Speakers

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  Liza Escalante

  WillDom

  Talent Specialist

  See Bio
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  Juan Carlos Salvador

  Everis

  Lead Architect

  See Bio
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  Raul Flamenco

  Acopula Networks, Inc.

  Founder

  See Bio
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  Eduar Tua

  Cloudkite.io

  Site Reliability Engineer

  See Bio
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  Rael García

  Red Hat

  Site Reliability Engineer

  See Bio
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  Leonardo Murillo

  Qwinix, Inc | Cloud Native Architects, Inc

  CTO | Founder

  See Bio
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  Don Clarke

  NFV

  Independent Telecoms Consultant

  See Bio
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  Sergio Méndez

  Wizeline

  Site Reliability Engineer

  See Bio
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  Laís de Oliveira

  On Deck Community Builders Fellowship

  Program Director

  See Bio

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Liza Escalante

WillDom

Human Resources professional with 15+ years of experience with personnel-related to Logistics, Automotive, Industry, and Technology. Graduated as Psychologist and Master in Human Resources Development. Currently performing as Tech Recruiter for WillDom El Salvador, which shares working opportunities with Bolivia, Argentina, and Paraguay for placing software developers in the US and Canada markets.

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Juan Carlos Salvador

Everis

Juan is a system engineer with 4 years of experience in technologies including Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, Serverless and has certifications in AWS Solutions Architect and Microsoft Azure. He's passionate about learning and likes to promote a growth mindset with his teams. He always tries to use best practices in different tools and creates quality solutions for my team.

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Raul Flamenco

Acopula Networks, Inc.

Raúl is a Salvadoran-American technology entrepreneur and founder of Acopula Networks in California - working on unlocking the economic value in the Americas by simplifying computer networking for businesses and integrating contributions from individuals and companies globally.

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Eduar Tua

Cloudkite.io

He aspires to be an important collaborator in software development, and the community ecosystem within the landscape of the CNCF. Eduar has helped clients to scale their applications using modern cloud tools, always maintaining the availability of services. He has also developed applications that run a layer on top of Kubernetes. He is a Go instructor and loves to share knowledge to the fullest.

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Rael García

Red Hat

Rael is a Kubernetes contributor focused on documentation, usability, community and contributor experience. Founder in 2018 of the Cloud Native Barcelona community - cloudnative.barcelona - to encourage the adoption of cloud-native technologies and contribution to open-source projects. Currently works at Red Hat as Site Reliability Engineer. More at rael.io.

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Leonardo Murillo

Qwinix, Inc | Cloud Native Architects, Inc

Leonardo Murillo is CTO at Qwinix Technologies, Founder of Cloud Native Architects, DevOps Institute Ambassador and Organizer of the Costa Rica CNCF Community Chapter.

Leo brings wide-ranging industry perspective, with over 20 years of experience building technology and leading teams all the way from Startups to Fortune 500s.

He is passionate about cloud native technologies, organizational transformation and the open source community. A believer in human potential and the transformative power of technology, Leo focuses on exploring leading edge technologies hands-on and pondering on technology strategy.

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Don Clarke

NFV

At BT, Don Clarke initiated the global telco collaboration on NFV and was editor of the joint-telco paper published in October 2012 which coined the term NFV. This paper is regarded as the seminal document heralding software-based infrastructure as the future direction for telco networks. To drive industry adoption, he co-founded the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group where he chaired the Network Operator Council. In 2014 he co-founded OPNFV to encourage open source implementation.

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Sergio Méndez

Wizeline

Sergio Méndez actualmente trabaja como SRE para la empresa Wizeline, ha realizado consultorías para empresas de telecomunicaciones sobre tecnologías Cloud Native y Open Source. Es organizador del Meetup (Cloud-Native)+GT oficial de CNCF(Linux Foundation). Profesor universitario. Conferencista de KubeConEU y OSCON. CKA certificado. Miembro del Linkerd Anchor Program.

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Laís de Oliveira

On Deck Community Builders Fellowship

An entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in community building, Laís de Oliveira has participated in the development of entrepreneurial communities around the world. From leading 2000 volunteers across Argentina, Chile and Uruguay as the president of a non-profit organization, to selecting and training community leaders across 3 continents (Latam, Africa, APAC) for Startup Grind and, finally, developing evidence-based ideas to accelerate economic growth through startup communities, working for governments and innovation agencies in 75+ ecosystems as part of Startup Genome's executive team. Before joining Startup Genome, she sold her first business (8spaces.co) to Flyspaces.com, Southeast Asia's largest marketplace for workspace and spaces for professional activities. Driven by building ecosystems to empower entrepreneurship and creativity, she built some of the fastest growing communities in Malaysia, working for the Malaysian government and also independently. Originally from a small town in Brazil, she lived in Mauritius, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Kuala Lumpur, San Francisco and Lisbon, travelled to over 35 countries and learned five languages (fluent Portuguese, English and Spanish, basic French and Indonesian). While home is wherever her laptop is, she is currently living in the countryside in Brazil and co-creating a digital, yet rural lifestyle with a group of friends around what they call a “roça-office” (translates to farm-office).

Panelists

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  Niraj Tolia

  Kasten (acquired by Veeam)

  General Manager and President

  See Bio
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  Oliver Gould

  Buoyant, Inc.

  Co-founder/CTO

  See Bio
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  Beatriz Martínez

  Isovalent

  Engineer manager

  See Bio
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  Irina Calvo

  Intel

  DevOps Engineer

  See Bio
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  Victor Morales

  Samsung

  Senior Cloud Software Engineer

  See Bio
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  José Barahona

  WALTLabs.io

  Cloud Engineer

  See Bio
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  Ashar Rizqi

  Blameless

  Co-Founder

  See Bio

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Niraj Tolia

Kasten (acquired by Veeam)

Niraj Tolia is the General Manager and President of Kasten (acquired by Veeam), which he founded in order to solve the problem of Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. He also sits on the governing board of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). With a strong technical background in distributed systems, storage, and data management, he has held multiple leadership roles in the past, including Senior Director of Engineering for Dell EMC's CloudBoost group and VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Maginatics (acquired by EMC). Dr. Tolia received his PhD, MS, and BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Oliver Gould

Buoyant, Inc.

Oliver is the creator of Linkerd and the CTO of Buoyant, where he leads open source development efforts. Prior to joining Buoyant, he was a staff infrastructure engineer at Twitter, where he was the technical lead of Observability, Traffic, and Configuration & Coordination teams.

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Beatriz Martínez

Isovalent

Beatriz Martínez works at Isovalent, the company behind the OSS project Cilium, as engineer manager. Beatriz's focus over the last few years has been driving innovation and bringing latest technologies to enterprise-grade cloud environments. Beatriz is a regular speaker at events as well as an organizer of local meetups, such as CNCF Madrid. 

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Irina Calvo

Intel

Irina is a DevOps Engineer and Agile Facilitator at Intel. She is passionate about helping teams and customers working with CNCF technologies achieve their goals and real-world value. Irina has worked in Cloud Automation, Dev, Scrum Master and DevOps roles. She is one of the organizers of the CNCF Costa Rica community and is currently starting her journey as an open-source contributor.

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Victor Morales

Samsung

Broader experience in High Level Programming Languages.

Comfortable scripting deployments on Vagrant and Puppet frameworks. Proficient working with MS SQL Server and MySQL/MariaDB databases, as well as installation, configuration and troubleshooting of OpenStack environments.

Experienced in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipelines, as well as using Test-Driven Development practices and Open Source culture.

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José Barahona

WALTLabs.io

Jose currently works as a Cloud Engineer for Waltlabs company, Traefik embassador, member of Cloud native GT. He is passionate about open source and has contributed to projects like XCP-ng (xenserver open source spin off), k8s. He currently works around multi cloud deployments, CI / CD and IAC pipelines.

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Ashar Rizqi

Blameless

Ashar is co-founder of Blameless, a company whose mission is to build better software through SRE and enable every enterprise developer to gain SRE superpowers through a SaaS platform. Prior to Blameless, he held various leadership roles in cloud engineering at Box and Mulesoft. Ashar cares deeply about building resilient systems and advancing blameless culture. 

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Raul Flamenco

Acopula Networks, Inc.

Raúl is a Salvadoran-American technology entrepreneur and founder of Acopula Networks in California - working on unlocking the economic value in the Americas by simplifying computer networking for businesses and integrating contributions from individuals and companies globally.

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Fátima Díaz

Escuela Superior de Economía y Negocios

Fátima is a third-year Salvadoran student of Engineering and Business at the Higher School of Economics and Business, as well as a technology entrepreneur, co-founder of Atempo El Salvador. She is proactive and likes to get involved in challenging projects that open opportunities for youth and children in the region. She is a committed young woman who aims to impact her community with her creativity, innovation and vision.