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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.