We are happy to announce those amazing speakers for ContainerDays 2020
Sebastian Scheele
Loodse
CEO
Sebastian Scheele
Loodse
CEO
Short Bio
CEO
Sebastian Scheele is the CEO and co-founder of Loodse. Loodse is an enterprise software platform company that enables enterprises and service providers to deliver automated multi-cloud operations. Loodse 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.
Dr. Stefan Schimanski
Red Hat
Principal Software Engineer
Dr. Stefan Schimanski
Red Hat
Principal Software Engineer
Short Bio
Principal Software Engineer
Alessandro Vozza
Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
Alessandro Vozza
Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
Short Bio
Principal Software Engineer
Matthias Loibl
Red Hat
Software Engineer
Matthias Loibl
Red Hat
Software Engineer
Short Bio
Software Engineer
Abhishek Gupta
LinkedIn
Sr. Engineer - Azure
Abhishek Gupta
LinkedIn
Sr. Engineer - Azure
Short Bio
Sr. Engineer - Azure
Lead the design and engineering of new, next-generation solutions based on modern Cloud Native architectural principles. Assess existing complex solutions and recommend appropriate technical treatments to transform the application with Cloud Native/12-Factor characteristics. Refactor existing solutions to adopt a Micro-services based architecture. Re-platform solutions to operate in PaaS & Kubernetes environments, particularly based on Azure. Execute PoC, MVP and Application Transformation projects that target Kubernetes and Azure Cloud. Deeply involved in the hands-on coding/development of projects. Experienced in architecting, designing and programming applications in Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud environments. Experienced with designing and building applications using Micro-services together with Container and Serverless technologies. Experienced in architecting highly available, large-scale enterprise applications
Ádám Sándor
Container Solutions
Cloud Native Architect
Ádám Sándor
Container Solutions
Cloud Native Architect
Short Bio
Cloud Native Architect
After long years of building software and throwing it over the wall, I happily dived into Cloud Native to break that wall down for good. Now I'm spreading the word about Kubernetes, Continuous Delivery and Docker to all who are willing to listen. I mainly do this in my job as a Cloud Native Architect at Container Solutions.
Adrian Reber
Red Hat
Principal Software Engineer
Adrian Reber
Red Hat
Principal Software Engineer
Short Bio
Principal Software Engineer
Adrian is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and is migrating processes at least since 2010. He started to migrate processes in a high performance computing environment and at some point he migrated so many processes that he got a PhD for that. Most of the time he is now migrating containers but occasionally he still migrates single processes.
Alban Crequy
Kinvolk
CTO
Alban Crequy
Kinvolk
CTO
Short Bio
CTO
Originally from France, Alban currently lives in Berlin where he is a CTO & co-founder at Kinvolk. He is a contributor to rkt, a container runtime for Linux, Weave Scope, a container visualization & monitoring tool, and is actively working on BPF-related projects. Before falling into containers, Alban worked on various projects core to modern Linux; kernel IPC and storage, dbus performance and security, etc. His current technical interests revolve around networking, security, systemd and containers at the lower-levels of the system.
Andrew Martin
Control Plane Limited
Co-founder
Andrew Martin
Control Plane Limited
Co-founder
Short Bio
Co-founder
Andrew is a co-founder at https://control-plane.io and DevOps Lead at the UK Home Office, with a strong test-first engineering background gained developing and deploying high volume web applications. Proficient in application development and systems architecture and maintenance, he is comfortable profiling and securing every tier of a bare metal or virtualised web stack, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise clients.
Andrew Randall
Kinvolk
VP Business Development
Andrew Randall
Kinvolk
VP Business Development
Short Bio
VP Business Development
Andy is passionate about technology and believes successful businesses deliver solutions and services that delight customers, the open source community and ecosystem partners.
Prior to joining Kinvolk, Andy co-founded Tigera and Calico, the foundational open source cloud native networking and network security project. Andy previously as successfully built and grown businesses in the areas of network protocols, voice over IP and web conferencing at Metaswitch. He holds a joint MBA from Berkeley-Haas and Columbia Business Schools. He also has masters degrees in software engineering, philosophy and mathematics from the Universities of Oxford and Stirling.
Bastian Spanneberg
Instana
Director of Site Reliability Engineering
Bastian Spanneberg
Instana
Director of Site Reliability Engineering
Short Bio
Director of Site Reliability Engineering
Bastian leads the SRE team at Instana and has seen the company grow and evolve from its early days.
Bill Mulligan
Loodse
Kubernetes Advocate
Bill Mulligan
Loodse
Kubernetes Advocate
Short Bio
Kubernetes Advocate
On his first day of work at his previous company, Bill was told to set up a Kubernetes cluster without knowing how to even pronounce Kubernetes. Many blog posts, youtube videos, and errors later, Bill has successfully been able to explain Kubernetes to even his grandmother. He currently works at Loodse to help anyone, anywhere have a Kubernetes cluster in one click.
Christian Weichel
TypeFox
Principal Software Engineer
Christian Weichel
TypeFox
Principal Software Engineer
Short Bio
Principal Software Engineer
Christian loves building things, systems and software. Ever keen to solve cross-cutting problems, he has a PhD in human-computer interaction and more than ten years of industrial experience ranging from the cloud-native side of things to embedded software development/IoT. These days he's building developer tools with the awesome folks at TypeFox.
Sven Efftinge
TypeFox
Co-Founder and CEO
Sven Efftinge
TypeFox
Co-Founder and CEO
Short Bio
Co-Founder and CEO
Sven is co-founder and CEO of TypeFox, the company behind Gitpod.io and the new Eclipse Theia Open-Source IDE. He's a regular speaker at international conferences, passionate kitesurfer and father of two boys.
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.
Clarissa Rodrigues
SAP
QA
Clarissa Rodrigues
SAP
QA
Short Bio
QA
Clarissa Rodrigues is graduated by University of Vale dos Sinos (UNISINOS), specialist in Software Engineering by Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and master student in Applied Computing by UNISINOS. With more than 10 years of IT experience, she has been working in different roles and companies, such as a Business Analyst at SISPRO, Test Leader at ADP and most current Quality Specialist at SAP. On her journey, she has been advocated for quality inside development teams.
Constantin Weißer
Novatec Consulting
Infrastructure & Automation Lead
Constantin Weißer
Novatec Consulting
Infrastructure & Automation Lead
Short Bio
Infrastructure & Automation Lead
Constantin Weisser is a Consultant and Trainer for Novatec Consulting GmbH, based in Germany. He is accompanying customers on their journey to modern software development. He focuses on methods and tools around Software Delivery, i.e. covering all the way from the source code to a running application. Constantin advocates tailored tooling, step-by-step automation and an engineering approaches to speed up software development and delivery, enabling teams to ship high quality applications.
Daniel Galán y Martins
Joblift
Senior Software Developer
Daniel Galán y Martins
Joblift
Senior Software Developer
Short Bio
Senior Software Developer
Daniel is a Software Developer and DevOps Engineer at Joblift GmbH, a metasearch engine for jobs, where he focuses on distributed systems design, CI/CD and infrastructure. He loves writing and contributing to Open Source projects, sharing knowledge and simple but working solutions. When he is not typing on a keyboard, he can be found in a dojo practicing kata and kumite.
David de Torres Huerta
Sysdig
Solutions engineer
David de Torres Huerta
Sysdig
Solutions engineer
Short Bio
Solutions engineer
David is a solutions engineer at Sysdig. Peviously he worked as CTO in a company specialized in IoT for energy metering and Industry 4.0. He is a computer engineer and collaborates with open source projects, but also likes to study anthropology, play blues and make video games.
David Morris
FalconStor
Chief Product Officer and VP of Global Marketing
David Morris
FalconStor
Chief Product Officer and VP of Global Marketing
Short Bio
Chief Product Officer and VP of Global Marketing
David Morris serves as Chief Product Officer and VP of Global Marketing for FalconStor. He has over 25 years of leadership experience in storage systems and storage, information, and compliance management. Before FalconStor, he worked with Cisco and Huawei to develop and define new strategic imperatives, as the third era of IT disrupted the technology sector. Recognized for his ability to identify new markets and develop customer-centric products, services, and solutions, Mr. Morris has worked with numerous private equity backed companies to position them into emerging high-growth markets, including Kazeon, acquired by EMC, and Cetas, acquired by VMware, BludArc, acquired by Hitachi, and Pillar Data acquired by Oracle. At NET, he led the storage and network division turnaround efforts and repositioning the company to raise $85 million in a private placement of public equity (PIPE) and subsequent acquisition by Sonus.
David holds graduate degrees in Marketing from Berkeley-Haas, in Finance from Columbia, and in Engineering from George Washington, as well as a Bachelors in Physics from Auburn University. He currently advises Aerwave, a next-gen security company, and Brite Discovery, a GDPR compliance and eDiscovery company.
Dmitrii Dolgov
Zalando
Software Engineer
Dmitrii Dolgov
Zalando
Software Engineer
Short Bio
Software Engineer
PostgreSQL contributor, Software Engineer at Zalando SE
Eduardo Alonso
Quobis Networks
Operations Technical Leader
Eduardo Alonso
Quobis Networks
Operations Technical Leader
Short Bio
Operations Technical Leader
Working in communication integrations for 6 years ago. Helping to get SIP speaking to webRTC. Backend developer with Django, Nodejs, Symfony in the last 9 years.
During the last 2 years I leaded the transition of my company to the devops culture.
In the past web developer based on Symfony, LAMP, Javascript, JQUERY, Database administrator, JAVA OSGI and Commiter in Opencast Matterhorn project.
Elena Darriba
Quobis Networks
Manager
Elena Darriba
Quobis Networks
Manager
Short Bio
Manager
Working with SIP for 6 years ago (Kamailio, Asterisk, FreeSWITCH, SBC, etc.).
Manager of presales since last year, I design and evaluate different architecture solutions to integrate and deploy WebRTC services in different platforms. The infrastructure of the solutions is using Kubernetes, migrating all services to container solutions.
I have been focused on Docker and Kubernetes networking, managing deployments and configuration changes with Ansible.
Edward Wilde
Form3
Platform Architect
Edward Wilde
Form3
Platform Architect
Short Bio
Platform Architect
Edward is a member of the [OpenFaaS](https://www.openfaas.com/team/) core contributor team. Edward has spent the last year experimenting with ways to enable open-source serverless to leverage the economic benefits of cloud vendor services such as AWS Lambda and container as a service platforms like AWS Fargate.
Professionally Edward is the Platform Architect at payments fintech [Form3](https://form3.tech), leading the development of a novel distributed payment system allowing connectivity, payment processing, clearing and settlement services for a wide range of regulated financial institutions, including leading banks and fintechs.
Florian Aßmus
Prodyna
IT Consulting
Florian Aßmus
Prodyna
IT Consulting
Short Bio
IT Consulting
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.
Frank Mueller
Publicis Sapient
Principal Engineer - Lead for Cloud & Devops DACH
Frank Mueller
Publicis Sapient
Principal Engineer - Lead for Cloud & Devops DACH
Short Bio
Principal Engineer - Lead for Cloud & Devops DACH
Nothing is impossible, it is just a matter of effort.
Frank is working for nearly 20 years within the IT Industry. In his carreer he worked for multiple companies and since 6 years for his current employer. During that time he was able to work for dozens of different clients and projects which allowed him to gain experience with multiple approaches and technologies.
Frank Pientka
Materna
Principal Software Architect
Frank Pientka
Materna
Principal Software Architect
Short Bio
Principal Software Architect
Frank Pientka works as a Principal Software Architect at MATERNA SE in Dortmund. He ensures a better software quality and improves training and certification of architects. For more than two decades, he has been helping companies implementing sustainable software architectures. He carries out external reviews and architecture evaluations as an expert. Furthermore he has already published several specialist articles and lectures.
Guy Salton
Codefresh
Solutions Architect
Guy Salton
Codefresh
Solutions Architect
Short Bio
Solutions Architect
Guy Salton is a Solution Architect specializing in the fields of DevOps, Cloud Computing, Kubernetes, Containers, CI/CD and Infrastructure.
Guy shares his technical knowlege by speaking at conferences and Meetups around the world in addition to publishing DevOps-focused blog posts and delivering online webinars.
Harshvardhan Karn
MayaData
Full stack Software Engineer
Harshvardhan Karn
MayaData
Full stack Software Engineer
Short Bio
Full stack Software Engineer
I work at MayaData Inc. The company is responsible for building DirectorOnline, a SaaS Platform, and OpenEBS, an open-source storage platform that provides persistent and containerized block storage. Currently working on DirectorOnline, and core contributor of Open Source chaos tool LitmusChaos/Litmus.
Sumit Lalwani
MayaData
Software Engineer
Sumit Lalwani
MayaData
Software Engineer
Short Bio
Software Engineer
Sumit is a software engineer at MayaData working on MayaOnline (SaaS platform) which provides visibility and controls for the operation of OpenEBS based stateful workloads on Kubernetes. He is passionate about opensource. He loves to code.
Hugh McKee
Lightbend
Developer Advocate
Hugh McKee
Lightbend
Developer Advocate
Short Bio
Developer Advocate
Hugh McKee is a developer advocate at Lightbend. He has had a long career building applications that evolved slowly, that inefficiently utilized their infrastructure, and were brittle and prone to failure. That all changed when he started building reactive, asynchronous, actor-based systems. This radically new way of building applications rocked his world. As an added benefit, building application systems became way more fun than it had ever been. Now he is focused on helping others to discover the significant advantages and joys of building responsive, resilient, elastic, message-driven applications.
Jessica Andersson
Meltwater
Infrastructure Engineer
Jessica Andersson
Meltwater
Infrastructure Engineer
Short Bio
Infrastructure Engineer
Jessica is an infrastructure engineer. She has been with Meltwater since 2016 and the last years has been spent running and providing kubernetes as a service for around 50 teams within the organisation. Jessica is also engaged in the Cloud Native Meetup community, as an attendee, speaker and organiser.
Ola Petersson
Meltwater
Software Engineer
Ola Petersson
Meltwater
Software Engineer
Short Bio
Software Engineer
Ola Petersson is a fullstack developer and conference speaker. Ola spends most of his days building micro services on the JVM. Ola is passionate about the developer community and is a frequent attendee and speaker at different meetups and conferences. In 2016 Ola was honored with a JavaOne Rockstar Awards
Jiacheng Xu
Loodse
Software Engineer
Jiacheng Xu
Loodse
Software Engineer
Short Bio
Software Engineer
Jiacheng Xu is a software engineer in the KubeCarrier team at Loodse, mainly focusing on multi-cluster service management on Kubernetes. He was a Google Summer of Code student under the CNCF with CoreDNS in 2018.
Jim Sheldon
Meltwater
Infrastructure Engineer
Jim Sheldon
Meltwater
Infrastructure Engineer
Short Bio
Infrastructure Engineer
Jim has been automating build/release workflows and managing infrastructure for the past 14 years. These days Jim is part of Meltwater's "Foundation Mission", developing software and services for Meltwater's development teams.
Khash Sajadi
Cloud 66
CEO
Khash Sajadi
Cloud 66
CEO
Short Bio
CEO
Khash founded Cloud 66 at the beginning of 2012 when he found himself frustrated by the manual way infrastructure was provisioned and configured. Finding PaaS very expensive and restricted, and scripting languages like Chef overly complex and not suitable for the cloud workloads, he set out to change the way applications are deployed to the cloud. Before starting Cloud 66, Khash worked as a senior architect at Chicago Mercantile Exchange, VP of Fixed Income Division at Lehman Brothers and SunGard Trading and Risk Systems and founded Sentimnt, as social search engine, and worked in various startups in London and San Francisco. As well as his role as the CEO, Khash is responsible for all Cloud 66 products and has deployed and operated 1000+ node Kubernetes clusters.
Leonardo Di Donato
Sysdig
Open Source Software Engineer
Leonardo Di Donato
Sysdig
Open Source Software Engineer
Short Bio
Open Source Software Engineer
Leo is an Open Source Software Engineer at Sysdig in the Office of the CTO, where he's in charge of the Open Source methodologies and projects. He's a core maintainer of Falco, a Cloud Native tool for runtime security incubated by the CNCF. He is also involved in the Linux Foundation's eBPF project (IO Visor) as a maintainer of the kubectl-trace project. He's also the creator of go-syslog, a blazingly fast Go parser for syslogs and transports, and of kubectl-dig, a tool about deep visibility into Kubernetes directly from the kubectl. He's also involved from the early days into the CNCF SIG-Security.
Lian Li
Container Solutions
Cloud Native Consultant
Lian Li
Container Solutions
Cloud Native Consultant
Short Bio
Cloud Native Consultant
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 Cloud Native Engineer at Container Solutions, a consultancy focused on programmable infrastructure.
Mario-Leander Reimer
QAware
Chief Software Architect
Mario-Leander Reimer
QAware
Chief Software Architect
Short Bio
Chief Software Architect
Passionate developer. Proud father. #CloudNativeNerd. Leander works as a chief 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.
Max Körbächer
Storm Reply
Kubernetes & Cloud Native Advocate
Max Körbächer
Storm Reply
Kubernetes & Cloud Native Advocate
Short Bio
Kubernetes & Cloud Native Advocate
Max is Kubernetes and Cloud Native Advocate at Storm Reply based in Munich. At day he builds cloud-native solutions on/with Kubernetes, architecting on AWS and tame microservices. At night he supports open source projects and organizes the Kubernetes Community Days.
Michel Schildmeijer
Qualogy
Lead Technologist
Michel Schildmeijer
Qualogy
Lead Technologist
Short Bio
Lead Technologist
Having made his start in the pharmacy sector, Michel transitioned to IT in 1996, working on a UNIX TTY terminal-based system and the MUMPS language. He currently works as a solutions architect at Qualogy, with a focus on middleware, application integration and service-oriented architecture. His passion for middleware started in 2000 when working as a support analyst for a financial institute with BEA WebLogic and Tuxedo. Michel is an expert on the WebLogic platform. He serves customers in his role as architect and advises them in all aspects of their IT landscape. He became an Oracle ACE in 2012 and wrote two books about WebLogic: Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1 PS2: Administration Essentials and Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: First Look. He is a well-known speaker at national and international conferences and is recognised as an official Oracle Speaker.
Since a few years he is also a heavy contributor to the OpenSource community and solutions regarding containerization and DevOps.
Furthermore, he is a well known expert in the several communities and speaks regular on big events in the EMEA region and worldwide, such as KubeCon, Continuous Delivery Summit, Oracle OpenWorld, Groundbreakers Developers Tours and several other tech conferences.
Mirna Alaisami
Novatec Consulting
Consultant
Mirna Alaisami
Novatec Consulting
Consultant
Short Bio
Consultant
Mirna Alaisami is a Consultant at Novatec Consulting GmbH with focus on Cloud Native Development. This includes mainly development and delivery of training topics related to microservice development and CI/CD with the technology stacks of Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry. She also advises and supports customers directly migrate their workloads to these platforms.
Prior to that, she worked for 3 years as a software developer with various languages and web-focused frameworks such as Java, JavaScript, PHP and Angular.
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 EU/NA, Cloud Foundry Meetups, IT-Tage Frankfurt, Frankfurter Entwicklertag).
Mofizur Rahman
IBM
Developer Advocate
Mofizur Rahman
IBM
Developer Advocate
Short Bio
Developer Advocate
Mofizur Rahman (@moficodes) is a Developer Advocate at IBM. His area of interests include container orchestration and micro services. His favorite programming language these days is Go. He also tinkers with Node, Python and Java. He is also learning and teaching in the Go, Kubernetes, Docker and Microservice community. He is a strong believer of the power open source and importance of giving back to the community. He is a self proclaimed sticker collecting addict and has collected several box full of stickers with no signs of stopping. He dabbles in photography sometimes.
He writes tech blogs dev.to page which can be found on https://dev.to/moficodes
Mohammed Aboullaite
xHub
Head of Engineering
Mohammed Aboullaite
xHub
Head of Engineering
Short Bio
Head of Engineering
Mohammed is a community catalyst and a true open source believer and has contributed to various open source projects. He has helped to build many IT communities in Morocco and he currently works at Xhub, a DevOps software company as Head of Engineering.
Neven Miculinić
Loodse
Software Developer
Neven Miculinić
Loodse
Software Developer
Short Bio
Software Developer
Neven’s parents committed a grave mistake, and at the age of 12 introduced him to Pascal and Logo. Since then he's programmed in various languages, from C, C++ to Haskell and Go. He saw his first big system during his Facebook 2015 summer internship, and since then worked on various jobs from building a DNA deep learning base-caller to a real-time cryptocurrency bot in Go.
Currently, his passion lies in DevOps, Kubernetes and the CNCF landscape, as well as performance engineering, monitoring, and system observability.
Neven also created wireguard CNI ansible roles, wg-quick-go wireguard library, and wg-operator designed to manage VPN private/public keys via the Kubernetes API server.
Nick Jones
D2iQ
Community Engineering Lead
Nick Jones
D2iQ
Community Engineering Lead
Short Bio
Community Engineering Lead
I'm an experienced engineer with a career spanning nearly two decades across a wide variety of industries and sectors. I'm particularly passionate about new technologies and methodologies, especially those in relation to Open Source, virtualisation, orchestration, automation, and all forms of cloud computing. Simultaneously romantic about the old with a penchant for decrepit Sun and SGI kit. Likes Emacs and vi.
Nico Meisenzahl
white duck
Senior Cloud & DevOps Consultant
Nico Meisenzahl
white duck
Senior Cloud & DevOps Consultant
Short Bio
Senior Cloud & DevOps Consultant
Nico Meisenzahl works as Senior Cloud & DevOps Consultant at white duck. As an elected MVP, Docker Community Leader and GitLab Hero, his current passion is for topics around Kubernetes, CI/CD, Automation, DevOps, and Cloud.
Nico is a frequent speaker at conferences, user group events and Meetups in Europe and the United States.
Nicolas Fränkel
Hazelcast
Developer Advocate
Nicolas Fränkel
Hazelcast
Developer Advocate
Short Bio
Developer Advocate
Nicolas Fränkel is a Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Currently working for Hazelcast. Also double as a teacher in universities and higher education schools, a trainer and triples as a book author.
Oren Penso
VMware
Kubernetes Staff Solution engineer
Oren Penso
VMware
Kubernetes Staff Solution engineer
Short Bio
Kubernetes Staff Solution engineer
Oren (@openso on Twitter) is a technical leader in Modern Applications Platforms BU and a member in the office of the CTO group in VMware. Before VMware and for more than 10 years Oren has been on the customer side in various senior positions, in his last position, he was the Head of IT & CTO of a large insurance company. Oren is a frequent speaker in events like VMworld, vForum's & CNA Product's Roadshows.
Alexander Ullah
VMware
Kubernetes Staff System Engineer
Alexander Ullah
VMware
Kubernetes Staff System Engineer
Short Bio
Kubernetes Staff System Engineer
Alexander is a Kubernetes Staff System Engineer in VMware's Modern Apps & Platform Business Unit. As an expert for Kubernetes and containerized applications, he is helping EMEA based customers with their transformation from legacy to modern applications. Before becoming a System Engineer, he was working in VMware's Professional Service Organization as a Staff Technical Account Manager. He is holding several industry certifications including the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) certification.
Philipp Krenn
Elastic
Developer
Philipp Krenn
Elastic
Developer
Short Bio
Developer
Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for more than ten years, Philipp is now working as a developer advocate at Elastic — the company behind the open source Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is constantly traveling Europe and beyond to speak and discuss about open source software, search, databases, infrastructure, and security.
Rafal Leszko
Hazelcast
Cloud Software Engineer
Rafal Leszko
Hazelcast
Cloud Software Engineer
Short Bio
Cloud Software Engineer
Cloud software engineer at Hazelcast, author of the book "Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins", trainer, and conference speaker. He specializes in Java development, Cloud environments, and Continuous Delivery. Former employee in a number of companies and scientific organizations: Google, CERN, AGH University, and more.
Robert Bohne
Red Hat
Sr. Specialist Solution Architect OpenShift
Robert Bohne
Red Hat
Sr. Specialist Solution Architect OpenShift
Short Bio
Sr. Specialist Solution Architect OpenShift
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.
Sándor Guba
Banzai Cloud
Senior Software Engineer
Sándor Guba
Banzai Cloud
Senior Software Engineer
Short Bio
Senior Software Engineer
Sandor Guba is a Senior Software Engineer at Banzai Cloud, a startup offering a managed Cloud Native application and devops platform to SaaS providers and enterprises. He was previously Infrastructure Engineer at Ustream (acquired by IBM) and holds an M.S.E. in Computer Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Regular presenter at Kubernetes and Cloud Native Computing Meetup, Budapest.
Peter Wilcsinszky
Banzai Cloud
Software Tinkerer
Peter Wilcsinszky
Banzai Cloud
Software Tinkerer
Short Bio
Software Tinkerer
Peter is busy building and fixing stuff around Banzai Cloud Kubernetes Operators, while also enjoys learning a lot about observability in between. He has a wonderful wife and four kids, who help keeping him busy all the time. Lately he become a big fan of playing ice hockey and watching everything he can about this fantastic sport on the internets.
Sebastian Herzberg
FREE NOW
Lead Platform Engineer
Sebastian Herzberg
FREE NOW
Lead Platform Engineer
Short Bio
Lead Platform Engineer
Working for mytaxi/FREE NOW since 2015. Supporting its path to a containerized microservice architecture. From static hosts to ECS and lately to K8s.
Stephan Fudeus
1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology
Expert Container Technologies
Stephan Fudeus
1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology
Expert Container Technologies
Short Bio
Expert Container Technologies
Stephan Fudeus is an Evangelist for Continuous Delivery 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 the last 14 years at 1&1 Internet.
He currently is ProductOwner and TechnologyLead for the internal Kubernetes platform at 1&1 Mail & Media, one of the largest E-Mail providers in Germany. Besides conceptual and implementation work, he builds bridges between development and operations.
David Meder-Marouelli
1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology
Systems Architect
David Meder-Marouelli
1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology
Systems Architect
Short Bio
Systems Architect
David Meder-Marouelli currently has the position of a systems architect 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.
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. Recently the focus has been on continuous delivery and container technologies.
Steve Poole
IBM
Developer Advocate
Steve Poole
IBM
Developer Advocate
Short Bio
Developer Advocate
Developer Advocate, DevOps practitioner (whatever that means) Long time IBM Java developer, leader and evangelist. I’ve been working on IBM Java SDKs and JVMs since Java was less than 1. Also had time to work on other things including representing IBM on various JSRs, being a committer on various open source projects including ones at Apache, Eclipse and OpenJDK. Also member of the Adopt OpenJDK group championing community involvement in OpenJDK. A seasoned speaker and regular presenter at JavaOne and other conferences on technical and software engineering topics.
Thorsten Jakoby
Novatec Consulting
Senior Consultant
Thorsten Jakoby
Novatec Consulting
Senior Consultant
Short Bio
Senior Consultant
Thorsten Jakoby is a consultant for IT-Architectures and Cloud Migrations at Novatec in Germany. He is currently technical lead for an enterprise-scale cloud migration at a global automotive client. With a background of 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 also speaks on meetups and conferences (like Cloud Foundry Summit EU, W-JAX, OOP).
Viktor Farcic
CloudBees
Principal Software Delivery Strategist
Viktor Farcic
CloudBees
Principal Software Delivery Strategist
Short Bio
Principal Software Delivery Strategist
Viktor Farcic is a Principal Consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group, and published author.
He coded using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got Visual prefix), ASP (before it got .Net suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.Net, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, etc. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go.
His big passions are DevOps, 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 and Test-Driven Java Development.
His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog TechnologyConversations.com.
Vishnu Murty Karrotu
DellEMC
Automation Technologist
Vishnu Murty Karrotu
DellEMC
Automation Technologist
Short Bio
Automation Technologist
Automation Technologist at DellEMC Infrastructure Solutions Group, is a Masters in Software Systems from BITS Pilani with a total experience of 14+ years in Leading Tools and Automation Development efforts.
The Domains Vishnu has worked on include Server, Storage and System Management Software. Responsible of Delivering Zeno - Continues Test Automation framework, JAAS(JMeter As A Service), ICEMAN(Information CollEctor Monitor Analyzer) and Process Improvement and Automation Tools.
9 Patents Granted by USPTO and 128 Disclosures recognized by Dell Patent Committee. Presented Technical papers in Pycon(Python developer forum), STeP-IN and Quality Connect 2018 Conferences.
Xavier Coulon
Red Hat
Senior Software Engineer
Xavier Coulon
Red Hat
Senior Software Engineer
Short Bio
Senior Software Engineer
Xavier is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and has been developing open source tools for developers for 8 years. He started by contributing to multiple plugins in JBoss Tools and DevStudio, then moved to OpenShift and Go to work an online platform to let developers build and deploy their applications.
When he is not with his kids or cycling, he enjoys coding an open source Go library to convert from Asciidoc to HTML.