The first and largest CNCF event organized in New York City.

The New York Times Staff Software Engineer

<p>Technology Leader | AWS Community Builder | Infrastructure Guru | 6x AWS Certified | Speaker</p><p>As a seasoned Staff Software Engineer on the Delivery Engineering Cloud Runtime team at The New York Times, I specialize in developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is on crafting a secure and flexible runtime environment that is pivotal in empowering service teams to swiftly and efficiently deploy their applications. This platform stands as a testament to rapid application development, underpinned by a commitment to security and adherence to industry best practices.</p><p>Before my tenure at The Times, I played a significant role at Hello Fresh as a Senior Backend Engineer, where I honed my skills in backend systems and application optimization. Additionally, my experience as an Application Development Lead at Wireless Network Group enriched my perspective on software development, especially in telecommunications.</p>

CEO - Loft Labs (creators of vCluster and DevPod)

<p>Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup known for its open-source project vCluster, a technology for virtualizing Kubernetes. Companies such as CoreWeave, GoFundMe, Outreach, Atlan, and many others use vCluster to increase developer velocity and to reduce their cloud infrastructure costs.</p>

Senior Principal Product Manager

Co-founder & CTO at Chkk

<p>Fawad is the co-founder &amp; CTO of Chkk, where he is building a proactive approach to availability. This approach enables you to learn from others' operational experiences and mistakes using Collective Learning. Before Chkk, he helped build and scale Amazon EKS and was responsible for networking and availability. And prior to AWS, he enjoyed building systems at VMware and PLUMgrid. He and his family live in the Bay Area, and he enjoys running, hiking, and cooking in his spare time.</p>

Head of Open Source at Cisco

<p>Stephen is the Head of Open Source at Cisco, working within the Strategy, Incubation, &amp; Applications (SIA) organization.</p><p>Across the wider LF (Linux Foundation) ecosystem, Stephen has the pleasure of serving as a member of the OpenSSF Governing Board, the OpenAPI Initiative Business Governing Board, the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and the TODO Group Steering Committee.</p><p>Previously, he was one of the Program Chairs for KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the cloud native community&rsquo;s flagship conference.</p><p>He is currently a Chair for Kubernetes' SIG Release, and a maintainer for the Scorecard and Dex projects.</p><p>In 2020, Stephen co-founded the Inclusive Naming Initiative, a cross-industry group dedicated to helping projects and companies make consistent, responsible choices to remove harmful language across codebases, standards, and documentation.</p><p>He has previously held positions at VMware (via Heptio), Red Hat, and CoreOS.</p><p>Stephen is based in New York City.</p>

Nvidia, Senior Software Engineer

<p>Ryan is a software engineer at NVIDIA. He works on building data centers powered by Kubernetes and KubeVirt for NVIDIA products.</p>

Nvidia, Senior Software Engineer

<p>Software Engineer working on NVIDIA's GeForce Now game streaming product.</p>

Senior Software Engineer - VMware

Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat

<p>Sanjeev Rampal is a Senior Principal Engineer at Red Hat in the Emerging Technologies team within the Office of the CTO. He has extensive experience contributing and building products within the cloud, networking and platforms spaces.</p>

Co-founder & CTO at Chkk

<p>Fawad is the co-founder &amp; CTO of Chkk, where he is building a proactive approach to availability. This approach enables you to learn from others' operational experiences and mistakes using Collective Learning. Before Chkk, he helped build and scale Amazon EKS and was responsible for networking and availability. And prior to AWS, he enjoyed building systems at VMware and PLUMgrid. He and his family live in the Bay Area, and he enjoys running, hiking, and cooking in his spare time.</p>

CEO

CEO - Loft Labs (creators of vCluster and DevPod)

<p>Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs, a venture-backed startup known for its open-source project vCluster, a technology for virtualizing Kubernetes. Companies such as CoreWeave, GoFundMe, Outreach, Atlan, and many others use vCluster to increase developer velocity and to reduce their cloud infrastructure costs.</p>

Senior Open Source Engineer Kasten by Veeam

<p>Infrastructure and cloud services developer. I'm deeply passionate about open source. Currently contributing to the Kanister project at Kasten by Veeam, we're reshaping data management for Kubernetes.</p>

Principal Engineer, Container Runtime

<p>Phil is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on core container runtime technologies that power AWS container offerings like Fargate, EKS, and ECS.</p><p>Phil is currently an active contributor and maintainer for the CNCF containerd runtime project, and participates in the Open Container Initiative (OCI) as the member of the Technical Oversight Board (TOB). Phil has also been a long-time core contributor and maintainer on the Docker/Moby engine project, initially contributing to the Docker Engine starting in 2014 and becoming a core engine project maintainer in 2015.</p><p>Phil enjoys helping others understand and apply container and cloud native concepts and speaks worldwide at industry conferences and meetups, and is a member of the CNCF Ambassadors program.</p>

Software Engineer Microsoft

<p>Microsoft Hope is a Software Engineer at Microsoft where she builds services that manages Microsoft cloud infrastructure. Currently, her focus lies in facilitating the implementation of observability and OpenTelemetry standards within her team. She is also dedicated to ensuring that organizations adopt and embrace observability practices.</p><p>Hope also leads and contributes to various tech communities that support women, Africans, and aspiring developers.</p><p><a href="https://sessionize.com/oluwalolope-hope" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://sessionize.com/oluwalolope-hope</a></p>

Director of Open-Source, Solo.io

<p>Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, and a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has worked on the Istio service mesh since the beginning of the project in 2017 and serves on the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Previously, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book "Istio Ambient Explained" and has more than 200 patents to her name.</p>

The Redpanda Lady

<p>Christina has 20+ years of experience in software development. She has worked as a developer, consultant, architect. She is an advocate for making innovative solutions down to earth and making them easily accessible for everyone. Skilled in Open Source technology such as Redpanda, Apache Camel, Kafka and Kubernetes, Ansible.</p>

Redpanda

<p>Paul began as a financial application developer, moving into customer and sustaining engineering at Netscape and Sun. After Sun, Paul worked as network and systems operations for several start ups, before landing in the Big Data world with MapR. Paul went on to Kubernetes with Weaveworks, and is currently focused on Kafka-based message streaming at Redpanda.</p>

Field CTO - CAST AI

<p>Phil is CAST AI&rsquo;s Field CTO, and works with customers to educate and encourage kubernetes best practices that lead to optimal cloud costs. With more than 15 years of experience in a wide range of positions, Phil balances resiliency, performance and cost to help customers achieve their goals.</p><p>Previously, Phil was a Director of Engineering for Security Products at Oracle cloud. This experience helped shape his understanding of cloud scale technology and best practices.</p>

Software Engineer, The New York Times

<p>Tiara Sykes is a Software Engineer at The New York Times. She pivoted to supporting reliability efforts across the larger tech organization after her interest sparked supporting services as a product engineer. Besides striving for technical excellence, Tiara values an engineering culture that encourages everyone to continuously grow and feel safe to learn and make mistakes.</p>

Staff Software Engineer The New York Times

<p>Luke Philips is a Staff Engineer and Software A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶t̶e̶c̶t̶ Custodian with The New York Times Company. Trying to sweep together the best ideas from all sources. Previously a long career in Telecom, at Charter, CenturyLink, and Level 3 Communications. With a mixed focus on continuous delivery, orchestration solutions, enterprise, Kubernetes, open source, networking, and cloud-native technologies. On the side Luke dabbles in Wardley Mapping and strategic proficiency.</p>

cofounder of authzed

<p>Jimmy Zelinskie is the chief product officer and co-founder of authzed and co-creator of SpiceDB. Prior to that, he worked on various cloud-native projects such as Quay, clair, the Operator Framework, and the Open Container Initiative while building Kubernetes products at CoreOS and Red Hat.</p>

VP

Technical Architect and CNCF Ambassador

Developer Advocate, Red Hat

<p>Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking at conferences and events including DevNexus, WeAreDevelopers, DevConf, and more. Cedric loves all things open-source, and works to make developer's lives easier! Based out of New York.</p>

Senior Principal Product Manager

Global Field CTO at Veeam Software

Developer Advocate and Serverless Mom

Co-founder and CEO at Nirmata

Customer Success Engineer, Nirmata

<p>Sagar Kundral is an engineer with a passion for cloud-native technologies and container orchestration. He has over 9 years of industry experience, specializing in Kubernetes and related ecosystem tools</p>

Global Technologist

<p>Julia Furst Morgado is a Global Technologist in the Office of the CTO at Veeam Software. Her passion is making Cloud Native technologies and DevOps best practices easier to understand by sharing her knowledge and experiences. She is also committed to empowering communities as an AWS Community Builder, a CNCF Ambassador, a Google Women Techmakers Ambassador, a Civo Ambassador and Girl Code Ambassador. Additionally, she organizes the NY Code &amp; Coffee Meetup and KubeHuddle conference, further fostering collaboration and learning opportunities. Connect with Julia on Twitter and LinkedIn @juliafmorgado to stay updated on her latest contributions to the tech industry.</p>

The New York Times Staff Software Engineer

<p>Technology Leader | AWS Community Builder | Infrastructure Guru | 6x AWS Certified | Speaker</p><p>As a seasoned Staff Software Engineer on the Delivery Engineering Cloud Runtime team at The New York Times, I specialize in developing robust and scalable Kubernetes-based solutions. My primary focus is on crafting a secure and flexible runtime environment that is pivotal in empowering service teams to swiftly and efficiently deploy their applications. This platform stands as a testament to rapid application development, underpinned by a commitment to security and adherence to industry best practices.</p><p>Before my tenure at The Times, I played a significant role at Hello Fresh as a Senior Backend Engineer, where I honed my skills in backend systems and application optimization. Additionally, my experience as an Application Development Lead at Wireless Network Group enriched my perspective on software development, especially in telecommunications.</p>