Vishal is an engineer and CTO at InfraCloud technologies. He helps companies transform their business by using technology & coaching people. He is a contributor to Fission - Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes, is organiser of “Pune Kubernetes & CNCF Meetup”. He loves good books, running and high altitude mountains & history.

Nabarun is a Senior Software Engineer at VMware, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, an elected Kubernetes Steering Committee member and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. He is a Release Manager for Kubernetes and has been the Kubernetes 1.21 Release Team Lead. Nabarun has been an active member of 8 releases since 2019. Nabarun continuously mentors newcomers in the community through various means. He has been featured in Times of India for his work in the Kubernetes and Python communities.

Aayush is a computer science undergraduate student from India. He is a Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate. He was a member of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Kubernetes Batch + HPC Day Europe 2023 Program Committee. He is a member at Keptn Organisation. He has worked as a Junior Developer Evangelist at Merico and as a Program Manager at Sema Software. He is a Solo.io Ambassador. He is enthusiastic about DevOps and Cloud Native. He is a member of several communities such as Kubesimplify Ambassador and Developer at WeMakeDevs. He loves contributing to Open-Source projects such as Kubernetes, Datree, Solo.io, Keptn, Canonical, Shifu and Apache. He is fond of making DevOps-related content by both writing blogs and making videos. He believes in the power of collaboration.

My name is Aditya Girigoudar. I'm a Computer Science graduate from KLE Technological University and currently work as a Software Engineer at OpsVerse. In my role, I focus on building open source DevOps tools that simplify the DevOps process and make it faster and more efficient. I take pride in my work, knowing that the tools I build are making a positive impact on the lives of DevOps teams.

I am a seasoned developer and loves to contribute to open source community. Over the past few years I have been working on cloud native tools and technologies to build solutions for my company.

Akash is a passionate and motivated professional with five years of cloud-native experience. He is a Consultant at Kubermatic with a focus on helping customers get the best out of cloud-native adoption. He is also an open-source enthusiast and has contributed to various CNCF projects including Helm and Cluster API provider for AWS (k8s-sig).

Amit is a Staff Engineer at VMware where he helps teams to build Tanzu. Prior to VMware, he spent a decade working with startups in the cloud infrastructure space. He has essayed the roles of an Architect, Product Owner, Director of Engineering & Individual Contributor during various phases of his career. Amit is an open source practitioner and was the core maintainer of few open source projects such as OpenEBS & Metacontroller. He has served as the Project Technical Committee member on a number of occasions for Linux Foundation & Cloud Native Foundation.

Anusha Hegde is a Technical Product Manager at Nirmata, where she currently leads the development of Enterprise Kyverno, with the mission of building the best platform for Kubernetes Policy & Governance. She has worked with several customers to integrate Kyverno in their existing environments, and is aware of the different organizational challenges. Before joining Nirmata, Anusha worked at VMware, where she focussed on infrastructure provisioning using Cluster API on Bare Metal devices. When she's not driving product development at Nirmata, Anusha can usually be found goofing around with her dog or exploring new technologies to help push the boundaries of Kubernetes Policy and Governance. 

BabuSrithar - India Site Lead & Senior Director of Engineering, Cockroach Labs. Srithar is part of Cockroach Labs (the company behind CockroachDB[https://github.com/cockroachdb], the open source, distributed SQL database) and leading its expansion to India as a Strategic Engineering Excellence center. Prior to Cockroach Labs, Srithar played technical leadership roles at cloud and infrastructure companies like Clumio, Nutanix, and more. I joined the KCD Bangalore chapter recently, and I look forward to participating, helping build the community, and hosting events in Bangalore.

Bhavya is an undergraduate Computer Science student from India. She is Kubernetes and Cloud-native Associate. She has also worked as a Junior Developer Evangelist Intern at Merico, Developer at Dronebase and Project Manager at OSWC. She is a DevOps and cloud Enthusiast. She is a GHC Scholar'22, Kubesimplify Ambassador, Solo Ambassador, and Developer in WeMakeDevs. She has also contributed to CNCF projects like Meshery, Service Mesh Patterns, Datree, Buildpacks, and Keptn. She believes in the power of community and empowering others. She also loves to host and speak at different tech events and loves to create content around DevOps.

Debabrata is a Software Engineer at Harness, working with the community engineering team, where he focuses on PLG-related efforts and is responsible for developing and maintaining the opensource backstage plugins for Harness. Previously he has been a part of the Kubernetes Release Team v1.24-1.26 and has been a maintainer of the Chaos Mesh project.

Harsh is a technologist passionate about developer experience, APIs, and storage. Working at a cloud provider, he has experience in developing scalable platforms and is exposed to a lot of cloud-native technologies. He began his developer journey by contributing to Open Source Projects. He’s also keen on spreading what he learns through local meetups and global conferences like KubeCon, HashiConf, etc. Also, he's always up for a good game of chess

Jayapriya Pai (Jp) is a Senior Software Engineer at OpenShift Monitoring team at Red Hat. She is a prometheus-operator member and a contributor since 2021. Before joining Red Hat as Senior Software Engineer she has worked in Production Engineering for 5.5 years at Cerner Corporation and 2 years in Quality Assurance at Infosys Ltd. She moved from System Engineering to Software Engineering role in 2021 and tries to utilise her experience working on production systems to build better software. Her main interests are Distributed Systems, System Automation and Programming Languages. When not working she likes to explore new food recipes and try them out.

Data Science professional with strong technical understanding. Experienced in managing cross functional teams of data scientists, data engineers, backend developers and SRE delivering end-to-end ML projects, recruiting and mentoring data scientists and ML engineers across levels. Streamlining ML workflows for high performing teams, setting up best practices, and developing highly performant and reliable ml platform supporting an end to end ml projects lifecycle.

Madhav is a Member of Technical Staff at VMware working on Kubernetes. He is a maintainer in the Kubernetes community and helps maintain the Kubernetes project by largely contributing to areas of API Machinery, Scalability, Contributor Experience and Architecture.

Maheshkumar R is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft India helping strategic accounts to go cloud-native on Microsoft Azure. Prior to Microsoft, he has worked with Thomson Reuters and Publicis as a Lead .NET Engineer developing a trading platform. He is passionate about .NET, Open source, HPC and cloud-native offerings. He is a certified cloud architect, CKAD, LFCS and Terraform. He is based out of Bengaluru and represented Microsoft at various events. Outside work, he enjoys running, cycling, reading books and keeping up with the latest trends. 

Software developer by profession, amateur investor by passion! I love discussing about cloud transformation of applications, serverless apps and personal finance, portfolio management over a cup of coffee. Community worker, creator of finman.tech ! using technology to bridge the gap between individuals and certified financial advisors, fiduciaries. Maintainer of Paralus - CNCF Sandbox Project which helps with k8s access management.

Oshi Gupta works as a DevOps Engineer and Technical Writer at CloudYuga Technologies. She is CKA certified and has been an LFX mentee in Spring 2022 for CNCF Kyverno. She loves writing blogs and is keen to learn about various cloud-native technologies. Besides this, she loves cooking, badminton, traveling, and yoga.

Parthvi works as a Software Engineer at Red Hat and has been involved with the Kubernetes project in various roles as a part of the release team and various mentoring programs.

Senior Research Scientist working on eBPF Tools and Networking.

I am 22 CSE grad with no prior experience of working. I am learning DevOps and currently preparing for CKAD exam. I have certifications of Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins (all at beginner level) from KodeKloud. I am a Kubernetes enthusiast and want to share my learnings to help beginners like me.

Pranay is a maintainer at SigNoz, an open source observability platform. He working on observability and open source, and has deep interest in philosophy, esp. existentialism. He has been speakers in events organised by Github and CNCF around observability and open source. 

An avid coder, a systems engineer working on solutions involving security and performance optimizations of cloud-native technologies. He has contributed towards more than a dozen open sources including Linux Kernel and worked closely with IETF Standards Working Groups (such as ROLL, 6lo, LWIG) and Linux Foundation Groups. Taken several projects from conception to market and is an active maintainer for CNCF Sandbox project, "KubeArmor" and the lead author for IoT simulation framework "Whitefield". He cofounded Accuknox where they are enabling runtime, zero-trust security by leveraging Linux-LSM/eBPF based security for k8s and containerized/cloud-native workloads. He has 22 patents and several publications to his name and is active in CNCF/k8s communities. 

I am working as Principal DevOps Engineer at Circle(circle.so). I have worked Previously with BigBinary, and E2open Deeply interested in Distributed systems, believes in Infrastructure-as-code(IaC) principal. Lately, working mostly on containers and orchestration of containers in multi-cloud environments and deploying production-ready Kubernetes clusters at scale. Expert in automating infrastructure using Chef, Ansible, Terraform etc. and usually uses scripting languages like Bash, Ruby, Python, and Go. Being a FOSS advocate and community contributor, I love to attend and talk at technical confereces/events. When not coding, you can find me driving on the streets or playing gully cricket.

I am a product engineer at InfraCloud Technologies working for the last 1.5 years. My work usually revolves around Go, Kubernetes and service meshes. Apart from work, I like working out and watching sports!

Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent of product development and engineering teams that put the community first.

I am a Developer Advocate at solo.io, and a Community evangelist running Keep Up as well as the DevOps community to empower students as well as professionals to achieve success in their careers. I am actively participating in various conferences as a speaker and panelist to bring awareness around DevOps, Security, and Application networking.

Senior Research Scientist working on eBPF Tools and Networking.

Samhita is a developer advocate at Union.ai and a former tools developer at Oracle. She is passionate about software development and technical writing, and enjoys tackling challenges in the fields of growth and developer relations. In her free time, Samhita loves building machine learning and web applications. Committed to helping others succeed in the tech industry, Samhita has self-published a book navigating through the complex landscape of the field.

Shivam is a collaborative, creative, and enthusiastic full-stack web developer who enjoys working on distributed computing projects. He's passionate about experimenting with new technologies and believes in the power of open source. He is currently pursuing his undergrad degree from NIT Patna, and he has recently joined Nirmata as an SDE intern.

Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development.

He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and is currently a MLH Fellow. He has also worked at organizations like Amazon, EY, Genpact. He is a Tensorflow.JS SIG member and community lead from India.

Hi. I'm Subhasmita. I love to automate stuff. Currently I'm working at Civo as Site Reliability Engineering Intern. As an enthusiastic prospective engineer, my level of interest increases as the use case I am designing in code is isolated from the end user. I worked as an intern for the Kubernetes project of the Linux Foundation, and also an Outreachy intern. I am a Kubernetes release shadow who has long supported the environment and encouraged community development in open source. Outside of work I'm passionate about travelling, photography sketching, and star gazing. 

Suraj is Sr. Software Engineer on Tempo Squad at Grafana Labs, Suraj works Tempo, an Open Source Distributed Tracing Database. Talk to Suraj about Databases, Infrastructure, and Coffee.

Tamil vanan is a cloud native Tech lead at Arcesium and a former Kubernetes SME at VMware. He is passionate about finding solutions to problems in the cloud native environment.

He works with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, multi-cloud and networking. He is a passionate supporter of open source and CNCF and actively participates in it.

Passionate and motivated Software Developer with a deep interest in the technologies like Cloud Native Infrastructure, loves building microservices and executing innovative software solutions. Skilled at coordinating projects in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment to steer timely project completion.

Practitioner of Software Engineering and working towards betterment of society with software

I am a senior product engineer in InfraCloud Technologies for the last four years. I am CKA and CKAD certified. My experience from the last couple of years is mostly doing development in Golang around Kubernetes operators and controllers. I am an active open source contributor. Apart from work, I like working out and I learn the Kathak dance form on weekends.

Hey There! I hail from Lucknow. Currently working at Sprinklr as a Senior DevOps Engineer and have more than 2 years of experience working primarily on Kubernetes, cloud optimization, and automation. I have a demonstrated history of working in the SaaS and edtech industry. Skilled in Kubernetes, Golang, Python, Linux Administration, and Management. Solid experience in architecting and automating the infrastructure with AWS, GCP, and Azure. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Technology focused in Computer Science from SRM Chennai.

Priyanka Saggu is working as a Kubernetes Integration Engineer at SUSE, with contributions to various parts of the upstream Kubernetes project through SIGs such as Release, Testing, ContribEx, and CLI.

She currently serves as the Technical Lead for the project's SIG ContribEx and has held leadership positions as Kubernetes Release Lead Shadow (v1.27, v1.26) and Enhancement Lead (v1.25). Additionally, she has also led the Meet Our Contributor - APAC initiative, which involves mentoring new contributors and promoting the achievements of existing active contributors.

Meha Bhalodiya is an Associate Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat, working with the OpenShift GitOps team.

She also participates in upstream community initiatives, such as being a CI Signal Lead in Kubernetes Release v1.28 (been a shadow in v.127 & v1.26), a GSoC’22 Student Developer who focused on integrating ArgoCD with Keptn, an LFX Spring Mentee'22 at CNCF worked on improved planning of SIG Network Gateway API Docs, a Kubernetes Release Docs Shadow (v1.24 & v1.23) and also a SIG Docs Member (a Reviewer).

Shubham is a software engineer at Microsoft's Developer Division, and a maintainer of the JavaScript SDK for Dapr, a CNCF incubating project. Prior to his work with Dapr, Shubham was a member of the team responsible for building modern authentication for Dynamics 365. He is an alumnus of VIT, India. 

Ashutosh is a software engineer working at VMware on cluster lifecycle team, and maintainer of cluster api provider azure. Apart from sig-cluster-lifecycle, he has interests in Kubernetes storage. Prior to VMware, he worked on the OpenEBS project and is an emeritus maintainer of the OpenEBS control plane.

Sayan Chowdhury is a Linux Software Engineer at Microsoft and a maintainer of Flatcar Container Linux. He works as a Release Manager, with involvement in maintaining and building Flatcar. With a passion for open source, Sayan has been involved in multiple other communities, namely Python, Fedora, Kubernetes and Mozilla. Sayan, a PSF Fellow and former chair of PyCon India 2020, fosters community engagement and provides mentorship to aspiring open-source contributors. Beyond technology, he is an artist, enjoys bouldering, treks, photography, and board games.

Nikhil is an applied data science professional with over a decade of experience in developing and implementing Machine learning, Deep Learning, and NLP-based solutions for a variety of industries like Finance, FMCG, etc. He is a passionate advocate for the use of data science to solve real-world problems and is always looking for new ways to use data to make a positive impact on the world.

Kumar Mallikarjuna is a Software Engineer at Nirmata, where he works with the backend team to build Nirmata's SaaS and in-cluster offerings. Kumar is passionate about distributed systems, stream processing, and databases. Prior to joining Nirmata, he worked on end-to-end data transfer systems and cloud cost management at Oracle and Nutanix. In his off time, Kumar loves traveling, photography, and writing.

I am Rajdeep Bhattacharya. Currently leading the devops direction at Lenskart. Passionate about open source, system engineering and startups. Love to talk about devops and it's impact on organisation's cultural change. When I am not so busy you will find me Linkedin or some blog posts talking about devops or some open source tools.