Speakers

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  Bruno Andrade

  Shipa

  CEO

  See Bio
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  Elisa Hebert

  Fairwinds

  VP Engineering Operations

  See Bio
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  Jason Morgan

  Buoyant

  Technical Evangelist

  See Bio
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  Catherine Paganini

  Buoyant

  Head of Marketing & Community

  See Bio
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  DEI Speaker To Be Announced

  Available Time Slot

  Reserved for DEI Speaker

  See Bio
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  Oleg Chunikhin

  Kublr

  CTO

  See Bio
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  Rob Richardson

  Cyral

  Developer Advocate

  See Bio
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  Michael Irwin

  Virginia Tech

  Application Architect

  See Bio
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  Matthew Cascio

  American Red Cross

  Executive Director Fundraising & Marketing Technology

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Bruno Andrade

Shipa

Bruno Andrade is the CEO at Shipa, a Kubernetes developer platform. Bruno previously held software engineering roles at Juniper Networks, HTBASE, Oracle, and IBM.

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Elisa Hebert

Fairwinds

Elisa serves as VP of Engineering Operations at Fairwinds, the trusted partner for Kubernetes security, policy and governance. She has a background in full-cycle customer and business operations, and software sales and delivery from nonprofit through enterprise / Fortune 100. Her focus is operational efficiency and delivery excellence, balancing the triad: team, customer, company.

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Jason Morgan

Buoyant

Jason Morgan is Technical Evangelist for Linkerd at Buoyant and co-chair of the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee. Passionate about helping others on their cloud native journey, Jason educates engineers on Linkerd, the original service mesh. You might have encountered his articles in The New Stack, where he breaks complex technology concepts down for a broader audience. Before joining Bouyant, Jason worked at Pivotal and VMware Tanzu. 

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Catherine Paganini

Buoyant

Catherine Paganini is co-chair of the CNCF Business Value Subcommittee, maintainer of the CNCF Cloud Native Glossary, and Head of Marketing at Buoyant, the creator of Linkerd. A marketing leader turned cloud native evangelist, Catherine is passionate about educating the broader community on the cloud native stack and the critical flexibility it provides.

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DEI Speaker To Be Announced

Available Time Slot

In keeping with our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and CNCF guidelines, this time slot is reserved for a speaker representing a DEI demographic.

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Oleg Chunikhin

Kublr

Oleg Chunikhin has 25 years of software architecture and development experience and currently holds the position of CTO at Kublr - a Kubernetes management platform that speeds the deployment and management of containerized applications on any infrastructure. Oleg is responsible for defining Kublr’s technology strategy and standards. He has championed the standardization of DevOps in all Kublr does and is committed to driving adoption of container technologies and automation. A popular speaker on all things Kubernetes, Oleg’s speaking experience includes Interop ITX (Las Vegas), LISA18, DeveloperWeek 2021, Cloud Computing Expo, 21st Cloud Expo, and Ambassador Fest 21, as well as numerous meetups and webinars.

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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. You can find this and other talks on https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on Twitter at @rob_rich.

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Michael Irwin

Virginia Tech

Michael Irwin is an Application Architect at Virginia Tech who is striving to modernize how software is developed and run on campus by driving the adoption of Docker-based workloads, CI/CD pipelines, the public cloud, single-page applications, and more. As a Docker Captain and Community Leader (meetup organizer), he has the opportunity to share his expertise and experiences with others, but also learn how others are using the latest technologies. When developing, he writes code in Node, Java (Java EE mostly), and JavaScript, but actively contributes to projects written in other languages and frameworks. He's blessed to have a beautiful wife, four daughters and a son!