Guest Speakers

Sebastian Scheele is the CEO and co-founder of Kubermatic. Kubermatic is an enterprise software platform company that enables enterprises and service providers to deliver automated multi-cloud operations. Kubermatic, an enterprise Kubernetes management platform, automates thousands of Kubernetes clusters across any infrastructure on multi-cloud, on-prem and edge with unparalleled density and resilience. Sebastian is a CNCF Ambassador and has published several articles on Kubernetes in leading tech media.

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability 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, and competing in virtual races on Zwift.

Andy is a principal program manager at Microsoft Azure, following the acquisition of Kinvolk where he led the commercial strategy for open source projects including Flatcar Container Linux. Prior to Kinvolk, he was co-founder of Project Calico and founding CEO at Tigera, the company built around it. His earlier career was spent in various engineering, marketing and general management roles at Metaswitch (now also part of Microsoft). He is also a board partner at OSS Capital and advisor to a number of cloud native start-ups.

Ramiro Berrelleza is one of the founders of Okteto. He has spent most of his career (and his free time) building cloud services and developer tools. Before starting Okteto, Ramiro was an Architect at Atlassian and a Software Engineer at Microsoft Azure. Originally from Mexico, he currently lives in the Bay Area.

Emily Omier is a positioning consultant who helps startups in the cloud native ecosystem position their products so that prospects understand it immediately. She hosts the Cloud Native Startup podcast and writes the Positioning Open Source blog. She’s also a regular contributor to The New Stack, where she writes a column about entrepreneurship for engineers.

Ricardo is a Computing Engineer in the CERN IT department focusing on containerized deployments, networking and more recently machine learning platforms. He has led for several years the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training efforts. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF, is a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) and a lead of the CNCF Research User Group. Prior to this work Ricardo helped develop the grid computing infrastructure serving the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Janakiram MSV is a practicing architect, analyst, and advisor focusing on emerging infrastructure technologies. Backed by two decades of experience at Microsoft and AWS, he provides strategic advisory to technology platform companies, startups, ISVs, and enterprises.

As a practitioner working with a diverse ​enterprise customer base across the domains of AI, IoT, Cloud, Microservices, DevOps, and SaaS, Janakiram gains insight into the enterprise challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities involved in emerging technology adoption.

Janakiram is an Amazon, Google, Microsoft Certified Cloud Architect, a CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer and Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist. He is a CNCF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, Intel Software Innovator, IBM Champion, and Microsoft Regional Director. Janakiram is an active contributor at GigaOm Research, Forbes, The New Stack, and TechRepublic.

If you would write DevOps with a dash, I am the dash … I am a JavaEE Developer, J2EE AppServer Admin, and Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at DATEV’s Cloud Platform Team. We architect the platform necessary for DATEV’s future applications, based on OpenSource standards, and implement many important extensions to integrate it very well into DATEV’s environment. The platform is our Product and we, as a team are responsible for every aspect of the product, from technical issues to market research, requirements engineering and marketing, as well as Cultural aspects. The terms “platform as a product” and “developer productivity” are not only my job, they are my passion.

Frank has been working as a software engineer since completing his bachelor’s degree in media informatics. Since 2020 he has been privately involved with cloud technologies. In early 2021 he started to publish his first own articles about cloud technologies from the CNCF landscape, including Falco, Kyverno and OpenEBS.

Since February 2021, Frank has been part of the Falco Organization, working as a maintainer on various projects in the Falco ecosystem, such as Falcosdekick UI

Since April 2021 he is a Contributor in the Kyverno project and in July 2021 he transferred his open source project “Policy Reporter” to the Kyverno Organization.

Besides working on his project, he also supports Kubernetes WG Policy in integrating PolicyReport CRDs into new tools such as Falcosdekick.

Adelina is a Technology Evangelist at Form3 in London, UK. She started her career as a Java engineer, then converted to Go in 2018. She is currently in charge of telling Form3’s great tech stories, drawing from her own technical experience. Adelina is passionate about sharing good technical content for beginners, who might be intimidated by the abstract concepts and jargon of most technical discussions. Two of her previous conference talks include speaking about NATS at Gophercon UK and implementing serverless at Gophercon Europe. She has also published a LinkedIn Learning course on Go concurrency in January 2022. You can read more on her blog - https://adelinasimion.dev/

Akshat Khanna is an MTS Intern at VMware and a Final Year student pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai. He is currently working on Kubernetes solution for the edge location and also has been contributing to open-source. He has a good experience of developing products and services around Kubernetes and cloud technologies.

Alessio is a DevOps Engineer playing with containers and automation at Clastix. He has a background in cyber security and he’s worked as Security Analyst for a company in the defense sector. Alessio holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from the University of Rome, Tor Vergata and is very passionate about open source and community engagement.

Aliénor is a French back-end Golang developer with a decade of experience in various domains, from social media marketing to satellite imagery and e-commerce. Through the course of her career, she tried her skills as a front-end developer, as a project manager, and enjoyed a time as technical leader and software architect, all the while reaching for quality and simplicity in her software.

In 2021, she joined HelloFresh in Berlin, where she is decoupling and reshaping the software supporting HelloFresh Market, towards a domain-driven and event-supported architecture.

Out of work hours, she travels the world for Scottish country dance events, knits, sews skirts with pockets and reads about linguistics and feminism.

Anais is a Developer Advocate at Aqua Security, where she contributes to Aqua’s cloud native open source projects. When she is not advocating DevOps best practices, she runs her own YouTube Channel centered around cloud native technologies. Before joining Aqua, Anais worked as SRE at Civo, a cloud native service provider, where she worked on infrastructure for hundreds of tenant clusters. As CNCF ambassador, her passion lies in making tools and platforms more accessible to developers and community members.

Artur Kondas is Senior Software Engineer at Form3, based in Poland. He’s got a vast experience in all tech-related things, from embedded programming, audio manipulation to working on one of the biggest financial gateways in the world at Form3. He’s a open source contributor, teacher & conference speaker. Catch him at https://akondas.com/

Bastian is a Field Engineer at SUSE. There he focuses on Containers, Kubernetes and especially Rancher, the leading solution to manage Kubernetes clusters in multiple environments, on premise, in the cloud and at the edge.

Corvin Schapöhler has been working as a software engineer for Novatec Consulting GmbH since 2018. Already in his Bachelors Thesis “Evaluation of different Container technologies” as well as in his masters dissertation he looked into different path for cloud migrations.

His professional focus currently is on the implementation of cloud based applications for the automotive and construction sector, based on Spring Boot, Docker and Kubernetes. Besides that Corvin teaches distributed systems as well as cloud native technologies and processes to students.

David is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, a CNCF Ambassador, and host of the official Kubernetes Office Hours.

As a professional technology magpie, David was an early adopter of cloud, container, and cloud-native technologies; crossing the murky waters of AWS in 2008, Docker in 2014, and Kubernetes in 2015.

With an insatiable love for technology, David is always on the hunt to learn and share knowledge with others in fun and exciting ways; currently focusing on #RawkodeLive, a live stream for learning the technologies across the cloud native landscape.

Donia is a backend software engineer with 5 years of experience developing Go distributed systems in cloud environments. Having moved recently from the aerospatial field to a startup, she is building the camera of the metaverse by developing a social gaming app named Powder.

Passionate about tech and people, Donia discovered tech communities, which motivated her to found and organise the Google Developer Group Sophia-Antipolis. Striving for diversity, she is actively involved in a local women-in-tech organisation named WHAT06 running events to encourage girls students to close the gender gap and to make women in stem more visible.

Dotan lives at the intersection of technology, product and innovation. With over 20 years in the hi-tech industry as a software developer, a solutions architect and a product manager, he brings a wealth of knowledge in cloud computing, big data solutions, DevOps practices and more. Dotan is an avid advocate of open source software, open standards and communities. Currently working as a developer advocate at Logz.io, Dotan evangelizes on Observability in IT systems using popular open source projects and standards such as ELK stack, Grafana, Jaeger and OpenTelemetry.

Eric is a Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk.io where he helps developers secure the applications, containers, and Kubernetes platforms they build and deploy to.

Fabian has worked for NetApp on storage and data management solutions since 2013. Since this time, he is interested in new technologies - especially the topics like Kubernetes and automation- which have been a high priority. As a Solutions Specialist, he helps German NetApp customers all across the world in designing and implementing cloud-native data management solutions.

Flavio is a Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. His main areas of focus are Linux Containers and Kubernetes.
Flavio loves exploring new technologies, contributing to open source projects and sharing his findings.

Hendrik has worked for NetApp on storage and data management aspects since 2007. His interest in new technologies has led him into the DevOps space, where he focuses on storage for stateful workloads and application mobility delivered by infrastructure agnostic platforms such as Kubernetes. As a Solution Architect he helps NetApp customers all across Europe in designing and implementing cloud native data management solutions.

Jan is a software engineer at Kubermatic and spends most of his time with open source technologies. He contributed to and helped to maintain various parts of Kubernetes ecosystem.

Kim-Norman Sahm joined D2iQ as a Kubernetes Evangelist and Senior Engineer, based in Germany. In an effort to open new possibilities for companies to improve their business efficiency and enhance the workflow, Kim’s ultimate goal is to support customers as they look to modernize legacy Cloud-Native apps as quickly and efficiently as possible.

His previous experience includes developing a successful cloud-native consulting company from 3 to 60+ people and working as a cloud and solutions architect at companies like Deutsche Telekom and operational services GmbH & Co. KG in EMEA. His most impressive achievements include building on one of the largest cloud infrastructure platforms in Germany and founding an open-source Kubernetes deployment framework.

Lian always wanted to save the world

After a failed attempt at becoming a lawyer, she decided to do something with computers instead. Working as a Fullstack Software Engineer, she got into attending tech events and giving talks on Machine Learning. During this time, she fell in love with the tech community and discovered her passion for building community and providing a safe and productive environment for all, which led to her co-organising the community conference ServerlessDays Amsterdam.

Currently, Lian lives in Amsterdam and works as Developer Advocate at Tilt Dev, trying to make developing on Kubernetes easy and fun.

Lothar Wieske has a track record in different leading architect roles over the last twenty years. About ten years ago, Lothar shifted his focus from classical enterprise architecture management to modern innovation management, contributing to digital transformation. He has practical working experience with major public clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure) and important analytics clusters (Hadoop/Spark/Kafka/Flink). Of course, he touched topics like IoT, blockchain, augmented reality over the years and lastly cloud native, artificial intelligence and deep learning. Beyond architectural aspects of digitalization, questions about its economic, entrepreneurial and social impacts became increasingly important to him. Even his classical piano training evolves more and more into digital music production.

Lukonde is a Principal Technical Evangelist at SUSE and an AWS Container Hero. He is part of the SUSE & Rancher Community team and has years of experience in application development, cloud, and DevOps. He is a life-long learner and is passionate about sharing knowledge. He is 5x AWS certified and is a Udemy Instructor.

I work at Red Hat as a Senior Software engineer at the integration engineering group, focused on telco edge and lately working closely with partners in order to get their apps certified in OpenShift. My background is in systems administration and always enjoyed the security field.

Software Engineer at Red Hat, passionate about automation, containers and hybrid cloud.

Mario is a Professional Service Engineer and a DevOps since the beginning of the merge of Dev and Ops, Mario started working on infrastructure as a developer, when bare metal was the normal case. Since the transition to docker and container based infrastructure, he shares his knowledge about cloud related Topics either as GDG Cloud Munich organizer or as a Google Developer Exper on Meetups and conferences. The mixture of being a developer and also an ops for more than 12 years, give his talks & blogs a more hands on and more real scenario approach.

Martin Wimpress is the former Engineering lead for Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical, and is now Head of Community at Slim.AI. A longtime open-source contributor and project lead of Ubuntu MATé, he regularly live streams cloud-native tutorials at twitch.tv/wimpysworld.

Matthias Haeussler is Chief Technologist at Novatec Consulting, university lecturer for distributed systems, awarded ambassador of Cloud Foundry and the organizer of the Stuttgart Cloud Foundry Meetup. He advises clients on Cloud strategies and supports implementations and migrations. Prior to that he was employed at IBM R&D Germany for more than 15 years. He has teaching experience from lectures at multiple universities in Stuttgart (DHBW, HSE, HfT). Besides that he is frequent speaker at various national and international conferences and meetups. (e.g. Spring One Platform, Open Source Summit, Cloud Foundry Summit, Spring IO, IBM InterConnect, WJAX).

Michael Friedrich is a Senior Developer Evangelist at GitLab focussing on Observability, SRE, and Ops. He studied Hardware/Software Systems Engineering and moved into DNS and monitoring development at the University of Vienna and ACO.net. Michael was a maintainer of an OSS monitoring software for 11 years before joining GitLab. He loves to help educate everyone and regularly speaks at events and meetups. Michael co-founded the #EveryoneCanContribute cafe meetup group to learn cloud-native & DevOps. Michael is a Polynaut advisor at Polywork, created o11y.love as a learning platform for Observability, and shares insights in the opsindev.news newsletter.

Michal is an experienced Security Researcher (White Hat), Cloud Solutions Architect with DevOps skillset and AWS Ambassador. He is passionate about finding sources of leaking data and has already helped companies from various industries to improve their infrastructure security. His experience also covers building a successful AWS partnership including preparation for competencies and programs.

Mirna Alaisami is a Consultant at Novatec Consulting GmbH with focus on Cloud Technologies and Platforms. She supports and advises customers on building cloud architectures and migrating to various cloud platforms. She also develops and delivers training topics related to microservice development and CI/CD with the technology stacks of Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes & Cloud Foundry. Prior to that, she worked for 3 years as a software developer with various languages and web-focused frameworks. In addition to her role as a consultant, she actively blogs for Novatec, supports meetups and user groups, has been guest lecturer at different universities around Stuttgart, and speaker at various conferences and meetups (such as Cloud Foundry Summit, IT-Tage Frankfurt, Frankfurter Entwicklertag).

Moritz Eckert is a cloud security enthusiast. With a past in software security research, he now leads product development at Edgeless Systems. Moritz is a passionate engineer and has presented at top-tier conferences including Usenix Security Symposium, EuropeClouds Summit, and OC3 in the past.

Nico Krijnen is a Cloud Solution Architect at Luminis. He helps organizations to translate available options into practical solutions for complex problems. For a big chunk of his career, he disrupted the DAM space by building an innovative file management solution called Elvis, which is being used by media organizations all over the world. Besides leading teams and giving direction, he likes to roll up his sleeves and experience first-hand how (and whether) the latest technologies work in the real world. He is never shy of making unconventional choices to achieve radical results.

Nico Meisenzahl works as Head of DevOps Consulting & Operations at white duck. As Cloud Solution Architect, an elected Microsoft MVP and GitLab Hero, his current passion is for topics around Cloud Native and Kubernetes. Nico is a frequent speaker at conferences, user group events, and Meetups in Europe and the United States.

I am a Cloud Transformation Consultant at Luminis. I love to help organizations with mapping and exploiting business opportunities using technology.

I share my knowledge by blogging, writing whitepapers, lecturing, training, or speaking on stage at conferences like Codemotion, DevOpsDays, re:Invent, and Luminis DevCon, for which I have been decorated. I spread knowledge about cloud transformations, including migrations, skill development, and technology. Besides being a speaker, I am an active software community member: I am one of the Community Leaders of the Dutch AWS User Group and am an AWS Community Builder.

Distributed systems Developer with experience in mentoring, facilitating and leading teams offering a decade of experience in Large Scale cloud-native application and tooling development. Possessing excellent analytical skills summed up with strong knowledge in Go, JavaScript, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, Vault, Consul, Service Meshes, Observability and monitoring tools. Active open source contributor and contributed to projects like Kubernetes, gvisor, grafana, terraform, firecracker-containerd. I enjoy speaking and spoke at conferences like conference like Kafka Summit, JS Conf, ContainerCamp AU, DDD Sydney and Go Days. Organiser of Serverless Days Melbourne.

Rachit Arora is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI). He is key designer of the many offerings on Cloud for Hadoop ecosystem . He has extensive experience in architecture, design and agile developmemt. Rachit is an expert in application development in Cloud architecture and development using hadoop and it’s ecosystem. He has been active speaker for BigData technologies in various conference like Information Management Technical Conference-2015, ContainerCon NA-2016, Container Camp Sydeny 2017 etc.

Rastislav is an enthusiastic and motivated professional with more than 15 years of software development and 5 years of cloud-native experience. He is a software engineer at Kubermatic specialised in Kubernetes networking. Rastislav has been contributing to several open-source projects, such as Kubermatic, FD.io, Ligato.io, Contiv-VPP CNI or Sysrepo.

Raul is a Senior Software Engineer at SUSE Rancher, where he is a maintainer of Kubewarden an Open Source security project. He is passionate about software development, kubernetes and cloud native technologies.

Robert has worked for Samsung, Deutsche Telekom and is currently a Solutions Architect at AWS. There, he is supporting some of the world’s largest sports brands on their cloud journey. He is passionate about cloud-native apps, observability and the data mesh.

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect focused specialized in Container Orchestration Platforms (OpenShift & Kubernetes), DevSecOps and CICD.

Christian Hörl is a Kubernetes Consultant at SysEleven. He helps customers during their migration to the cloud and imparts knowledge of building best-practice Kubernetes setups in technical workshops. He is a cloud-native enthusiast, driven by a deep interest in open source projects of today’s and tomorrow’s cloud landscape.

Timo Pagel has been in the IT industry for over fifteen years. After a career as a system administrator and web developer, he advises customers as a DevSecOps consultant and trainer. His focus is on security test automation for software and infrastructure and assessment of complex applications in the cloud. In his spare time, he teaches “Web and Application Security” at various universities.

Tobias is Principal Software Architect at Kubermatic. Cloud native technologies are his passion over 7 years already. He follows the aim of making the scaling infrastructure setup simpler. His current passion is to increase the adoption of the Kubernetes ecosystem and cloud native technologies within organization, especially for industries at the edge.

Currently working as an Assistant Director for Cloud Platform in EY GDS . Have overall 10 year experience in IT , with 5+ years in Cloud technologies . Before EY , I was working as a Cloud Solution Architect in Accenture and PwC India . I have worked with multiple enterprises in assisting them in their journey to cloud , and also helped establish best practices for architecture and governance in cloud

Víctor started its involvement in Open Source in university, contributing to Debian. Nowadays, he works as software developer on security projects such as Kubewarden, as part of SUSE Rancher, and before, as an automation engineer for cloud native distributed technologies based in Cloud Foundry, and Openstack.

Vijay has been Kubernetes Administrator and Solution Architect for more than 5 years. Vijay is Certified Kubernetes Administrator and AWS certified solution architect Vijay has spoken at various conferences in past. Vijay has been happily married and is father of two lovely children.

Viktor Farcic is a Developer Advocate at Upbound, a member of the Google Developer Experts and Docker Captains groups, and a published author.

His big passions are DevOps, Containers, Kubernetes, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences.

He published The DevOps Toolkit Series , DevOps Paradox and Test-Driven Java Development, as well as courses in Udemy.

His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog TechnologyConversations.com.

He is the host of the DevOps Toolkit (https://youtube.com/c/devopstoolkit) YouTube channel and a co-host of DevOps Paradox (https://www.devopsparadox.com/) podcast.

Karthikeyan Govindaraj is a Vice President at BlackRock, where he works on building tools to make apps easier to run on Kubernetes. He contributes to the Kubernetes community as a community member. Karthik is passionate about cloud and cloud-native infrastructure, developer tools & experience, open-source. He has a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science.

Nicolas is an experienced hands-on technologist, evangelist and product owner who has been working in the fields of Cloud-Native technologies, Open Source Software, Virtualization and Datacenter networking for the past 18 years. Passionate about enabling users, communities and building cool tech to solve real-life problems, you’ll often see him speaking at global tech conferences and online events, spreading the word and walking the walk with customers and users.

Based in Hamburg, Steven is working as a software engineer at iteratec in a range of software development projects for customers from different sectors. They had in common that a set of training wheels needed to be attached to get the optimization of software development processes going by introducing DevOps. Being a generalist with a passion for automating all the things, Steven consults and implements best practices to fuse development and operations for the benefit of all stakeholders. When not staring at a weird problem on screen, he’s balancing a self-sufficient lifestyle with slacking, urban culture and spotting fluffy cats or colorful birds roaming the landscape.

Likewise based in Hamburg, Uwe is a principal architect at iteratec. Since many years his focus is on non-functional requirements for software systems, their definition, a suitable solution architecture and ways to implement them successfully as well as methods to measure the achievements in practice. After long years mainly fighting for performance, scalability and increased reliability of systems the focus shifted in the last years towards long term success factors like operability, maintainability and security. Aside of IT systems Uwe is an enthusiast reader of Science Fiction literature.

Stephan Fudeus is an Evangelist for Container Technologies by title and a backend and infrastructure engineer by heart. He has a background of developing scalable multi-tenant applications for up to a million customers and their infrastructure in a DevOps fashion for 14 years at 1&1 Internet. Since 2018 he is ProductOwner and TechnologyLead for the internal Kubernetes platform at 1&1 Mail & Media, one of the largest E-Mail providers in Germany. While during office hours he enjoys fulfilling the needs of hundreds of application running on their 900+ bare metal server K8s clusters, in the evenings he moves around bits and pieces on his Raspberry Pi k3s home cluster.

David Meder-Marouelli currently has the position of a systems architect and expert for continuous delivery with 1&1 Mail & Media, one of the largest E-Mail providers in Germany (including brands like GMX & WEB.DE). In this position he is responsible for all projects related to automation of the software life-cycle.

After his PhD in physics and some years in grid computing he joined 1&1 in 2007 and has gained experience in several positions from system administrator to systems architect since then. Currently the focus is on driving continuous delivery and container technologies.

I’m a software engineer focused on backend services with more than 20 years of work experience. I’m working on KubeVirt, where I learn Go and Kubernetes. Previously my main workhorses have been Java, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Bash and AWS.

I strive to create software that is useful for people so they can get their job done in less time and with less effort. This hopefully leads to people having time to think about how they can work more efficiently, thus getting better in doing their job.

I focus heavily on automation to avoid tedious repeatable tasks over and over again. I strongly believe that it’s the purpose of my profession to automate all the things so everyone can benefit from it. This very much manifests in how I work.

Eran Bibi is Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Firefly. With years of experience in anything DevOps/SRE and security, he has earned a reputation as a CI/CD and SRE expert and an avid admin of Cloud Platforms and containerized environments.

Prior to Firefly, Eran was Head of DevOps & Cloud Platform at Aqua Security and DevOps Group Lead at Finastra. Eran is a frequent speaker at Cloud Native meetups, AWS community meetups, and other cloud workshops and conferences.

Michael Vogeler is a kubernetes architect and Head of System Engineering at PlusServer GmbH. In this role he has been responsible for coordinating the timely construction and commissioning of system environments since the beginning of 2019. Michael previously worked for Nexinto for several years as System Administrator Application Services until the company was acquired by plusserver in 2017. Together with his team in Hamburg, the former Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and self-confessed container nerd, manages ansible/terraform managed customer solutions and cloud native platforms.

Matthias Lübken is a Product Manager at Upbound. He has significant experience with different aspects of software development and operation and is currently focussing on helping teams build their own dedicated Cloud platform. He enjoys the in-person exchange and has been a speaker at multiple international conferences.

Tobias Andersen is a seasoned IT professional with 20+ years of experience in the field of distributed software development, an eager adopter of new technologies like containers, IoT, blockchain, and an active practitioner of Weng Chun. Recently, he has been focusing his energy on applying Crossplane and Kubernetes to construct self-service workflows and digital twins that can help DFDS bring its business into the autonomous future of industry 4.0.

Itiel is the CTO and co-founder of Komodor, a startup building the first k8s-native troubleshooting platform. A big believer in dev empowerment and moving fast. Worked at eBay|Forter| Rookout (first developer), A backend and infra developer turned “DevOps”, an avid public speaker that loves talking about things such as cloud infrastructure, kubernetes, python, observability, and R&D culture.

Andreas Zitzelsberger is a passionate developer and architect and works as a Business Unit Director at QAware. His main focus is Cloud, Cloud Migration and Cloud Native Security.

Dirk Kröhan is Software-Architect at QAware in Mainz. In addition to his passion for good software architecture, he loves developing cloud-native systems. He is particularly interested in the topics of Java and Spring Boot.

Jim Barton is a Field Engineer at Solo.io, a Boston-based company specializing in service mesh and Kubernetes-native API gateway technology. Jim’s career in enterprise software spans 30 years. He has held roles as a project engineer, sales and consulting engineer, product development manager, and executive leader of tech startups. For the past decade, he has architected, built and operated systems based on enterprise open-source technologies, at the likes of Red Hat, Amazon, and Zappos.com.

Stuart is a Technical Leader / Developer Advocate at Cisco DevNet, where he focuses on network automation and the developer experience for engineers, partners working with network automation and DevNet. Prior to joining Cisco DevNet, he worked in a variety of roles ranging from Network Engineer to Network Architect for Cisco. Stuart can be found on Twitter @bigevilbeard

More than 20 years in IT. 12 years working in backup and recovery, beginning with physical servers, then virtual machines and now focusing on containerised workloads.

Jim is a Senior Developer Advocate with Harness, he has over 16 years of experience in the software engineering industry. Over the years, Jim has worked with hundreds of developers and dozens of teams, helping them to improve and accelerate their software delivery life cycles.

Golang developer, creator of Souin (https://github.com/darkweak/souin) and active contributor for Caddy (https://github.com/caddyserver), Træfik (https://github.com/traefik) and API Platform (https://github.com/api-platform). Also maintainer of the caddy’s module cache-handler

Sven Ruppert has been coding Java since 1996 in industrial projects, is working as Developer Advocate for JFrog and Groundbreaker Ambassador (former Oracle Developer Champion). He is regularly speaking at Conferences worldwide and contributes to IT periodicals, as well as tech portals. He was working for over 15 years as a consultant worldwide in industries like Automotive, Space, Insurance, Banking, UN and WorldBank. Additional to his main topic DevSecOps he is working on Mutation Testing of Web apps and Distributed UnitTesting besides his evergreen topics Core Java and Kotlin.

Building cloud-native technology alliances that help transform organizations
Felix is currently the Global Alliance Lead at Container Solutions, overseeing the collaboration between the Container Solutions engineering team, clients, and select cloud-native technology providers. Equipped with a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature, he started his professional life in academic publishing before turning to the cloud technology world. Felix is a theoretical triathlete and practical father of four. He is very experienced in protecting the kid’s rabbits against roaming foxes.

Coming from the Java World, Marc got into touch with containers, Kubernetes and Golang in 2015, when he joined a team building a new “deployment and runtime platform” for developers, based on these technologies.

In 2018 Marc joined RedHat and worked on several operators since then. Currenty he is (Co-)Maintainer of multiple Medik8s projects.

I am Special Agent (thought leader) at Team Rockstars IT. With more than 8 years of experience in Solution Architecture and working DevOps, I am an evangelist when it comes to the latest developments and trends within the DevOps Community. I am also a open-source contributor to the GitLab project. Podcast about me (Dutch): https://open.spotify.com/episode/2V9h63z2DQH2c2KNbq6g0G

Cloud architect, long-term experience (20+) with Linux and open-source solutions for hosting. Currently leading a team providing excellence Kubernetes clusters for developers, devops, data engineers and a diverse range of productive applications of the Deutsche Bahn AG.

Germán is a Technical Marketing Manager at Suse, he works with BCL – Business Critical Linux solutions. Germán has been in the industry for 15 years serving in a variety of roles, most of them related with infrastructure, containers, management and automation.

Joseph Yostos is a Technical Marketing Engineer in the Product Marketing team at Tigera. Joseph is based in Cork, Ireland. He is passionate about everything cloud-native from Kubernetes to cloud security and observability. In his spare time, he likes to travel because he gets to meet new people from different backgrounds and learn about new cultures and exotic places.

Hubert is a Kubernetes Consultant at Kubermatic, helping organizations succeed in their cloud native journey.
Prior to this, Hubert was a Software Engineer focusing on backend topics in various programming languages around the JVM. Then, the DevOps movement raised serious doubts about his work and he put his focus on Ops matters.
Hubert is a Linux Foundation trainer for CKA and CKAD and contributed to the CKA exam questions.

Sagy is the Director of Enablement and Evangelism at Orca Security. A highly motivated customer centric with a “can-do attitude” executive he is focused on delivering value and leveraging customer feedback to ensure long term relationships which drive retention and expansion. Sagy has held several high-tech senior management positions in the Israeli Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv over the past twenty years. He is also passionate and frequent speaker on topics including, Ransomware attacks, cybersecurity, how to defend your digital assets, and forensics.

Software Engineer currently interested in container technology and distributed systems.

Philip Welz is a GitLab Hero and works as Senior Kubernetes & DevOps Engineer. At white duck, Philip accompanies customers along their Cloud Native Journey on Azure and help them sail Kubernetes into calm waters.

His primary focus is on topics around Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and Cloud.

Daniel Oh is a senior principal technical marketing manager at Red Hat and works as CNCF ambassador / DevOps Institute ambassador as well. He’s well recognized for cloud-native runtimes(Quarkus, Node.js, Spring Boot), serverless function design, and deployment in multi- and hybrid cloud platforms.

Sebastian is a digital transformation evangelist with a strong focus on culture and tech, successfully combining start-up and enterprise experience. He is dramatically result driven, creating best-of-breed solutions to enable organizations and innovate holistically between people, processes and tools. Constantly challenging the status quo he always strives for the big picture to once again boldly go where no one has gone before.

Frank Brockners is Distinguished Engineer in Cisco’s Chief Technology and Architecture Office, driving software and architecture development for software defined devices. Frank is a member of the ONAP TSC, OPNFV TSC and LFN TAC. Frank, who is a 19-year Cisco veteran, holds a M.Sc./diploma degree in Electrical Engineering (Aachen, University of Technology, Germany; 1994) as well as a Ph.D./Dr. degree in Information Science (University of Cologne, Germany; 1999).

Sacha is a SRE @Padok. He maintains and improves state of the art Kubernetes infrastructure on a daily basis while minimizing their complexity. < insert something funny here > He loves explaining simply complex subject and sharing his work with the community through open source contributions.

Michael Claaßen gehört seit 2013 zum Team von Trend Micro und verantwortet als Senior Cloud Security Architect die technische Betreuung von Kunden auf ihrem Weg in die Cloud. Einen Schwerpunkt seiner Arbeit bildet die konzeptionelle Kundenberatung in Bezug auf Cloud-Strategien und die sinnvolle Integration der Sicherheit. Dazu gehört die frühzeitige Einbindung in bestehende Prozesse und die Abbildung von Herausforderungen der Infrastrukturen.

Eddie’s career has migrated from embedded systems to enterprise software development and now to architecture. Though he focuses on modernization, standardization, and cloud-migrations — he’s still a geek at heart and enjoys tinkering, coding, and staying active in as many Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects as possible. Eddie is also a dedicated family man, loves the outdoors and Gulf Coast of Texas, and humbly brags about his sous vide and BBQ skills.

Matt Jarvis is a 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, DockerCon, FOSDEM 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, and the founder of Cloud Native Manchester, Kubernetes Community Days UK and Cloud Natives UK.

Nidaa is a Devops/Devsecops Expert where she has working in international organizations and telecommunication companies . She is responsible of combine software and systems resources to architect, design, build & run large-scale , massively distributed , fault tolerance , Optimized and secured system through automated and managed process on both on-premise and clouding environments and ensure that both internally critical and externally visible systems have reliability ,confidentiality, availability, Up-time appropriate to user needs and fast rate of improvement, high level of monitoring, short time failure detection and fixing.

Viktor Gamov is a Principal Developer Advocate at Kong, a cloud connectivity company. Viktor has comprehensive expertise in building distributed systems and cloud-native architectures using open source technologies. He enjoys helping architects and developers design and develop low latency, scalable, and highly available systems. He is a professional conference speaker on distributed systems, streaming data, JVM, and DevOps topics. He’s regular on events including JavaOne, Devoxx, OSCON, QCon, and others. He co-authored books O’Reilly’s «Enterprise Web Development» and Manning’s «Apache Kafka® in Action.» He blogs at http://gamov.io and co-hosts KongCast https://pod.link/kongcast. Follow Viktor on Twitter @gamussa, where he posts there about gym life, food, open-source, and Kong and Cloud

I am a passionate Software Engineering Professional with a Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic and two parallel University Degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science, 15 years of experience in Software Development – mostly on Linux, on Mac and in OpenSource contexts – and more than 3 years as an Engineering Manager of an agile development team building large-scale Linux systems.I have a strong interest in agile software development, microservice infrastructure, continuous integration and software quality through automatic testing, in DevOps, cloud technologies, in teaching and mentoring, design thinking and lean. I love to develop future product visions, question everyday processes and push new ideas throughout the company.

Yes, Cloud is the new norm - and it takes a lot of effort, expertise and business sense to get real value out of it. I’m helping customers to realize the full potential of technologies and show smart ways how to implement it - while constantly keeping an eye on feasibility and the business case.

Bob has worked for Ryte, Former03, Skaylink and is currently a Solutions Architect at AWS. There, he is supporting enterprise greenfield customers on their cloud journey. He is passionate about cloud-native apps, serverless and sustainability.

Stefan Trimborn has been in the IT industry for more than 10 years, working for companies such as Trend Micro, Red Hat and Docker. Sysdig allows him to combine his two passions namely Containers and Security. With a broad vertical view on many different verticals Stefan hopes to be at your service to strengthen your fort and keep unpleasant digital visitors at bay.

Dennis is a certified AWS Solution Architect and works at PRODYNA as a cloud solution architect. Furthermore, he is part of the PRODYNA Academy and responsible for trainings in the fields of AWS and Terraform. In his free time he is organizer and speaker for the Düsseldorf Meetup “Cloud Native Computing Rhein-Ruhr” which is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

Torsten Hallmann is managing SUSE’s German Sales Engineering team. He started his career over 20 years ago at a PC-Retailer in the late 90‘s and his technical curiosity lead him to join SUSE in 2000 in a Technical Support role. With his never ending passion and enthusiasm to find technical solutions for and in conjuntion with customers, he later moved into a Sales Engineering role. Having seen a lot of change in IT during his career, he is always keen to understand new developments and assess them with considerations of past experiences.

Laura Lorenz is a software engineer at Google working on GKE, particularly on managed solutions for multicluster Kubernetes. She is an active member of Kubernetes’ special interest group SIG-Multicluster and a subproject owner for the SIG-sponsored About API and MCS API.

Pravar Gauba is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer working with Delivery Hero, the food-tech giant based out of Berlin, Germany. Pravar has a comprehensive expertise in building distributed systems and cloud-native architectures using open source technologies. He brings about 5 years of cloud-native experience. He enjoys and improves state of the art Kubernetes infrastructure on a daily basis while minimising their complexity. Data mesh, observability, kubernetes, cloud are few things which interests him.

Florian Raetzer is Technical Success Manager at SysEleven GmbH. With his many years of experience in the cloud technology environment and his constant drive to keep exploring new paths in IT, he is now engaged in the cloud-native field. His journey took him via ProfitBricks (now 1&1 Ionos), via Deutsche Börse to SysEleven, a company certified by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). With the managed Kubernetes solution, MetaKube, the IT environment he has lived in so far is changing, from the previous conservative ways of working to an agile one. In addition to his work in IT, he is a global transporter for organ donations.

Christian Dorge is Senior Expert Strategy & Project Management for ATS Development at DFS Aviation Services GmbH. With over 16 years of experience in the world of air navigation services and the permanent pursuit of technical improvements of own products through digitalisation and cloud technology. A challenging and exciting task in a technically rather conservative and safety-oriented industry. His path led him from DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung via product and test management of arrival management software for major airports to the commercial business of the subsidiary DFS Aviation Services. The company distributes air traffic control software and offers air navigation services worldwide, with subsidiaries and offices in the UK, Bahrain, Beijing and Singapore. Since 2018, Christian Dorge has been leading international projects here as an experienced project manager and is responsible for the further development of the highly specialised software products.

Rene works as a Senior SE for Central Europe at Orca Security. Before he joined Orca Security he worked for more than 15 years in different roles in the Cybersecurity Industry. In all his different roles he helped customers secure their business starting at the infrastructure level up to new technologies like public cloud, containers and serverless.

In his role as the first VMware Tanzu Solutions Engineer for Developer Experience in EMEA, Timo focuses on VMware Tanzu Application Platform and commercial Spring products. He takes the customers with him on the journey to fully understand the value, vision, and strategy of these products, and ensuring that they succeed by working closely on different levels of abstractions of modern applications and modern infrastructure.

Before Timo joined Pivotal and VMware, he worked for more than seven years for consulting firms in the automotive industry as a software architect and full-stack developer on projects for customer-facing products. Timo is based in Stuttgart in Southwest Germany.

Daniel works as a Cloud Architect. Prior joining Portworx he helped customers operationalizing k8s Networking & Security at VMware and gathered experience in Datacenter Infrastructure Topics at Dell and Max-Planck-Society

He’s experienced the breadth of opportunities technology and data intelligence have created for businesses and governments. Between fighting cybercrime for the Canadian government and working for security agencies overseas, Mike has developed a deep understanding of the global security landscape and how the underground economy dictates hacks and ultimately drives breaches. Mike is most fascinated by understanding all aspects of how technology interacts with society.

Tobias Schipka is a DevOps Engineer Kubernetes in the product team of pluscontainer. Among other things, he is responsible for the product development of “Managed Kubernetes” on the cloud infrastructure VMware, Cloud Director and Openstack. He also sets the course for agile working according to Scrum within the product team with DevOps principles.