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(He/Him)

Abdel Sghiouar
(He/Him)
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Languages: Arabic, English, French
- Project Experience: containerd, Crossplane, Istio, k3s, Knative, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Rook, SPIFFE, SPIRE
I’m a Cloud Developer Advocate with Google. I co-host for the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and the Cloud Careers Podcast.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: Learn from the community. Contribute to the Open Source and Cloud Native world and help inspire others to do the same
(She/Her)
OVHcloud

Aurélie Vache
(She/Her)
OVHcloud
- Location: Toulouse, France
- Project Experience: Argo, etcd, gRPC, Harbor, Helm, Istio, Jaeger, Knative, Kubernetes, Kyverno, Linkerd, NATS, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Prometheus
Aurélie is a Developer Advocate at OVHcloud. She is a CNCF Ambassador, Docker Captain, GDE for Cloud & GitPod Hero. Conferences organizer since 2016. She is a technical writer, a book author & reviewer. She is also a sketchnoter and a speaker at international conferences. She is a co-host for the “Tranches de Tech” OVHcloud podcast. She created a new visual way for people to learn and understand Cloud technologies: “Understanding Kubernetes/Istio/Docker in a visual way” in sketchnotes, videos and visual technical books.
Blog: https://dev.to/aurelievache/
Conferences: https://noti.st/aurelievache
Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Aur%C3%A9lie-Vache/author/B09WHB5YR6
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I have been a passionate and advocate of Cloud Native, especially CNCF technologies, for many years and I am very happy to be its ambassador. It’s an opportunity for me to share and spread knowledge, contribute to native cloud technologies and meet the community.
(She/Her/They/Them)
Isovalent

Carla Gaggini
(She/Her/They/Them)
Isovalent
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Project Experience: containerd, Crossplane, Istio, k3s, Knative, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Rook, SPIFFE, SPIRE
Carla has been managing events and communities since 2011. She started with experimental music festivals and eventually ended up in Tech, where she fell in love with its ecosystem. During her career she has produced and run many conferences (yes, also the virtual ones!), meetups, webinars and hackathons. Formerly at Container Solutions managing everything “WTF is Cloud Native” and “Software Circus”, she currently buzzes around Cilium and eBPF at Isovalent. She is also one of the organisers of KCD UK, a CNCF and OpenUK Ambassador, and the 2022 CNCF Marketing Committee Chair. Carla drinks way too much tea (mainly green), has an unhealthy obsession for Japan and a big passion for art, music, cinema, philosophy and fashion. Recent blogs: https://blog.container-solutions.com/why-your-event-needs-a-code-of-conduct-and-you-need-to-enforce-it https://blog.container-solutions.com/how-hard-is-it-to-deliver-a-virtual-conference https://blog.container-solutions.com/tech-events-in-the-time-of-covid-19-5-tips-to-survive
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: This is an invaluable opportunity to support the CNCF and the Cloud Native community. I’m incredibly excited to help new joiners and spread more awareness around all the initiatives they can embrace within the CNCF, the various KCDs and the Cloud ecosystem in general.
(He/Him)
Red Hat

Daniel Oh
(He/Him)
Red Hat
- Location: Boston, United States
- Languages: English
- Project Experience: Argo, Backstage, CloudEvents, containerd, CoreDNS, Devfile, Envoy, etcd, gRPC, Helm, Istio, Jaeger, KEDA, KubeEdge, Kubeflow, KubeVirt, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Prometheus, Serverless Workflow
Daniel Oh is Java Champion and Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat. He works to evangelize building cloud-native microservices and serverless functions with cloud-native runtimes to developers. He also continues to contribute to various open-source cloud projects and ecosystems as a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ambassador for accelerating DevOps adoption in enterprises. Daniel also speaks at technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers, SREs, platform engineers, and DevOps teams.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: It will give me more opportunities to meet more technical folks who want to adopt/learn new cloud-native technologies and tools. Also, the ambassador makes me a more proactive person to evangelize non-tech people in terms of how/why they move forward to the cloud.
(He/Him)
Crubyt

Eduardo Miguel Spotti
(He/Him)
Crubyt
- Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Project Experience: Argo, Backstage, CDK for Kubernetes (CDK8s), Chaos Mesh, Chaosblade, Cilium, Cloud Custodian, Confidential Containers, Container Network Interface (CNI), CoreDNS, Crossplane, Envoy, etcd, external-secrets, Falco, Fluentd, Flux, Helm, in-toto, Istio, Jaeger, k3s, Karmada, KEDA, Keptn, Knative, Konveyor, KubeArmor, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, Kubescape, KubeVela, KubeVirt, Kubewarden, Kyverno, Linkerd, Litmus, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenCost, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Paralus, Prometheus, Rook, SPIFFE, Strimzi, Submariner, Thanos
Passionate about business, technology and sports. Teacher and eternal learner. With a background in multiple technologies, I decided to start my own business to provide the best technical advisor services possible. Currently leading multiple communities in Latin America and their events such as KCD Argentina.
Chronosphere

Eric D Schabell
Chronosphere
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Project Experience: Argo, containerd, CRI-O, Fluentd, Helm, Jaeger, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Operator Framework, Prometheus
Eric is Chronosphere’s Director Evangelism. He’s renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author, baseball expert, and CNCF Ambassador. His current role allows him to help the world understand the challenges they are facing with observability. He brings a unique perspective to the stage with a professional life dedicated to sharing his deep expertise of open source technologies and organizations. More on https://speakerhub.com/speaker/eric-d-schabell
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I’m excited to officially have the title of ambassador as I’ve been actively promoting a lot of the work they do for over a decade now.
(He/Him/They/Them)
Veritas Automata

Gerardo Lopez
(He/Him/They/Them)
Veritas Automata
- Location: Costa Rica
- Project Experience: Brigade, cert-manager, Chaos Mesh, Cilium, Container Network Interface (CNI), containerd, etcd, Falco, Flux, gRPC, Harbor, Helm, Jaeger, k3s, KubeArmor, Kubernetes, Longhorn, NATS, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Prometheus, Rook
Gerardo López Falcón is a CNCF Ambassador, Docker Captain, and Google Developer Expert, with a focus on cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, and DevOps practices. He leads Cloud Native Costa Rica and frequently hosts meetups to empower the local tech community. As a dedicated advocate for open-source, he has co-authored resources like “Kubernetes Observability in Action” and shares insights on his blog, where he covers best practices and deep dives into tools like Docker, Prometheus, and Cilium.
(He/Him)
Fullstaq B.V.

Gerrit Tamboer
(He/Him)
Fullstaq B.V.
- Location: Westervoort, Netherlands
- Project Experience: Argo, Backstage, Buildpacks, cert-manager, Cilium, Container Network Interface (CNI), containerd, CoreDNS, CRI-O, Crossplane, Emissary-ingress, Envoy, etcd, external-secrets, Fluentd, Flux, gRPC, Harbor, Helm, k3s, KubeEdge, Kubernetes, KubeVirt, Kubewarden, Kyverno, Linkerd, Longhorn, NATS, Notary Project, Open Cluster Management, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenEBS, OpenELB, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Strimzi, Thanos, Tinkerbell, WasmEdge Runtime
As a Platform Engineer with over 15 years of experience, I specialize in Cloud Native technologies and Kubernetes, focusing on driving these innovations to the edge. In 2016, I founded Fullstaq, a consulting company dedicated to advancing Cloud Native solutions, and through its merger into TrueFullstaq, I now serve as Chief Evangelist. I’m passionate about sharing insights and best practices in the CNCF ecosystem, actively engaging in the community to promote Kubernetes and edge computing.
(He/Him)
Dynatrace

Henrik Rexed
(He/Him)
Dynatrace
- Location: Toulon, France
- Project Experience: Argo, Backstage, Chaos Mesh, Cilium, CloudEvents, CoreDNS, Crossplane, Dapr, Emissary-ingress, Envoy, external-secrets, Falco, Fluentd, Flux, Helm, Istio, Jaeger, k3s, KEDA, Keptn, KubeArmor, Kubernetes, Kubescape, Kuma, Kyverno, Linkerd, Litmus, Meshery, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenCost, OpenFeature, OpenMetrics, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Pixie, Prometheus, Service Mesh Performance, Thanos
Henrik Rexed is a Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace with over 15 years of expertise as a Performance Engineer. Passionate about Observability and Performance, he actively contributes to the tech community as an organizer of the WOPR and KCD Austria conferences. Henrik is also the creator of the YouTube channel Is It Observable?, where he shares insights on Kubernetes security, observability, and runtime tools.
(He/Him)
Megazone

Hoon Jo
(He/Him)
Megazone
- Location: Seoul, South Korea
- Project Experience: containerd, Crossplane, Istio, k3s, Knative, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Rook, SPIFFE, SPIRE
Hoon Jo is a Cloud Native and Cloud Solutions Architect at Megazone soft. He had several presentations on cloud-native technologies in Ubucon Asia, Openinfra Asia, HashiTalks, Openstack & Kubernetes Korea and so on. And he relays valuable information from the global to local community and makes clips to understand easily in Korea. My interests are highly are kubernetes and related cloud native products. I am fully sure cloud-native help to change the world as well as business model efficient way. Here is my channel. – Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/HoonJo/ – Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/HoonJo
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: In my view, Korea is not rapidly catching up with the latest information from worldwide due to the language barrier and other reasons. Thus, I hope I will relay a lot of highly valuable information from cloud-native resources to Korean communities. Plus, if cloud-native resources could be better digested after cooking, I will cook them to bite easily, such as clips. As an ambassador, it pushes me to be more active and be responsible. It is a really exciting journey in 2023 🙂 hopefully.
(She/Her)
Miro

Iris Dyrmishi
(She/Her)
Miro
- Location: Porto, Portugal
- Project Experience: Helm, Jaeger, OpenMetrics, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Prometheus, Thanos
I am a Senior Observability Engineer at Miro with a strong passion for Observability and platform engineering, making these fields the center of my career. I focus on building solutions that make complex systems more transparent and reliable. Observability is more than just a skill for me; it’s a philosophy I enjoy sharing through speaking, writing, and collaborating with others. I’m also one of the organizers of Kubernetes Community Days(KCD) Porto, where I help foster a vibrant, engaged cloud-native community. Medium: https://medium.com/@irisdyrmishi
(He/Him)
Paessler

Jonah Kowall
(He/Him)
Paessler
- Location: Pompano Beach, FL, USA
- Project Experience: Buildpacks, Jaeger, OpenMetrics, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Prometheus, Thanos
Jonah Kowall, computer scientist and open-source advocate. As a member of the founding team and technical leadership committee for OpenSearch a Linux Foundation project, Maintainer of Jaeger a CNCF graduated project for distributed tracing. Contributor to OpenTelemetry. A technical leader across startups and large enterprises specialized in operations, security, and performance. Led Gartner research on monitoring. Product leadership at AppDynamics, Cisco (post-acquisition), Kentik, Logz.io, Aiven, and is currently the Senior Vice President product and design at Paessler, the monitoring company.
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Grafana Labs

Juraci Paixao Kröhling
(He/Him)
Grafana Labs
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Project Experience: Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing
I’m a software engineer building telemetry tools. I’m active in the OpenTelemetry community and have been one of the Jaeger project maintainers in the past, having also contributed to OpenTracing. I also love to spread knowledge about the tools I work with, having had the pleasure of speaking at KubeCon (EU and NA), OpenSource Summit (EU and NA), FOSDEM, Devoxx, among others. And more recently, I started a side project called Dose de Telemetria, where I create deeply technical content related to observability, monitoring, and telemetry in my native language, Portuguese.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: Recognizing that language might be a barrier for people to understand the CNCF ecosystem and projects, I will focus on sharing knowledge in Portuguese. I’m also looking forward to fostering the ecosystem around our observability tooling, with a particular focus on OpenTelemetry but not limited to it.
(He/Him)
Polar Signals

Matthias Loibl
(He/Him)
Polar Signals
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Project Experience: cert-manager, CoreDNS, etcd, gRPC, Jaeger, Kubernetes, OpenMetrics, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Prometheus, Thanos
Matthias is the Director of PolarSignals Cloud. He maintains Prometheus, the Prometheus Operator, Parca, Pyrra, and more. He is an emeritus Thanos maintainer. He organized PromCon (the Prometheus conference) in 2023 and 2024. He runs the Berlin Prometheus MeetUp.
(She/Her)
Chronosphere

Paige Cruz
(She/Her)
Chronosphere
- Location: Portland, United States
- Project Experience: Argo, Jaeger, Kubernetes, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing
Paige Cruz is passionate about cultivating sustainable on-call practices and believes that open source instrumentation has a bright future. She isn’t afraid to admit that distributed traces are her favorite 😛 and will talk to anyone about adopting OpenTelemetry. After retiring from SRE she brought her zest for bringing people their aha moment with observability to Chronosphere where she works as a Senior Developer Advocate. Read her blog posts over on https://chronosphere.io/learn/category/blog/ or her personal blog at https://www.paigerduty.com/. Off-the-clock you can find her scouring fiber apprenticing at a local sustainable yarn mill or watching trash TV.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: Excited to be an ambassador to demystify observability concepts and practices for all levels of technologists. Looking to grow the OpenTelemetry community from end-users to contributors and maintainers while sparking collaboration across company boundaries.
(He/Him)
Red Hat

Paolo Patierno
(He/Him)
Red Hat
- Location: Napoli, Italy
- Project Experience: Jaeger, KEDA, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Prometheus, Strimzi
I am a Senior Principal Software Engineer working at Red Hat on messaging and data streaming technologies. One of these is Strimzi, a CNCF project for running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes in a cloud native manner using operators. I am also a committer on a number of IoT related projects and interested in observability and metrics – as a side project I look at how Formula 1 telemetry can be analysed with the technologies I work with every day. I am based in Napoli, where I am the lead organiser of the local CNCF Meetup.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I feel that I am one of the lucky people who love their job because it’s also their passion. Taking this passion to the community by sharing my knowledge about open source technologies is something which excites me. To be a CNCF Ambassador takes this love to the next level, being even more engaged within the cloud native space.
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kubernetes@.com

Ramesh Kumar
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kubernetes@.com
- Location: Sacramento, United States
- Project Experience: Argo, cert-manager, Cilium, Container Network Interface (CNI), CoreDNS, Crossplane, Emissary-ingress, Envoy, etcd, Falco, Fluentd, Flux, gRPC, Helm, Istio, Jaeger, k3s, Kubernetes, Kubescape, KubeVirt, Lima, Linkerd, Network Service Mesh, Open Cluster Management, Open Policy Agent (OPA), Open Policy Containers, Open Service Mesh, OpenCost, OpenEBS, OpenELB, OpenGitOps, OpenMetrics, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Service Mesh Interface (SMI), Service Mesh Performance, Virtual Kubelet, Vitess
I’m Ramesh Kumar, a dedicated advocate and mentor in the dynamic realm of cloud-native technologies. With a genuine passion for empowering others and a commitment to fostering meaningful connections, my journey is not just about the technology, but about the profound impact I make on the lives of those around me.
At the forefront of my endeavors are the CNCF/Kubernetes meetups I lead in Sacramento and Penang. These gatherings are not just about technical learning, they are about building a community where individuals find support, encouragement, and a strong sense of belonging. I aim to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing, especially caring for the newbies navigating the landscape. Through my patient guidance and steadfast support, I help over 500+ students and professionals navigate the complexities of Kubernetes certifications, empowering them to achieve their goals and pursue their passions.
My specialties lie in mentoring, teaching, training, and collaborating, and I take pride in my ability to inspire and guide others in their learning journey. I love encouraging and inspiring others to reach for their dreams and embrace new opportunities using CNCF Technologies. Whether guiding a career transition or championing initiatives using CNCF technologies, my compassionate approach has a lasting impact on all who encounter me.
Join me on my mission to build a more inclusive and supportive tech community with the help of CNCF. Let’s create a future where collaboration thrives, knowledge is freely shared, and everyone is supported and empowered on their journey to success.
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Isovalent

Raphaël Pinson
(He/Him)
Isovalent
- Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
- Project Experience: Argo, cert-manager, Cilium, Container Network Interface (CNI), Falco, Flux, Helm, k3s, Kubernetes, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenTracing, Prometheus
Raphaël Pinson is a seasoned Solutions Architect with over 15 years of experience in the tech industry. He specializes in Kubernetes, Terraform, and Cilium, and currently works at Isovalent. Raphaël is passionate about bridging the gap between DevOps and Cloud Native communities, and he’s excited to represent CNCF as a co-organizer of the Swiss Romandie (Lausanne chapter) CNCF meetup and regular speaker at industry events. Raphaël has contributed to various CNCF projects. His public work can be found at https://polywork.com/raphink.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I’m thrilled to become a CNCF ambassador because it allows me to expand my impact and bring Cloud Native technology to a wider audience. By representing CNCF and bridging the gap between Cloud Native and other communities, I hope to further advance our industry’s growth and adoption. It’s an honor to be part of a community of talented and passionate advocates who are driving innovation and making a difference in the tech world.
(They/Them)
Honeycomb.io

Rynn Mancuso
(They/Them)
Honeycomb.io
- Location: Oakland, CA, United States
- Project Experience: containerd, Crossplane, Istio, k3s, Knative, Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Rook, SPIFFE, SPIRE
Rynn Mancuso is the developer community manager at Honeycomb, one of the maintainers of OpenTelemetry’s End User SIG, and the creator of the OpenTelemetry in Practice meetup & the OTel Unplugged unconference. Before joining Honeycomb, they led developer communities at New Relic, Tidelift, Mozilla and Wikimedia. They also contribute to the Organization for Ethical Source.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I am excited to be an ambassador because I’m getting to connect with lots of great people across all of the CNCF projects to make the cloud native ecosystem better. In my ambassadorship year, my goals are to take the great speakers we are cultivating in the observability community and help place them in as many general cloud native meetups as possible to spread the word about cloud native observability, to start a streaming series where we work with different CNCF projects to instrument them, and to get the word out about the end user work we’ve been doing within OpenTelemetry so other projects can better serve end users.
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Vinci Energies France

Sébastien Davoult
(He/Him)
Vinci Energies France
- Location: Lorient, France
- Project Experience: Argo, containerd, etcd, Harbor, Helm, Istio, Knative, Kubernetes, KubeVirt, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Prometheus
Passionate about Virtualization, Containerization and Observability technologies, I have made it my job. Today, I accompany our customers in their #MoveToCloud transformation mainly on OnPremise environments by maximizing the use of OpenSource products. Much more than just products, OpenSource is for me a philosophy. I love to share and transmit on the subjects which impassion me, I do it with students, conferences, and also by publishing specialized blogs posts.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I am very happy and excited to have joined this program. It will allow me to promote the Cloud Native more widely in France. It’s a subject that is still unknown in some companies and the specialized content is often not translated from English. My goal is to promote the power of the Cloud Native through French articles, Meetups, and conferences.
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Sebastien Prune Thomas
(He/Him)
- Location: Levis, Quebec, CANADA
- Project Experience: Argo, CDK for Kubernetes (CDK8s), cert-manager, Cilium, containerd, Cortex, Crossplane, Envoy, external-secrets, gRPC, Harbor, Helm, Istio, Jaeger, k3s, Knative, Kubeflow, Kyverno, Lima, NATS, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenCost, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Operator Framework, Prometheus, Service Mesh Performance, SPIFFE, Strimzi, Thanos
I’ve been involved and passionated by the CNCF community for many years ! I’m co-organizing the Canadian CNCF & Kubernetes meetups for Canada (virtual) and Quebec City / Montreal meetups in person with other wonderful Organizers and Ambassadors ! I’m also a speaker in other meetups, at 2022 KubeCon US and at KubeCon’s Rejeks 2023. I love sharing my experience and documenting. I try to blog my projects and experiences. Check at https://medium.com/@prune998 I’m invested in some CNCF or OSS projects linked to K8s and I’m maintaining an official fork of KubeColor that was unmaintained for years: https://github.com/kubecolor/kubecolor I’ve been patching a lot of projects, OSS or CNCF, like ArgoCD, Cilium, Kafka tools…
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: My goal as an ambassador is to promote Kubernetes and the wonderful ecosystem under the CNCF banner. Being involved in the Ambassador community will help me grow my skills at communicating and hopefully inspire others to join the movement.
(He/Him)
Adobe Inc.

Victor Varza
(He/Him)
Adobe Inc.
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Project Experience: Argo, containerd, Envoy, Helm, Kubernetes, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenTracing, Prometheus, Thanos
I am a software engineer with Adobe, where I am actively involved in managing a cross-cloud, multi-tenant Kubernetes-based platform. My expertise lies in designing and implementing excellent software systems, with over 15 years of experience in the development of large-scale platforms based on Linux and Kubernetes. When I am not coding, I enjoy helping the community by co-organizing OpenSource Bucharest Meetup and KCD Romania.
(He/Him)
Flomesh(DaLian YiHeng KeJi YouXian GongSi)

Xiaohui Zhang
(He/Him)
Flomesh(DaLian YiHeng KeJi YouXian GongSi)
- Location: Guangzhou, China
- Project Experience: Argo, Buildpacks, Cilium, Container Network Interface (CNI), Dapr, Harbor, Helm, Istio, k3s, Karmada, Knative, Kubernetes, Open Service Mesh, OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, Prometheus, Service Mesh Interface (SMI)
Senior cloud native architect and evangelist at Flomesh. I am a seasoned programmer, LF APAC open source evangelist, CNCF Ambassador, member of the cloud native community committee(China local) and Microsoft Azure MVP. With many years of microservice and infrastructure practice experience, mainly involving microservices, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps, etc. In the past there years, I organize two meetups in Guangzhou and Service Mesh Conference in Shanghai together with community members. In the coming April 15, I will organize KCD in Dalian with other community members. I own a Chinese blog https://atbug.com and start writing on Medium https://addozhang.medium.com.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: Being a CNCF ambassador is a recognition of my involvement in open source and cloud-native technology promotion over the past few years. After becoming a CNCF ambassador, I can better promote CNCF technology and organize more in-person and virtual events. At the same time, I can also receive more support from CNCF.
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Hitachi, Ltd.

Yoshiyuki Tabata
(He/Him)
Hitachi, Ltd.
- Location: Yokohama, Japan
- Languages: English, Japanese
- Project Experience: Envoy, Istio, Jaeger, Keycloak, Kubernetes, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenTracing, Strimzi
Yoshiyuki Tabata is a Senior OSS Consultant at Hitachi, Ltd, responsible for API Security, especially Authentication/Authorization. As an authentication and authorization expert, he mainly consults on authentication and authorization infrastructure and API infrastructure, for example designing and building API/SSO systems in the financial, public, social, and industrial fields. He’s also a contributor to API-related OSSs such as Keycloak and 3scale and develops features based on feedback from actual projects he consulted. He’s also a conference speaker of API-related events and an author of some books and web articles about Identity and Access Management.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I usually consult with our customers on authentication and authorization infrastructure and API infrastructure (I have experience building systems for finance and government using Keycloak and Kubernetes), and it seems that the adoption rate of the CNCF family in general systems is still low in Japan. Also, in systems that adopt the CNCF family, there are many systems with weak security due to placing too much emphasis on developer experience and agility. Therefore, as a CNCF ambassador, I would like to use the knowledge I have cultivated through many projects (not only the knowledge as a security consultant but also the knowledge as a Keycloak contributor and a conference speaker) to disseminate solutions and know-how for a better and more secure CNCF ecosystem.