Ambassadors

Abubakar Siddiq Ango

GitLab

Abubakar Siddiq Ango is a Developer Evangelism Program Manager at GitLab, where he finds better ways for the Developer Evangelism team to engage with the community and measure its impact. He is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator and when not working, he engages with the community through the CNCF, Google Developer & Hashicorp user groups and other developer communities. He is also a Hashicorp ambassador and AWS community builder.

Alessandro Vozza

Microsoft

Alessandro is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft based in Amsterdam, and very passionate about open source communities, DevOps and Kubernetes.

Alex Ellis

OpenFaaS

Alex leads the OpenFaaS project and community. Through his consultancy, he also helps companies reach developers and adopt Cloud Native technologies. Alex loves OSS, speaking, writing, coaching and engineering.

Alison Dowdney

Weaveworks

Alison is a Customer Reliability Engineer at Weaveworks. She is passionate about helping organizations succeed when adopting Cloud Native technologies and practices.

Anais Urlichs

Codefresh

Anaïs is a Developer Evangelist at Codefresh. When she is not advocating DevOps best practices, she runs a YouTube Channel centered around Kubernetes.

Before Codefresh, Anais worked in the blockchain space, contributing to Community Management and Developer Relations of open source projects. Her passion lies in making tools and projects more accessible to developers and community members. In her challenge 100DaysOfKubernetes (devops.anaisurl.com), Anais aims to share her entire learning journey, from understanding the theory to getting started with cloud-native tools and platforms.

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

Annie Talvasto

Annie Talvasto, a cloud-native technology marketer, is an international technology speaker and specialist in Kubernetes & cloud native ecosystem. Annie hosts & produces the Cloud Gossip podcast and has been a co-organizer of Kubernetes & CNCF Finland meetup since 2017. She has worked at various tech companies from cloud start-ups to enterprises, now working at a Kubernetes cost optimization startup CAST AI. Annie has spoken at tech conferences on multiple continents, including Techorama, Global Azure, Future Tech, The Cloud First, C# corner and more. During her career she has spoken to more than 10,000 developers at User Group meetings & Conferences.

April Kyle Nassi

Google

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. 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

Google

Ayrat (a.k.a Archy) is a Hybrid Cloud and Application Modernization Specialist at Google. He founded and organizes Eastern Canada CNCF Meetups in Toronto, Kitchener, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec and Halifax.

Bart Farrell

Company: Freelance

Location: Barakaldo, Spain

Bart Farrell is the Community Leader of the Data on Kubernetes Community where he gets to interact with folks from all over the world committed to open source and sharing knowledge. He is bilingual in Spanish, a humanist, an amateur rapper, and someone who craves challenges and adventures.

Bart enjoys spending an hour every friday with the wonderful folks in the Contributor-ex marketing group. He is always interested in meeting new people, learning about different cultures and technologies, and helping folks feel supported and welcome. If you’re interested in doing anything related to diversity and inclusion let me know!

Meetup Organizer- Data on Kubernetes Meetup 

Bartłomiej Płotka

Red Hat

Bartek Plotka is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with a background in SRE, currently working on Observability. As the co-author of the CNCF Thanos project and core maintainer of various open-source projects including Prometheus, he enjoys building OSS communities and maintainable, reliable distributed systems, ideally in Go. On top of that, he is active in the CNCF SIG Observability as the technical lead. He writes a book with O’Reilly.

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. 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. 

You can follow him @jbaruch on Twitter.

BMK Lakshminarayanan

Bank of New Zealand

BMK is a passionate Solutions Architect with over 20 years of ICT experience with the Bank of New Zealand. He is an advocate for modern engineering & developer practices including Cloud Native, Microservices for Enterprise Agility, architecting for Continuous Delivery (CD), DevOps, Observability, Event-driven architecture with Kafka/NATS, Open-source software. He is a polyglot and polymath.

He is a DevOps enthusiast, lead DevOps and continuous delivery community of practices. He is one of the core organizers for DevOpsDaysNZ conference and co-chair for Cloud-Native Summit – Wellington.

BMK hosts the Wellington CNCF meetup for cloud native enthusiasts and The Future of ICT meetup to help students, people returning to work or looking for career opportunities in ICT.

Specialties: Kubernetes, Envoy, NATS, Kafka, Istio

Location: Wellington, New Zealand

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. 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

Carlisia Thompson

VMware

Carlisia works as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware. Prior to VMware, she was at Heptio, where she started her current role as a maintainer of the open source project Velero, a cloud native disaster recovery and data migration tool for Kubernetes applications. She currently runs the San Diego Kubernetes meetup. Carlisia holds a MS in Computer Science from Boston University.

Location: San Diego, CA

Meetup Organizer: San Diego Kubernetes Meetup

CNCF specialties: Kubernetes

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

D2iQ

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 Hein

Apple

Chris is an Engineer & Developer Advocate for Apple with a focus on Kubernetes, open source and cloud native technologies.

Chris helps to maintain multiple open source projects such as the AWS Service Operator and the AWS IAM Authenticator. Prior to Apple, Chris worked for a number of large and small companies like AWS, GoPro, Sproutling, & Mattel.

Location:
San Jose, CA

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 been a proponent of open source solutions throughout his over two decades in various IT disciplines including systems, security, networks, and DevOps engineering and advocacy across the public and private sectors. He currently works at Red Hat. Chris is a disabled US Air Force veteran living with his wife and son in Greater Metro Detroit. Chris writes about DevOps and other topics at ChrisShort.net. He also runs the DevOps, Cloud Native, Hybrid Cloud, Open Source, industry news, and culture focused newsletter DevOps’ish.

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.

Craig Box

Google

Craig joined Google as the Kubernetes project was being conceived, and has worked on it ever since. Since his first presentation on the topic in July 2014, he has spoken on 6 continents, including a KubeCon keynote. He is the co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google, a meetup you can download every week, featuring guests from all over the community. Craig has a desk in London but can be found all over the world.

Dan “Pop” Papandrea

Sysdig

Dan “Pop” Papandrea is the Lead of Open Source Community and Ecosystem at Sysdig, focused on helping the Falco community to contribute to and adopt the runtime security project. Previously, he was the Field CTO for Sysdig. Pop is an active member of the cloud-native open source community, a CNCF Ambassador, CD Foundation Ambassador, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), and a Kubernetes contributor. Prior to Sysdig, POP was a lead solution architect for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Helion business unit as well as the Director of IT, Principal Solutions Architect, Product Manager at SS&C Technologies, a multinational financial services solution company.

POP is the host of the hit podcast The POPCAST by Dan POP, which explores the leaders and creators and stories behind the code.  

Daniel Oh

Red Hat

Daniel Oh is a senior principal technical marketing manager at Red Hat. He’s well recognized for the cloud-native microservice and serverless functions development with Kubernetes, Quarkus, and many other open-source projects across regions.

Specialties: Technical Marketing, CNCF Ambassador, DevOps Institute Ambassador, Developer, Public Speaker, Writer, JBoss, Kubernetes, @QuarkusIO

Location: Boston, MA, USA

Dave Zolotusky

Platform Engineer at Spotify

Dave is an engineer in Spotify’s Platform team, where his focus has been core infrastructure, the data platform, and Spotify’s use of cloud services. A noted evangelist for cloud native and open source technologies, Dave spurred Spotify to join the CNCF and remain active in the community, launched the Stockholm CNCF meetup, and is both a CNCF Ambassador and a member of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Program Committee.

In his work at Spotify, Dave has been essential to the adoption of CNCF projects like Kubernetes, gRPC, Envoy, and OpenTelemetry, as well as experimentation with Service Mesh. Prior to his time with Spotify, Dave worked at AWS, at VMware on cloud management software, and at Microsoft on the Office team.

David McKay

Equinix Metal

David is a Senior Developer Advocate at Equinix Metal and a member of the Kubernetes org and release team.

As a professional technology magpie, David was an early adopter of cloud, container, and cloud-native technologies; crossing the murky waters of AWS in 2008, Docker in 2014, and Kubernetes in 2015.

With an insatiable love for technology, David is always on the hunt to learn and share knowledge with others in fun and exciting ways.

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

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Diógenes is an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Meet-Up Organizer:
Boston Kubernetes Meetup and Sampa Kubernetes Meetup

Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, Jaeger

Location: Boston, USA

Divya Mohan

HSBC

Divya is an active contributor to the Kubernetes project and is the lead for SIG Docs in the LitmusChaos project.

She works as a Senior Systems Administrator with HSBC and is based out of India.

Duffie Cooley

Apple

Duffie is a Solutions Architect at Apple. He works in our community helping folks understand and adopt a range of technologies. From Kubernetes to a deep understanding of networking and security to his engagement with https://tgik.io. Duffie is always around to help answer questions and provide guidance. Based in San Francisco when you are in the area reach out and say hi! He is open to speaking engagements or to help work through challenges with cloud native technology or infrastructure.

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

Es Zou

zouyee is a maintainer of coredns project, also the member of kubernetes and knative community. He founded and organizes the SUZHOU CloudNative Meetups, leads some local meetups such as Kubernetes Meetup SuZhou and Serverless&CoreDNS Meetup SuZhou, helps promote cloud native technologies in china by organizing meetups.

current location: SuZhou, China

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

Feynman Zhou

Feynman is a technical writer and open source community manager at QingCloud, he is growing and maintaining the KubeSphere open source community, which helps users to widely adopt Kubernetes and reduce the learning curve of using cloud native technologies. He focuses on technical documentation, blogging, and user case studies.
Specialties: Kubernetes, Harbor, Service Mesh

Meetup: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Meetup – Beijing

Location: China

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. 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

Han Sol Park

Samsung

Han is a Senior Engineer at Samsung SDS focusing on Kubernetes and cloud-native open source projects.

He works on building cloud native platform for various Samsung affiliates on public cloud and on-premise environment.
He is focused on solving problems regarding multi-tenancy, authn/authz and cluster-lifecycle within the Kubernetes cluster to make developers life easier.

Specialties: Kubernetes, Containerd, etcd

Location:
Seoul, South Korea

Harry Lee

Harry is the Lead DevOps Consultant at Melio Consulting. He specialises in implementing enterprise-level cloud infrastructure using cloud-native technologies. Harry believes in delivering reliable software fast with a DevSecOps mentality. He founded the Cloud Native Computing Johannesburg in 2017 to raise awareness to CNCF projects within South Africa.

Meetup Organiser: Cloud Native Computing Johanneburg

CNCF specialties: Kubernetes, Rook, Helm

Hunter Nield

Govtech

Hunter is a Distinguished Engineer at the Government Technology Agency of Singapore, where he guides strategy around Cloud and Containers. Although starting his career in Graphic Design, he has worked in the Cloud infrastructure industry for over 10 years and remains passionate about UI, design and developer experience. In 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

Ian Coldwater

Twilio

Ian Coldwater is Kubernetes SIG Security co-chair and an Architect at Twilio, who specializes in hacking and hardening Kubernetes, containers and cloud-native infrastructure.

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.

Itay Shakury

Aqua Security

Itay Shakury is Director of Open Source at Aqua Security, where he leads the development of open source, cloud native, security solutions. Itay has almost 20 years of experience in various development, architecture and product roles. Itay is involved in the local community in Israel, where he’s leading the CNCF Tel Aviv group.

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. He worked at Microsoft, AWS, and Alcatel-Lucent.

Specialties: Kubernetes

Location: Telangana, India

Jeffrey Sica

Red Hat

Jeffrey is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat focusing on testing managed services and Kubernetes. Before that he worked at the University of Michigan for fourteen years focusing on Cloud Native technologies within the academic ecosystem. Jeffrey is an active contributor to upstream Kubernetes, helping in SIG-Contribex, SIG-Release, and SIG-UI. He passionately advocates for open source development and recognizing and alleviating burnout.

Meetups: Board Member for Orchestructure

Specializations: Kubernetes, Prometheus

Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Jérôme Petazzoni

Jérôme was part of the team that built, scaled, and operated the dotCloud PAAS, before that company became Docker. He worked seven years at the container startup, where he wore countless hats and ran containers in production before it was cool. He loves to share what he knows, which led him to give hundreds of talks and demos on containers, Docker, and Kubernetes. He trained thousands of people to deploy their apps in confidence on these platforms, and continues to do so as an independent consultant. He values diversity, and strives to be a good ally, or at least a decent social justice sidekick. He also collects musical instruments and can arguably play the theme of Zelda on a dozen of them.

Specialties: Docker and Kubernetes

Location: Topeka, Kansas

Jessica Andersson

Annotell

Jessica is the Team Lead for Engineering Enablement at Annotell and is located in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also co-organizer of the meetup Kubernetes Göteborg.

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. 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).

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.

Specialties: Kubernetes

Location: Pennsylvania, USA

Jim Angel

Google

Jim Angel is a Cloud Consultant at Google and is active in the Kubernetes community as a SIG Docs Co-Chair and a SIG Release Release Manager Associate. He helps with the local Austin Kubernetes meetup and enjoys demystifying Kubernetes.

Jimmy Song

Tetrate

Jimmy Song(宋净超) is a developer advocate at Tetrate, co-founder of ServiceMesher and Cloud Native Community(https://cloudnative.to) in China. He is an outstanding translator, author and producer of PHEI. Early adopters and evangelist of Kubernetes and Istio.

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 (https://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 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.

Joseph Jacks

Joseph is the founder and GP of OSS Capital (COSS-focused VC), Open Core Summit (the COSS, commercial open-source software, ecosystem conference), Aljabr, KubeCon (the Kubernetes community conference, now owned and run by CNCF after being donated where he is also a founding member), Kismatic (the first enterprise Kubernetes company, acquired by Apprenda and subsequently acquired by ATOS) and previously worked at Mesosphere, Enstratius, TIBCO Software and Talend. He has spent the last 12 years working in high growth technology startups. Joseph was also previously an EIR at Quantum Corporation, working to launch the Rook project.

Josh Berkus

Red Hat

Josh Berkus is Red Hat’s Kubernetes community manager, and runs the Cloud Native PDX meetup.  He is co-chair of CNCF TAG-Contributor Strategy, and is available to help projects with governance, recruiting contributors, and surveys.  He lives in Portland, OR with a librarian and a cat, and makes Kubernetes-themed pottery for various community events.

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

Karen Chu

Microsoft

Karen is a community manager on the Azure Container Compute team with a focus on open source and upstream developer tools such as Helm, Brigade, Virtual Kubelet, CNAB, and more. She manages the Kubernetes Colorado Meetup, Eastside Kubernetes Meetup, and Women in Infrastructure (Seattle) Meetup. She also helped create The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes book series. She’s based in San Francisco, but you can often find her in Boulder, CO and Seattle, WA.

Kaslin Fields

Google

Kaslin is a Cloud Advocate at Google, a cloud native tech enthusiast, and comic artist/writer. By day, she uses her knowledge of cloud native technologies to help Google Cloud’s customers along their journeys toward cloud native and devops adoption. By night, she explains those concepts her own way by creating comics (available at https://kaslin.rocks) that explain tech concepts through fun analogies and story-telling suitable for all ages.

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

Kat Cosgrove

Pulumi

Kat Cosgrove is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, and an actual cyborg. Her professional background has run the gamut from bartender, to video store clerk, to teacher, to software developer. She credits this wide-ranging experience for her success as a speaker, developer, and advocate. Her specialty is approachable 101-level content for junior developers or anyone else who considers themselves a newbie, with a particular focus on DevOps, Security, and Cloud Native technologies. 

When she’s not building demos or at a conference, she spends her time playing video games, watching horror movies,  and reading science fiction. She lives in Seattle with her cat, Espresso, who is the real brains behind the operation and actually ghostwriting all of her tweets.

Kazuki Suda

Preferred Networks

Kazuki is an engineer at Preferred Networks, Inc. He leads some local meetups such as Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo and Prometheus Meetup Tokyo and helps expand cloud native technologies into Japan by organizing meetups, speaking, and writing books.

Meet-Up Organizer:
Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo (k8sjp.connpass.com)
Prometheus Meetup Tokyo (prometheus.connpass.com)

Meet-Up Organizer:
Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo

Specialties: Kubernetes

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Kevin Wang (Zefeng)

Huawei

Kevin Wang is a contributor in the CNCF community since its beginning, co-founder of the KubeEdge and Volcano projects, and leader of the Cloud Native Open Source Team at Huawei.

Kevin has contributed to Kubernetes upstream for years and now spends 100% of his work and focus on wider open source cloud native community development.

In 2020, Kevin led the community members in China and worked with CNCF to organize the Cloud Native + Open Source Virtual Summit China 2020 conference.

Meetup Organizer: CloudNativeDaysChina https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Native-days-china/

Specialties: Kubernetes, KubeEdge, Volcano

Location: Hangzhou, China

Kohei Ota

Hewlett Packard Enterprise / Kubernetes SIG Docs Japanese translation Owner

Kohei is a Cloud Native and DevOps Solutions Architect at HPE. His passion is creating scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes combining with public cloud solutions.
He is an organizer of CloudNative Days Tokyo and Docker Meetup Tokyo.

Kris Nova

Sysdig

Kris, Chief Open Source Advocate at Sysdig, focuses on security, intrusion detection, and the Linux kernel with Kubernetes and eBPF. As an active advocate for open source, Kris is an ambassador for the CNCF and the creator of kubicorn, a successful Kubernetes infrastructure management tool. Kris joins Sysdig from Heptio/VMWare, where she was a Senior Developer Advocate. Prior to VMWare, Kris was at Deis/Microsoft, where she was a developer advocate and an engineer on Kubernetes. Kris has a deep technical background in the Go programming language and has authored many successful open source tools in Go. Kris has organized many special interest groups in Kubernetes. She is a leader in the community. She understands the frustration with running cloud-native infrastructure via a distributed cloud-native application and authored an O’Reilly book on the topic, Cloud Native Infrastructure. Kris lives in Seattle and spends her free time climbing mountains.

Krishna Kumar

Accenture

Krishna is a Technology Architect building cloud native solutions for large enterprise customers.

Meet-Up Organizer:
Bangalore Mesos & cncf User Group

Specialties: Kubernetes

Location: Bengaluru Area, India

Kunal Kushwaha

Kunal is a developer from India. He is working towards empowering communities via Open Source and Education. He is currently doing community management at MLH, Developer Advocacy at Civo, is a Student Program Manager at Data on Kubernetes Community, a CNCF Ambassador, part of the Kubernetes Release Team, a GitHub Campus Expert, Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador, Google Summer of Code Mentor at Red Hat Middleware.

He finds passion in teaching and has taught thousands of students both in-person and on his YouTube channel. He is the founder of Community Classroom, an organization focussed on providing training & mentorship, free of cost. He also started the Official Cloud Native Student Community group joined by thousands of students, focused on getting more young people involved in the Cloud Native world. These platforms are utilized by conducting hands-on workshops, events, podcasts, and sharing about opportunities in the field.
Thanks!

L Körbes

Tilt

L does DevRel at Tilt, on a mission to make developers’ workflows friendlier and more intuitive. They first got acquainted with Kubernetes while writing code for kubectl, in a SIG-CLI internship. While based in Berlin, they’ve spoken at countless meetups and world-famous events all around the globe. Notably, L once won a ‘Best Hair’ award.

Lachlan Evenson

Microsoft

Lachlan is a Principal Program Manager on the open source team at Azure. As a cloud native ambassador, emeritus Kubernetes release lead, and Helm charts maintainer, Lachlan has deep operational knowledge of many Cloud Native projects. He spends his days building and contributing to software that addresses key challenges in the Cloud Native ecosystem.

Lee Calcote

“Lee Calcote is the Founder of Layer5, where the community helps organizations harness and exploit the value of service meshes. Previously, Calcote stewarded technology strategy and innovation across SolarWinds. He led software-defined data center engineering at Seagate, delivering predictive analytics and modern systems management. Calcote held various leadership positions at Cisco, where he created Cisco’s cloud management platforms and pioneered new, automated, remote management services.

In addition to his role at Layer5, Calcote serves in various industry bodies, including as a SIG chair in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and formerly, participated in the delivery of Redfish 1.0 in the Distributed Management Task Foundation (DMTF), and Docker Benchmark 1.0 in Center for Internet Security (CIS). He is a startup advisor, Docker Captain, Cloud Native Ambassador, O’Reilly author, and speaker in the cloud native ecosystem.

Calcote is a maintainer of open source projects, including Meshery, Service Mesh Interface, and Service Mesh Performance. Calcote holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a master’s degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fresno and retains a list of industry certifications.”

Meetup: Cloud Native Austin

Company Affiliation: Layer5

Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, Meshery, Service Mesh Performance, Service Mesh Interface

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 has been engaged in the Kubernetes project since 2015 and is also a member of KataContainers community.

Specialties: Kubernetes, Containerd

Location: China/US

Lisa-Marie Namphy

Dev Advocate & Community Architect

Lisa is the Head of Developer Relations at Cockroach Labs. She is a developer community architect, and product and solutions marketing expert with 20+ years of experience primarily at Cloud Native, Analytics, and Enterprise Software market-leading companies and start-ups. Lisa organizes and runs the SF Bay Cloud Native Containers User Group, personally hosting the meetup for the past 7 years. Lisa has been a long time contributor, advocate (and fan) of open source software. Lisa is an advocate and frequent speaker for Diversity & Inclusion initiatives, open source technology, an avid sports fan, and loves wine and dogs. Follow Lisa on Twitter @SWDevAngel.

Liviu Costea

Liviu filled many roles during his career from developer to architect, team leader, technical manager and cto. But the ones where he felt most comfortable were the technical ones and which involved reading and writing code. He made the switch to infrastructure as code and devops around 2013 because they were using AWS and someone had to do this. He was quickly attracted by the big challenges found in a new and very dynamic landscape. Currently he is a systems engineer at Mambu, an established fintech, where he runs a one of a kind SaaS Kubernetes platform following the gitops approach.
He is pretty involved in the community, an organiser of the Cloud Native Meetup from Iasi, Romania and also other events and conferences around devops and software architecture.

Iasi, Romania
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/IS-DevOps-Meetup/ (Cloud Native Computing Iasi)
Specialties: Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD), containers and Go

Liying Zhang

JD.com

Liying (Vivian) Zhang is a product and open source community manager at JD.com, whose main responsibilities include driving the community adoption of JD’s open source projects and promoting the collaborations with CNCF and the broader LF open source communities, as well as companies/members/individuals in the communities. Vivian is one of the main contributors of the ChubaoFS project.

Specialties: Kubernetes, Vitess, ChubaoFS, Prometheus, Harbor
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. 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

Carta

Mario is orchestrating Kubernetes at Carta 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.

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

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.

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. 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 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 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

Google

Mike works at Google as a developer advocate focusing on Anthos and other cloud native technologies. Prior to that he held similar roles at AWS and Docker.

Prior to joining Google, he worked at AWS, Docker, 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.

Naeil Ezzoueidi

Naeil Ezzoueidi is a Lead DevOps engineer, focusing now on CNCF technologies.

Naeil worked on many open source projects and communities. He contributed to the kernel of Ubuntu/Vanilla, LibreOffice and many other open source projects.

He is an official Ubuntu member and a part of the Ubuntu board membership.

Naeil is the organizer of the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Tunisia meetup group, he gives talks and workshops to the students at universities and also for professionals.

Nana Janashia

Nana Janashia is a DevOps consultant and trainer. She started the Techworld with Nana channel to share her expertise about various DevOps topics and to help DevOps enthusiasts get into the field easier and with more motivation.

Through her channel and different courses, she has reached hundreds of thousands of people. Her passion is to explain complex topics easily so that everyone can understand.

She consults teams of developers and DevOps engineers to help them improve their existing processes for CI/CD, containerization and orchestration.

She created a complete educational program for people to become a DevOps engineer. The Bootcamp is focused on learning the most popular tools and platforms like, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform & more.

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

VMWare

Nikhita is a member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee and the technical lead for SIG Contributor Experience. She works as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware remotely from Mumbai, India. She also helps run the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy internship programs for CNCF/Kubernetes. Nikhita has 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 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

StormForge

Noah is an Open Source Advocate at StormForge, split between shepherding OSS projects, and building the user community and events for them.  He’ll be at most events in Las Vegas keeping the Cloud Native community as accessible and welcoming as possible.

Nuno Do Carmo

Ferring Pharmaceuticals

Nuno is a Docker Captain and passionate for Cloud Native technologies. He is specially interested/invested on bringing the Cloud Native technologies to Windows and more specifically Windows Subsystem for Linux.

He is collaborating and writing blog posts about different projects such as Meshery (Multi Service Mesh management plane), Porter (Cloud Native Application Bundle) and K3d (K3s on Docker).

Nuno is always searching for new Cloud Native applications and creating how-to for users, not only developers, and how they could integrate/use the applications for their own scenarios.

Location: Montreux, Switzerland

Orlin Vasilev

VMware

Orlin is a Software Infrastructure Engineer for the Cloud Services at VMware, working on their Kubernetes internal platform and focusing on the automation of Kubernetes platform services. Prior to VMware, Orlin worked as *ix and Cloud Engineer/Architect at HPE. For years he has been involved with so-called traditional infrastructure.

He is also part of the team that organizes the Kubernetes & Cloud Native Computing Bulgaria Meetup.

When he’s not geeking out, he is snowboarding/camping/BBQ-ing with his family.

Paris Pittman

Apple

Paris is a Program Manager at Apple working on internal and external cloud native community building. She started in Kubernetes as a everyday contributor in sig-contributor-experience and has held several roles in the upstream community. Now, Paris sits on the Kubernetes Steering Committee and co-chairs CNCF SIG-Contributor-Strategy, a group that she is passionate about for the scalability of the ecosystem.

Paul Burt

NetApp

Paul Burt
CoreOS

Paul is a Technical Product Marketing Engineer at NetApp. 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

Phil Estes

AWS

Phil is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services working on core container technologies for Amazon’s cloud platform.

Phil has a long history of involvement in core container runtime technology, starting with contributing and becoming a maintainer in the Docker engine project in 2014. Phil contributed key features like user namespace support and helped bring multi-platform image capabilities to registries and runtimes in the last several years. Phil is a founding maintainer of the CNCF containerd runtime project, and participates in the Open Container Initiative (OCI) as a member of the Technical Oversight Board (TOB).

Phil helps others understand and apply container and cloud native concepts via speaking worldwide at events like industry conferences and meetups, and authors blog posts and articles for the OCI, CNCF, and publications like InfoQ and OpenSource.com. He maintains an active blog on container topics at https://integratedcode.us and you can find him on Twitter tweeting away as @estesp. Phil lives in Virginia in the USA and enjoys a quiet home office when not traveling the world for conferences and events.

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

Povilas Versockas

Povilas is a Software Engineer who is passionate about Prometheus, Thanos, Kubernetes & Cloud Native technologies.

Meet-Up Organizer: Prometheus & The Ecosystem Community Meeting

Specialities: Prometheus, Thanos, Kubernetes

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Puja Abbassi

Giant Swarm

Puja Abbassi is the Vice President of Product at Giant Swarm. As a CNCF ambassador, he’s passionate about bringing cloud native technologies to more developers and their companies around the globe. In Kubernetes he focuses on security and authentication as well as extending Kubernetes with custom resources and controllers (aka operators). With a few years of Kubernetes experience and having been in the beta batch of CKAs, he enjoys solving problems and helping people in Kubernetes Office Hours, Slack, and Discuss. He is also a contributor to the CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks.

Meet Up Organizer:
https://www.meetup.com/Kubernetes-Meetup-Cologne/
https://www.meetup.com/Docker-Cologne/

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.

Location: Beijing, China

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.

Meet-Up Organizer:
Container Networking and Application Services

Specialties: Kubernetes

Location: California, USA

Reda Benzair

CenturyLink

Reda is a Director of Development at CenturyLink, a technical senior manager in a successful startup SmartJog (was acquired 2008) and streamroot (was acquired 2019). With over 16 years of experience in the digital world, he has contributed to the development of the main digital and cloud product of SmartJog ( Digital delivery, Content delivery Network, Media VOD/SVOD OTT ) and Streamroot.io CDN and peer to peer technology. Passionate with the Open source and Cloud-Native community and has sponsored many open-source initiatives in SmartJog with success (Kubespray). Co-founder with other non-profit organizations to promote the CNCF foundation in France since 2016.

Meet-Up Organizer:
Cloud Native Computing Paris

Specialties: Kubernetes

Location: Paris, France

Ricardo Katz

VMWare

Ricardo is at VMWare. He contributes to CNCF projects Kubernetes (mainly NGINX Ingress) and Harbor. He is looking forward to forming a strong community in Brazil and also bringing some new and nice technologies to public services.

CNCF Technologies: Kubernetes, Harbor, Prometheus

Meetups: Kubernetes Meetup Sampa and CNCF Meetup Sao Paulo

Location: Sao Paulo (Brazil) and sometimes also in Brasilia (Brazil)

Roby Chen

DaoCloud

Roby Chen is the CEO of Shanghai DaoCloud Network Technology Co., Ltd. with more than 15 years experience in cloud computing technology. Prior to establishing Daocloud, Roby spent 7 years in EMC China R&D Center from in 2008 and served as the founder and chief architect of EMC China Research Institute. Roby has more than 30 U.S patents published and rated as The Future Star by Hurun Report in 2018. Roby has ran several Meetups including Cloud Nat​ive and DevOps Practice Seminar, “Dao of Cloud Native” series events that shared the most cutting-edge industry outlook and the most valuable technical practices to the developers, communities and enterprises.

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

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.

Saiyam Pathak

Civo

Saiyam is working as Director of Technical Evangelism at Civo with a focus on defining the Civo cloud platform for simplifying Kubernetes and making it accessible for developers. Previously at Walmart Labs, Oracle, and hp, Saiyam has worked on many facets of k8s including machine learning platform, scaling, multi-cloud, managed k8s services, and k8s documentation. He’s worked on implementing Rancher and Influx in different organizations.
When not coding, Saiyam works on contributing to the community by writing blogs and organizing local meetups for k8s, rancher, Influx. He is also an Influx ACE, Traefik Ambassador, CNCF ambassador, and can be reached on twitter @saiyampathak.

Salim Lakhani

Salim Lakhani is a technology executive with over 30 years of operations experience. He’s helped companies benchmark, compare, select, and deploy the best DevOps solutions for their needs. Today, at DevPanel, he helps companies deploy and manage their applications on Cloud Native infrastructure. As a technology enthusiast, Salim still enjoys learning about the tools and technologies that make us all more productive.

Meetup Organizer:

Locations:

Denver, CO

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

Microsoft

Sarah works at Microsoft. 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

Sarah Young

Microsoft

Sarah is an experienced public speaker and has presented on a range of IT security and technology topics at industry events both nationally and internationally (BSides Las Vegas, The Diana Initiative, Kiwicon, PyCon AU, Container Camp AU/London, BSides Ottawa, BSides Perth, DevSecCon Boston, CHCon, KubeCon, BSides SF). She is an active supporter of both local and international security and cloud native communities.

Sarah is a Senior Program Manager for Azure Security at Microsoft who is currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. She has been involved in the cloud native community for a number of years and is passionate about securing cloud native technologies and both deploying and using them in a secure manner.

NB: Sarah really loves dogs and bakery products.

Scott Coulton

Microsoft

Scott is a Developer Advocate and Docker captain with 10 years of experience as a software engineer in the managed services and hosting space. He has extensive experience in architecture and rolling out systems and network solutions for national and multinational companies with a wide variety of technologies, including Azure, Kubernetes, Puppet, Docker, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, and Linux. His design strengths are in cloud computing, automation, and security space.

Location: Sydney, Australia

Sebastian Scheele

Kubermatic

Sebastian is co-founder of Kubermatic, a start-up with 60 employees that is the #7 committers to Kubernetes and that is focused on developing open core software solutions for automating Kubernetes operations at scale. Sebastian, a developer himself, has his finger on the pulse of where the Kubernetes landscape is going and is contributing many of his team’s resources to upstream K8s development. As one of the early pioneers in the cloud native ecosystem since 2016,  he has helped hundreds of enterprises embrace Kubernetes to solve cutting edge challenges in both cloud and edge computing.   

Sebastian is a CNCF Ambassador and has spoken at numerous conferences around the world about the impact of Kubernetes and cloud native technologies for IT.

Shilla Saebi

Comcast

Shilla is an Open Source Program Manager who is passionate about building inner source communities and helping grow open source communities. She has worked in many diverse roles within the tech industry in positions ranging from operations engineering, system administration, customer service, and network operations.

Shilla runs the Philadelphia Prometheus meetup group, is a part of the CNCF marketing committee, has spoken at KubeCon, and advocates for CNCF consumption and contribution, not only inside Comcast but externally as well. She has authored several blog posts on open source technology and has spoken about cloud operations, diversity, and open source community building at many technology conferences around the globe.

Outside of the world of open source, she enjoys music, traveling, outdoor activities, and art. Shilla is based in Arlington, Virginia.

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. 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.

Specialties: Kubernetes

Location: Vancouver, Canada

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

uSwitch

Suraj is a Platform Engineer at uSwitch (End User Community Member) with focus on Kubernetes, Open Source and cloud native technologies. He is interested in Open Source Community and Developer Experience.

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.

Meet-Up Organizer:
Kamiyacho.k8s, Kubernetes Meetup Tokyo, Prometheus Tokyo

Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus

Location: Tokyo, Japan

Taylor Dolezal

Hashicorp

Howdy everyone. I enjoy working to build high performing teams that focus on making a positive impact. If you need help within the CNCF or OSS space, I’m happy to help out!

Tom Kerkhove

Tom works for Codit as an Azure Architect and R&D Manager. He is one of the maintainers of KEDA, Promitor, Azure Deprecation & Arcus, and is driving open-source at Codit.
He is a strong believer of open-source and loves to share his work with others and contribute back to projects that he uses.

He has been recognized as a Microsoft Azure MVP & Advisor since 2014 and one of the first GitHub Stars since its launch.

Tom turns coffee into scalable & secure cloud systems and writes about his adventures on blog.tomkerkhove.be.

Specialities: KEDA & CloudEvents

Uchechukwu Obasi

Grafana Labs

Uche is a software engineer at Grafana Labs and contributor to the Thanos project. He’s the co-organizer of the CNCF Mentees Meetup. He is really passionate about creating a safe space for newbie contributors to contribute, learn, and collaborate within the CNCF community.

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.

Vallery Lancey

Lyft

Vallery is an Infrastructure Software Engineer at Lyft. She specializes in Kubernetes and application orchestration.

Vallery contributes to upstream Kubernetes, primarily in SIG-network.

Meetups: Bay Area Kubernetes Meetup

Specialties: Kubernetes
Location: San Francisco, United States

Will Wang

Tencent

Will Wang is the senior architect of Tencent Group’s CODING DevOps, he is the author of PHEI(2 books published in China), and the city partner of Cloud Native Community (https://cloudnative.to) in China.

At the same time, he is also one of the founders of Nocalhsot(the other is Wang Zhenwei).

He is developing and maintaining the Nocalhost open source community, which can help users reduce the difficulty of developing software on Kubernetes.

Meetup: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Meetup – Shenzhen.

Specialties: Kubernetes, Service Mesh (Istio), Microservice.

Location: China.

Xiaocui (Tree) Lin

Ant Financial

Tree Lin is the Operation Manager of Cloud Native Technology at Ant Financial. She helps to operate the Service Mesh Community in China since April, 2018.

She is in Hangzhou, China, and now mainly focuses in Service Mesh Technology Developing: