Name: Kubernetes Community Days Bengaluru
Start: 2021-06-26T09:45:00+05:30
End: 2021-06-26T18:30:00+05:30

Davanum Srinivas

VMWare

Davanum Srinivas (a.k.a Dims) is a Staff Engineer with VMware working full time on Kubernetes and related projects at CNCF. Dims is on the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) provides technical leadership to the cloud native community. Dims is on the Kubernetes Steering Committee and actively involved in various Kubernetes SIGs and working groups like the Architecture, Testing, Node, Infrastructure etc. Previously at Huawei and Mirantis, he was involved in OpenStack Nova, Oslo, KeyStone, Magnum and related projects and on the Technical Committee in OpenStack.He also worked on IBM PureApplication product as an Architect and led a team working on Web Services support in WebSphere. Dims has a long track record in open source projects including Apache Cocoon, Axis2, Geronimo at the Apache Software Foundation and co-founded WSO2 based on the open source business model.

Janakiram MSV

Janakiram & Associates

Janakiram MSV is a practicing architect, analyst, and advisor focusing on emerging infrastructure technologies. Backed by two decades of experience at Microsoft and AWS, he provides strategic advisory to technology platform companies, startups, ISVs, and enterprises.As a practitioner working with a diverse Enterprise customer base across the domains of AI, IoT, Cloud, Microservices, DevOps, and SaaS, Janakiram gains insight into the enterprise challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities involved in emerging technology adoption.Janakiram is an Amazon, Google, Microsoft Certified Cloud Architect, and a Certified Kubernetes Administrator and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer. He is a CNCF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP, Intel Software Innovator, IBM Champion, and Microsoft Regional Director. Janakiram is an active contributor at GigaOm Research, Forbes, The New Stack, and TechRepublic.

Dolis Sharma

Nirmata

Dolis Sharma is a DevOps Engineer at Nirmata. Dolis manages production Kubernetes clusters for Nirmata, and also works with customers for issues with their Kubernetes deployments. Dolis is an AWS certified architect and is preparing to be a Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

Pooja Singh

Nirmata

Pooja Singh is a Software Engineer with Nirmata working full time on Kyverno (A policy management engine designed for Kubernetes). Pooja has spent more than 5 years building products and services, being everything from Analyst, Developer, Tester on RubyOnRails, Automation Anywhere, UI Path, and spent the last year with Kubernetes and Kyverno. Pooja is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator(CKA).

Vasant Chinnipilli

mx51

Vasant is a security enthusiast speaker and currently serves as a Security Architect, DevSecOps Practitioner/learner, and working towards securing cloud and cloud-native in a Continuous Deployment world at mx51. He is passionate about Cloud Security, Cloud Native and containerization Technology, DevSecOps, and Security automation and acts as a security advisor for small-medium, and large-scale businesses. Always a Learner and currently ramping up DevOps skills to bridge the gap between the security and DevOps teams.

Matt Jarvis

Snyk

Matt Jarvis is a Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk. Matt has spent more than 15 years building products and services around open source software, on everything from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications. Matt is a regular speaker at conferences across the world, including Open Infrastructure Summit, FOSDEM and All Things Open.

Kamil Potrec

Synk

Kamil Potrec is a Senior Security Engineer at Snyk, working on security around Kubernetes and cloud platforms. Kamil has spent most of his professional career in offensive security, testing and researching cloud native solutions. Now he uses his skillset to help others build more secure solutions in the cloud, and in his spare time tinkers with an Openstack cloud in his garage.

Sagar Patil

CloudCover

Sagar Patil is working as a Lead DevOps at Cloud cover. He is passionate about technologies, in particular, containers. We at CC are always eager to explore new technologies and try to suggest and implement the best when it comes to our clients.

Madhav Jivrajani

PES University

Madhav Jivrajani is a student at PES University, Bangalore. Madhav has been involved with the Kubernetes community for around 6 months now and has spent a lot of that time trying to understand the core internals of Kubernetes. He mainly works on the SIG-Apimachinery and SIG-Node side of things in the community and most recently has been involved with the structured logging efforts in the kubernetes/kubernetes project.

Vineeth Pothulapati

Timescale

Vineeth is a cloud, distributed systems enthusiast and contributor to Kubernetes, Cortex and Open Policy Agent. He worked as a shadow for previous Kubernetes releases and was also a docs lead for Kubernetes 1.18 release. He is currently working on Promscale & Tobs as a software engineer with Timescale. Previously, he was a CNCF mentee with Cortex and Open Policy Agent and a Google Summer of Code intern with The Postgres Operator. Vineeth co-founded and organizes CNCF Hyderabad meetups and also gave several talks on CNCF technologies.

KRISHNA CHYTANYA AYYAGARI

Google

KC Ayyagari (Krishna Chytanya Ayyagari) currently works for Google as a Senior Customer Engineer and he specializes in Cloud Infrastructure Modernization. Based out of New York, in his role, he focuses on Google Cloud technologies and works for enterprise sales teams. Prior to Google, KC worked for Microsoft, IBM, Thomas Reuters, Infosys and he has over 13 years of industry experience. A startup mentor, program manager and a trained architect, he has been active in the space of cloud computing for over 10 years and had experience in building large scale startup programs and designing technical solutions for some of the largest companies as well as Governments. He had experience working with and mentoring startups from all over the world. He is an active startup mentor for many accelerators including the United Nations (UN) and Google Launchpad.

Nikhita Raghunath

VMware

Nikhita is a Staff Engineer at VMware, a former member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee and a CNCF Ambassador. She is also the technical lead for a Special Interest Group (SIG) - SIG Contributor Experience - in the upstream Kubernetes project. She also helps run the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) and Outreachy internship programs for CNCF/Kubernetes.

Nabarun Pal

VMware

Nabarun is a Member of Technical Staff at VMware and the Kubernetes 1.21 Release Lead. He helps with several other subprojects in the Kubernetes community like Enhancements, API Machinery, Kubernetes Clients. Nabarun is also a Google Summer of Code administrator for CNCF. He also actively contributes to and mentors new contributors in diverse open source communities like Kubernetes and Python.

Rob Richardson

Cyral

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development.

Ravi Hari

Intuit

Ravi Hari is a Principal Software Engineer at Intuit working in Intuit’s Kubernetes platform. He worked on Infrastructure for Kubernetes at Intuit where he developed frameworks and tools on Kubernetes Cluster Creation on AWS, Gitops for AWS that manages Cloud Resource Lifecycle. He is also the maintainer and core contributor to open source project keikoproj/active-monitor which helps in Monitoring and Self-healing of Kubernetes clusters.

Todd Ekenstam

Intuit

Todd Ekenstam is a Principal Engineer at Intuit building a platform for secure, multi-tenant Kubernetes infrastructure supporting applications serving Intuit's ~50 million customers. Todd has worked on various large-scale distributed systems projects during his 25+ year career, ranging from hierarchical storage management, peer-to-peer database replication, enterprise storage virtualization, two-factor authentication SaaS, and most recently, Kubernetes clusters. He has presented at a variety of academic, government, and industry conferences. Todd is co-author of the book GitOps and Kubernetes: Continuous Deployment with Argo CD, Jenkins X, and Flux.

Rahul Krishna Upadhyaya

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Rahul Krishna Upadhyaya is a Software Engineer at JP Morgan Chase works as a part of Cloud Platforms Team works towards the kubernetes and service mesh and also helps application teams in their cloud modernization journey. Previously, Rahul has worked around Openstack at Cisco Systems and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Sudeepto Kumar Roy

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Sudeepto Roy is an architect at JP Morgan private cloud team. He is currently spearheading Service mesh development and adoption strategy for the JPMorgan on various platforms, like K8s, VMs. He has experience of working in multiple private cloud platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. Prior to JPMC, he worked for Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.

Kunal Kushwaha

Civo

Kunal is empowering communities via open-source and education. He finds passion in teaching and has taught thousands of folks online and in person. He is currently a developer relations manager at Civo, CNCF Ambassador, track chair of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon student track, Major League Hacking Coach. He is the founder of Kubeworld, Community Classroom, and also started the official Cloud Native Student Community group joined by thousands of students, focussed on getting more young people involved in the ecosystem.

Nicolas Frankel

Apache APISIX

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.

Aravind Putrevu

Elastic

Aravind is passionate about evangelizing technology, meeting developers, and helping in solving their problems. He is a backend developer and has eight years of development experience. Currently, he works at Elastic as Developer Advocate and looks after the Developer Relation function of India, South East Asia.

Ashwin Murali

CoLearn, Indonesia

Ashwin Murali is a seasoned infrastructure and engineering leader with extensive cloud experience. He ran DevOps for Zoom Car, Fybr, and more recently Verloop.

Sujith Samuel

Ericsson

In my current role as the Principal Software Engineer for AI platforms at Ericsson, I explore relevant open source technologies to integrate into the next-gen machine learning platform.I am passionate about machine learning and observability of systems and working on system state prediction domain using the likes of tech like Cilium.I have been involved with high-performance Data science teams in the capacity as Engineering Manager and Technical Architect with companies like Ford, Wipro, and Nissan.

Ashish Dubey

Grofers

Ashish Dubey is a full-stack software engineer from India. He works with the DevSecOps team at Grofers where he's been leading continuous delivery efforts for about 3 years now, playing a role mixed of engineering management and technical execution. Being in that role for a while, he has seen all the transitions of CI/CD practices at Grofers, starting from in-frequent manual deployments on EC2 using Ansible towards frequent automatically tested deployments on Kubernetes.

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Sahil Lakhwani

Infracloud Technologies

A software engineer, I work on building software around cloud-native technologies at Infracloud. Besides, I follow and try to contribute to open source projects in the CNCF landscape.

Debabrata Panigrahi

National Institute of Technology, Rourkela

I am a Junior undergraduate majoring in Biomedical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Rourkela. I have been contributing to opensource since last two years, as opensource is easily accessible and poses a great learning experience. Recently I have been accepted as a LFX mentee under the Chaos Mesh project. Also I have strong penchant for container services and distributed systems and looking forward to build my career in the cloudnative domain.

Divya Mohan

Senior Technical Evangelist

Divya is a Senior Technical Evangelist at SUSE, where she contributes to Rancher’s cloud native open source projects. She co-chairs the documentation for the Kubernetes & LitmusChaos projects & has previously worked extensively in the systems engineering space during her tenure with HSBC & IGate Global Solutions Pvt Ltd. A co-creator of the KCNA exam & a CNCF ambassador, she is invested in making technical communities & technologies more accessible & inclusive.

Saranya Jena

Harness

Saranya works at Harness as a Senior Software Engineer and contributor to LitmusChaos, a Chaos Orchestration framework for practising chaos engineering in cloud-native environments. She loves contributing to Open Source and mainly helps architect, and execute Litmus Web.

Savita Ashture

Red Hat

Savita Ashture works at RedHat as a Senior Software Engineer India, Bangalore.She is an Open-Source enthusiastic who contributes to Open Source in every possible way. She has working experience on Public, Private Cloud, Kubernetes, Knative, Service Mesh etc... around Cloud native projects.Currently full time contributor to Tektoncd(https://github.com/tektoncd)Project.She has presented her work at the Devconf 2019, POSS 2019 , OSI 2018, Kubernetes Forum Delhi 2020, kubernetes-openshift-India-Meetup and Bangalore-CNCF-MeetupShe is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).

Aditi Sharma

VMWare

Aditi is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware. She has a wide experience of contributing to the Kubernetes and OpenStack community. She has served as a co-lead for cloud provider openstack project in Kubernetes and currently working on Kubernetes node related areas such as container runtimes, kubelet, etc.

Navid Shaikh

VMWare

Navid is a Software Engineer at VMware and a contributor to Knative and Kubernetes projects.

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 Kubernetes solutions in different organizations.

When not coding, Saiyam works on contributing to the community by writing blogs and organizing local meetups for Kubernetes and CNCF. He is also a Portainer/Traefik/CNCF ambassador and can be reached on Twitter @saiyampathak.

Neependra Khare

CloudYuga

Neependra Khare is the Founder and Principal Consultant at CloudYuga. He is a CNCF Ambassador and Certified Kubernetes Administrator. He co-authored the CNCF's official Introduction to Kubernetes course on Edx, which is now taken by more than 180,000 users, around the world. He has trained 100s of engineers on Kubernetes in companies like Cisco, Intuit, Flipkart, and many more.

Maheshkumar R

Microsoft

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.

Philipp Krenn

Elastic

Philipp lives to demo interesting technology. Having worked as a web, infrastructure, and database engineer for over ten years, Philipp is now a developer advocate and EMEA team lead at Elastic — the company behind the Elastic Stack consisting of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash. Based in Vienna, Austria, he is constantly traveling Europe and beyond to speak and discuss open source software, search, databases, infrastructure, and security — hopefully soon again 😷

Kubernetes Community Days Bengaluru

KCD Bengaluru Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 9:45 AM (IST)

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Davanum Srinivas

Janakiram MSV

Dolis Sharma

Pooja Singh

Vasant Chinnipilli

Matt Jarvis

Kamil Potrec

Sagar Patil

Nikhil Pandit

Madhav Jivrajani

Vineeth Pothulapati

KRISHNA CHYTANYA AYYAGARI

Nikhita Raghunath

Nabarun Pal

Rob Richardson

Ravi Hari

Todd Ekenstam

Rahul Krishna Upadhyaya

Sudeepto Kumar Roy

Kunal Kushwaha

Nicolas Frankel

Aravind Putrevu

Ashwin Murali

Sujith Samuel

Ashish Dubey

Sahil Lakhwani

Debabrata Panigrahi

Divya Mohan

Saranya Jena

Savita Ashture

Aditi Sharma

Navid Shaikh

Saiyam Pathak

Neependra Khare

Maheshkumar R

Philipp Krenn

Davanum Srinivas

VMWare

Janakiram MSV

Janakiram & Associates

Dolis Sharma

Nirmata

Pooja Singh

Nirmata

Vasant Chinnipilli

mx51

Matt Jarvis

Snyk

Kamil Potrec

Synk

Sagar Patil

CloudCover

Madhav Jivrajani

PES University

Vineeth Pothulapati

Timescale

KRISHNA CHYTANYA AYYAGARI

Google

Nikhita Raghunath

VMware

Nabarun Pal

VMware

Rob Richardson

Cyral

Ravi Hari

Intuit

Todd Ekenstam

Intuit

Rahul Krishna Upadhyaya

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Sudeepto Kumar Roy

JP Morgan Chase & Co

Kunal Kushwaha

KCD Bengaluru
Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 9:45 AM (IST)