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.