liang has delivered insightful presentations at prestigious conferences, including NVIDIA GTC, AI_DEV, KubeCon, LPC, LSFMM, KVM Forum, etc.

Liang Yan is a senior software engineer at Coreweave, specializing in AI Infra, heterogeneous architecture acceleration and distributed machine learning systems from the cloud base. He collaborates closely with upstream communities and leading vendor... Show more

Cassandra Chin is a keynote speaker, book author, podcast host, children's workshop instructor, and a computer science student. She has been teaching technology kids workshops at international conferences since she was 13 years old and is passionate about helping allow women, minorities, and underprivileged students to learn about technology. Her books have been featured at international events like Kubecon + CloudNativeCon and in popular technology shows like theCUBE and Techstrong TV.

Cassandra Chin is a keynote speaker, book author, podcast host, children's workshop instructor, and a computer science student. She has been teaching technology kids workshops at international conferences since she was 13 years old and is passionate ... Show more

During his time at VMware, Naman was one of the early members of the VMware Tanzu's long-term support (LTS) team. He is a Kubernetes org member. He started his open-source journey with CNCF in 2021 with the Google Summer of Code program. He also participated in the Linux Foundation Mentorship Program in Kubernetes in 2021 and shadowed the Kubernetes v1.26 & v1.30 release. He has given multiple talks in past KubeCon(s)

During his time at VMware, Naman was one of the early members of the VMware Tanzu's long-term support (LTS) team. He is a Kubernetes org member. He started his open-source journey with CNCF in 2021 with the Google Summer of Code program. He also part... Show more

I create cool things around the Cloud Native ecosystem, with a strong background in open source technologies, open communities, and modern cloud infrastructure. My expertise spans Kubernetes, Containers, DevOps, observability, SaaS/PaaS, and application modernization. Passionate about open source, I’m active in events like KubeCon and open source meetups. Originally from Brazil and now in Europe, I thrive on building connections through technology and community.

I create cool things around the Cloud Native ecosystem, with a strong background in open source technologies, open communities, and modern cloud infrastructure. My expertise spans Kubernetes, Containers, DevOps, observability, SaaS/PaaS, and applicat... Show more

Eliran is a software craftsman with extensive experience, varying from tech giants such as F5 and VMware and to smallest start-ups, and is heavily involved in the Kubernetes community as presenter at KubeCon and additional Cloud Native events. Eliran is AppsFlyer's Platform Architect and helps promote Cloud Native practices across the engineering organization. Eliran is part of the GopherCon Israel organizing team and is passionate about open source and community engagement. A true tech junkie.

Eliran is a software craftsman with extensive experience, varying from tech giants such as F5 and VMware and to smallest start-ups, and is heavily involved in the Kubernetes community as presenter at KubeCon and additional Cloud Native events. Eliran... Show more

Aleksander Slominski is a Research Staff Member in the Hybrid Cloud Programming Models and Systems department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He works on bringing serverless experience to running HPC and AI workloads in Kubernetes, particpate in open source serverless computing Knative project and presented about building Knative eventing applications during KnativeCon in Kubecon NA 2022. He organizes International Workshops on Serverless Computing (WoSC) to bring together researchers and industry practitioners to discuss their experiences and thoughts on future directions, talk slides are linked from: https://www.serverlesscomputing.org/workshops/

Aleksander Slominski is a Research Staff Member in the Hybrid Cloud Programming Models and Systems department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He works on bringing serverless experience to running HPC and AI workloads in Kubernetes, particpat... Show more

As a core member of the Huawei Cloud Cloud Native Team, I am an open source enthusiast and have been actively involved in open source activities since my student time in the SEL lab of Zhejiang University. I have contributed to major Cloud Native communities such as Prometheus, Istio and Envoy.
My current focus and core contributions are in the field of Cloud Native AI.​ I am deeply engaged in the governance and infrastructure of LLM traffic, serving as the core maintainer of Kthena, a Kubernetes-native LLM inference platform, and was the main author of its router subsystem. Additionally, I contribute as a core maintainer of AgentCube, a subproject under the Volcano community focused on Kubernetes-native orchestration for AI Agent workloads, addressing scheduling and lifecycle management for next-generation interactive AI applications.
Previously, I have also accumulated extensive experience in the Service Mesh domain, where I developed and maintain the open source project Kmesh​ as a core maintainer.
I actively share insights and technical practices within the global cloud native community. I was honored to be a speaker at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025 and KubeCon Europe 2026, discussing topics around sidecarless service mesh and the evolution of cloud-native AI infrastructure.

My Github Profile: https://github.com/YaoZengzeng

As a core member of the Huawei Cloud Cloud Native Team, I am an open source enthusiast and have been actively involved in open source activities since my student time in the SEL lab of Zhejiang University. I have contributed to major Cloud Native com... Show more

Zhuang Zhang is a senior software engineer for Huawei Cloud. He works 100% on open source, focusing on multi-cluster scheduling, AI application deployment, and CI/CD to accelerate the growth and implementation of cloud-native projects. He is now a maintainer of Karmada, a CNCF incubation project.
He actively shares his expertise, having presented Karmada’s use in AI/big data workload deployment at KCD 2025, and the integration of Argo with Karmada at KubeCon EU 2026.

Zhuang Zhang is a senior software engineer for Huawei Cloud. He works 100% on open source, focusing on multi-cluster scheduling, AI application deployment, and CI/CD to accelerate the growth and implementation of cloud-native projects. He is now a ma... Show more

Sung Yun is an Engineering Team Lead at Bloomberg and serves as a PMC member of Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris. He leads Bloomberg’s managed Trino and Iceberg platform, architecting secure, cloud-native data infrastructure for enterprise-scale analytics. His work focuses on integrating Iceberg into enterprise environments with robust authentication, fine-grained authorization, and strong governance models.

Sung actively contributes to Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris and has spoken at Iceberg Summit and KubeCon on building secure, modern data platforms.

Sung Yun is an Engineering Team Lead at Bloomberg and serves as a PMC member of Apache Iceberg and Apache Polaris. He leads Bloomberg’s managed Trino and Iceberg platform, architecting secure, cloud-native data infrastructure for enterprise-scale ana... Show more

Gilles is the co-founder and CTPO of Astran and a speaker at international conferences, including KubeCon Europe 2024, where he has addressed topics related to data confidentiality and operational resilience in multicloud environments. He brings a strong software engineering background and extensive experience from leading software companies, including Salesforce. As the technical and product architect behind Astran’s platform, Gilles leads the design of a secure, cloud-agnostic architecture aimed at addressing modern challenges in data protection, resilience, and large-scale distributed systems. His deep focus on customer needs, combined with a pragmatic and research-driven approach to innovation, positions him at the head of Astran’s Research & Development efforts.

Gilles is the co-founder and CTPO of Astran and a speaker at international conferences, including KubeCon Europe 2024, where he has addressed topics related to data confidentiality and operational resilience in multicloud environments. He brings a st... Show more

I joined Cloud Native Buildpacks in 2021, an open-source project that transforms the application source code into OCI images that can run on any cloud.
I’ve been contributing to several features and bug fixes, but recently, I helped with the effort to improve the multi-architecture support in the project, especially for ARM architecture. During Kubecon NA 2023 I was promoted to Platform maintainer

I joined Cloud Native Buildpacks in 2021, an open-source project that transforms the application source code into OCI images that can run on any cloud. I’ve been contributing to several features and bug fixes, but recently, I helped with the effort ... Show more

Iam Deepak Reddy, GDSC cloud and devops lead , freelancer at upwork my work includes infrastructure management, moniter server using nagios,ci pipelines using Jenkins,Travis ci , provision resources using teraform,ansible , deployments are done in kubernetes,agro cd
Iam very passionate about cloud native technologies and I love community work like conducting event in gdsc , about open source contributions, devops, cloud native..many ,I'm also contributor for kubernetes website repo.

Iam Deepak Reddy, GDSC cloud and devops lead , freelancer at upwork my work includes infrastructure management, moniter server using nagios,ci pipelines using Jenkins,Travis ci , provision resources using teraform,ansible , deployments are done in ku... Show more

Ana Jiménez Santamaría is a Senior Project Manager at the Linux Foundation, where she supports global open source communities and drives strategic initiatives across the TODO Group, the PyTorch Foundation, and the emerging DevRel Foundation (intent-to-form). She collaborates with CTOs, engineering teams, and business units to promote open source management adoption, advocate for the latest frameworks and discussions in Open Source AI (OSAI), and foster innovation through strategic alignment with open source.

Ana brings a background in data science and community health analytics from her time at Bitergia, where she specialized in measuring the health and impact of open source communities. She has co-authored research studies on open source and OSPO adoption and dedicated her MSc thesis to analyzing the impact of Developer Relations in open source ecosystems.

A frequent speaker at international conferences such as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, OSSummit, FOSSBackstage, DevRelCon, etc. Ana has delivered a Keynote at OSSummit Japan and the 2nd OSPO Summit Shenzhen in 2024 and was a panelist at the inaugural OSPOs for Good event hosted by the United Nations in New York in 2023

Ana Jiménez Santamaría is a Senior Project Manager at the Linux Foundation, where she supports global open source communities and drives strategic initiatives across the TODO Group, the PyTorch Foundation, and the emerging DevRel Foundation (intent-t... Show more

Piotr is a Cloud Automation Engineer at Orange Innovation Poland, the R&D entity of the Orange Group. He holds an MSc in ICT from the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and is currently pursuing a PhD (also WUT).

His R&D efforts focus on Cloud Network Automation, Management & Orchestration, and the Observability of Cloud Native environments.

Piotr has shared his knowledge at numerous industry conferences, including a presentation at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Edge Day in 2023.

He is a passionate of Kubernetes and its open-source ecosystem.

Piotr is a Cloud Automation Engineer at Orange Innovation Poland, the R&D entity of the Orange Group. He holds an MSc in ICT from the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) and is currently pursuing a PhD (also WUT). His R&D efforts focus on Cloud ... Show more

Joaquim has been involved in a number of Free and Open Source Software projects for the past 15 years, from the Linux desktop and phones to the cloud.
He is Kubernetes SIG UI Lead, an Emeritus Member of the GNOME Foundation, and has been a speaker in events such as KubeCon, GUADEC, and FOSDEM.
Joaquim is a founding engineer at Amutable.

Joaquim has been involved in a number of Free and Open Source Software projects for the past 15 years, from the Linux desktop and phones to the cloud. He is Kubernetes SIG UI Lead, an Emeritus Member of the GNOME Foundation, and has been a speaker i... Show more

Kenta Iijima is a researcher at NTT.

Kenta Iijima is a researcher at NTT. Show more

Cloud Architect and technical lead specializing in AI-driven cloud-native infrastructure on OpenShift Container Platforms, I spearhead the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of intelligent alerting and anomaly detection systems.

Cloud Architect and technical lead specializing in AI-driven cloud-native infrastructure on OpenShift Container Platforms, I spearhead the end-to-end design, development, and deployment of intelligent alerting and anomaly detection systems. Show more

An experienced software engineer with over 13 years of hands-on expertise in Linux system programming, IoT, and cloud-native solutions. Skilled in C, Go (Golang), Kubernetes, and OpenShift, Anand has contributed to multiple large-scale projects across leading tech organizations including IBM, Software AG, Ather Energy, Red Hat, and Robert Bosch.

Currently part of IBM’s ISDL team, Anand focuses on OpenShift and KubeVirt development.

Certifications:

CKAD – Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (Linux Foundation, Dec 2023 – Dec 2026)

Education:

Bachelor of Engineering, Vivekananda Institute of Technology, Bengaluru

Technical Skills:

Programming Languages: C, Go (Golang)

Platforms: Linux, Kubernetes, OpenShift, KubeVirt

Domains: IoT, Cloud-native Development, Device Drivers, Distributed Storage (GlusterFS)

An experienced software engineer with over 13 years of hands-on expertise in Linux system programming, IoT, and cloud-native solutions. Skilled in C, Go (Golang), Kubernetes, and OpenShift, Anand has contributed to multiple large-scale projects acros... Show more

A Software Engineer passionate about Kubernetes and virtualization, currently working on the NGN (Nvidia Grid Network) platform, delivering GPU as a Service (Iaas) in the cloud.

A Software Engineer passionate about Kubernetes and virtualization, currently working on the NGN (Nvidia Grid Network) platform, delivering GPU as a Service (Iaas) in the cloud. Show more

Abhimanyu Bajaj is a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco and a Certified DevOps Professional. With expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and automation, he leads a team focused on reducing deployment times and enhancing system resilience. Passionate about open-source and cloud-native innovation, he has driven projects that bridge engineering excellence with real-world impact.

Abhimanyu Bajaj is a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco and a Certified DevOps Professional. With expertise in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, and automation, he leads a team focused on reducing deployment times and enhancing system resilience. Pass... Show more