Ambassadors

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

Ariel founded and organizes the New York Kubernetes Meetup. He previously founded Stackpoint.io, an early Kubernetes platform focused on simplifying the process for deploying cloud native stacks at the leading cloud providers.

Meet-Up Organizer:
New York Kubernetes Meetup

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.

Bob is a Program Manager at the Google Open Source Programs Office with a focus on Cloud Native computing. He serves the Kubernetes project as a Steering Committee member and chair of the Contributor Experience Special Interest Group and has been involved in many other cross-cutting areas of the project. Bob comes from an academic background, spending 15 years at the University of Michigan with a later focus on computational research. As a Cloud Native Computing Foundation Ambassador, Bob has worked towards improving High Performance Computing, Machine Learning, and other research initiatives by integrating them with Cloud Native practices and tooling. He is passionate about Academic Outreach, and is an outspoken advocate of Open Source, Open Science and pets of the furry 4 legged variety.

Brad is the Head of Platform Engineering at Basiq focusing in the Cloud Innovation space, and DevOps. He contributes to a lot of open source projects focusing on Kubernetes, Argo and Keptn. Brad has a passion for mentoring and guiding people through their open source journey.

Meetup: Cloud Native Dojo – Australia.

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

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

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

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

Chris Short has been a proponent of open source solutions throughout his over two decades in various IT disciplines, including systems, security, networks, DevOps management, and cloud native advocacy across the public and private sectors. He currently works on the Kubernetes team at Amazon Web Services and is an active Kubernetes contributor. Chris is a disabled US Air Force veteran living with his wife and son in Greater Metro Detroit. Chris writes about Cloud Native, DevOps, and other topics at ChrisShort.net. He also runs the Cloud Native, DevOps, Open Source, industry news, and culture focused newsletter DevOps’ish.

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.

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

David is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, a CNCF Ambassador, and host of the official Kubernetes Office Hours.

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; currently focusing on #RawkodeLive, a live stream for learning the technologies across the cloud native landscape.

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

Diógenes is an Executive Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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

Duffie is Field CTO at Isovalent. 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Hui Li is an Engineer at Tencent in Shenzhen, China. His specialties related to cloud-native are API gateway, Ingress and observability. He had organized several Cloud Native live sharing (20+ sessions with over 10k+ viewers) and Cloud Native Meetup in Shenzhen (over 100 attendees) with Jimmy Song.

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

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.

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.

Jessica is the Product Area Lead for Engineering Enablement at Kognic and is located in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is also organizer of the meetup Kubernetes Göteborg and KCD Nordics organizer

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.

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

Jia is a project manager for China Mobile Research Institute in China, working on edge computing and NFV (5G using cloud native technology).

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.

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(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)

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 Lead Platform Architect at Lunar. He further co-founded the nordic meetup alliance, Cloud Native Nordics, where he currently serves as Community Lead. Local organizer of the Cloud Native Aarhus and GO Aarhus meetup groups. Occasionally blogs at kubecloud.io and speaks at conferences/meet-ups.

Meet-Up Organizer: Cloud Native Nordics, Cloud Native Aarhus, Go Aarhus

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

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/

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.

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

Meet-Up Organizer:
Bangalore Mesos & cncf User Group

Empowering communities via open-source and education.

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

Lei is a Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft Developer Division (DevDiv), where he works on the dev-centric tools and products. Lei has been engaged in the Kubernetes as a maintainer since 2015 and served as chair of TAG App Delivery for CNCF. Lei previously led the engineering effort around Kubernetes and application platforms at Alibaba.

Lin is the Director of Open-Source at Solo.io. She has worked on cloud native since 2012 and most recently on service mesh for the past 5+ years. She contributes to a few open source projects including BumbleBee, Kubernetes, Istio, Gloo Mesh. She frequently speaks at CNCF conferences such as KubeCon, OpenSource Summit & ServiceMeshCon etc. She frequently blogs her viewpoint about cloud native and service mesh in CNCF, container journal, the New Stack etc. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years and has more than 200 patents to her name.

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.

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/IS-DevOps-Meetup/ (Cloud Native Computing Iasi)

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.

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

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

Michael Mueller is a seasoned leader with a deep technology background, specifically in Cloud Native and Site Reliability Engineering. Michael oversees the architecture and implementation of Cloud Native systems for organizations from every sector. His work spans two decades in various roles, with current emphasis on SRE, automation and Cloud Native in general. He enjoys solving the challenges presented by emerging technology and working with partners.

Meet-Up Organizer:
Microservices Zürich Meetup

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

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.

Meetup Organizer: Kubernetes and Cloud Native New Delhi

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.

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

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

Meet-Up Organizer: Prometheus & The Ecosystem Community Meeting

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

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

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.

Meetups: Kubernetes Meetup Sampa and CNCF Meetup Sao Paulo

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

V has worked extensively in the development experience side of the Kubernetes ecosystem, at Tilt and Garden prior to VMware Tanzu. They got their start years ago building tooling under Kubernetes’ SIG-CLI, and have since spoken about Go and Kubernetes at many world-famous events. V not-so-secretly loves to reminisce about their teenage years by dabbling in old-timey infosec shenanigans.

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

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.