Cloud Native Ambassadors (CNAs) are individuals who are passionate about Cloud Native Computing Foundation technology and projects, recognized for their expertise, and willing to help others learn about the framework and community.
Successful ambassadors are people such as bloggers, influencers, evangelists who are already engaged with a CNCF project in some way including contributing to forums, online groups, community events, etc.
The Cloud Native Ambassador program exists to empower community members with tools and resources needed to:
- Promote cloud native projects and technology
- Educate a local community on the CNCF mission
- Contribute to CNCF projects
Requirements for becoming an official Cloud Native Ambassador are:
- Affiliated with a CNCF member OR is a contributor to a CNCF project.
- Already engaged with the project in some way whether that’s as a contributor, blogger, speaker, etc.
- Willing to either speak at community events OR write technical content such as blog posts.
- Host a cloud native community meetup. See http://www.meetup.com/pro/cncf/ for areas already covered.
Are you interested in becoming an official Cloud Native Ambassador?
APPLY NOW!** We are currently looking for Ambassadors who organize/can organize Meetups around containerd, CoreDNS, Fluentd, gRPC, Kubernetes, Linkerd, OpenTracing, Prometheus, and/or rkt in countries/states not already represented.
Alessandro Vozza
Microsoft
Alessandro is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft based in Amsterdam, and very passionate about open source communities, DevOps and Kubernetes.
Alessandro Vozza
Microsoft
Alessandro is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft based in Amsterdam, and very passionate about open source communities, DevOps and Kubernetes.
Animesh Singh
IBM
Animesh is an STSM and Lead for IBM Cloud Platform. He has been with IBM for more than 10 years and currently works with customers in designing cloud computing solutions on OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Docker and Serverless Architecture, and is the lead for IBM Bluemix.
Animesh Singh
IBM
Animesh is an STSM and Lead for IBM Cloud Platform. He has been with IBM for more than 10 years and currently works with customers in designing cloud computing solutions on OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, Docker and Serverless Architecture, and is the lead for IBM Bluemix. He has been leading cutting edge projects for IBM enterprise customers in Telco, Banking, and Healthcare Industries, around cloud and virtualization technologies.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Serverless – Silicon Valley
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: California, USA
April Kyle Nassi
April Kyle Nassi is a community manager at Google, where she helps to support and grow the gRPC ecosystem, as well as other open source projects.
She started in community with a ragtag group of poker bloggers, and then moved to California and found code. She built the Salesforce Developer Community, and remains passionate about supporting developers to build awesome things. She’s equally passionate about puppers, and has two adorable Australian Shepherds, Vegas & Aria.
Ariel Jatib
NetApp
Ariel is Principal Designer at StackPointCloud, Inc. He founded and organizes the New York, Seattle and San Francisco Kubernetes Meetups, regularly hosting the New York event.
Ariel Jatib
StackPointCloud
Ariel is Principal Designer at StackPointCloud, Inc. He founded and organizes the New York, Seattle and San Francisco Kubernetes Meetups, regularly hosting the New York event. He is excited to help grow the community, having also worked with various other Meetups around the country and in Europe.
Meet-Up Organizer:
New York Kubernetes Meetup
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: New York, USA
Ayrat Khayretdinov
CloudOps
Ayrat is a Cloud Architect and Container Practice Lead at CloudOps.
Ayrat Khayretdinov
CloudOps
Ayrat is a Cloud Architect and Container Practice Lead at CloudOps. He helps Canadian technical communities adopt and share knowledge about containers, Cloud Native and open source technologies through a series of Kubernetes and CNCF meetups.
Baruch Sadogursky
JFrog
Baruch Sadogursky (a.k.a JBaruch) is the Developer Advocate at JFrog. His passion is speaking about technology. Well, speaking in general, but doing it about technology makes him look smart, and 17 years of hi-tech experience sure helps
Baruch Sadogursky (a.k.a JBaruch) is the Developer Advocate at JFrog. His passion is speaking about technology. Well, speaking in general, but doing it about technology makes him look smart, and 17 years of hi-tech experience sure helps. When he’s not on stage (or on a plane to get there), he learns about technology, people and how they work, or more precisely, don’t work together.
He is a CNCF ambassador, Developer Champion, and a professional conference speaker on DevOps, Java and Groovy topics, and is a regular at the industry’s most prestigious events including JavaOne (where he was awarded a Rock Star award), DockerCon, Devoxx, DevOps Days, OSCON, Qcon and many others. His full speaker history is available on Lanyrd: http://lanyrd.com/profile/
You can follow him @jbaruch on Twitter.
Bob Killen
University of Michigan
Bob is a Research Cloud Administrator with the Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) group at the University of Michigan.
Bob is a Research Cloud Administrator with the Advanced Research Computing Technology Services (ARC-TS) group at the University of Michigan. He has been with the University for more than 15 years, serving in various capacities within the Health System and ARC-TS. As a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador, Bob has worked towards improving High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, and other Computational Research initiatives by integrating them with Cloud Native practices and tooling. He is passionate about Academic Outreach, and is an outspoken advocate of both Open Source and Open Science.
Specialties: Kubernetes and Prometheus
Meetup Board Member: https://www.meetup.com/orchestructure/
Location:
Ann Arbor, MI
Chakradhar Rao Jonagam
Red Hat
Chakradhar is a Solutions Architect specialized in Container technologies at Red Hat inc. Evangelizing containers to customers is his day to day job. traveling is another obsession.
Chakradhar Rao Jonagam
Red Hat
Chakradhar is a Solutions Architect specialized in Container technologies at Red Hat inc. Evangelizing containers to customers is his day to day job. traveling is another obsession.
Meet-Up Organizer:
OpenShift and Kubernetes San Francisco
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: California, USA
Chris Gaun
Mesosphere
Chris is the Product Manager for Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine.
Chris Gaun
Apprenda
Chris is the Product Manager for Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine. He formerly worked as an analyst at Gartner covering public IaaS. Before that, he was a physicist that did computational modeling in quantum chemistry. He lives in Mississippi with his son Jackson, beautiful wife Jasmin and mutt Panda
Meet-Up Organizer:
Kubernetes New York
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Mississippi, USA
Chris Kühl
Kinvolk
Chris is CEO & co-founder of Kinvolk, a Berlin-based Linux development company working on technologies at the foundation of cloud native computing.
Chris Kühl
Kinvolk
Chris is CEO & co-founder of Kinvolk, a Berlin-based Linux development company working on technologies at the foundation of cloud native computing. He has a deep passion for Linux technologies, having worked on embedded and desktop Linux projects before switching to the cloud space; most notably as a major contributor to rkt. He is also a prolific organizer of Meetups (Cloud Native, CoreOS, systemd) and events (systemd.conf) in Berlin.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Cloud Native Computing Berlin
Specialties: Kubernetes, rkt
Location: Berlin, Germany
Chris Short
Red Hat
Chris Short has spent more than two decades in various IT disciplines, from textile manufacturing to dial-up ISPs to DevOps engineer to manager of DevOps to senior DevOps advocate.
He has been a proponent of open source solutions throughout his time in the private and public sectors. Chris is a partially disabled US Air Force veteran living with his wife and son in Greater Metro Detroit. Check out his writing and other works at chrisshort.net and devopsish.com.
Christian Jantz
Safewrd Ventures
Open source person since the early days by joining Fedora Linux, who ended up doing cloudy things.
Christian Jantz
Safewrd Ventures
Open source person since the early days by joining Fedora Linux, who ended up doing cloudy things. Next to building cloud native infrastructure for corporates and startups, Chris is contributing code to the Kubernetes project, organizing open source software conferences and is authorized trainer for Kubernetes and several things cloud.
He specializes in Kubernetes, kops, Envoy, containers, AWS and GCP.
Daniel Oh
Red Hat
Daniel is a DevOps Evangelist at Red Hat. He's a well-recognized cloud native app development practitioner, container geek, and agile coach for many CNCF projects.
Daniel Oh
Red Hat
Daniel is a DevOps Evangelist at Red Hat. He’s a well-recognized cloud native app development practitioner, container geek, and agile coach for many CNCF projects. He emphasizes the importance of continuous application delivery through Agile & DevOps practices when he walks you through the cloud native journey at international conferences such as Open Source Summit, ApacheCon, Red Hat Summit, muCon, and DevOps Enterprise Summit.
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Seoul, South Korea
Dave Zolotusky
Spotify
Dave is a software engineer on Spotify's Infrastructure and Operations team in Stockholm, Sweden.
Dave Zolotusky
Spotify
Dave is a software engineer on Spotify’s Infrastructure and Operations team in Stockholm, Sweden. His team builds and maintains the core platform that the rest of Spotify runs on. Before joining Spotify, Dave worked at Amazon Web Services, VMware, and Microsoft.
Meetups: Cloud Native Computing Stockholm and Stockholm Kubernetes and Cloud Native Computing, but we are planning on merging the two.
Specialties: Kubernetes, gRPC
Diane Mueller-Klingspor
Red Hat
Diane is the Director of Community Development at Red Hat, laser-focused on OpenShift ecosystem and passionate about creating new models of cross-community engagement. She codes and makes things in Canada.
Diane Mueller-Klingspor
Red Hat
Diane is the Director of Community Development at Red Hat, laser-focused on OpenShift ecosystem and passionate about creating new models of cross-community engagement. She codes and makes things in Canada.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Cloud Native Vancouver, Cloud Native Victoria
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Vancouver BC Canada
Diógenes Rettori
Pivotal
Diógenes is a Product Marketing Director at Pivotal, working on all things Spring.
Diógenes Rettori
Pivotal
Diógenes is a Product Marketing Director at Pivotal, working on all things Spring.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Boston Kubernetes Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Boston-Kubernetes-Meetup) and Sampa Kubernetes Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/Sampa-Kubernetes-Meetup/)
Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, Jaeger
Location: Boston, USA
Eileen Teng
Alibaba Group
Eileen is the Manager of Developer Relations and Manager of Community Development at Alibaba Group, where she helps to support and grow the Dragonfly ecosystem, as well as other open source projects.
Eileen Teng
Alibaba Group
Eileen is the Manager of Developer Relations and Manager of Community Development at Alibaba Group, where she helps to support and grow the Dragonfly ecosystem, as well as other open source projects.
She organizes the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Meetup in China, regularly hosting the Beijing/Shanghai/Hangzhou/Guangzhou event.
Location: Hangzhou, China
Fabian Reinartz
Fabian is a software engineer at Google, one of the core developers of Prometheus, and a co-founder of the Kubernetes SIG instrumentation.
Fabian Reinartz
Google
Fabian is a software engineer at Google, one of the core developers of Prometheus, and a co-founder of the Kubernetes SIG instrumentation. He was previously a software engineer at CoreOS and a production engineer at SoundCloud. Fabian worked on information retrieval during his time at Saarland University.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Berlin Prometheus Meetup
Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus
Location: Berlin, Germany
Gianluca Arbezzano
InfluxData
Gianluca is a Site Reliability Engineer at InfluxData. He was previously a Software Engineer focused on PHP development for CurrencyFair. He is a big Open Source contributor for several projects including and not limited to Zend Framework, Docker, and InfluxDB.
Gianluca Arbezzano
InfluxData
Gianluca is a Site Reliability Engineer at InfluxData. He was previously a Software Engineer focused on PHP development for CurrencyFair. He is a big Open Source contributor for several projects including and not limited to Zend Framework, Docker, and InfluxDB. He is also a Docker Captain and a member of the Doctrine ORM developers team. Gianluca is passionate about helping teams improve their development environment using continuous integration, automation and modern tools to work better and faster. He embraces the DevOps culture, open source contributor, blogger and speaker. He writes code in PHP, golang, js and other languages.
Giri Kuncoro
GOJEK
Giri is a software engineer at GOJEK, one of the fastest growing unicorn in Southeast Asia.
Giri Kuncoro
GOJEK
Giri is a software engineer at GOJEK, one of the fastest growing unicorn in Southeast Asia. He works for the Cloud Foundation team, builds and maintains Kubernetes based toolings and platform for various products. He was previously a software engineer at VMware, where he was an early member of Pivotal Container Service and VMware Kubernetes Engine projects. Giri obtained his Masters in Computer and Information Science from Cornell University with an excellence award.
Meet-up Organizer: Kubernetes Indonesia
Specialties: Kubernetes, CNI
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Hunter Nield
Amihan
Hunter heads up Cloud-Native for Amihan in SouthEast Asia. He is also a co-founder of it's subsidiary Acaleph, a cloud storage company based in Singapore.
Hunter Nield
Amihan
Hunter heads up Cloud-Native for Amihan in SouthEast Asia. He is also a co-founder of it’s subsidiary Acaleph, a cloud storage company based in Singapore. Although starting his career in Interaction design, he has worked in the Cloud infrastructure industry for almost 10 years and remains passionate about UI, design and developer experience. In late 2016, he co-founded the Cloud-Native Singapore meetup group to grow awareness in the region.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Cloud Native Singapore
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Singapore
Ilya Dmitrichenko
Weaveworks
Ilya is a Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks, focused on making the adoption of microservices easier.
Ilya Dmitrichenko
Weaveworks
Ilya is a Developer Experience Engineer at Weaveworks, focused on making the adoption of microservices easier.
Prior to Weaveworks, Ilya worked at Xively, where he personally experienced the shift to a true DevOps culture. He began to shift focus down the stack, becoming one of the early evangelists of and contributors to open source projects in the Kubernetes ecosystem.
Jacopo Nardiello
SIGHUP
Jacopo is the founder of SIGHUP (a Milan based startup focused on Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies).
Jacopo Nardiello
SIGHUP
Jacopo is the founder of SIGHUP (a Milan based startup focused on Kubernetes and Cloud Native technologies. He started working with Kubernetes and Prometheus in late 2015, over the years he fell in love with the Kubernetes community and CNCF projects as a whole. He’s especially committed to promoting Kubernetes and Cloud Native in the local Italian community, he’s the main organizer of the Kubernetes & Cloud Native Milano meetup as well co-organizer for CNCF Italy.
Janakiram MSV
Janakiram is an analyst, architect, and advisor. He is a Google Developer Expert for Cloud. Janakiram advises startups from the microservices and IoT domains. Janakiram is a regular contributor to Forbes, The New Stack, TechRepublic, and Gigaom Research.
Janakiram MSV
Janakiram is an analyst, architect, and advisor. He is a Google Developer Expert for Cloud. Janakiram advises startups from the microservices and IoT domains. Janakiram is a regular contributor to Forbes, The New Stack, TechRepublic, and Gigaom Research. He worked at Microsoft, AWS, and Alcatel-Lucent.
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Telangana, India
Jessica Deen
Microsoft
Jessica is a Senior Cloud Advocate for Microsoft focusing on Azure, Containers, OSS, and, of course, DevOps.
Jessica Deen
Microsoft
Jessica is a Senior Cloud Advocate for Microsoft focusing on Azure, Containers, OSS, and, of course, DevOps. Prior to joining Microsoft, she spent over a decade as an IT Consultant / Systems Administrator for various corporate and enterprise environments, catering to end users and IT professionals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jessica holds two Microsoft Certifications (MCP, MSTS), 3 CompTIA certifications (A+, Network+, and Security+), 4 Apple Certifications, and is a former 4-year Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for Windows and Devices for IT. In 2013, she achieved her FEMA certification from the U.S Department of Homeland Security, which recognizes her leadership and influence abilities during times of crisis and emergency. In 2015, she received her P.O.S.T Level 2 Certificate, which made her eligible to apply to serve as a reserve Level 2 Peace Officer in the state of California; the certification expired in 2018 when she chose to focus on her engineering and advocacy career with Microsoft for the time being.
When she’s not doing something geeky, you can find her doing something active, most likely running out of breath at her local CrossFit gym. Yes, she’s one of those! She also enjoys biking (motorcycles and/or bicycles), shooting, eating, reading, and hanging with her 6-year-old rescue pup.
Specialties: Kubernetes and Helm
Jessie Qian
Alauda
Jessie is the Director of Marketing and Community Development in Alauda, dedicated in Alauda ecosystem and promoting Kubernetes-based PaaS platform to organizations across industries.
Jessie Qian
Alauda
Jessie is the Director of Marketing and Community Development in Alauda, dedicated in Alauda ecosystem and promoting Kubernetes-based PaaS platform to organizations across industries. She previously worked for The Linux Foundation to promote open source technologies in China for many years.
Meet-Up Organizer: Cloud Native Best Practices Summit
Specialties: Kubernetes, Microservice, DevOps
Location: Beijing, China
Jia Xuan
China Mobile Research Institute
Jia is a project manager for China Mobile Research Institute in China, working on edge computing and NFV (5G using cloud native technology).
Jia Xuan
China Mobile Research Institute
Jia is a project manager for China Mobile Research Institute in China, working on edge computing and NFV (5G using cloud native technology).
Specialties: Kubernetes, CNI, Helm, Networking
Location: Beijing, China
Jiayao (Julia) Han
Caicloud
Co-founder and COO at Caicloud Technology LLC in Hangzhou (China) that provides Kubernetes based toolings and platform for enterprises in production. Organizer of Kubernetes China Meetup and has held multiple K8S meetups in various cities in China.
Jiayao (Julia) Han
Caicloud
Co-founder and COO at Caicloud Technology LLC in Hangzhou (China) that provides Kubernetes based toolings and platform for enterprises in production. Organizer of Kubernetes China Meetup and has held multiple K8S meetups in various cities in China.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Kubernetes Meetup Beijing, Kubernetes (K8S) Hangzhou Meetup Group, Kubernetes (K8S) Shanghai Meetup Group
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Jimmy Song
Ant Financial
Jimmy is a Developer Advocate at Ant Financial.
Jimmy Song
Ant Financial
Jimmy is a Developer Advocate at Ant Financial. He has organized several Special Interest Groups in China that cover Kubernetes, Cloud Native, and Service Mesh. He is the co-founder of the ServiceMesher.com Community.
He has been blogging and coding for years on Cloud Native, also translated Cloud Native Go, Python, and Java books into Chinese. Jimmy lives in Beijing and spends his free time on photography and traveling.
Meet-Up Organizer: China Service Mesh Meetup (http://www.servicemesher.com)
Specialties: Kubernetes, Service Mesh (Istio)
Johann Gyger
Levingo
Johann is a passionate software engineer at Levingo, a boutique IT company located in Bern, Switzerland. He has 20 years of industry experience working as a developer, architect and consultant in various domains and for different customers and employers.
Johann Gyger
Levingo
Johann is a passionate software engineer at Levingo, a boutique IT company located in Bern, Switzerland. He has 20 years of industry experience working as a developer, architect and consultant in various domains and for different customers and employers. Johann is very enthusiastic about the cloud native movement: he co-organizes the CNCF Bern Meetup, introduced Kubernetes in two traditional Swiss enterprises and strongly believes in open source software and vendor-neutral standards.
Jorge Castro
VMware
Jorge is a Community Manager at VMware where he helps to support and advance the open Kubernetes ecosystem.
He co-organizes the Orchestructure Meetup in Ann Arbor, MI: https://www.meetup.com/orchestructure/
Joseph Jacks
Joseph is a founder of Kismatic (the enterprise Kubernetes company, recently acquired by Apprenda), founder of KubeCon (the Kubernetes community conference, now owned and run by CNCF after being donated where he is also a founding member).
Joseph Jacks
Joseph is a founder of Kismatic (the enterprise Kubernetes company, recently acquired by Apprenda), founder of KubeCon (the Kubernetes community conference, now owned and run by CNCF after being donated where he is also a founding member). He has spent the last 10 years working in high growth technology startups with a focus on enterprise software and SOA / middleware and more recently Linux container technology. Joseph is currently an EIR at Quantum Corporation working on ideas and plans to start a new company while also helping with Rook.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Kubernetes Southern California
Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus
Location: New York, USA
Josh Berkus
Red Hat
Josh works on Project Atomic at Red Hat, and leads the Cloud Native PDX meetup group. He also contributes to PostgreSQL.
Josh Berkus
Red Hat
Josh works on Project Atomic at Red Hat, and leads the Cloud Native PDX meetup group. He also contributes to PostgreSQL.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Cloud Native PDX
Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus
Location: Oregon, USA
Julius Volz
Julius co-founded Prometheus and lead the project to success at SoundCloud and beyond. He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community and is the main organizer of PromCon, the first conference around Prometheus. In a previous life, Julius was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google.
Julius Volz
Julius co-founded Prometheus and lead the project to success at SoundCloud and beyond. He now focuses on growing the Prometheus community and is the main organizer of PromCon, the first conference around Prometheus. In a previous life, Julius was a Site Reliability Engineer at Google.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Berlin Prometheus Meetup
Specialties: Prometheus
Location: Berlin, Germany
Justin Garrison
Justin is interested in community and solving problems with simple solutions. He loves good analogies, drawing pictures, and props to represent complex topics.
Justin Garrison
Justin is interested in community and solving problems with simple solutions. He loves good analogies, drawing pictures, and props to represent complex topics. Always does things the hard way at least once and willing to give honest feedback. Learning new things every day and giving back whenever and wherever he is able.
Kasper Nissen
Lunar Way
Kasper is a passionate software engineer, with a special interest in cloud infrastructure and containers.
Kasper Nissen
Lunar Way
Kasper is a passionate software engineer, with a special interest in cloud infrastructure and containers. Kasper holds a master degree in Computer technology from Aarhus University and wrote a master thesis about how universities could leverage Raspberry Pi Kubernetes clusters as tangible learning objects for Cloud Native. He currently works as a Cloud Architect and Site Reliability Engineer at Lunar Way. He further leads the Cloud Native Aarhus meetup group and the danish Cloud Native Slack community. Occasionally blogs at kubecloud.io and speaks at conferences/meet-ups.
Meet-Up Organizer: Cloud Native Aarhus
Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus, fluentd
Kris Nova
VMware
Kris Nova is a Senior Developer Advocate for VMware with an emphasis in containers, infrastructure, and Kubernetes. She is an ambassador for the cloud native computing foundation.
Prior to VMware, Kris worked as a developer advocate for Microsoft, as well as an engineer on Kubernetes in Azure. She has a deep technical background in the Go programming language, and has authored many successful tools in Go. She is a Kubernetes maintainer, and the creator of kubicorn, a successful Kubernetes infrastructure management tool. She organizes a special interest group in Kubernetes, and is a leader in the community. Kris understands the grievances with running cloud native infrastructure via a distributed cloud native application, and recently authored an O’Reilly book on the topic called, “Cloud Native Infrastructure”. Kris lives in Seattle, WA and spends her free time mountaineering.
Krishna Kumar
Huawei
Krishna is Lead Architect & Delivery Head of Huawei India Cloud PaaS division. His team is building the next generation cloud solutions using Kubernetes and Mesos.
Krishna Kumar
Huawei
Krishna is Lead Architect & Delivery Head of Huawei India Cloud PaaS division. His team is building the next generation cloud solutions using Kubernetes and Mesos.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Bangalore Mesos & cncf User Group
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Bengaluru Area, India
Lachlan Evenson
Microsoft
Lachlan is a Lead Program Manager on the Azure Containers Special Projects team.
He spends his time enabling cloud native journeys by making open source projects and tooling run great on Azure.
Lee Calcote
Lee is an innovative thought leader, passionate about developer platforms and management software for clouds, containers, infrastructure and applications.
Lee Calcote
Lee is an innovative thought leader, passionate about developer platforms and management software for clouds, containers, infrastructure and applications. Advanced and emerging technologies have been a consistent focus through Calcote’s tenure at SolarWinds, Seagate, Cisco and Pelco. An organizer of technology meetups and conferences, a writer, author, speaker, he is active in the tech community.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Microservices and Containers Austin
Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus
Location: Texas, USA
Lei (Harry) Zhang
Alibaba Group
Lei is a member and co-maintainer of the Kubernetes community and is now co-leading the Kubernetes & OSS effort ta Alibaba Group.
Lei Zhang
Alibaba
Lei is a member and co-maintainer of the Kubernetes community and is now co-leading the Kubernetes & OSS effort ta Alibaba Group. Lei has been engaged in the Kubernetes project since 2015 and is also a member of KataContainers community.
Meet-up Organizer: https://www.meetup.com/Kubernetes-K8S-Hangzhou-Meetup-Group/
Specialties: Kubernetes, Containerd
Location: China/US
Lucas Käldström
Lucas is a passionate Kubernetes Maintainer that is excited about all things cloud native. Lucas has been engaged in Kubernetes work for about two years now and been involved in work like porting Kubernetes to multiple platforms, getting Minikube off the ground, being a core contributor in SIG Cluster Lifecycle and maintaining kubeadm.
Lucas Käldström
Lucas is a passionate Kubernetes Maintainer that is excited about all things cloud native. Lucas has been engaged in Kubernetes work for about two years now and been involved in work like porting Kubernetes to multiple platforms, getting Minikube off the ground, being a core contributor in SIG Cluster Lifecycle and maintaining kubeadm. Besides Upper Secondary School Lucas runs a consulting company for Cloud Native tech programming tasks and the official CNCF & Kubernetes meetup in Finland.
Mario Loria
Mario is orchestrating Kubernetes at Liquid Web while helping advance the DevOps community. He's founded and co-organized meetups, conferences, and other events advocating and educating the masses about containerization and Kubernetes.
Mario Loria
Mario is orchestrating Kubernetes at Liquid Web while helping advance the DevOps community. He’s founded and co-organized meetups, conferences, and other events advocating and educating the masses about containerization and Kubernetes.
Meet-Up Organizer: Orchestructure, DevOpsDays
Specialties: Kubernetes, CoreDNS
Location: Michigan, USA
Mars Toktonaliev
Nokia
Mars is a system engineer at Nokia and leads Dallas Kubernetes meetup group. He also contributes to Linux Foundation open source networking projects.
Mars Toktonaliev
Nokia
Mars is a system engineer at Nokia and leads Dallas Kubernetes meetup group. He also contributes to Linux Foundation open source networking projects.
Matt Baldwin
NetApp
Matt is the former Founder and CEO of StackPointCloud, now a NetApp company. As part of NetApp he serves as the Director of Cloud Native Engineering and is their Chief Kubernetes Architect, helping drive the company's multicloud Kubernetes vision.
Matt Baldwin
NetApp
Matt Baldwin is the former Founder and CEO of StackPointCloud, now a NetApp company. As part of NetApp he serves as the Director of Cloud Native Engineering and is their Chief Kubernetes Architect, helping drive the company’s multicloud Kubernetes vision. He is the creator of the NetApp Kubernetes Service (NKS), the leading management and automation platform for public multicloud Kubernetes.
Along with his work in Kubernetes and Istio, he also runs the largest Cloud Native community in the world spanning San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Berlin.
Twitter @baldwinmathew
Meet-Up Organizer:
Berlin Kubernetes Meetup, New York Kubernetes, San Francisco Kubernetes Meetup, Seattle Kubernetes Meetup
Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Knative, Istio, CoreDNS, Envoy, fluentd, containerd, Harbor, etcd, Helm
Location: Washington, USA
Michael Goodness
Ticketmaster
Mike is a Lead Systems Engineer on the Kubernetes implementation & cluster operations team at Ticketmaster.
Michael Goodness
Ticketmaster
As a maintainer of the community Helm charts repository, he is keenly interested in making it easy to build, deploy, and manage cloud native applications. He is a co-organizer of the DevOps Days Madison conference and the Cloud Native Wisconsin meetup.
Michael Hausenblas
AWS
Michael is a Developer Advocate for containers at AWS, where he helps appops to build and operate cloud native apps.
Michael Hausenblas
AWS
Michael is a Developer Advocate for containers at AWS, where he helps appops to build and operate cloud native apps.
His background is in large-scale data processing and container orchestration and he’s experienced in advocacy and standardization at W3C and IETF.
Before AWS, Michael worked at Red Hat, Mesosphere, MapR and in two research institutions in Ireland and Austria. He contributes to open source software, blogs and hangs out on Twitter too much.
Michael Mueller
Container Solutions
Michael is Director Technology at Container Solutions Switzerland. Before joining CS, Michael was heading the IT and Cloud Innovation team at Swisscom Innovation.
Michael Mueller
Container Solutions
Michael is Director Technology at Container Solutions Switzerland. Before joining CS, Michael was heading the IT and Cloud Innovation team at Swisscom Innovation. His team worked with container infrastructure and orchestration systems such as Kubernetes, Mesos, CoreOS and adopted DevOps principles leveraging tools like Puppet. He was also involved in multiple product development projects at Swisscom. Prior to that, he worked in roles ranging from Operations Management to Network Security in companies in the tourism, ISP, broadcasting and defense sector.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Microservices Zürich Meetup
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Switzerland
Michelle Noorali
Microsoft (Developer Seat)
Michelle is a Sr. Software Engineer on the Azure Containers team and a core maintainer of the Kubernetes Helm project.
Michelle Noorali
Microsoft (Developer Seat)
Michelle is a Sr. Software Engineer on the Azure Containers team and a core maintainer of the Kubernetes Helm project. Michelle serves on the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and co-founded and co-leads the special interest group in Kubernetes that focuses on running and managing workloads in Kubernetes (SIG-Apps). She is also an engineer on open source projects under the Azure umbrella like Draft and Brigade. Michelle holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Georgia.
Michelle Ye-Chen Xu
Intel
Michelle is a Cloud Technology and Integration Manager at Intel. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Atomic Physics at U.C. Berkeley.
Michelle Ye-Chen Xu
Intel
Michelle is a Cloud Technology and Integration Manager at Intel. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Atomic Physics at U.C. Berkeley. Michelle is excited to bring her skill sets to bear for the betterment of the CNCF community.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Cloud Native PDX
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Oregon, USA
Mike Coleman
Docker
Mike works at Docker as an evangelist specializing in helping the community understand how to operationalize Docker.
Mike Coleman
Docker
Mike works at Docker as an evangelist specializing in helping the community understand how to operationalize Docker.
Prior to joining Docker he worked at Puppet (Labs), VMware, Intel, and Microsoft in a variety of product management and technical marketing roles. Before all that Mike worked as a systems administrator and architect. You can follow him on Twitter @mikegcoleman, but mostly he tweets about soccer.
Neependra Khare
CloudYuga
Neependra is the Founder and Principal Consultant at CloudYuga Technologies, which offers training and consulting services around cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, Service Mesh, etc.
Neependra Khare
CloudYuga
Neependra is the Founder and Principal Consultant at CloudYuga Technologies, which offers training and consulting services around cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, Service Mesh, etc. He is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA). He is based out of Bengaluru, India.
Neependra authored Introduction to Kubernetes course on Edx for the CNCF, which has been taken by more than 63K participants. He also authored a book on Docker, Docker Cookbook in 2015 and co-authored a course on Cloud Infrastructure Technologies on edX for The Linux Foundation. He ran a Docker meetup group in Bangalore, India for more than 5 years and is very active in other meetups like Kubernetes, AWS, DevOps, etc.
Before starting CloudYuga in 2015, he worked in the IT industry for 11 years and his last assignment was with Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer.
Nikhita Raghunath
Loodse
Nikhita is a contributor to Kubernetes and is the technical lead for SIG Contributor Experience. She is currently a software developer with Loodse and works remotely from Mumbai, India.
Nikhita Raghunath
Loodse
Nikhita is a contributor to Kubernetes and is the technical lead for SIG Contributor Experience. She is currently a software developer with Loodse and works remotely from Mumbai, India. She helps run the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy internship programs for CNCF/Kubernetes. She is also a co-organizer for the Kubernetes/Cloud-Native online meetup. Previously, she was an intern with Red Hat and a GSoC intern with CNCF. Nikhita has also won the “Chop Wood Carry Water” award at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 for her community work.
Nitin Agarwal
Nitin is a seasoned technical professional with expertise in Enterprise DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Native Applications, Containerization, and Continuous Delivery.
Nitin Agarwal
Nitin is a seasoned technical professional with expertise in Enterprise DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Native Applications, Containerization, and Continuous Delivery. Nitin enjoys collaborating, knowledge sharing, and supporting the adoption of containers and cloud native open source technologies.
Specialties: Kubernetes
Meetup Organizer: Kubernetes and Cloud Native New Delhi
Location: New Delhi, India
Noah Abrahams
InfoSiftr
Noah is the VP of Customer Enablement at InfoSiftr, where he advises on the containerization journey, including delivering official Docker training.
Noah Abrahams
InfoSiftr
Noah is the VP of Customer Enablement at InfoSiftr, where he advises on the containerization journey, including delivering official Docker training. He has worked with cloud infrastructure and deployments since 2008, mostly in enterprise and MSP settings. In the Kubernetes community, he leads an effort for onboarding non-code-based contributors and is becoming more involved with community leadership every day.
Noah is the organizer for the Las Vegas Kubernetes Meetup, where he regularly speaks about the Cloud Native ecosystem.
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Paris Pittman
Paris is a Developer Relations Program Manager on the Google Cloud Open Source Strategy team focusing on Kubernetes.
Paris Pittman
Google
Paris is a Developer Relations Program Manager on the Google Cloud Open Source Strategy team focusing on Kubernetes. She has 13 years of professional experience in attracting, retaining, and growing engineering talent for organizations and open source projects. She has also been organizing communities in one form or another for over 20 years, and at one point ran enough meetups to subsist solely on the free pizza leftovers.
In the Kubernetes community, Paris is a co-chair of the Contributor Experience Special Interest Group (SIG), subproject owner of many initiatives within the SIG, and an organizer of the worlds largest in-person Kubernetes meetup, the Bay Area K8s group.
Paul Burt
CoreOS
Paul is a Community Manager at CoreOS. He’s upvoting your /r/kubernetes threads and answering your questions on freeNode.
Paul Burt
CoreOS
Paul is a Community Manager at CoreOS. He’s upvoting your /r/kubernetes threads and answering your questions on freeNode. Paul has a knack for and demystifying infrastructure, and making gnarly, complex topics approachable. He enjoys home brewing beer, reading independent comics, and yelling at his computer when it doesn’t do what he wants.
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: New York City, USA
Pini Reznik
Container Solutions
Pini is Co-Founder and CTO at Container Solutions, European consultancy helping clients to implement cloud native apps. He has extensive experience in configurations management that he is now applying to the cloud native world.
Pini Reznik
Container Solutions
Pini is Co-Founder and CTO at Container Solutions, European consultancy helping clients to implement cloud native apps. He has extensive experience in configurations management that he is now applying to the cloud native world.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Software Circus
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Puja Abbassi
Giant Swarm
Puja is a Developer Advocate at Giant Swarm. He's passionate about bringing Cloud Native technologies to more developers and their companies around the globe.
Puja Abbassi
Giant Swarm
Puja is a Developer Advocate at Giant Swarm. He’s passionate about bringing Cloud Native technologies to more developers and their companies around the globe.
Meet Up Organizer:
Docker Cologne
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Cologne, Germany
Queeny Jin
PingCAP
Queeny is a seasoned technical writer from PingCAP. She loves open source, especially Cloud Native technologies related to Kubernetes and TiKV.
Queeny Jin
PingCAP
Queeny is a seasoned technical writer from PingCAP. She loves open source, especially Cloud Native technologies related to Kubernetes and TiKV.
Location: Beijing, China
Randy Abernathy
RX-M
Randy is a Managing Partner at RX-M, a global cloud native advisory and training firm in the founding classes of Kubernetes Certified Service Providers (KCSP) and Kubernetes Training Providers (KTP).
Randy Abernethy
RX-M
Randy is a Managing Partner at RX-M, a global cloud native advisory and training firm in the founding classes of Kubernetes Certified Service Providers (KCSP) and Kubernetes Training Providers (KTP).
His work allows him to pursue his passion for and evangelize on all things cloud native through training courses, seminars, and consulting engagements. He is a tech entrepreneur, startup advisor, financial technology pioneer, Apache Thrift committer, and author.
Ranga Rajagopalan
Avi Networks
Ranga is a co-founder, chief architect, and the CTO of Avi Networks. He is also the brains behind Container Networking and Application Services meetup group.
Ranga Rajagopalan
Avi Networks
Ranga is a co-founder, chief architect, and the CTO of Avi Networks. He is also the brains behind Container Networking and Application Services meetup group.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Container Networking and Application Services
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: California, USA
Reda Benzair
Reda is a technical senior manager in SmartJog. With over 14 years of experience in the digital world, he has contributed to the development of the main digitals and cloud product of SmartJog ( Digital delivery, Content delivery Network, Media VOD/SVOD OTT ).
Reda Benzair
Reda is a technical senior manager in SmartJog. With over 14 years of experience in the digital world, he has contributed to the development of the main digitals and cloud product of SmartJog ( Digital delivery, Content delivery Network, Media VOD/SVOD OTT ). Very passionate about the open source, sponsored many open source initiative in SmartJog with success.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Cloud Native Computing Paris
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Paris, France
Roman Tarnavski
VMware
Roman leads the Cloud-Native Applications Practice across Asia Pacific and Japan, as part of VMware’s Centre of Excellence team.
Roman Tarnavski
VMware
Roman leads the Cloud-Native Applications Practice across Asia Pacific and Japan, as part of VMware’s Centre of Excellence team.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Sydney Cloud Native Meetup
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Sydney, Australia
Ross Kukulinski
VMware
Ross is a Staff Systems Architect at VMware, where he focuses on growing the Kubernetes community, tackling global-scale engineering problems, and guiding businesses on their Cloud Native journey.
Ross Kukulinski
VMware
His technical background is in architecting and deploying scalable, containerized, real-time application infrastructure. Ross is a member of the Node.js Evangelism Working Group and the RethinkDB Community Team. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Ross is a digital nomad and cheesesteak connoisseur currently residing in Philadelphia with his wife and their Labrador Retriever.
Sabree Blackmon
Docker
Sabree is a Security Engineer at Docker. He is passionate about open source and helping engineers develop & deploy secure distributed systems and applications.
Sabree Blackmon
Docker
Sabree is a Security Engineer at Docker. He is passionate about open source and helping engineers develop & deploy secure distributed systems and applications.
Sanjeev Rampal
Cisco
Sanjeev is a Principal Engineer in the Cloud Platforms and Services Group at Cisco, where he is helping develop the Cisco Container Platform, an enterprise Kubernetes platform.
Sanjeev Rampal
Cisco
Sanjeev is a Principal Engineer in the Cloud Platforms and Services Group at Cisco, where he is helping develop the Cisco Container Platform, an enterprise Kubernetes platform. Previously he led engineering design, development and deployment for Cisco Inter-cloud Services, Contiv container networking and multiple widely deployed service provider networking products including ASR9K and ONS15454. He is passionate about taking cloud native and networking solutions from whiteboard concepts to live production deployments.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Triangle Cloud Infrastructure Meetup
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: North Carolina, USA
Sarah Novotny
Sarah leads the Kubernetes Community Program for Google. She has long been an Open Source community champion in communities such as NGINX and MySQL and ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name.
Sarah Novotny
Google
Sarah leads the Kubernetes Community Program for Google. She has long been an Open Source community champion in communities such as NGINX and MySQL and ran large scale technology infrastructures before web-scale had a name. In 2001, she co-founded Blue Gecko. She has curated teams, been a leader in customer communities focused on high availability web application and platform delivery and is a program chair emeritus for O’Reilly Media’s OSCON. Novotny talks obsessively about people, technology infrastructure and geek lifestyle.
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: California, USA
Sebastian Scheele
Loodse
Sebastian Scheele is CEO and co-founder of Loodse. Together with his team, he wants to empower businesses to focus on their core: write groundbreaking applications and design the digital future.
Sebastian Scheele
Loodse
Sebastian Scheele is CEO and co-founder of Loodse. Together with his team, he wants to empower businesses to focus on their core: write groundbreaking applications and design the digital future. Sebastian is passionate about the potential of Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies and has been a major contributor to the development of the Open Source projects K8SNIff and Kube-machine.
Meetup Organizer:
Hamburg Kubernetes/Cloud Native
Kubernetes/Cloud Native Online
München Kubernetes/Cloud Native
Amsterdam Kubernetes/Cloud Native
Specialties:
Kubernetes, Google Cloud
Smaïne Kahlouch
Kubespray
Smaine is a system engineer with more than 10 years experience in open source software.
Smaïne Kahlouch
Kubespray
Smaine is a system engineer with more than 10 years experience in open source software.
He worked in tree companies on containers technologies and he’s currently working at Dailymotion on implementing best practices using cloud native projects. He leads the CNCF Paris meetup.
Srikar Ananthula
Srikar is currently working as Senior Operations Engineer. He is working on cloud, big data, Docker, and Kubernetes. Apart from professional work, he is passionate about mentoring and motivates people around him to adopt latest technologies.
Srikar Ananthula
Srikar is currently working as Senior Operations Engineer. He is working on cloud, big data, Docker, and Kubernetes. Apart from professional work, he is passionate about mentoring and motivates people around him to adopt latest technologies. He loves to organize meetups, deliver talks at their community space (http://collab.house). He firmly believes in the power of open source communities in creating widely accessible knowledge.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Hyderabad Cloud Native Meetup
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: Hyderabad, India
Steve Speicher
Red Hat
Steve is Principal Product Manager on OpenShift at Red Hat, focusing on developer experience and public cloud offerings (single-tenant Dedicated and multi-tenant Online). Steve previously worked at IBM as a software engineer with a focus on open integration solutions and change management products.
Steve Speicher
Red Hat
Steve is Principal Product Manager on OpenShift at Red Hat, focusing on developer experience and public cloud offerings (single-tenant Dedicated and multi-tenant Online). Steve previously worked at IBM as a software engineer with a focus on open integration solutions and change management products. He contributed to many industry standardization efforts such as W3C and OASIS.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Triangle Cloud Infrastructure Meetup
Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: North Carolina, USA
Suraj Narwade
Red Hat
Suraj is a Software Engineer at Red Hat and is a co-organizer of the Kubernetes & OpenShift India Meetup in Bangalore.
Suraj Narwade
Red Hat
Suraj is a Software Engineer at Red Hat and is a co-organizer of the Kubernetes & OpenShift India Meetup in Bangalore. He loves to write blogs and talk about Kubernetes at various meetups and conferences. He works around the Kubernetes & OpenShift ecosystem. In his free time, He loves to play with Alexa. 🙂
Location: Bangalore, India
Meetup Organizer: https://www.meetup.com/kubernetes-openshift-India-Meetup/
Takuya Noguchi
Takuya is Development Group Manager at iRidge, Inc., working as cloud native systems architect. After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemistry from The University of Tokyo, he decided to introduce cloud native technologies into startup companies to boost their business. He leads many communities including Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo and Prometheus Tokyo to promulgate CNCF products in Japan.
Takuya Noguchi
Takuya is Development Group Manager at iRidge, Inc., working as cloud native systems architect. After receiving his Ph.D. in Chemistry from The University of Tokyo, he decided to introduce cloud native technologies into startup companies to boost their business. He leads many communities including Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo and Prometheus Tokyo to promulgate CNCF products in Japan.
Meet-Up Organizer:
Kamiyacho.k8s, Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo, Prometheus Tokyo
Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Vadim Solovey
DoiT International
Vadim is a solutions architect who helps startups to design complex distributed systems serving millions of users in technologically elegant and yet cost-effective ways.
Vadim Solovey
DoiT International
Vadim is a solutions architect who helps startups to design complex distributed systems serving millions of users in technologically elegant and yet cost-effective ways. As CTO of DoiT International, Vadim is helping startups and more mature companies with the implementation of CNCF projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus. For the past four years, he has worked with more than 100 companies to establish the core of their operations on top of Kubernetes and he is responsible for maintaining Multi-Cloud Engineering, one of the most successful meetup groups for cloud native applications.