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Miranda Jaramillo – Blending tech and social impact with help from open source 
Miranda Jaramillo – Blending tech and social impact with help from open source 
Miranda Jaramillo, software engineer at The Trevor Project, didn’t plan on a career in technology. After studying physics in college, finding a job as a researcher in her native Mexico proved difficult. As she pivoted towards...
October 31, 2023

Mitch Connors – From Biblical Studies to programming at Google & Amazon
Mitch Connors – From Biblical Studies to programming at Google & Amazon
Where does an associate’s degree in a major totally unrelated to tech get you in software engineering? It got CNCF Ambassador Mitch Connors to Google, Amazon, and beyond – with his ingenuity and the level turf...
October 19, 2023

Meltwater
Meltwater
Live Migration to Cilium for Richer Features Meltwater has about 350 Engineers spread around the globe in 40+ fully autonomous teams working on their suite of software tools and services to help organizations monitor and analyze...
August 17, 2023

Bloomberg
Bloomberg
Enforcing Efficient Network Security with Cilium Bloomberg offers a host of financial products to its clients, including BQuant Enterprise, which enables users to build, test, and share research internally within their financial institution as interactive applications,...
July 26, 2023

Nancy Chauhan – Championing Women in Cloud Native
Nancy Chauhan – Championing Women in Cloud Native
How do you not feel isolated when you’re the only woman in a room full of men? Nancy Chauhan, an engineer currently working at LocalStack, who likes hacking through software engineering problems, is on a mission...
July 17, 2023

Adriana Villela –  Blogging and podcasting her way to cloud native enlightenment 
Adriana Villela – Blogging and podcasting her way to cloud native enlightenment 
Throughout her career, Adriana Villela, senior developer advocate at Lightstep from ServiceNow, has experienced the power of communication and community for solving big challenges at work and outside of it.  Today, through her blog, co-hosting the...
July 4, 2023

Kaslin Fields – Cooking up bite-sized tech communications 
Kaslin Fields – Cooking up bite-sized tech communications 
What do containers and cookies have in common? The answer is Kaslin Fields, who blends her deeply technical background with fun, creative communications to help thousands of folx around the world learn about containers. From chairing...
June 6, 2023

ClickHouse
ClickHouse
Building an Efficient Networking Layer with Cilium ClickHouse has three teams working together on their cloud offering: the control plane team, the data plane team, and the core team. ClickHouse Cloud runs across AWS and Google...
June 1, 2023

Ascend
Ascend
Ascend is the leader in Data Pipeline Automation for building the world’s most intelligent data pipelines. It’s a single platform with intelligence to detect and propagate change across your data ecosystem and ensure accuracy end-to-end. Customers...
March 2, 2023

Datadog
Datadog
Problem: Limited scalability with iptables, IPVS, and kube-proxy Datadog runs 10s of Kubernetes clusters, across multiple cloud providers. Some of them have up to 4,000 nodes, which makes for 10,000s of hosts in their infrastructure. Datadog’s...
October 11, 2022