Aditya Soni is a DevOps/SRE tech professional He worked with Product and Service based companies including Red Hat, Searce, and is currently positioned at Forrester Research as a DevOps Engineer II. He holds AWS, GCP, Azure, RedHat, and Kubernetes Certifications.He is a CNCF Ambassador, and AWS Community Builder for 4 years He leads AWS, CNCF, and HashiCorp user groups for Rajasthan State in India. He has spoken at many conferences, both in-person and virtually.

Artem Lajko, certified CNCF Kubestronaut and Platform Engineer, specializes in Kubernetes scalability and GitOps workflows. He is the author of Implementing GitOps with Kubernetes and writing for various publishers. As a Platform Engineering Ambassador, he supports companies and the community in adopting Internal Developer Platforms and related technologies. Passionate about Open Source, he helps organizations choose the right tools to drive adoption and innovation.

Brandon Valentine began his career in 2000 as a systems administrator managing large-scale fleets, quickly becoming an active contributor to open source package managers. Over the years, he expanded his expertise to include Ruby development, consulting, and professional sales. A devoted Homebrew contributor and enthusiast, Brandon spent five impactful years at GitHub before joining Workbrew, where he is focused on customer success and reconnecting with his systems administration roots.

Caleb Schoepp is a software engineer at Fermyon. Before working at Fermyon he interned at Microsoft three times on different teams and at the startups UnifyID and Resemble AI. Caleb enjoys hacking on cloud infrastructure and learning the ins and outs of WebAssembly. Outside of work he enjoys playing guitar, spending time with family, and playing hockey. Caleb holds a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta.

Dan Fernández is a product leader with over 13 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning and cybersecurity. He is currently building the future of secure computing at Edera, a startup revolutionizing cloud and AI infrastructure. Dan has a proven track record of launching new products and innovative solutions at companies like Chainguard, CrowdStrike, DomainTools and NICE Systems. Dan is also part-time faculty member at Georgia Tech's Masters of Cybersecurity program. In his free time he enjoys traveling and sampling street foods as well as learning about irrelevant food facts.

Danilo (Dan) Chiarlone is an open-source software engineer on Microsoft’s Azure Core Upstream team, shaping secure, high-performance cloud-native architectures. Author of Server-side Wasm (Manning), core maintainer of CNCF Hyperlight, and champion of several WASI proposals advancing WebAssembly in the cloud. He previously contributed to runwasi and SpiderLightning and, in his free time, shares practical Rust and Wasm lessons on YouTube.

drmorr is the founder of ACRL, and is a computer scientist, researcher, and software engineer focused on problems in optimization, scheduling, and distributed systems. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2014, and has over a decade of industry experience (at companies like Airbnb and Yelp) as well as a strong background in academic research. In his spare time he builds Legos, plays board games, and writes fiction.

As a Senior Solutions Architect at Pulumi with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles at the Schwarz Group and W&W Versicherungen, I bring extensive expertise with an end-user and enterprise focus. Currently working for a startup while collaborating with enterprise clients has further enriched my experience!

I began my career as a Java backend developer, transitioned to frontend development, and ultimately specialized in CI/CD and DevOps. Working with ANT and Cruise Control to switch to Jenkins and Microsoft Team Foundation Server added some traumas on top! But as they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I have now embraced the dynamic world of DevOps and Platform Engineering, leveraging cloud technologies and Kubernetes.

Recently, I have been exploring AI to find ways to make myself redundant in the future.

Eric is Chronosphere's Director Community & Developer Relations. He's renowned in the development community as a speaker, lecturer, author, baseball expert, and CNCF Ambassador. His current role allows him to help the world understand the challenges they are facing with observability. He brings a unique perspective to the stage with a professional life dedicated to sharing his deep expertise of open source technologies and organizations. More on https://www.schabell.org.

Faeka works on Kubernetes-related projects, with a focus on Security, AI and GitOps. She’s a CNCF Ambassador, maintainer of the Kargo project and has been an active public speaker in the developer and open source communities for several years. She is serving the Kubernetes Release team since v1.27. Faeka is also recognised through programs like the GitHub Campus Experts, Microsoft Ambassadors (Gold) and Google Dev Club Leader. She enjoys contributing to oss, building developer tools, and supporting community-driven tech

Hrittik is a Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, with expertise in cloud native technologies and open source communities. He has contributed extensively to developer advocacy, technical writing, and community engagement. Hrittik has been a featured speaker at events such as Kubernetes Community Days, Open Source Summits, and more, and has served as a Program Committee member for several KubeCons and CloudNativeCons.

Cloud advocate at Microsoft, sightly obsessed with mechanical keyboards.

Kavya Elchuri is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, where she works on the Platform as a Service team to help developers deploy cloud-native applications without worrying about infrastructure. She’s passionate about building collaborative, high-trust teams and solving complex technical problems that span multiple layers of the stack. Most recently, Kavya focused on simplifying Kubernetes deployment statuses to make platform debugging accessible-even to users with no prior Kubernetes experience. When she's not writing code, you’ll likely find her surfing, hiking, or exploring new restaurants in search of her next favorite dish.

Marina Moore is a Research Scientist at Edera. She is a maintainer of The Update Framework (TUF), a CNCF graduated project that provides secure software update and delivery. She is also a chair of CNCF's TAG Security and Compliance where she contributes to security assessments and whitepapers, as well as providing technical security leadership to CNCF projects.

Her research interests include container isolation, software supply chain security, and cloud security.

I like to help others get the most out of their observability both at Victoriametrics as a solutions engineer, and open source maintainer shiftmon. In my spare time I enjoy Jiu Jitsu, taking care of my family which includes 5 animals.

I’m passionate about Cloud Native Computing technologies driven by Open Source, Cloud, Security, SRE, Containers, DevOps, Platform Engineering and Kubernetes. Based on my past experiences as software engineer, IT consultant, solution architect and customer success engineer, I now focus my work more and more on usability of products, driven by how I could improve the developers and end-users experience with docs, samples and products.

Traefik Maintainer - Head of Development @ TraefikLabs
Head of Development at Traefik Labs, the company behind Traefik, the popular cloud-native Gateway Controller, and Traefik Hub, a comprehensive API Management solution for Kubernetes.
Responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Gateway API in Traefik.

Nic is an experienced hands-on technologist, evangelist and product owner who has been working in the fields of Cloud-Native technologies, Open Source Software, Virtualization and Datacenter networking for the past 20 years.

Passionate about enabling users and building cool tech solving real-life problems, you'll often see him speaking at global tech conferences and online events, spreading the word and walking the walk with customers and users.

Nigel Douglas is the Head of Developer Relations at Cloudsmith. He champions Cloudsmith’s developer ecosystem by creating compelling educational content, engaging with developer communities, and promoting Cloudsmith as the go-to solution for artifact management and supply chain security. Working closely with product, engineering, and marketing teams, Nigel helps build and shape the DevOps community through events, tutorials, and innovative programs.

Before joining Cloudsmith, Nigel held similar roles in cloud-native OSS projects, including the CNCF Graduate Project Falco at Sysdig and Project Calico at Tigera. He earned a Master of Science in Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust from South East Technological University in Ireland.

Senior Platform Engineer at DigitalOcean.

Nitish is a Software Engineer at Akuity working on the core Argo team. He is a maintainer of the CNCF-graduated project Argo CD, CNCF Ambassador, and a former Release Team member of the Kubernetes project. Outside of work, Nitish enjoys playing chess and travelling

I am a Senior Research Software Engineer at Microsoft Research – Systems Research Group.

I am currently working on Nanvix – A Microkernel-Based Research Operating System.

I earned my PhD Degree in Computer Science from Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) and from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) in 2021. During my thesis, I devised a distributed operating system for lightweight manycore processors.

In 2017, I received my MSc Degree in Computer Science from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). In 2015, I earned my BSc Degree in Computer Science from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC Minas) with Summa Cum Laude honors and Featured Computer Science Student Award by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC).

I have over than 15 years of experience in research, design and development of computing systems. I have expertise in Operating Systems, Distributed Systems Embedded Systems, Parallel Programming and High-Performance Computing.

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.

Kiran "Rin" is a part of the Product team working in Developer Relations at MacStadium. He enjoys discussing all things OSS, with a particular focus on diversity in tech, improving hiring pipelines in OSS for those that are neurodivergent, improving the K8s developer experience, and removing barriers to contributing to cloud-native software.

When not immersed in all things cloud-native, Rin can be found hanging out with his family, cooking, or gaming.

Sahil Thandra is a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg, where he works in the Platform-as-a-Service team. In this role, Sahil helps provide a managed service that empowers Bloomberg's engineers to seamlessly deploy containerized applications without the complexities of setting up and managing the underlying infrastructure. With a strong foundation in platform engineering, Sahil brings extensive experience in cloud infrastructure, large-scale distributed systems and cluster lifecycle management

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 has also been a MLH Fellow.
He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.

Shyam is a highly motivated and results-oriented platform engineer with a passion for building and scaling robust infrastructure solutions. He has 18 years of experience in software development and a deep understanding of Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Cloud Engineering, SRE. Shyam has a proven track record of success in:

• Container Orchestration as a Service for managing Hybrid K8s Clusters
• IaaS provisioning accelerator
• DevOps - Pipeline implementations for IaaS stack applications

Yash is Developer Advocate at Digital Ocean, international speaker and a core maintainer of Meshery, an open-source CNCF sandbox project. He is a mentor for the LFX 2024 projects and was an LFX mentee in the 2023 mentorship under Meshery. He hosts weekly Meshery Development calls and engage in CNCF communities

Ann Wallace is the Head of Customer Experience at Edera, a women-founded startup reimagining cloud security from the ground up. Before Edera, she held leadership and architecture roles in security and cloud at Okta, Shopify, Google, and Nike. Ann speaks regularly at conferences on topics like compliance, container security, and using storytelling to make security education actually stick. When she’s not talking about isolation boundaries, she’s probably somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, trail running with her dirtbag dog, Cedar.