ContainerDays 2022 Hybrid

Michael Hofmann

Architect

Michael Hofmann

Architect

Short Bio

Architect

Michael Hofmann is a freelance architect, consultant and developer. He has been gaining project experience for more than 2 decades on the German and international scenes, mainly in the areas of software architecture, Enterprise Java and DevOps. Since 2015, he has been increasingly involved with topics related to microservices architectures. In addition to his project assignments, he is active as a speaker at various conferences or as an author of professional articles and books.

Sascha Haase

Kubermatic

VP Edge

Sascha Haase

Kubermatic

VP Edge

Short Bio

VP Edge

Sascha Haase is VP Edge at Kubermatic. His career is focused on bringing value through the right technology and the right people. He has been previously working at different Service Providers and utilized the Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform to create a Managed Kubernetes offering. Prior to this he was leading an IT-Headhunter company that built a unique client customer relationship software to automate technical recruiting processes. Sascha works and lives in Berlin.

Christian Weichel

Gitpod

Chief Architect

Jan Köhnlein

Gitpod

Co-Founder

Kapil Arora

HashiCorp Germany

Senior Solutions Engineer

Kapil Arora

HashiCorp Germany

Senior Solutions Engineer

Short Bio

Senior Solutions Engineer

Kapil is a cloud infrastructure automation and DevOps engineer who has experience in application development, deployment, automation, infrastructure provisioning, secrets management and DevSecOps. He guides and supports enterprise customers in their journey towards digital transformation. Kapil currently works as a Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and has been a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft and NetApp before. Kapil is also a certified Azure Solution Architect & Developer, Kubernetes Administrator & Developer and HashiCorp Cloud Engineer.

Roberto Freato

CTO @Witailer, Microsoft Azure MVP

Solution Architect, Conference Speaker, Author

Roberto Freato

CTO @Witailer, Microsoft Azure MVP

Solution Architect, Conference Speaker, Author

Short Bio

Solution Architect, Conference Speaker, Author

I’ve been an independent IT consultant since I started to work.
After my MSc in computer science engineering with a thesis about consumer cloud computing I got specialization in Cloud and Azure.
Today I work as a freelance consultant for major companies in Italy, helping clients to design and kick-off their distributed software solutions.
I wrote some books on Microsoft Azure, for K12 education and I train/speak for the developer community in many national and international conferences.
I hold 45+ technical certifications on various vendors (MS, Sun, EXIN, Apple, Cisco, IBM) and I am a Microsoft MVP since 2010.
In the last years I’ve been also CTO for ReStore, an eCommerce company leading the Click & Collect Italian eCommerce market for grocery, and now for Witailer, a leading company in the Amazon and eMarketplace services for brands.

Rachit Arora

Container Expert

Rachit Arora

Container Expert

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Container Expert

Rachit Arora is a Senior Developer at IBM,India Software Labs. He is key designer of the IBM’s 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.

Lian Li

Engineering Manager & Cloud Native Engineer

Lian Li

Engineering Manager & Cloud Native Engineer

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Engineering Manager & Cloud Native Engineer

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 with JavaScript all around the world. She fell in love with the tech community, which led to her co-organising the community conference ServerlessDays Amsterdam.
Currently, Lian lives in Amsterdam and works as Engineering Manager at Container Solutions, a consultancy focused on programmable infrastructure.

Florian Aßmus

PRODYNA SE

Managing IT Consultant & Chief Architect

Florian Aßmus

PRODYNA SE

Managing IT Consultant & Chief Architect

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Managing IT Consultant & Chief Architect

Florian has a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt and 15+ years of experience in professional software development. He is leading the Cloud Initiative at PRODYNA and is actively involved in applying cloud native technologies to solve our customers most demanding IT challenges. He represents PRODYNA at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and contributes to various open-source projects.

Guy Salton

Run:AI

Sales Engineering Lead

Nicolas Fränkel

Hazelcast

Developer Advocate

Angel Rivera

Developer Advocate

Angel Rivera

Developer Advocate

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Developer Advocate

Angel started his career as an US Air Force Space Systems Operations specialist in Cape Canaveral AF Station where he realized his passion for technology and software development. He has extensive experience in the private, public and military sectors and his technical experience includes military/space lift operations, software development, SRE/DevOPs engineering. He also has a wealth of experience in defense and federal sectors such as contracting, information systems security and management.

You can usual find him speaking at or organizing local tech meetups and hackathons where he enjoys engaging with developers.

Angel’s passions are positive disruption, learning, teaching, mentoring but most of all inspiring all forms of technologists & building awesome tech communities.

Mete Atamel

Google

Developer Advocate

Guillaume Laforge

Google Cloud

Developer Advocate

Nico Meisenzahl

white duck

Senior Cloud & DevOps Consultant

Robert Bohne

Red Hat

OpenShifter at Red Hat

Robert Bohne

Red Hat

OpenShifter at Red Hat

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OpenShifter at Red Hat

Robert works as a Senior Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat and a Subject Matter Expert for OpenShift Container Platform. With over 10 years of middleware operating experience from automation to monitoring and more than 5 years of container know-how, Robert primarily supports large German customers with their OpenShift adoption; starting with the introduction, 24x7 operations up to the migration and modernization of complex applications.

Miguel Angel Mingorance Fernandez

Delivery Hero

Systems Engineer

Miguel Angel Mingorance Fernandez

Delivery Hero

Systems Engineer

Short Bio

Systems Engineer

I’m an enthusiastic tech geek who loves cloud computing and Kubernetes.
My career as systems engineer began in 2018 and I fell in love with Kubernetes the first day I started using it.
Time has flown since then and now I’m a truly expert on Kubernetes, certified by The Linux Foundation as a Kubernetes Admnistrator and getting ready to take my next certification on Kubernetes Security.
I’ve mostly worked with AWS to build an awesome delivery platform at Delivery Hero. Working on this platform has allowed me use some other great technologies such as Terraform, ElasticSearch, Helm, Prometheus, Datadog, NewRelic and many AWS Services.
Apart from technology, I love doing sport and I’ve been playing amateur football since I was 6 years old. Holding since ever the most difficult position on the field; The Goalkeeper.
Food is other of my passions and I’m always happy to share a coffee.

Daniel Kocot

Senior Solutions Architect

Daniel Kocot

Senior Solutions Architect

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Senior Solutions Architect

Daniel has been a member of the codecentric team in Solingen since October 2016. Since the beginning of the 2000s he has dedicated himself to the topic of “Digital Transformation”. In addition to his current focus on Cloud & Service Connectivity, Application Lifecycle Management Tooling, Continuous Documentation, Legacy Modernization and VoiceUI. He is also an expert in the use of product information systems (PIM) and database publishing using rendering technologies. At the end of last year he was awarded the first German speaking Kong Champion.

Rob Richardson

Software craftsman

Melissa Jurkoic

Chief Customer Experience Officer devoted to improving the human experience and empowering women in tech

Melissa Jurkoic

Chief Customer Experience Officer devoted to improving the human experience and empowering women in tech

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Chief Customer Experience Officer devoted to improving the human experience and empowering women in tech

Melissa has worked in the tech industry for over 20 years in roles ranging from Junior Software Engineer to her current role as the Chief Customer Experience Officer at addapptation. She holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire, an executive certification in Management and Leadership from MIT and a SAFe Program Consultant (SPC4) certification. Always driven by her passion to have a positive impact on the decline of women in STEM education and careers, she has volunteered with organizations around the world including ChickTech, Everwise, WITI, NH Tech Alliance, Microsoft DigiGirlz, wiseHer and AnitaB.org. This passion led her to co-found Diversify Thinking, an initiative focused on moving inclusion from conversation to action. Melissa organizes mentoring programs and creates opportunities for collaboration among diverse thinkers through their Rise & Diversify Event Series.

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate

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Developer Advocate

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, GitOps, Microservices, Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment (CI/CD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences.

He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox. He published The DevOps Toolkit Series and Test-Driven Java Development.

Parveen Khan

Square Marble Technology, Senior Test Engineer

Parveen Khan

Square Marble Technology, Senior Test Engineer

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Square Marble Technology, Senior Test Engineer

Parveen is a senior test engineer at square marble technology. Being a quality advocate she believes delivering high-quality products is everyone’s responsibility. She loves collaborating with teams and optimizing processes, tools and methodologies to enable the creation of high-quality products. She is also an international speaker sharing her stories and experiences in testing to inspire other people around the globe. In her spare time, she plays the role of wonder woman for her two lovely kids. You can connect with her on twitter - @Parveen_Khan10 and read her stories at https://www.parveenkhans.com/.

Matthias Haeussler

Novatec

Chief Technologist

Matthias Haeussler

Novatec

Chief Technologist

Short Bio

Chief Technologist

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).

Alessandro Vozza

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer

Emily Omier

Helping companies in the cloud native ecosystem use positioning to accelerate growth

Mario-Leander Reimer

QAware

Principal Software Architect

Mario-Leander Reimer

QAware

Principal Software Architect

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Principal Software Architect

Passionate developer. Proud father. #CloudNativeNerd. Leander works as a principal software architect at QAware. He’s continuously looking for innovations in software engineering and ways to combine and apply state-of-the-art technology in real-world projects. As a speaker at national and international conferences he shares his tech experiences and he teaches cloud computing and software quality assurance as a part-time lecturer.

Denis Jannot

Solo.io

Director of Field Engineering - EMEA

Denis Jannot

Solo.io

Director of Field Engineering - EMEA

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Director of Field Engineering - EMEA

Denis is the Director of Field Engineering at Solo.io, a company building application networking solutions for the edge and service mesh. Denis is a passionate engineer who has spent his career in technical roles working directly with customers and users in architecting and adopting technologies like Object Storage, Big Data, Containerization, Service Mesh into their infrastructure. He enjoys sharing what he learns with the community and can be found creating demos, writing blogs, and speaking at events.

Koray Oksay

Kubermatic

Site Reliability Engineer

Lucas Severo

Cloud Native Engineer at Container Solutions

Lucas Severo

Cloud Native Engineer at Container Solutions

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Cloud Native Engineer at Container Solutions

From electronic engineering to software and later to DevOps/SRE. Since the beginning Lucas wanted to break stuff to see how they worked. Right now he breaks stuff alone, and fixes them together with his team. Open Source aficionado, cloud native developer preacher. He is one of the maintainers of External Secrets Operator (ESO) and he won’t rest until ESO is the de facto way of dealing with external secrets on Kubernetes.

Michael Gasch

VMware

Staff Engineer

Flavio Castelli

SUSE

Distinguished Engineer

Rafael Fernández López

SUSE

Senior Software Engineer

Mario Fahlandt

Kubermatic

Kubernetes Consultant

Hubert Ströbitzer

Kubermatic

Kubernetes Consultant

Hubert Ströbitzer

Kubermatic

Kubernetes Consultant

Short Bio

Kubernetes Consultant

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. After isolating in the Austrian Alps, fighting against wolves and dragons, he put his focus on Ops matters.

Hubert organizes the “Infrastructure as a Meetup” meetup in Austria. Hubert is a Linux Foundation trainer for CKA and CKAD and contributed to the CKA exam questions.

Thomas Fricke

Cloud Security Architect

Rory McCune

Aqua Security

Cloud Native Security Advocate

Rory McCune

Aqua Security

Cloud Native Security Advocate

Short Bio

Cloud Native Security Advocate

Rory has worked in the Information and IT Security arena for the last 20 years in a variety of roles. These days he spends his work time on container and cloud native security as a Cloud Native Security Advocate for Aqua. He is an active member of the container security community having delivered presentations at a variety of IT and Information security conferences. He has also presented at major containerization conferences and is an author of the CIS Benchmarks for Docker and Kubernetes and main author of the Mastering Container Security training course which has been delivered at numerous industry conferences including Blackhat USA. When he’s not working, Rory can generally be found out walking and enjoying the scenery of the Scottish highlands.

Juan Manuel Parrilla Madrid

Red Hat

Principal Sofware Engineed

Juan Manuel Parrilla Madrid

Red Hat

Principal Sofware Engineed

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Principal Sofware Engineed

Juan Manuel Parrilla has been working at Red Hat for 7 years. He joined the Iberia Services team as a Senior Architect focused on the area of Automation and Cloud Management delivering large transformational projects for worldwide enterprises in the Finance vertical. Today he is a Princial Software engineer working with Kubernetes in the Openshift Engineering team, with focus in the Telco Edge and 5G project.

Mario Vázquez

Red Hat

Senior Software Engineer

Nočnica Fee

Dev Advocate and Cloud Engineer

Charlotte Mach

Container Solutions

Engineering Manager

Philipp Krenn

Elastic

Conference and chaos monkey

Philipp Krenn

Elastic

Conference and chaos monkey

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Conference and chaos monkey

Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for over ten years, Philipp is now a developer advocate and community team lead in EMEA at Elastic — the company behind the Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is constantly traveling Europe and beyond to speak and discuss open source software, search, databases, infrastructure, and security.

Sunil Ganatra

IBM

Software Engineer

Sunil Ganatra

IBM

Software Engineer

Short Bio

Software Engineer

Developer of IBM Cloud / Cloud Pak For Data offering which provides Hadoop and Spark clusters on demand.

I am an SME in designing, developing, deploying, and managing the operations of multiple offerings running on Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker containers spanning over 1000+ machines for IBM private & public cloud. Have experience in building CI/CD pipelines for the above mentioned offerings. I have good hands-on experience on Kubernetes, Openshift, Operators, Ansible, and Docker.

Surbhi Bakhtiyar

IBM

Software Engineer

Saiyam Pathak

Influx ACE | CKA | CKAD

CNCF Ambassador | Software Engineer

Saiyam Pathak

Influx ACE | CKA | CKAD

CNCF Ambassador | Software Engineer

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CNCF Ambassador | Software Engineer

Saiyam is Software Engineer of the multi cloud kubernetes project, and works on Kubernetes at Walmart Labs with a focus on creating and managing the Machine Learning ecosystem. Previously at HP and Oracle, Saiyam has worked on many facets of Kubernetes including scaling, multi-cloud, managed kubernetes services, k8s documentation and testing. He’s worked on implementing the major managed services (GKE/AKS/OKE) in different organizations.
When not coding or answering Slack messages, Saiyam works on contributing to the community by writing blogs and giving sessions on Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, Influx etc at different meetups . He can be reached on twitter @saiyampathak giving tips on kubernetes and open source.
youtube channel - https://youtube.com/saiyam911

Christina Kraus

Meshcloud

Co-founder

Christina Kraus

Meshcloud

Co-founder

Short Bio

Co-founder

Christina is Co-Founder and Product Manager at meshcloud. With a platform for Multi-Cloud Management, meshcloud accompanies and accelerates the digital transformation in large enterprises. Before founding meshcloud, Christina worked at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence in Berlin in the field of Smart Data. She studied Computer Science and Business at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany as well as the Technical University of Berlin.

Daniel Bryant

Ambassador Labs

Dir of DevRel

Daniel Bryant

Ambassador Labs

Dir of DevRel

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Dir of DevRel

Daniel Bryant is the Director of Dev Rel at Ambassador Labs. His technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms, and microservice implementations. Daniel is a Java Champion, and contributes to several open source projects. He also writes for InfoQ, O’Reilly, and TheNewStack, and regularly presents at international conferences such as KubeCon, QCon and JavaOne. In his copious amounts of free time he enjoys running, reading and traveling.

Yara Abdellatif

Zoi TechCon

Yara Abdellatif

Zoi TechCon

Short Bio

Zoi TechCon

After getting my Bachelor’s Degree from the Helwan University, I started a post graduate Professional Diploma at the Information Technology Institute in Cairo. I used my Kubernetes and Docker experience to give DevOps related courses at the Information Technology Institute as an external.

At Vodafone Shared Services I designed CI/CD Pipelines for Microservices using Jenkins, Maven, Docker and Kubernetes. Then I joined CDMBase as a remote DevOps Engineer where I implemented various helm charts and CI/CD projects with different tools on Kubernetes. After moving to Germany in 2019, I started my work as a DevOps Engineer/Consultant at Zoi where I gained more experience in Kubernetes, Vault and various Cloud Providers.

In my free time I like to play Tennis, listen to music and Cook.

Tilman Kranz

B1 Systems GmbH

Linux-Trainer and Consultant

Michal Vančo

Kubermatic

K8S Cloud Architect, PS

Michal Vančo

Kubermatic

K8S Cloud Architect, PS

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K8S Cloud Architect, PS

I am an enthusiast technical person with a focus on automation, quality, developers’ and customers’ happiness.

With 14+ years of experience in various roles like developer, QA engineer, architect, infrastructure engineer, manager, etc.

I am happy to get involved in any technical challenge across various parts of the technical stack. Approximately last 5 years were fully dedicated to Cloud-native eco-system - the uncountable amount of research and prototypes, adoption, and migration of complex systems to Kubernetes, building many tools, preparing infrastructure, and creating processes using concepts of Continuous deployment and GitOps.

Now I am part of the Professional Services team at Kubermatic, working on various projects and helping customers with their cloud-native journey. Kubermatic is providing a set of open-source projects and tools for automation of Kubernetes clusters management and operations across various environments.

Thorsten Jakoby

Consultant

Thorsten Jakoby

Consultant

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Consultant

Thorsten Jakoby is a consultant for IT-Architectures and Cloud Migrations at Novatec in Germany. He is currently a cloud security architect for a highly regulated customers in Germany.

With a background of more than 10 years in distributed applications Thorsten enables both customers building cloud architectures and students entering the IT and cloud world. Prior to his role at Novatec he led a company specialized in cloud-based startup projects.

Besides his role as consultant, he is also a trainer and speaks on meetups and conferences (like Cloud Foundry Summit EU, W-JAX, OOP, JCON, IT-Tage, Frankfurter Entwicklertag).

Sebastian Herzberg

FREE NOW

Engineering Manager for SRE-Infrastructure

Sascha Siegl

Presales Engineer

Sascha Siegl

Presales Engineer

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Presales Engineer

Sascha Siegl is a PreSales Engineer at SysEleven GmbH. Despite only having three years of professional experience, he has been involved with application development and management in containerized environments and system architecture planning in the cloud-native environment since his first day on the job. As an employee of ITDZ Berlin, he helped to introduce an OpenShift environment, and then, at the successor employer, Rhenus Office GmbH and, downstream, the start-up MIA GmbH, he created a concept for the introduction of the container orchestration tool Kubernetes, along with the necessary third-party systems for any pipelines, such as Gitlab, Ansible, and so on. The training and the regular exchange especially with application developers were a very good preparation for the technical customer support tasks. As a proponent of open source applications, he is also familiar with many different tools and approaches and brings the necessary all-round knowledge to customize best practices.

Viktor Gamov

Kong

Seth Vargo

Engineer at Google Cloud

Andreas Mock

Microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect

Andreas Mock

Microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect

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Cloud Solution Architect

Andreas Mock arbeitet als Cloud Solution Architect bei Microsoft in der “One Commercial Partner” Organisation und unterstützt Microsoft Partner bei der Erstellung der Architektur, der Implementierung und dem Betrieb von Anwendungen auf Microsoft Azure. Mit einem Entwickler-Background von 20 Jahren arbeitet Andreas mit verschiedenen Frame works und Sprachen aus dem Microsoft Umfeld. Mit seiner Tätigkeit als Cloud Solution Architect bei Microsoft startete auch seine Journey im Open Source Ökosystem. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt momentan im Bereich Identity, DevOps und Entwicklung von verteilten und nativen Cloud Anwendungen.

Christian Dennig

Microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect

Christian Dennig

Microsoft

Cloud Solution Architect

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Cloud Solution Architect

Christian Dennig arbeitet als Cloud Solution Architect bei Microsoft in der "One Commercial Partner" Organisation und unterstützt Microsoft Partner bei der Erstellung der Architektur, der Implementierung und dem Betrieb ihrer Anwendungen auf Microsoft Azure. Er hat einen Entwickler- Background von 20 Jahren und arbeitete mit verschiedensten Frameworks/Sprachen aus dem Microsoft- und Open Source Ökosystem. Sein Schwerpunkt liegt momentan auf DevOps, API- Erstellung und Entwicklung von verteilten, nativen Cloud Anwendungen mit Containern / Kubernetes.

Josef Fuchshuber

QAware

Software Architect

Bastian Hofmann

SUSE

Field Engineer

Bettina Bassermann

SUSE

Business Strategist

Keith Basil

SUSE

Vice President of Product

Keith Basil

SUSE

Vice President of Product

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Vice President of Product

Keith Basil is Vice President of Product, Cloud Native Infrastructure at SUSE. Basil brings over 21 years of hands on experience in cloud and related industries. As Vice President of Cloud Native Infrastructure, Basil drives strategy and management of SUSE Rancher cloud-native products.

Working with the SUSE global customer base, he is also driving development of cloud-native edge solutions that encompass cluster management, heterogeneous architectures, and zero-trust security approaches at scale.

Basil is also passionate about the next generation of decentralized cloud computing models. As an advocate in this area, he is working with communication service providers and public sector organizations to establish decentralized cloud infrastructure, applications and new revenue models.

Before Rancher, Basil led product management, positioning, and business strategy for security within Red Hat’s Cloud Platforms business unit. Prior to Red Hat, he was instrumental in the design of a secure, high-performance cloud architecture that provided compute, storage and application hosting services forUS public sector civilian agencies and contractors.

Basil holds a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from Norfolk State University.

Robert Fritz

IONOS

Product and Delivery Manager

Matthias Luderich

HPI Schulcloud

Chief Operating Officer

Dennis Zielke

Microsoft

Global Black Belt Cloud Native Applications

Dennis Zielke

Microsoft

Global Black Belt Cloud Native Applications

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Global Black Belt Cloud Native Applications

Until 2011 RWTH Aachen Informatic Studies with focus on software engineering, distributed systems, data analytics, algorithm design and applied mathematics

2011 -201 Microsoft Germany: Consultant Writing of technical specifications and review of solution deliverables Providing architectural guidance on best practices on the Microsoft technology stack Implementation of custom applications for public facing websites, intranet applications and mobile applications Designing and implementation of application lifecycle management solutions

Since 2016 Microsoft Germany: Global Black Belt Cloud Native Applications & Cloud Application Architect Designing application architectures for cloud native workloads Drive innovative software architectures and validate new technology solutions Define technical solution best practices and empower ISV and implementation partners

Ara Pulido

Datadog

Senior Technical Evangelist

Ara Pulido

Datadog

Senior Technical Evangelist

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Senior Technical Evangelist

Ara Pulido is a Technical Evangelist at Datadog. Prior to that she worked as an Engineering Manager at Bitnami and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. She has more than 10 years of experience working on infrastructure open-source companies.

She lives in Malaga, Spain, where she can enjoy three of her favourite free time activities: hiking during spring and autumn; snorkeling, during summer; and going for tapas with friends all year round.

Alexander Nyahoe

IONOS

Account Manager

Benjamin Schmidt

IONOS

Senior Technical Consultant

Andreas Jaekel

IONOS

Head of Platform as a Service

Stefan Schäfer

OVHcloud

Marketing Executive

Mehdi Hermi

instinctools

Managing Director

Bill Mulligan

CNCF

Community Manager

Bill Mulligan

CNCF

Community Manager

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Community Manager

Bill Mulligan is a Community Manager at CNCF helping the cloud native community grow and make cloud native computing ubiquitous. He runs strategic programs around telco and edge computing, helps students see cloud native as a career path, builds local communities through Kubernetes Community Days, and creates immersive media experiences through CloudNative.TV. He is always looking to connect with the community.

Kaslin Fields

Google Cloud

Developer Advocate

Kaslin Fields

Google Cloud

Developer Advocate

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Developer Advocate

Kaslin Fields is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador, and a contributor to Open Source Kubernetes. As a Developer Advocate, she engages with Open Source communities both as a member, and as an advocate for their needs as users (or potential users) of Google Cloud’s products. She is passionate about making technology accessible to a broad audience through making the information available in many forms, such as videos, blogs, documentation, and even comics which she illustrates herself!

Dan Garfield

Codefresh

Co-Founder and Chief Open Source Office

Sonali Mishra

D2iQ

Kubernetes Evangelist & Product Manager

Dr. Alexa Ahle

Hamburg Süd

IT Group Lead

Harald Simon

Hamburg Süd

Head of GLOBE Platform

Priyanka Sharma

CNCF

General Manager

Priyanka Sharma

CNCF

General Manager

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General Manager

Priyanka is the General Manager of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) which serves as the vendor-neutral home for 90+ of the fastest-growing open source projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Envoy. She is also a co-creator of the Inclusive Naming Initiative whose mission is to promote and facilitate replacing harmful and exclusionary language in information technology. She was a founding team member of the OpenTracing standard and has contributed to other open source projects such as Jaeger, Vitess, and GitLab. Priyanka is a long time champion of and advisor to startups in cutting-edge technology spaces and serves as an Advisor at HeavyBit Industries, an accelerator and fund for developer and enterprise companies.

Jelle Den Burger

Meshcloud

PM

Sebastian Kister

Audi AG

Product Team Lead Kubernetes Platform

Sebastian Kister

Audi AG

Product Team Lead Kubernetes Platform

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Product Team Lead Kubernetes Platform

Sebastian is an agile digital native with 8 successfully implemented projects in 7 industries. He is a startup-professional who helped to shape products from genesis to market leader with bleeding-edge technology. Always striving to innovate and question the status quo, he helps to break dogmas, implement a new culture and never settles while pursuing constant progress. Currently, he is leading a competence center in IT infrastructure and aligning all brands in the VW Group with the mission to once again boldly go where no one has gone before.

Rafael Ulrich

TechData

Business Development Manager IBM Hybrid Cloud

Ingmar Badura

TechData

Business Development Manager IBM Cloud IaaS & IBM Storage Solutions

Benjamin Schmidt

Ionos

Cloud Solution Achitect

Christoph Leygraf

F5/NGINX

Solution Engineer

Damian Marquez

Kubermatic

Senior Solutions Architect

Guest Speakers

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VP Edge

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Chief Architect

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Solution Architect, Conference Speaker, Author

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Container Expert

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Engineering Manager & Cloud Native Engineer

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Managing IT Consultant & Chief Architect

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Sales Engineering Lead

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Developer Advocate

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OpenShifter at Red Hat

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Systems Engineer

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Senior Solutions Architect

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Software craftsman

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Chief Customer Experience Officer devoted to improving the human experience and empowering women in tech

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Developer Advocate

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Square Marble Technology, Senior Test Engineer

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Chief Technologist

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Principal Software Engineer

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Helping companies in the cloud native ecosystem use positioning to accelerate growth

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Principal Software Architect

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Director of Field Engineering - EMEA

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Site Reliability Engineer

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Cloud Native Engineer at Container Solutions

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Distinguished Engineer

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Kubernetes Consultant

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Cloud Security Architect

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Principal Sofware Engineed

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