Andrew has an incisive security engineering ethos gained building and destroying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and operations, he is comfortable profiling and securing every tier of a bare metal or cloud native system, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise and government. He is a co-founder at ControlPlane (https://control-plane.io/)

Andrew has presented at international conferences including KubeCon, Velocity, SANS, OWASP, DevOpsDays, Container Camp, IPExpo, and numerous other local events and meetups.

Ara Pulido is a Staff Developer Advocate at Datadog. Prior to that she worked as an Engineering Manager at Bitnami and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. She has more than 10 years of experience working on infrastructure open-source companies. She is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

She lives in Malaga, Spain, where she enjoys three of her favorite free time activities: hiking during spring and autumn; snorkeling, during summer; and going for tapas with friends all year round.

A passionate Software Engineer having an experience in Backend Development and DevOps using Golang / Python / Docker / Kubernetes /Openshift and some other cool technologies.

Being a young technical enthusiast, I have always been a part of the tech communities around me whether in my hometown or anywhere in the world. I also support open-source projects and always try to contribute as much as I can, whether it's writing blogs on the technologies or contributing to any open-source project that's why I am also a part of the company that promotes open-source and plays a major role in it i.e. Red Hat.

Dawn is Director of Open Source Community Strategy within VMware’s OSPO. She is co-chair of the CNCF Contributor Strategy TAG, a Governing Board member / maintainer for CHAOSS, and OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like Intel and Puppet with expertise in community building, strategy, open source software, governance, metrics, and more. Dawn holds a PhD from the University of Greenwich along with an MBA and a BS in Computer Science. She has spoken at over 100 industry events, including many Linux Foundation events, KubeCon, OSCON, SXSW, FOSDEM and more. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.

Dinant is an enthusiastic, result-driven and experienced IT architect at IT-Impressive, with a big eagerness to learn and implement new technologies. With his hands-on mentality, a big dose of humor, the ability to understand complex IT landscapes and together with his love for DevOps since 2016, he enables Enterprises transforming functional business needs into effective IT solutions. He helps teams with the new way of thinking by sharing his knowledge as a team player. His motto “Be inspired, work together and simplify IT”.

Gal is the Director of Engineering at Epsagon, a startup focused on observability for distributed systems that was recently acquired by Cisco. Gal has a background in cyber-security, with experience in reverse engineering, networks analysis, and was part of an army elite intelligence-unit before joining Epsagon. In his spare time, Gal loves rock climbing.

Gerlof Langeveld is a trainer/consultant for AT Computing in The Netherlands. He teaches classes about programming languages, the Linux operating system (like ‘Linux System Programming' and 'Linux Performance Analysis and Tuning’), and courses about Docker and Kubernetes. Gerlof is the creator and maintainer of the open-source monitor program 'atop' (and the related kernel module 'netatop').

Germán is a Technical Marketing Manager at Suse, he works with BCL – Business Critical Linux solutions. Germán has been in the industry for 15 years serving in a variety of roles, most of them related with infrastructure, containers, management and automation.

Jack is a Fellow Computing Engineer at the CERN science laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. He is part of the team that builds and maintains the OpenShift infrastructure, which is used by thousands of public and internal applications and websites. Outside of working hours, he enjoys exploring the beautiful landscape around Geneva by bike and by foot.

Julie Chenadec is the Relationship Development Manager at Aknostic, a sustainable cloud-native company. With a background in environmental sustainability and community management, Julie brings her experience to the transformation of the digital economy and cloud computing. With Aknostic, Julie is working on building the next cloud revolution with Kubernetes technology. She is based in Haarlem, Netherlands. 

Jurgen is an experienced and enthusiastic IT architect at Luminis. In the last 20+ years he has accumulated a lot of knowledge and experience in IT. He likes to operate on the intersection of IT and the business, where his added value lies in translating the requirements of the business in technical solutions. He has a positive critical attitude during the process to achieve the most optimal result for each customer. Jurgen values the importance of knowledge sharing. He puts into practice by sharing his knowledge through the giving of training courses and workshops and organizing meetups.

I'm Kris, I live in Norway, love coding and spreading love for cats in presentations. Currently I am working as a Software Architect and driving several exciting tech projects that support digitalization journey in public and private sector, minimizing bureaucracy and making citizens' life easier.

As a person I love learning new things and sharing my journey and experiences with others. My biggest passion is tech and my goal is to inspire other developers to code with sustainability and security in mind by spreading my knowledge and experience. My goal is also to be a female coder role model that can inspire and motivate all the beautiful girls and ladies out there to join the world of tech!

I also strongly believe that contributing to making this world a better place by volunteering is something all of us should consider doing, therefore being a volunteer is a big part of my life. Other than that, I'm a cat mom, a Potterhead, a Witcher fan and a bookworm. I love books, photography, puzzles, board games, hiking, cats and unicorns. I am also an active supporter of sustainability, including sustainable software engineering, and animal welfare.

Krisztian is enthusiastic about observability and cloud infrastructures. He's working at solo.io as a field engineer. Previously, he was worked at LastPass as senior DevOps/SRE engineer. At solo.io Krisztian is helping to design secure and scalable cloud infrastructures at companies at any scale, and is contributing to the open-source bcc and BumbleBee projects based on eBPF. Krisztian is building a self hosted blog on top of Istio in his spare time. The main topics of the blog are aligned with his interests while he is also using the platform to share operational anecdotes on running one of the most "over-engineered" blog out there.

Liav Yona is a Software Development Team Lead at Firefly. With years of experience, Liav earned a reputation as a Cloud Native and Cybersecurity expert. Prior to Firefly, Liav served for several years in the elite intelligence unit 8200 and worked at CyberArk. Liav is a passionate tech blogger with thousands of frequent readers.

Lukonde is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS and a HashiCorp Ambassador. He has years of experience in application development, solution architecture, cloud engineering, and DevOps workflows. He is a life-long learner and is passionate about sharing knowledge through various mediums. Nowadays, Lukonde spends the majority of his time contributing to the cloud-native ecosystem.

Michael Friedrich is a Senior Developer Evangelist at GitLab, focussing on Observability, SRE, and Ops. He loves to help educate everyone and regularly speaks at events and meetups. Michael co-founded the #EveryoneCanContribute cafe meetup group to learn cloud-native & DevOps. Michael is a Polynaut advisor at Polywork, created o11y.love as a learning platform for Observability, and shares insights in the opsindev.news newsletter.

Raymond de Jong is Field CTO for EMEA at Isovalent, the originators of the Cilium project, providing networking, observability, and security for cloud-native applications using eBPF. In this role, he is supporting and enabling customers and partners to be successful with Cilium in their mission-critical environments. Leveraging almost a decade of experience in Software Defined Networking he is passionate about learning customer use-cases and designing solutions to meet their requirements. When not working, Raymond enjoys playing tennis, riding bikes, gaming, and music playing the guitar or piano.

Robbin is an engineer with ING's container hosting squad in the infrastructure&engineering department. He codes infra-as-code API's, operators and policies, and as a side-job he is giving internal talks and sessions about proper and secure coding

Roberto is a EMEA Senior Cloud Services Black Belt specializing in Container Orchestration Platforms (OpenShift & Kubernetes), Cloud Services, DevSecOps, and CICD.

Rotem is Director of Engineering at ARMO, where she contributes to the Kubescape open source project, as well as other [NAMES] open source projects, as a staunch and passionate supporter of making open source security better and more accessible for everyone. Rotem is an engineering veteran, with experience as a software developer, architect, product manager, with a focus on the security discipline. She has many years of experience in all aspects of Kubernetes engineering from deployment across various environments, through monitoring––with specific expertise in working with Prometheus and its open source suite––as well as bringing deep know-how in all aspects of IaC, driving best practices and methods wherever she goes.

Salman works as an MLOps Engineer at Appvia and a Kuberenetes Instructor at Learnk8s. He has worked with a number of organisations in setting up Machine Learning platforms for teams to operate at scale. He co-founded Cloud Native Wales community. You can also find him on YouTube as Soulman Iqbal where he tries to explain cloud native concepts by simplifying them.

Sarah is currently the Field CTO at HashiCorp where she advises customers in multi-cloud strategy and adoption. With a background in security, as a leader in the Financial Services Industry she previously focused on containerized workloads, cloud identity, and secrets management. She aims to elevate strategic conversation surrounding cloud adoption and improve the balance between technical enablement, velocity, and security.

Sven is a Senior Software Consultant at Liquid Reply working on multi-cloud environments, cloud-native development, and as a WebAssembly ambassador.

As open source enthusiast, he is part of the WasmEdge community and has implemented different Wasm integrations for K8s.

Timothy Mamo loves to help growing companies make the most of the cloud by focusing on Cloud Native technologies and processes. He’s had a varied experience, from studying aerospace engineering and working in the automotive industry before moving into the world of IT. He enjoys working and helping others improve and understand, at times with some Mediterranean gusto.

Viktor Farcic is a Developer Advocate at Upbound, a member of the Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, Docker Captains, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author.

He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.