He Cao is a senior software engineer on the Cloud Native team at ByteDance, a maintainer of Katalyst and KubeZoo, and a member of Istio. He has 5+ years of experience in cloud native technologies, focusing on resource management and scheduling in Kubernetes. Since joining ByteDance, he has designed and implemented several critical systems for VKE (Volcengine Kubernetes Engine) from scratch, such as VKE enhanced K8s scheduler, resource management system, resource efficiency suite, etc. He is also a seasoned speaker and has delivered 3 talks at KubeCon and CNCF-hosted co-located events.

He Cao is a senior software engineer on the Cloud Native team at ByteDance, a maintainer of Katalyst and KubeZoo, and a member of Istio. He has 5+ years of experience in cloud native technologies, focusing on resource management and scheduling in Kub... Show more

Faisal Shahdad serves as a Senior Consultant fr DevOps and MLOps within AWS Professional Services. He leverages his expertise to guide end-users on their cloud journey, ensuring they derive optimal value from the cloud and open-source tooling. He has been conducting sessions at various conferences such as Warsaw IT Days, GrafanaCon, and KubeCon. He is a strong advocate for integrating open-source tools into his designs


Faisal Shahdad serves as a Senior Consultant fr DevOps and MLOps within AWS Professional Services. He leverages his expertise to guide end-users on their cloud journey, ensuring they derive optimal value from the cloud and open-source tooling. He has... Show more

Chao is a highly skilled cloud native technology professional with over 5 years of experience working on and contributing to several CNCF projects, including Kubernetes, OpenYurt and TiKV. Chao is a passionate advocate of open source technology and regularly speak at events such as KubeCon and cloud native meetups.

Chao is a highly skilled cloud native technology professional with over 5 years of experience working on and contributing to several CNCF projects, including Kubernetes, OpenYurt and TiKV. Chao is a passionate advocate of open source technology and r... Show more

Kubernetes community member with experience in communications and content creation. Currently serving as a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Communications Shadow and a Social Media and Blogging Shadow for SIG ContribEx. Passionate about fostering collaboration and sharing knowledge within the cloud-native ecosystem.

Kubernetes community member with experience in communications and content creation. Currently serving as a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 Communications Shadow and a Social Media and Blogging Shadow for SIG ContribEx. Passionate about fo... Show more

Steve(Huailong) Zhang has worked for Alcatel-Lucent, Baidu and IBM to engage in cloud computing research and development. Huailong is currently working for Intel China as a cloud-native software engineer, focusing on cloud-native technical fields, such as kubernetes and service mesh. He is an Istio maintainer and has been a speaker at KubeCon, IstioCon, ServiceMeshCon, InfoQ/QCon and GOTC etc.

Steve(Huailong) Zhang has worked for Alcatel-Lucent, Baidu and IBM to engage in cloud computing research and development. Huailong is currently working for Intel China as a cloud-native software engineer, focusing on cloud-native technical fields, su... Show more

I'm a DevOps Engineer at Rabobank. I first discovered Kubernetes during my studies, and attending my first KubeCon in Amsterdam in 2023 was a truly inspiring experience.
I started my career as an OpenShift developer, as Rabobank didn’t yet have a dedicated Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team. As soon as the AKS platform team was formed, I transitioned into that role and have now been working with AKS for over a year. Recently, I proudly also became a Kubestronaut!

I'm a DevOps Engineer at Rabobank. I first discovered Kubernetes during my studies, and attending my first KubeCon in Amsterdam in 2023 was a truly inspiring experience. I started my career as an OpenShift developer, as Rabobank didn’t yet have a d... Show more

Aayush is a computer science undergraduate student from India. He was a member of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Kubernetes Batch + HPC Day Europe 2023 Program Committee. He is a member at Keptn Organisation. He has worked as a Junior Developer Evangelist at Merico and as a Program Manager at Sema Software. He is a Solo.io Ambassador. He is enthusiastic about DevOps and Cloud Native. He is a member of several communities such as Kubesimplify Ambassador and Developer at WeMakeDevs. He loves contributing to Open-Source projects such as Kubernetes, Datree, Solo.io, Keptn, Canonical, Shifu and Apache. He is fond of making DevOps-related content by both writing blogs and making videos. He believes in the power of collaboration.

Aayush is a computer science undergraduate student from India. He was a member of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Kubernetes Batch + HPC Day Europe 2023 Program Committee. He is a member at Keptn Organisation. He has worked as a Junior Developer Evangelist ... Show more

Akshay currently serves as the Global Technology Advocate for the PKI Business Unit at AppViewX. As part of this role, he works in close collaboration with various customers and partners worldwide on their machine identity management initiatives.

His two-decade experience spans both technical as well as business sides and in various domains, including PKI, wi-fi security, social networking, online retail, cloud applications and application delivery in Kubernetes environment. He is a startup enthusiast and has been founding team member of multiple companies.

As part of his belief in 'giving back to the community', he conducts sessions on technical as well as non-technical topics via various platforms. He has presented in conferences (RedHat Forum, ASIAN Fintech Summit, DevSecCon, Cisco DevNet), trade shows & meetups (CNCF, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, KubeCon, Cisco Live) in different countries.

Akshay currently serves as the Global Technology Advocate for the PKI Business Unit at AppViewX. As part of this role, he works in close collaboration with various customers and partners worldwide on their machine identity management initiatives. ... Show more

Leader, Engineer and Assoc. Prof

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DevOps Engineer with 15+ years in IT and 6+ years in DevOps, currently driving cloud and Kubernetes adoption at MSCI. CKA | CKS certified. Expert in AWS, Terraform, CI/CD (GitLab, ArgoCD), and observability tools. Focused on automation, reliability, and performance at scale.

DevOps Engineer with 15+ years in IT and 6+ years in DevOps, currently driving cloud and Kubernetes adoption at MSCI. CKA | CKS certified. Expert in AWS, Terraform, CI/CD (GitLab, ArgoCD), and observability tools. Focused on automation, reliability, ... Show more

DevOps Leader with a proven track record in driving digital transformation through automation and cloud adoption. Possessing in-depth expertise in Kubernetes and cloud technologies, I excel in architecting and implementing highly scalable and secure infrastructure. Proven leadership in building and mentoring high-performance DevOps teams. Recognized for innovation and problem-solving, including a runner-up position in the Tech Gig hackathon for DevOps.

DevOps Leader with a proven track record in driving digital transformation through automation and cloud adoption. Possessing in-depth expertise in Kubernetes and cloud technologies, I excel in architecting and implementing highly scalable and secure ... Show more

Sagy Volkov is the former Performance Architect of the OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) in red hat. Prior to that he formed the performance engineering group in ScaleIO and the ScaleIO enterprise advocates group, also architected the ScaleIO storage appliance. He is now with Lightbits Labs as a distinguished performance architect concentrating on NVMe/TCP storage performance and application performance using NVMe/TCP. Sagy have spoke previously in KubeCon, Cloud Native Storage day (CNS), DevConf, EMC World and the red hat booths in KubeCon and red hat summit.

Sagy Volkov is the former Performance Architect of the OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) in red hat. Prior to that he formed the performance engineering group in ScaleIO and the ScaleIO enterprise advocates group, also architected the ScaleIO storage... Show more

Randy has been in computers for >30 years and is a Partner at RX-M LLC, a cloud native and AI consulting/training firm. The author of several books, Randy is an active participant in the CNCF, a serial KubeCon speaker/track chair/host/program committee participant and general Cloud Native evangelist. Randy was on the teams that created the CKA, CKAD, CKS and KCNA exams and has held various CTO roles creating institutional trading platforms processing billions of dollars in transactions daily. He is a firm believer in IDL based interfaces, microservices, Jeeps, sailing and old Sci-Fi movies.

Randy has been in computers for >30 years and is a Partner at RX-M LLC, a cloud native and AI consulting/training firm. The author of several books, Randy is an active participant in the CNCF, a serial KubeCon speaker/track chair/host/program committ... Show more

Namkyu Park is a CNCF Ambassador and a Software Developer. He worked as a Software Engineer at several startups in South Korea. He has completed Linux Foundation Mentorship Programme(LitmusChaos) as a mentee and is currently a mentor and maintainer of LitmusChaos. He has previously spoken at KubeCon China 2024 as a main speaker. His areas of interest include GoLang, Kubernetes, CNCF, and Chaos Engineering.

Namkyu Park is a CNCF Ambassador and a Software Developer. He worked as a Software Engineer at several startups in South Korea. He has completed Linux Foundation Mentorship Programme(LitmusChaos) as a mentee and is currently a mentor and maintainer o... Show more

Sean Sullivan is a Software Engineer at Google, a former SIG CLI chair, and an active Kubernetes contributor since 2017. Sean has presented at a Kubecon conference every year since 2018. In his free time, Sean likes swim and read.

Sean Sullivan is a Software Engineer at Google, a former SIG CLI chair, and an active Kubernetes contributor since 2017. Sean has presented at a Kubecon conference every year since 2018. In his free time, Sean likes swim and read. Show more

Re has over 20 years of experience in architecting, building and operating enterprise systems and infrastructure. In his current role at AWS as Principal Solutions Architect, he helps some of most the sophisticated Automotive companies modernize their software architecture. His focus over the past few years has been modern application development. Re has given talks at KubeCon US and EU,

Re has over 20 years of experience in architecting, building and operating enterprise systems and infrastructure. In his current role at AWS as Principal Solutions Architect, he helps some of most the sophisticated Automotive companies modernize thei... Show more

Ashwin is currently a Program Manager at GitHub, previously an MLH Coach, a MLH TOP 50 candidate, a GitHub Campus Expert and an Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. Ashwin is currently building and managing the global student programs at GitHub Education known as GitHub Octernships and GitHub Campus Experts. He has won over 12 global hackathons and participated, mentored and judged over 55+ hackathons in the past 2 years. Ashwin has also previously spoken at Open Source Summit North America 2022 and KubeCon North America 2022

Ashwin is currently a Program Manager at GitHub, previously an MLH Coach, a MLH TOP 50 candidate, a GitHub Campus Expert and an Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. Ashwin is currently building and managing the global student programs at GitHub Educat... Show more

Zhang Chaomeng is Architect of Huawei Cloud UCS , has 10 years cloud computing related design and developing experience in HUAWEI Cloud, including service mesh, Kubernetes, micro service, cloud service catalog, big data, APM, cloud computing reliability and DevOps. He is Istio community member, an experienced speaker of KubeCon, IstioCon, ServiceMeshCon, author of books “Cloud Native Service Mesh Istio”(《云原生服务网格 Istio》) and “Istio: the Definitive Guide”(《Istio权威指南》)

Zhang Chaomeng is Architect of Huawei Cloud UCS , has 10 years cloud computing related design and developing experience in HUAWEI Cloud, including service mesh, Kubernetes, micro service, cloud service catalog, big data, APM, cloud computing reliabil... Show more

Software engineer with 13+ years of professional experience in Costa Rica, United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Colombia and Spain. Strong background in DevOps, infrastructure, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and software development and deployment pipelines. Mentor & mentee. Architect of various scalable, high available and fail over systems. Speaker in multiple conferences such as DevOps & Cloud community in Spain, CNCF's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022, etc.

Software engineer with 13+ years of professional experience in Costa Rica, United States, Norway, United Kingdom, Colombia and Spain. Strong background in DevOps, infrastructure, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery and software development and... Show more

With a solid 7-year background in software engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Antoine confidently delves into the intricacies of Cloud technologies. After having recently joined Orange, he applies his software engineering skills while eagerly embracing new technologies presented to him. As a DevOps engineer on the open-source project Sylva, Antoine brings a cross-functional contribution, ready to share his knowledge during his presentation at Kubecon 2024.

With a solid 7-year background in software engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Antoine confidently delves into the intricacies of Cloud technologies. After having recently joined Orange, he applies his software engineering skills while ... Show more

Bingshen Wang is a Senior Engineer in Alibaba Could, a maintainer of KubeSkoop/Terway/OpenYurt, and a contributor of Kubernetes/Containerd. He mainly focuses on container networking and runtime, and has many years of experience around managing Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes clusters.
He used to be a speaker in KubeCon conferences and some other meetup or virtual submit such as GOTC and sig/cloud-provider-alibaba.

Bingshen Wang is a Senior Engineer in Alibaba Could, a maintainer of KubeSkoop/Terway/OpenYurt, and a contributor of Kubernetes/Containerd. He mainly focuses on container networking and runtime, and has many years of experience around managing Alibab... Show more

Paula is Co-Founder & COO of Syntasso; previously Senior Director at VMware Tanzu, Pivotal and Co-Founder & COO of CloudCredo.
With 25 years experience in tech, Paula is a CNCF Ambassador, Team Topologies Advocate and has spoken at many conferences including QCon, KubeCon, and DevOpsDays. Paula is an organiser for KCD UK, Fast Flow Conf and DevOpsDays London, and also organises the London Platform User Group. Based in the UK, Paula enjoys walking her dog and attempting to run half-marathons.

Paula is Co-Founder & COO of Syntasso; previously Senior Director at VMware Tanzu, Pivotal and Co-Founder & COO of CloudCredo. With 25 years experience in tech, Paula is a CNCF Ambassador, Team Topologies Advocate and has spoken at many conferences ... Show more

Harshita Varma is a contributor to the Kubernetes project, actively involved in the SIG Contributor Experience community, with a focus on enhancing the contributor journey. She began her open-source journey by contributing to the Thanos project, sparking her passion for open source. In March 2022, she was selected as an LFX mentee for Kubernetes under the CNCF. Since then, Harshita has significantly contributed to Kubernetes, earning the prestigious Dan Kohn Scholarship to attend KubeCon EU 2023 in Amsterdam as an attendee. Currently, she continues to engage with the open-source ecosystem, fostering collaboration and inclusivity within the Kubernetes community.

Harshita Varma is a contributor to the Kubernetes project, actively involved in the SIG Contributor Experience community, with a focus on enhancing the contributor journey. She began her open-source journey by contributing to the Thanos project, spar... Show more

John T. Forman is a Director; Master Technology Architect and serves as the global Anthos/Kubernetes lead for Accenture Cloud First. Along with being a hands-on practitioner, he is a regular speaker at KubeCon and serves as a SME for Open Source, DevSecOps, Edge and Container/Kubernetes best practices. John has more than 25+ years of experiencing designing and delivering complex Technical Architecture for on-premise and multi cloud environments.

John is also extremely humble to announce that he spearheaded and authored the CNCF Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam. As well as the co-author of “Admiral Bash’s Island Adventure” and spun up the CNCF Cartografos Working Group project.

John T. Forman is a Director; Master Technology Architect and serves as the global Anthos/Kubernetes lead for Accenture Cloud First. Along with being a hands-on practitioner, he is a regular speaker at KubeCon and serves as a SME for Open Source, Dev... Show more

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium project. She was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O'Reilly.

She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, competing in virtual races on Zwift, and making music under the pseudonym Insider Nine.

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium project. She was chair of the CNCF's Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Co... Show more

Software Engineer | Nerd | Gamer | No.1 cook/hanzo in my house.

Software Engineer | Nerd | Gamer | No.1 cook/hanzo in my house. Show more

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I am a software engineer currently contributing to Tekton and has worked on tools around Kubernetes and OpenShift

I am a software engineer currently contributing to Tekton and has worked on tools around Kubernetes and OpenShift Show more

My interests include AI and cloud computing. My current focus is Edge AI learning and deployment through Kubernetes.

My interests include AI and cloud computing. My current focus is Edge AI learning and deployment through Kubernetes. Show more

Yikun Wang is a Cloud Engineer in Ant Group, mainly focuses on workloads developing and Cloud Native Risk Defense, has experience around managing Cloud Native applications in large-scale K8s clusters. Recently focused on open source, member of KusionStack and OpenKruise.

Yikun Wang is a Cloud Engineer in Ant Group, mainly focuses on workloads developing and Cloud Native Risk Defense, has experience around managing Cloud Native applications in large-scale K8s clusters. Recently focused on open source, member of Kusion... Show more