Speakers

Jen Diamond works on the application team at UCLA's Digital Initiatives and Information Technology Department. She is part of a team that is building the UCLA Digital Library. She has a background as a community organizer, instructor and an advocate to get more women into the programming world by organizing workshops like Rails Girls Los Angeles, Railsbridge and Kids Ruby.

Opemipo Disu is a Developer Advocate and Keynote Speaker, He has engaged over 100,000 professionals across various industries through his speaking engagements and blog posts. Opemipo is dedicated to exploring technology and making developer tools accessible, actively supporting developer communities with his expertise.

Opemipo aims to empower over 1 million developers through his keynote talks and tutorials. He has spoken at 50+ tech events, including events hosted by IBM. Recognized for his contributions, Opemipo holds achievements such as IBM Champion for Developers (2020), Couchbase Champion, and Bitrise Expert.

Currently serving as a Developer Advocate, Opemipo focuses on innovating with next-generation technologies, showcased on his YouTube channel, "Opemipo's Thoughts." His insights have been featured on Code Newbies Podcast, Channels TV, BBC, Legit.ng, among others.

Rebecca Dittmar is a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years at Nike. She's skilled in full-stack development and cloud technologies. Her work has directly impacted billions of annual Nike customer interactions. Beyond tech, she's an EMBA and enjoys an active lifestyle.

Simon is a tech enthusiast passionate about open-source automation, orchestration, and observability integrations. He aims to simplify technology adoption in open-source environments. Simon is deeply involved in the OpenStack Cinder community and has contributed to many collaborative designs. He is also an Ansible developer responsible for creating Pure Storage's leading storage automation experience.

Originally from England, Simon is a Sci-Fi enthusiast and Formula 1 fan. He enjoys listening to 80s rock music and is a first responder in his local community. With over 35 years of experience in the storage industry as a customer and a vendor, Simon offers valuable insights into the evolution of storage technology and practical applications.

Eelco started the Nix project when he was a PhD student at Utrecht University. He is a co-founder at Determinate Systems.

Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya is a database researcher and practitioner with over 40 years of academic and industrial experience. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. At present she is

– Database Architect at DW Holdings in Chicago, IL

– Local Organizer of the Chicago PostgreSQL User Group

– Active community member, a frequent speaker at the PostgreSQL Conferences

– A researcher focused on developing efficient interactions between applications and databases and implementation of temporal data

– An author of PostgreSQL Query Optimization book

Database administrator with extensive experience designing, administration, implementation and supporting next-generation MySQL and MongoDB database solutions in the hybrid Cloud. Looking for Python development with intermediate experience and Terraform projects.

Art school graduate who tripped and fell into tech. Doing open source community stuff, currently very much leaning PostgreSQL. PGDay Lowlands organizer. Member or the PostgreSQL Code of Conduct Committee. Devopsdays Core member and Devopsdays Amsterdam organizer.

Katherine Druckman is an Open Source Evangelist at Intel where she enjoys sharing her passion for a variety of open source topics. She is a long-time open source advocate, developer, and podcaster, and is currently the host of Open at Intel and a co-host of the FLOSS Weekly and Reality 2.0 podcasts. Previously, Katherine spent over a decade as Director of Digital Experience at Linux Journal. A passionate Drupalist since she first downloaded a tarball in 2005, she has also been a Drupal contributor and a Software Engineer.

Subash D’Souza works at the cross-section of open data, and education. He is the Founder of Data Con LA, the largest independent data conference in the SoCal region. He is also the founder of Data 4 Good, a public-private nonprofit think tank created to work with various organizations using data to tackle social problems working on issues ranging from homelessness to digital equity technology innovation, data and analytics, and public-private partnerships. He is currently the Director for Cloud Data Engineering at California State University, Office of the Chancellor where he reports to senior leadership providing guidance and feedback on using modern cloud tech and data skills to usher CSU into the digital age. He was previously the Head of Data Engineering at Headspace where he worked on solving data challenges. Prior to that he was the Director for Big Data & Ops at Warner Bros leveraging his skillsets to build best practices and scale data pipelines.

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edunham is inspired by a childhood dream of replacing humans with shell scripts, and has found that Linux systems administration is the best career field for realizing that goal. Hobbies include travel, gardening, drive-by patches to obscure open source projects, and filng issues against public repositories that lack licensing information.

A repeat founder, Ron dove into the world of developer tooling at Meta’s Facebook as the head of developer products, building the tools powering Meta’s 20,000-strong developer core. Realizing the limitations of existing tooling and recognizing the superpowers of Nix, Ron co-founded Flox to grow Nix and make it accessible to the wider engineering community.

Ron is on the board of the NixOS Foundation where he works on leading key efforts to strengthen and support the entire community. He also leads the largest Israeli tech community in California as president of INTRO, a non-profit.

Rajani, a DevOps Engineer with over 3 years of experience, is passionate about cloud and DevOps. She actively shares her knowledge through articles on Medium and LinkedIn. Rajani participates in events like Google I/O Extended, Kubernetes Community Days Pune & Hyderabad, Cloud Native Day Pune, Serverless Days Banglore and GCCD Gandhinagar. Her fulfillment comes from contributing to the community through content creation, mentorship, and assisting others.

As a Principal Developer Advocate with AWS, Seth helps builders to architect and build resilient, scalable systems in the cloud. He draws on over 12 years of experience in multiple engineering roles across Amazon. Previously he was Reliability Lead for AWS Well-Architected. Before that, as Principal Solutions Architect he worked hands-on with amazon.com engineers to optimize how they use AWS for the services that power the massive scale systems that power their systems. Prior to that, he was Principal Engineer for Amazon Fresh and International Technologies. Seth joined Amazon in 2005 where soon after, he helped develop the technology that would become Prime Video. You can follow Seth on twitter @setheliot, or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/setheliot/.

Ramprasad Ellupuru is a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Manager specializing in enhancing buyer experience and payments domains. At eBay, he leads initiatives to ensure critical buyer journeys maintain exceptional reliability and availability through robust engineering practices.

With experience writing software and managing teams for leading Web companies (Edmunds, Intuit), plus new concept startups, John has a strong background in Web software engineering and release management. He has worked with concurrent, real-time systems developing big-data, Cloud-based Java and Python applications. John currently serves as lead developer for NASA's Exoplanet Watch at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Recent experience managing technology teams for startups helped inspire innovative solutions to complex, multi-dimensional problems. Past experience also includes stints performing systems administration for a large, regional university. 

I've been working the ingredients leading to this moment for years, and so it is very exciting to finally see a first end-to-end demonstration of all the pieces working together! Nix Steering Committee member since 2024 Nix Team member since 2023 Software Engineer at Obsidian Systems since 2017, Nix user since 2014.

Johannes is a technologist, founder and organizer. His company, Dazzle Labs Inc., builds technologies and advises client on the resurging open social web. He is also co-organizer of FediForum, "the unconference for the people who move the social web forward", and lead developer of FediTest.

Darko is an experienced CI pipeline specialist with 15 years of hands-on experience optimizing CI processes for teams ranging from 20 developers to over 200 working on a single codebase. He is a developer and early adopter of Ruby and later Elixir, who shifted focus to DevOps and now serves as CTO at Semaphore. He is passionate about sharing real-world strategies for achieving fast feedback loops and enhancing developer productivity.

Peter Farkas is the Co-Founder and CEO at FerretDB. He is an expert in leading and managing distributed teams working on Open Source projects. He has spent the majority of his career in Open Source, with a focus on database and Big Data technologies at companies such as Percona and Cloudera

While at Percona, Peter played a pivotal role in building Percona Support, which quickly became a benchmark for service quality and excellence in Enterprise Open Source database software support. Peter holds a Master's degree in Management from the University of Buckingham and has a passion for reading and exploring new places around the world.

Greg Farnum is a long-standing member of the core Ceph development team and founding Inktank engineer. He has served in many roles as Ceph grows and is currently a member of the Ceph Steering Committee and manager of IBM's CephFS group. Greg is passionate about solving problems in distributed computing and expanding the Ceph community.

Andrew has more than 10 years of experience building database tools with a particular focus on databases in cloud native and SaaS environments. He currently works at Xata helping to build the next generation Postgres data platform. At Xata Andrew has a particular focus on building tools to help users achieve zero-downtime database migrations.

I am Jay Faulkner, an Open Source Developer and Advocate. I believe that through working with others around the world to solve problems we can make the world better. Open source is a great way to do that.

I have a long and varied contribution history in and around open source, including:

- Over a decade contributing to OpenStack, including two terms on the Technical Committee

- Over a decade as a core reviewer, and three-time PTL, on OpenStack Ironic

- Gentoo contributor

- Small contributions throughout the OSS ecosystem; including systemd, fog, and many others.

- Podcasting about open source with the GR-OSS OUT podcast.

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.

Longda Feng, the Senior Director of OceanBase R&D at Ant Group, manages open-source projects and developer relations at OceanBase. As an Apache Storm PMC member/Apache RocketMQ Committer/founder of Alibaba JStorm, he dedicates to build up open-source projects and vibrant developer community and ecosystem. With decade's experience in distributed computing and storage, and Linux kernel development, he enjoys evangelizing cutting-edge technologies, especially those related to open source.

David Fetter contributes to open source projects including PostgreSQL by helping organize communities, speaking publicly, and contributing code.

Rob Fletcher is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of DevZero, a Seattle-based startup specializing in cloud-based development platforms that enable developers to write and test code in production-like environments.

Before founding DevZero in 2021, Rob held significant roles in security engineering at major tech companies. He served as Head of Product Security at Uber, leading a team of over 45 security engineers, engineering managers, and product managers. Following his tenure at Uber, he became a Security Engineering Manager at Meta (formerly Facebook).

Alastair is an enthusiastic techie with a penchant for doing things the hard way and diving into the guts of a problem. As an engineer at Canonical he works on the open source cloud orchestration engine Juju, written in the Go programming language. He has a passion for open source software and its positive social impact on the world. When not immersed in the depths of a terminal, tinkering with his home server, Alastair can be found exploring the outdoors, running or playing the piano up in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Developer Advocate; I get to build neat things -and- talk to people! *\o/* I run marathons in those funny finger shoes.

Find me online at https://hachyderm.io/@binford2k

Dr. Armstrong is a researcher at the intersection of software ecosystem sustainability, affective computing, the trustworthiness of safety-critical systems, and software engineering for machine learning applications, including foundational models, AIWare, and Agentware. He mines massive datasets, including software repositories, and applies socio-technical data science techniques to uncover patterns and empirically make informed decisions.

Mikaël is currently a senior software engineer at Ticketmaster.

He enjoys spending time with family, taming complexity, and three-element enumerations.

Before working as a software engineer, he was a musician and a researcher.

Developer Advocate with 15+ years experience consulting for many different customers, in a wide range of contexts (such as telecoms, banking, insurances, large retail and public sector). Usually working on Java/Java EE and Spring technologies, but with focused interests like Rich Internet Applications, Testing, CI/CD and DevOps. Also double as a trainer and triples as a book author.

Adrianna Frick has worked on technical skills validation exams and credentials for companies including Canonical and knows what separates good certs from bad. She began her journey in open source in the late 1990s at Walnut Creek CDROM working with teams from Slackware Linux and FreeBSD among others. As someone who has experienced the employment volatility of tech bubbles, and as someone who left and returned to the industry after career changes, educational gaps, and family caregiving, she is dedicated to making new career pathways and opportunities for professional accomplishment that allow anyone from any background to prove their abilities, whether gained in a traditional educational environment, professional experience, or through home lab experiments and self-study.

Currently I'm a platform engineer at Replit. I've been using Nix since 2021. In my free time, enjoy working on tooling to make NixOS easier to use.

I work at Arm as a Software Engineer in Austin, TX. I have started working with Nix while searching for the holy grail of reproducible environments.

Kat Gaines leads developer relations at PagerDuty. She enjoys talking and thinking about incident response, customer support, and automating the creation of a delightful end-user and employee experience. She previously ran Global Customer Support at PagerDuty, and as a result it’s hard to get her to stop talking about the potential career paths for tech support professionals. In her spare time, Kat is a mediocre plant parent and a slightly less mediocre pet parent to two rabbits, Lupin and Ginny.

Dr. Diego Galeano is a Machine Learning Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Asunción (FIUNA) in Paraguay. Dr. Galeano’s research focuses on developing machine-learning models for applications in drug discovery and medicine. He has contributed to studies on predicting drug side effects and developing ML frameworks for pharmacological countermeasures on the impact of space radiation on human health.

Long-time Nix user, maintainer of the NixOS integration test driver, C++ book author, Founder of the Nixcademy

I'm an educator, developer, and writer.

I am currently a Senior Curriculum Developer at Temporal Technologies, and was previously a Senior Technical Writer at DigitalOcean, a Senior Technical Editor at AssemblyAI, and a digital archivist in a past life. I love to write, teach, and make connections.

Justin is a engineer building communities and solutions.

Jessica Garson is a Python programmer, educator, and artist. She currently works at Elastic as a Senior Developer Advocate.

Richard Gaskin is the owner of Fourth World Systems, a software design and development consultancy in Los Angeles. Since founding the company in 1994, he's developed dozens of commercial and open source applications used by a wide range of organizations, including FedEx, AOL, the US Library of Congress, and thousands of hospitals and universities around the world.

Although he started his career with Mac OS, Richard has since delivered applications for Irix, every version of Windows, and has been developing for Linux for the last two years.

Richard has spoken at dozens of tech conferences, including SCaLE, LiveCode Developer Conference, and MacTech where he had the distinction of being the only presenter using Ubuntu.

A DevOps engineer of 7+ years, Andrew focuses on creating systems "that just work" once deployed to the cloud by leveraging modern-day tools such as Terraform and Kubernetes.

Carl George leads the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) team in the Community Linux Engineering group at Red Hat. He participates in many open source projects, often related to his packaging activities in Fedora, EPEL, and CentOS. He is a member of the EPEL Steering Committee, the Fedora Packaging Committee, and various Fedora Special Interest Groups.

Denver is a software right-to-repair and standards activist who is currently Director of Compliance at Software Freedom Conservancy, where he enforces software right-to-repair licenses such as the GPL, and is also a director of the worker co-operative that runs JMP.chat, a FOSS phone number (texting/calling) service.  Denver writes free software in his spare time: his patches have been accepted into Wine, Linux, and wdiff.  Denver received his BMath in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.  He gives presentations about digital civil rights and how to ensure FOSS remains sustainable as a community and financially, having spoken at conferences such as FOSSY, CopyleftConf, FOSDEM, CopyCamp Toronto, FOSSLC's Summercamp, and the Open Video Conference.

Andy Giron is a Senior Security Researcher at Datadog, he focuses on threat cloud-landscape. Previously he was a Threat Researcher for Arista Networks specializing in network malware analysis. An Incident Response Engineer and led the Cyber Threat Intelligence initiatives at Hulu. Prior to switching to the DFIR side of the house, Andy was a Security Engineer at Currency Exchange International. He enjoys all aspects of security and is an all around breaker of things.

Tim has over 10 years of experience in quality assurance across environmental and industrial domains, including critical infrastructure testing. This background drives his passion for software systems and technologies like Nix and Linux. Currently pursuing an MSCS at Georgia Tech, Tim brings an out-of-the-box perspective and a cross-disciplinary approach to problem-solving. Passionate about open source, he also serves on a Search and Rescue team and enjoys all forms of mountain recreation.

Previously, Head of Cloud Platform Engineering at Rubrik, scaling $5M to $600M ARR. Cofounder/CEO of Neptune.io (YC-backed observability startup). Early Engineer at AWS S3, Founding engineer at DynamoDB.

Neal is a developer and contributor in Fedora; CentOS; Mageia; and openSUSE, focusing primarily on the base Linux system components, such as package and software management, as well as the Linux desktop. He's a big believer in "upstream first", which has led him all over the open source world.

Federico is a seasoned leader with a global perspective and a deep commitment to advancing technology in Latin America and their home countries. I possess extensive experience in both the public and private sectors, as well as at national and international levels.

He is passionate and results-oriented innovator with a proven track record of leveraging technology for development, social inclusion, and technological sovereignty and independence.

A Mexican professional educated in New Zealand, Estonia, France, Israel, and the United States. I am dedicated to the digital transformation and democratisation of Mexico.

Federico had the privilege of serving his country in C-Level IT roles within the Federal Government including CEO of the National Research and Innovation for ICT of Mexico (INFOTEC)

Richard has a PhD in Computer Science and has worked in a wide variety of fields, from Embedded Systems to Astrophysical Visualisation, Kernel hacking to Cloud Infrastructure.

He has worked at Google, Symantec, Brex and now Pure Storage.

Ryan is a seasoned marketing and creative professional. He is the founder and creative director of Freehive (https://freehive.com), an experienced creative agency powered by free and open-source creative software that works exclusively with artists, illustrators, designers, and developers who share a passion for these tools. Prior to starting Freehive in 2010, he was a successful marketing executive and creative director at a consumer goods manufacturer and online retailer. He has a masters degree in business administration, with an emphasis on marketing and entrepreneurship. He helped launch the marketing and outreach team for the Inkscape project and enthusiastically advocates for greater adoption by, and contribution to, FOSS by creative professionals.

Kerri-Leigh is an Associate Solutions Architect, a recovering developer, and a writer of horror. She'll tell you how these are all related if you share your story with her first. She lives, works, and is a general menace in the PNW.

A technologist and cypherpunk, passionate about cutting-edge open source tech. Shipped XDG accent colors and many other things.

Gareth is the senior software developer at VMware working on the Salt project.  Gareth lives in Southern California with his wife, where they are owned by several pets.

Dave Gullo has been hacking the web for 30 years. His early roots involve shooting and editing digital video, browser automation, mass-scale whitehat botting, browser extensions, and educational media. His current company Videate intersects these disciplines into a platform that generates software videos with AI and automation at ludicrous scale.

I’started using Linux in 1996, and PostgreSQL in 1998. Love to travel, listen to music, and enjoy life with friends. Joined PostgreSQL community around 1999. Currently maintaining PostgreSQL official RPM repository at https://yum.postgresql.org and https://zypp.postgresql.org . Contributed to many PostgreSQL related projects. Already a Fedora and EPEL contributor as well.

Working at EDB as Postgres Expert.

Parul is a senior Production Engineer at Meta, where she works within the Python Foundation team. Previously, she worked with interactive computing, contributed to accelerating the ML authoring space and gathered extensive experience in machine learning (ML) prototyping tools and techniques.

Parul is also an advocate for bridging the gender gap in technology and has mentored several aspiring technologists both within and outside of her company, earning recognition for her efforts. Her goal is to use her expertise to inspire and support others who are looking to build a career in the field of computer science.

In her free time, Parul enjoys dancing, painting, and traveling.

Proactive IT solution professional advisor with combined business and technical knowledge: experienced in enterprise software sales for cross sectors, building technical alliances, and supporting channel sales for years. Focused on open-source solutions constantly working with major players in the IT market. Always ready to share knowledge.

Marcin’s vision is that open source will be as sustainable in terms of product and revenue growth as proprietary solutions as more and more entrepreneurs will work on open source projects.

Free time spent traveling, reading books, and enjoying various sports.

Magnus Hagander is a member of the PostgreSQL Core Team and a developer and code committer in the PostgreSQL Global Development Group.

Magnus is one of the original developers of the Windows port of PostgreSQL. These days, he mostly works on other parts of the PostgreSQL backend, recently with a focus on security features, monitoring and backup/replication interfaces and tools.

He is also one of the core members of the postgresql.org infrastructure team, maintaining the servers that power the project, and one of the maintainers of the postgresql.org website.

He's been a PostgreSQL user since version 6 (with some non-serious use of Postgres 95 before that), and currently serves on the Core Team and as President of the Board for PostgreSQL Europe.

To pay the bills, he is a PostgreSQL and open source software consultant at Redpill Linpro in Stockholm, Sweden, where he works on consulting, support and training service.

Developer, writer, speaker, musician, and Community Advocate, PJ is the founder of DevRelate.IO. He is known to travel the world speaking about programming and the way people think and interact. He is also known for wearing hats. He is currently the Lead AI Advocate at IBM.

Nathan Haines is an author, instructor, and computer consultant who fell in love with Ubuntu in 2005, and helped found the Ubuntu California Local Community Team to share that excitement with others. As the leader of the California team and a member of the Ubuntu Local Community Council, he works to help others support and share Ubuntu worldwide.

His mission to educate and excite people about Free Software and Ubuntu continues with his book, Beginning Ubuntu for Windows and Mac Users.

Jon "maddog" Hall is the Board Chair Emeritus of the Linux Professional Institute (lpi.org).

During his career in commercial computing which started in 1969, Mr. Hall has been a programmer, systems designer, systems administrator, product manager, technical marketing manager, author and educator.

He has worked for such companies as Western Electric Corporation, Aetna Life and Casualty, Bell Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corporation, VA Linux Systems, SGI and Linaro. He currently works as an independent consultant, and is currently involved with bringing environmentally friendly computing to emerging marketplaces through Project Cauã.

Nuri Halperin is a software architect, speaker, and author. He helps companies design scalable systems, websites, and business applications. He’s been turning projects into success stories for a variety of clients for over 2 decades.

He is the author of several Pluralsight.com courses. He's also a Microsoft MVP alum, a MongoDB Champions member, and recipient of MongoDB's William Zola Award for Community Excellence. He enjoys tinkering with Arduinos, 3D printing, and robotics.

11th grader at RUHS
Colorguard Commander and Cadet Gunnery Sergeant in MCJROTC
Studying Cybersecurity

Senior Developer Advocate at Datadog, focused on DevOps, SRE, and AI. Committed to empowering developers with modern engineering techniques for scalable, reliable, and explainable systems.

Sam Hanna is a medical technician at Abbott Labs for the past 7 years. He has been a Linux user for over 15 years. He is self-taught individual who has been inspired many people in the linux community and loves working with many Linux distributions, server applications, and tools. He is an advocate of opensource software and self-hosting. His goal is to reach out and spread his knowledge to others and hope to inspire others just as the opensource community has done for him.

As the Principal Developer Advocate at Konstruct, Frédéric Harper helps Developers, and DevOps be successful with their Kubernetes journey. Fred has shared his passion for technology on the stage at multitudinous events around the world. He’s helped build successful, and healthy communities at npm, Mozilla, Microsoft, DigitalOcean, and Fitbit. He is also the author of the book Personal Branding for Developers at Apress. Behind this extrovert is a very passionate individual who believes in the power of communication... and cat videos.

Shannon Harper is the Marketing Director at DBeaver, bringing over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. She is a firm believer in the power of community and an advocate for open, collaborative approaches.

Christopher is a longtime geek and web developer at heart. For the entirety of his career is assisted individuals and organizations in getting the most out of technology. At present, he's a Developer Advocate at GitHub focused on DevX and GitHub Copilot. When not working he can be found simulating being a pilot, running, or spending time with his partner and their adopted puppy.

Addison Hart is a recent graduate of the Colorado School of Mines and a software engineer at Verizon on the infrastructure team in Aurora. In addition to his full time work on automation, he has 4 years of experience reverse engineering APIs and homebrewing embedded devices. His most well known work in that space is the public Mario Maker 2 API used by that community. He is an active contributor to local Linux User Groups in the greater Denver area and has given 7 talks on topics ranging from the acquisition and storage of time in computers to the philosophy behind reverse engineering. He has served as the system administrator for the CS department at the Colorado School of Mines for 3 years and specializes in backend and data engineering.

Currenty I'm an engineer at Meta where I've spent the last 6 years developing and applying software for C++ application observability. During my career I've has been fortunate enough to be involved in developing some interesting technologies including Sun Microsystem's Solaris Dynamic Tracing system (DTrace) and technologies within Oracle's RDBMS Database.

By day, I'm the CFO and COO of PGX, Inc., a Postgres-only consultancy in Alameda, California. I'm also the President of the U.S. PostgreSQL Association (PgUS), a nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of PostgreSQL through education and advocacy. I'm an organizer of the San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL Users Group. At conferences in the US and Europe, you'll often find me at the registration desk. I'm also the creator of the original PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct, and was the first Chair of the Community CoC Committee for three years. By night, I sleep, since that's a lot to do every day!

Wanda He is a Prin. Database Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She works with customers on design, deploy, and optimize relational databases on AWS. Wanda has been working with relational database for over 20 years. Previously, she was a member of of Microsoft SQL Server Customer Advisory Team. At AWS, she specialized in RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL, RDS SQL Server, and RDS on Outposts.

From film to engineering, Annie’s career has seen many iterations. She is a keen observer of what works and what doesn’t, striving always to make the right thing to do the easy thing to do. Annie and her husband, Michael, are raising their three teenagers in Boulder, CO. She’s currently working on a project to make doing the right thing with your career the easy thing to do. Find out more at people-work.io.

Christian is a well rounded technologist with experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, enterprise architecture, tech support, advocacy, and product management. Passionate about OpenSource and containerizing the world one application at a time. He is currently a maintainer of the OpenGitOps project, a member of the Argo Project Marketing SIG, and co-host of GitOps Guide to the Galaxy. He focuses on GitOps practices, DevOps, Kubernetes, and Containers.

Software Engineer @ Meta working on scheduling with sched_ext. Experience deploying novel userspace schedulers to production and building the features needed to outperform existing kernel schedulers, debugging application performance along the way.

Previous experience working on debuggers and memory profiling, with a focus on writing high performance memory efficient C++.

Robert has over 30 years of experience in database and application engineering. Among other data management experience, he worked on object-relational databases and transaction processing at Sybase for most of the 1990s. Robert has worked on MySQL and open source database systems since 2005. He is the original designer of Continuent's Tungsten solution and one of the main committers of the open source Tungsten Replicator.

Adam Holt is a computer scientist who was OLPC's Community/Support Manager, has served schools in Haiti, traveled the world building an understanding of technology around developing world schools, and catalyzes Internet-in-a-Box communities worldwide. He hopes you too will seize the day, unleashing grassroots learning libraries in all countries.

Bryan's been interested in computing for as long as he can remember. Even studying electronic engineering, just to understand how a computer could add 2 numbers together on a transistor level.

Recently, he's been interested in the smaller details of operating systems. How they work, why they look they way they do, and why LISP machines never took off.

Please don't hesitate to approach him about anything tech, or music, related. But, be warned, he has a tendency to just keep on talking once he gets going.

Rich has had the fortune to work for great organizations and with even better people throughout his career. He was an early-adopter of DevOps recognizing the opportunity to move Ops out from under just being a cost-center to a key contributor to help companies accelerate business objectives. A majority of his career has been building data-driven DevOps teams for SaaS in the online advertising space (Nativo, Fox, MySpace), but also has held roles within Corporate IT (Nestle and EMC). He has a passion for automation, observability and monitoring systems. He has been an Elastic Community Leader and organizer for the Elastic LA Meetup since 2015

Developer for most of his life and open source enthusiast and advocate for big part of it. Over the time involved in openSUSE and Gentoo communities, activelly participating on various local events and even cofounded the biggest opensource conference in Czech republic. Started his profesional career at SUSE and during whole his career worked on open source projects. Interest in various hardware gadgets brought him to his current job where he is leading a departement full of amazing people making open source, high performance and secure Wi-Fi routers called Turris.

Software engineer building observability platform at eBay

James Huang is a Product Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, focusing specifically on the High Performance Computing and AI capabilities and offerings for RHEL. Prior to joining Red Hat, he has served in a variety of technical roles from engineering and product development to product management in many different industry verticals including digital consumer banking, computer networking, industrial automation, and medical device development.

Early on, Sara shifted from economics to marketing, inspired by "The Invisible Hand," and focused on a human-centered approach. She has diverse marketing experience, from Fortune 200 companies to startups. Sara currently works at Pulumi, an Infrastructure as Code startup. She is passionate about the DevOps culture and mindset, which puts people first, and the value of soft skills. In her free time, she provides on-demand high-level strategy consulting to undisclosed executives in mid-to-large corporations, pro bono consulting to local micro-businesses, and fosters puppies and kittens.

I'm a tech nerd, who's obsessed with any and everything related to robotics, renewables and infrastructure. I've been into robotics for as long as I can remember. When I was younger, I loved to take apart anything electronic, study it and reassemble it and now as an adult, I'm a STEM educator and building Arduino-based robots in my free time. I'm very happy to be alive in this period in time because I believe that we (humanity) are in the beginning of a tech/robotics, Industrial Revolution and that we have the ability to use current and emerging technology to make the world a better place for everyone living in it.

My ultimate goal with tech/my career is to do something that moves human civilization even a small step closer to becoming a Type I Civilization.