Speakers

• 

  Frederic Branczyk

  Polar Signals

  Founder & CEO

  See Bio
• 

  Natalie Serrino

  Pixie Labs

  Founding Engineer

• 

  Joe Elliot

  Grafana Labs

  Principal Engineer

  See Bio

×

Frederic Branczyk

Polar Signals

Frederic Branczyk is the founder and CEO of Polar Signals. Before founding Polar Signals he was a senior principal engineer and the main architect for all things Observability at Red Hat, which he joined through the CoreOS acquisition. Frederic is a Prometheus and Thanos maintainer as well as the tech lead for the special interest group for instrumentation in Kubernetes. In a previous life, he was a security researcher working on key management solutions as well as intrusion detection systems. When not working on software Frederic enjoys obsessing over brewing a perfect cup of coffee.

×

Joe Elliot

Grafana Labs

Joe Elliott has been working as an SRE/DevOps/Infrastructure person with Kubernetes for the last 4 years. Currently a Principal Engineer at Grafana, he is the creator of Tempo, a Jaeger maintainer, and has contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector, Loki, and Cortex. When he's not at the keyboard or wrangling kids, Joe likes to get out on his bike.

×

Michael Bowen

BlackRock

Michael is an Open Source advocate, evangelist, and engineer as part of the Platform Engineering team at BlackRock. Heavily focused on cloud-native solutions targeting container workloads, Kubernetes orchestration, and application delivery to consumers.