Featured Speakers
Solomon Hykes is the co-founder and CEO of Dagger.io, the first programmable CI/CD engine. Before that, he was the co-founder of Docker, where he served for 10 years as CEO then CTO, and a founding member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee. Solomon grew up in France, and now lives in San Francisco.
I'm Xe iaso, a technical educator, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in the process. I live in Ottawa with my husband and I do developer relations professionally. I am an avid writer for my blog xeiaso.net, where I have over 500 articles. I regularly experiment with new technologies and find ways to mash them up with old technologies for my own amusement.
Jonah Ibarra is currently an eighth grader at Los Nietos STEAM Academy. He enjoys sports and will be running the LA Marathon this year. He has a passion for technology and engineering. He is a member of the Cybersecurity Club at his school and competes in CyberPatriot specializing in Linux security.
Matt Ingenthron is a VP of Software Engineering at Couchbase a software development background and experience with high-scale, high performance system design. He has deep expertise in building, scaling, and operating global-scale web deployments across many platforms. He has been a contributor to the memcached project and a core developer on Couchbase developing much of the early clustering platform interfaces. Matt's teams are currently building all of the SDKs/Connectors for Couchbase Capella and Couchbase Server, Cloud Native integration with Kubernetes and OpenShift, Developer Experience with frameworks and IDE plugins, and some of the new services on Couchbase Capella, Couchbase's DBaaS.
Joel A. Jaffe is an MSc student with emphases in digital audio, electric instruments, and embedded systems. His off-campus pursuits revolve around rock music performance and production, as well as the maintenance, repair, and modification of instruments. His research investigates practical digital tools for electric instrumentalists and their development as meaningful interaction between music academia and practicing musicians.
Ryan Jarvinen is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat, focusing on improving developer experience in the cloud native community. He lives in Sacramento, California and is passionate about open source, open standards, open government, and digital rights.
Yunhao Jiao, a Yale University graduate with a master’s degree. He has nearly five years of experience at AWS, where he served as a Senior Software Engineer. During his time at Amazon, he played a crucial role in building the Contract Tests framework for AWS CloudFormation, ensuring that resource types operated as expected throughout their lifecycle. Since 2015, Yunhao has been actively involved in NLP research, publishing his first AI paper as the lead author in 2017. He also contributed to education as the Chinese High School Artificial Intelligence Textbook editor. After his tenure at Amazon, Yunhao founded TestSprite and participates in the Techstars Miami and YC China accelerator programs.
Sam Johnston is an Australian technology executive and serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience founding and advising startups, as well as holding leadership roles at companies like Google, Equinix, Citrix, and DXC Technology. His work spans emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, drones, robotics, 3D printing, computer vision, augmented reality, blockchain, and quantum computing.
As the Convenor of the Open Source Alliance, an AI Convergence challenge of the AI Action Summit, Sam champions global governance in Open Source AI. He serves as CEO of Acumino, a Singapore venture studio, and as a Board Member at Kwaai Open Source AI Lab, where he leads the development of the Personal Artificial Intelligence Operating System (pAI-OS), empowering individuals to use AI while retaining control over their personal data.
I'm a software developer from New Zealand, with over a decade of experience. I have a particular affection for functional programming, and have been an avid Nix user since 2017. In my spare time I enjoy photography, baking, video games and music.
Jolo founded of Sysarmy and Nerdearla and has significantly contributed to Open Source in Latin America. With extensive experience as a SysAdmin and in communications, he has effectively engaged with the tech community across various companies.
Hobbyist programmer who became an embedded and mobile security engineer for Viasat, and later a member of SNUG. Works on mobile devices for a day job, and may have read Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust one too many times.
elvis kahoro (he/him/his) is a software engineer and developer advocate at Reflex (YC W23). The reflex.dev team is building an open-source (20k+ GitHub stars) framework empowering Python developers to build internal data, AI and web apps faster - no JavaScript or web development experience required. Build both your frontend and backend in a single language, Python (pip install reflex).
elvis is a Christian living in San Francisco, CA. He enjoys playing soccer and biking!
Preetish Kakkar is a distinguished thought leader in the field of computer graphics, AR/VR/XR technologies, and AI-driven software engineering, known for his impactful contributions across globally recognized platforms such as Adobe, Microsoft, and MathWorks. With an illustrious career driving technological advancements and software innovations, Preetish has carved a niche by spearheading complex rendering projects and AI simulations, further consolidating his expertise with his authorship of the 'Modern Vulkan Cookbook'. As a celebrated keynote speaker and technical ambassador at prestigious conferences like VishwaCon 2024, and a top Computer Graphics Voice on LinkedIn for 2024, Preetish's influence extends beyond the tech community. His prolific experience, combined with a profound understanding of 3D graphics and machine learning, makes him an invaluable asset and transformative leader, engaged in shaping the future of digital technologies.
Frank Karlitschek is a long time open source developer and former board member of the KDE e.V. In 2016 he founded Nextcloud to create a fully open source and decentralized alternative to big centralized US cloud companies. In 2012 he initiated the User Data Manifesto to define basic human rights regarding personal data. Frank was an invited expert at the W3C to help to create the ActivityPub internet standard. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN, Harvard and ETH and keynoted several conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud GmbH. He is also a fellow of Open Forum Europe and an advisor to the United Nations regarding Intellectual Property and Open Source
Distributed databases expert at Rubrik
Architected petabyte scale file system (also works on Object Storage) supporting 5K+ enterprise customers
Tech lead of bidding and relevance engines (ML models) at Inmobi
President of India gold medalist at IIT Madras, and an avid online gaming enthusiast.
Sinan Kefeli is an AI scientist with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and computer vision. At Verizon, he develops models to analyze customer call transcripts, improve customer interactions, and answer complex queries using large language models (LLMs). His work includes fine-tuning open source models like Mistral and Flan-T5, building graph databases, and creating tools for real-time information retrieval.
Prior to Verizon, Sinan earned his PhD in Physics from Caltech, where he applied advanced machine learning techniques to large-scale scientific data pipelines.
Sinan uses tools like Python, PyTorch, Neo4j, and Docker to build reliable and efficient AI systems. He focuses on practical solutions that are clear, measurable, and effective.
Mike Kelly is the CTO, Developer and Co-Founder of a SaaS company called MemberVault. He is not only a big Linux fan for personal uses, but uses Linux exclusively to develop and host the platform. Mike is based in Olympia, WA where him and his wife run MemberVault, while raising 3 kids and a golden doodle.
Mubaris Khan is a Software Engineer at Wellington Management in Boston, specializing in integrating security within DevOps processes. He maintains the firm's authorization and authentication systems, ensuring secure inter-application communication and proper permission management. Overseeing token security, he developed a monitoring tool that enhanced visibility by 40% for tools like Bitbucket, Sonar, and Jira. By automating Maven dependency analysis, he identifies and updates vulnerable dependencies, strengthening project security.
Previously, as a Site Reliability Intern at Red Hat, he improved alerting capabilities using Prometheus and Grafana, increasing coverage by 25 times. Mubaris also taught AWS cloud computing as a Teaching Assistant at Northeastern University. A hackathon judge at Harvard University and TechTogether Boston, he holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from R.V College of Engineering and pursued advanced studies at Northeastern University.
Avni Khatri is Sr. Director of Education in GitHub's Developer Relations organization, helping learners access the tools and resources they need to successfully build software products. Avni is passionate about working with learners and educators of all kind to make coding available to the next generation of developers around the globe. She also volunteers with Internet-in-a-Box.
Roman is a software engineer with experience in distributed systems, databases, monitoring, and high-performance microservices. Roman's passion is open source and he's proud to have contributions to Prometheus, Grafana, and ClickHouse. Currently, Roman is working on the open source time series database and monitoring solution VictoriaMetrics.
Nina Kin is the Technical Lead for LA Metro’s Digital Services Team. With over 15 years in local government and a background in software engineering, she is determined to make government work better for the public. Outside of Metro, Nina serves as a Board Member for MobilityData and is on the organizing team for several government/tech/data events, such as Data + Donuts LA, MaptimeLA, the LA Arts Datathon, and the International Humanitarian Mapathon.
When she’s not in front of a computer, you’ll find Nina exploring neighborhoods by foot, bike, or public transit. She also enjoys learning new crafting skills, playing the violin, and practicing taiko drumming with the JTown Taiko Club. A proud alumna of UC Berkeley, Nina holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Divya K Konoor is a Senior Technical Staff Member (Senior Product Development Architect) in IBM Z Systems and leads Confidential Computing offerings like IBM Hyper Protect Crypto Services, Hyper Protect Virtual Service, Crypto Appliance and other Hyper Protect On-Prem and IBM Cloud Offerings. She has 21 years of experience in the IT industry with around 18 years in Cloud Technologies, Virtualization, Systems Management, Security and Confidential Computing. She is a passionate speaker and product evangelist with multiple blogs, technical articles, patents and IP Publications including in WeQuity Spotlight, IBM AoT , OpenStack Summit, ACM K, CDAC Cloud Auditing , IEEE CCEM speaker / technical papers, IEEE Wintechon technical committee member, GHC speaker/ reviewer, OpenStack India Days Speaker etc
Cornelius is into multi factor authentication since 2004. He is the project lead of the MFA system privacyIDEA.
As a consultant he learnt to unterstand customers requirements in heterogenous networks. He planned and implemented several PKIs for smartcard usage and was one of the first to work on the interoperability of the Aladdin eToken.
In 2006 he started one of the the first open source one time password systems. In 2009 he initiated an enterprise OTP solution. In 2014 he kicked off the privacyIDEA project. It is a vendor independent authentication system, which can be used to manage arbitrary authentication objects for multi factor authentication. privacyIDEA supports authentication protocols like PAM, RADIUS, SAML or LDAP. In 2014 he also founded the company NetKnights to provide consultancy for strong authentication.
Cornelius spoke at several conferences in Germany, in the Netherlands, in Belgium (FOSDEM), in Denmark and in the U.S.
Alexander Komyagin (Alex) is the founder and CEO of Adiom (adiom.io), building industry-leading Open Source software for enterprise data mobility. A seasoned technology leader, Alex previously served as a Product Manager and Services Leader at MongoDB. He and his teams played a key role in developing data replication tools like mongosync and Atlas Live Migrate. Alex also spearheaded numerous high-impact migrations to MongoDB Atlas for global enterprises.
Driven by his deep experience navigating the complexities of large-scale data migrations, Alex founded Adiom to revolutionize database migration and replication, particularly for mission-critical workloads. His goal is to make these processes dramatically easier, faster, and more reliable for enterprises.
Before MongoDB, Alex led development of Bluetooth for Android team at Motorola Enterprise Solutions. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas and a Master's in Computer Science from Saint Petersburg University.
Julia has seen things, and built things! Sounds ominous right? She started in Networking early in her career, and drifted through building data centers, hardcore systems engineering, and eventually the automation of the data center infrastructure! She is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, and serves on the Board of Directors of the OpenInfra Foundation. When she is not in meetings, she can sometimes be found working on the Ironic Project, which helps facilitate Bare Metal as a Service.
Podcaster. Tailscalar. Linuxserver.io co-founder. Drone Racer. Photographer. Dog Lover.
UK raised but now living Raleigh, NC, USA, Alex is a container evangelist and tinkerer by nature.
He a host of the Self-Hosted podcast (https://selfhosted.show) and Head of Developer Relations at Tailscale. He is also the author of https://perfectmediaserver.com and is passionate about helping others get into self-hosting and doing so as easily as possible.
Alexander is the CEO of Tempesta Technologies, Inc., and is the architect of Tempesta FW, a high performance open source Linux application delivery controller. Alexander is responsible for the design and performance of several products in the areas of network traffic processing and databases. He designed the core architecture of a Web application firewall, mentioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, and MariaDB system versioning.
Felix has been building (open source) IT Infrastructure since the late 90s. Between then and now felix was part of various open source development communities (from DarwinPorts, OpenDarwin to OpenBSD and nowadays the Sovereign Cloud Stack). His interests range from monitoring and observability over infrastructure-as-code to building and scaling communities and companies. He has been part of the extended board of the OSBA for the last seven years and describes himself as an unix/open source nerd. If not working or spending time with his family, he is usually found on a road bike.
Bradley M. Kuhn is the Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence at Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC). Kuhn began volunteering in the software freedom movement in 1992 — as an early adopter of Linux and contributor to many FOSS projects including Perl. As Free Software Foundation (FSF)'s Executive Director from 2001-2005, Kuhn led FSF’s GPL enforcement and invented the Affero GPL. Kuhn was SFC’s primary volunteer from 2006–2010 and its first staffer in 2011. At SFC Kuhn’s work focuses on enforcement of copyleft and the GPL agreements, FOSS licensing policy and FOSS non-profit infrastructure. Kuhn holds a summa cum laude B.S. in Computer Science from Loyola University in Maryland and an M.S. in Computer Science from University of Cincinnati. Kuhn received the 2012 Open Source Award and the 2021 Award for the Advancement of Free Software — both in recognition for his lifelong policy work on copyleft licensing and its enforcement.
I am an engineer of the virtualization platform group of the core network development department in NTT DOCOMO. I am designing the operation of the EPC, 5G core, IMS, other core network function and radio network using NFV specification, and developing MANO for commercial mobile systems.
- I developed OSS in DOCOMO to support operation of 2G/3G/4G core and radio network function by 2010.
- I developed MANO in DOCOMO to virtualized EPC and IMS network by 2015.
- I was bridge of development and ETSI NFV standard by 2020. I was rapporteur of SOL002 and SOL014 in ETSI NFV.
- I am bridge of development of virtualization platform for core and radio, standard of ETSI NFV and O-RAN WG6, and OpenStack Tacker now.
- I am ETSI NFV SOL WG Chair since Sep 2023.
With more than 10 years of recruiting experience in the open source space, Mary specializes in creating positive candidate journeys that generate community advocacy and repeat applicants. Currently recruiting for DBeaver, her approach combines automation, transparency, and clarity, empowering companies to provide exceptional candidate interactions despite small hiring teams or limited tools. Through her commitment to hiring best practices, Mary has demonstrated that an optimized candidate experience can be a game-changer for companies, increasing referrals, strengthening reputation, and ensuring a consistent, positive presence in open source communities.
Leslie B. Lamport is an American computer scientist and mathematician. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems, and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX and the author of its first manual. Lamport worked as a computer scientist at Massachusetts Computer Associates from 1970 to 1977, Stanford Research Institute (SRI International) from 1977 to 1985, and Digital Equipment Corporation and Compaq from 1985 to 2001. In 2001 he joined Microsoft Research in California, and he retired in January 2025. Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award for imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages. He devised important algorithms and developed formal modelling and verification protocols that improve the quality of real distributed systems.
Passionate about helping people discover the exciting world of artificial intelligence, Ezequiel is a frequent AI conference presenter and the creator of use cases, tutorials, and guides that help developers adopt open source AI tools.
Emily is a Developer Advocate at RisingWave Labs, working in the stream processing space, and curious about all data-related technologies. At RisingWave Labs, she builds demos, creates product videos, and writes tutorials, guides, and blogs.
Tom is an artist who has been using and making various open source tools to help produce his artwork for almost 20 years. For instance, he created desktop publishing software called Laidout to produce his comic books, and is now exploring the many aspects of video game production. He is based in Portland, Oregon, USA.
Maciej Lecki is a distinguished industry veteran, bringing over two decades of experience in network engineering. Maciejs unwavering passion lies in open-source computer networking, and he is are a driving force behind cutting-edge solutions. As an influential thought leader, Maciej actively contributes to open-source projects and mentors aspiring professionals.
Joshua is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience, specializing in a broad range of topics including operations, observability, agile methodologies, and accessibility. His passion for technology is matched by his enthusiasm for sharing knowledge through public speaking. Currently, Joshua serves as a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he creates educational content on ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry. Additionally, he is an active contributor to the OpenTelemetry project, helping to advance the field of observability in software development.
Dr. Corey Leong is a professor at Valencia College. He teaches cloud computing courses, in addition to, overseeing cloud mentorships and cloud internships. Before entering higher education, he worked for 25 years in the IT industry with organizations such as Oracle, Google, and IBM. He lives in Orlando, Florida and enjoys reading, running, and attending Orlando Magic basketball games.
Mitchell Levy is a recent graduate of the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. His interests center on tools and methodologies that help people write safer and more robust code.
Nick is an engineer at Flox, working to bring the power of Nix to the masses. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at Puppet, rewiring his brain to see the whole world as a desired state problem.
Stephanie Lieggi is executive director for the Center for Research in Open Source Software (CROSS) and the UC Santa Cruz Open Source Program Office (OSPO). In her current role, she supports the work of academic-based open source projects and enables a sustainable contributor base through the establishment of hands-on mentorship programs. Stephanie promotes the use of open source in academic settings as well as increasing diversity and inclusion in open source ecosystems.
Andrew Lilley Brinker works on software supply chain security at MITRE, including serving as a member of the OmniBOR Working Group, where he leads development of the Rust implementation, and as the project lead for Hipcheck, a tool for automated supply chain risk assessment of software packages.
Andrew Lim is a seventh grader at Los Nietos STEAM Academy. He’s an active member of the MESA (Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement) program, Cybersecurity Club, and competes in CyberPatriot specializing in Linux security. Andrew is a rated US Chess Federation player, who has won many tournaments. He is passionate about cybersecurity and aspires to build a career in the field.
Jonathan is a software engineer in Orange County with some experience with AWS.
Joyce Lin is the head of developer relations at Viam, a robotics platform that connects software with smart machines in the physical world. Based in San Francisco, she is also a Tiktok influencer, dog mom, cat mom, and writer.
Patrice Williams Lindo is the CEO of Career Nomad, with over 17 years of experience driving high-stakes transformations for Fortune 500 companies. A seasoned expert in agile leadership and organizational development, she empowers DevOps teams to break silos, boost collaboration, and achieve sustainable innovation. Patrice is known for her no-nonsense approach to integrating human dynamics with cutting-edge technology, ensuring teams not only meet but exceed their goals. With a track record of creating resilient, high-performing teams, her work has been featured in CNBC, Fortune, and Yahoo Finance.
Georg’s mission is to make open source more professional by using community metrics and analytics. Georg cofounded the CHAOSS Project to advance analytics and metrics for open source project health. Georg is an active contributor to several projects and often presents on open source topics. Georg has an MBA and a Ph.D. in Information Technology. As the Open Source Strategist and Director of Sales at Bitergia, Georg helps organizations and communities adopt metrics and make open source more sustainable.
I’m an all around geek with a passion for systems administration and the DevOps culture who is always searching for a better way to accomplish a task or to solve a problem. I’m also a pragmatic systems architect who regularly looks for non-traditional solutions to problems. I believe in using the best operating system for the problem at hand, be it Linux, macOS, Windows, or something else. I’ve been working in IT for over 20 years and have been using all three of those the entire time.
At work I’m kind of a cross between a systems administrator, a systems architect, and a programmer along with some aspects of a team lead. In the past I’ve also been a network engineer, firewall admin, storage admin, and data center manager. My current world revolves around a combination of physical servers & appliances managed with Puppet, Kubernetes, and virtualization.
When not at work, I’m also a home automation junkie and Cub Scout den leader.
Online I’m usually known as GeneBean.
Cynthia is program manager at GitHub, leading social sector partnership programs with a focus on open source projects contributing to SDGs and digital public goods. As well as capacity building to GitHub tools for the social sector and nonprofit organizations.
Jean-Charles "JC" Lopez, an Advanced Technology Specialist at IBM, has been in the field of storage for over 30 years. He has dealt with the challenges of each era over different operating systems and in different environments—from OpenStack to OpenShift and from mainframe to open systems. He likes to share his passion for storage while promoting open-source solutions. Since 2019 he's been working full time with Red Hat OpenShift customers and help them build data services platforms around Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (now part of the IBM Storage Fusion solution).
He has been continuously working with Ceph since 2013 while at Inktank and Red Hat and has authored Ceph courseware and IBM Redbooks.
Lori has a passion and enthusiasm for working with the developer and open source community. She is the Data on Kubernetes SIG Co-Chair, a CNCF & CDF Ambassador, former Chair of CNCF Marketing Committee and the CDF Outreach Marketing Committee, program chair of cdCon 2023, and is active in the OpenSSF DevRel committee. She co-hosts the CD Pipeline on behalf of the CDF with TechstrongTV. She is committed to helping open source and other tech communities grow and adapt in our ever changing environment. She is currently Head of Community for Percona.
Senior Platform TAM at Red Hat
I am a #RedHatAccelerator
Passions: Privacy, Security & Hardware, Raspberry Pi, Steam Deck, & 3D printing.
Whitney Lovelace is a consultant specializing in technology strategy and delivery. She is passionate about using memorable and impactful communication to improve project outcomes. You will often find her telling a great story while implementing lasting organizational change.
While Whitney's educational background has focused on using data to drive business decisions, she has also spent years researching and honing facilitation techniques. She uses her analysis and communication superpowers to create both a fun and more productive work environment.
Federico Lucifredi is the Product Management Director for Ceph Storage at Red Hat and a co-author of O'Reilly's "Peccary Book" on AWS System Administration. Previously, he was the Ubuntu Server product manager at Canonical, where he oversaw a broad portfolio and the rise of Ubuntu Server to the rank of most popular OS on Amazon AWS. A software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, he was part of the SUSE Linux team, overseeing the update lifecycle and delivery stack of a $150 million maintenance business. A CIO and a network software architect at advanced technology and embedded Linux startups, Federico was also a lecturer for over 200 students in Boston University's graduate and undergraduate programs, and simultaneously a consultant for MIT implementing fluid-dynamics simulations in Java.
Edward Ly is a software engineer at Nextcloud as part of a team that develops ethical AI solutions and supports the greater Nextcloud community. Previously, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Aizu, where he conducted research on machine learning in digital audio signal processing applications and published his work as free software. Recently, he has also spoken at various open source events including FOSSY and the Nextcloud Community Conference.
Scott Mabe is a Technical Enablement Manager at Datadog, and lives in Baltimore Maryland. He has been working in tech for close to 20 years. In a past life Scott has been a radio dj .When he’s not working Scott enjoys traveling to see punk rock shows.
Stefano is an experienced leader of open source organizations, from non-profits advocacy groups and trade organizations to business ventures and community projects across countries. With a proven track record in community building, he’s also an active contributor to open source projects. When not basking in front of a monitor, you’ll find him teaching sailing or perfecting his pizza technique.
Michael Malgeri is a Solution Architect with ScyllaDB. He's worked at technology startups in a variety of industries as well as G-500 corporations. Michael is skilled at delivering data integration solutions in use cases such in media and entertainment, manufacturing, publishing, and pharmaceutical to name a few. He enjoys solving complex IT problems with customers in pursuit of their business goals.
Justin is a technical support engineer at Akuity and Argo CD maintainer. He is passionate about open source and cloud native technologies that leverage productivity. In his spare time you will find him hiking with his family or scuba diving the California Channel Islands.
Amy Marrich is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. She currently serves as the Chair of the CentOS Project, Vice Chair of the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra) Board of Directors, and is on the Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software (CHAOSS) projects governing board. In addition, she serves on the Red Hat OpenStack technical committee, is Chair of the OpenInfra Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, contributes to several OpenStack projects, and previously served as the Chair of the OpenStack User Committee.
Don Marti has written for Linux Weekly News, Linux Journal, and other publications. Don co-founded the Linux and web consulting firm Electric Lichen, which he and business partner Jim Gleason later sold to VA Linux Systems. Don has served as president and vice president of the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group and on the program committees for Uselinux, Codecon, and LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. He was a key organizer for Windows Refund Day, Burn All GIFs Day, FreedomHEC, and the movement to free Dmitry Sklyarov.
I've been technically leading, mentoring, and managing a team, helping companies and people with current and future needs, starting from SW engineering to everything database, currently focused around MySQL. I work for Pythian doing what I love, in a challenging environment. I'm passionate about leadership, mentoring, and data.
I started my career at VitalSource Technologies a decade ago, as a MySQL DBA. I've spoken at numerous database conferences across the US and in Europe, sharing insights on scalable database architectures and performance optimization.
In my current role, I lead the systems engineering team while championing initiatives that drive both technical and social impact. I established VitalSource's Cloud FinOps practice to optimize cloud resources and founded the company's Engineering Women group to foster inclusivity in tech. I grew up with a single mom, and watched her put herself through school to improve our lives. This is an experience that fuels my commitment to VitalSource's mission of making educational materials more accessible and affordable.
At NGINX, Dave works with DevOps, developers and architects to realize the advantages of modern microservice architectures and orchestration in distributed systems, especially for today's fast-moving cycles.
Dave has been a champion for open systems and open source from the early days of Linux to today's world of clouds and containers. He speaks on topics such as the real-world issues associated with emerging software architectures and practices. He covers topics such as observability, concepts associated with software architectures and practices, open-source software and creating new technology. A self-described open source geek and standards wonk, you can find his opinions on twitter @dwmcallister and https://medium.com/@dwmcallister
Scott McAllister is a Principal Developer Advocate for ngrok. He has been building software in several industries for over a decade. Now, he's helping others learn about various web technologies and programming principles. When he's not coding, writing, or speaking, he enjoys long walks with his wife, skipping rocks with his kids, and is happy whenever Real Salt Lake, Seattle Sounders FC, Manchester City, St. Louis Cardinals, Seattle Mariners, Chicago Bulls, Seattle Storm, Seattle Seahawks, Seattle Reign FC, Seattle Kraken, Barcelona, Fiorentina, Borussia Dortmund or Mainz 05 can manage a win.
Jimmy leads the collaboration with OpenInfra Members, including strategy development, goal alignment and new member recruitment. Outside of advocating for current open source trends and distributing his calendar link (which you can find here: https://calendly.com/jimmy-mcarthur), he enjoys cooking, traveling, and having the best award winning chili in Texas.
Shaun is the CentOS Community Architect at Red Hat. He's an occasional developer and tech writer. He's worked on documentation and documentation systems in a number of open source communities, most notably as part of GNOME for the last two decades.
Author of the book "Getting Started with Grafana", Ronald McCollam is a geek of all trades with experience ranging from full stack development to IT operations to management and sales. He has a strong background in open source software, starting when a stack of 3.5" Slackware floppies was the easy way to install Linux. He's managed IT operations in datacenters from back when the "cloud" was new and scary, built and run an OS certification program for hardware running Linux, and spent entirely too long thinking about observability. He's also a Certified Irish Whisky Taster.
The technology bug hit when in 1999 Kim took a job with Silicon Graphics and high performance computing was THE place to be. Fast forward to 2017 and Kim is now part of the {code} team where she STILL has the opportunity to work with cutting edge technology - now in open source.
Kim’s expertise is in digital marketing strategy and spreading awareness via marketing channels. She has created marketing strategies and messaging maps for tech companies ranging from high performance computing to open source. With a focus on digital marketing, Kim has created and executed digital marketing strategies and campaigns for B2B, technology events, and open source organizations.
Lee McWhorter, Owner & Chief Geek at McWhorter Technologies, has been involved in IT since its early days and has over 30 years of experience. He is a highly sought after professional who first learned about identifying weaknesses in computer networks, systems, and software when Internet access was achieved using a modem. Lee holds an MBA and more than 20 industry certifications in such areas as System Admin, Networking, Programming, Linux, IoT, and Cybersecurity. His roles have ranged from the server room to the board room, and he has taught for numerous universities, commercial trainers, and nonprofits. Lee works closely with the Dark Arts Village at RSA, Red Team Village at DEFCON, Texas Cyber Summit, CompTIA, and the CompTIA Instructor Network as a Speaker, SME, and Instructor.
Ana Margarita Medina is a Staff Developer Advocate at Upbound, she speaks on all things SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering and Reliability. She is a self-taught engineer with over 14 years of experience, focusing on cloud infrastructure and reliability. She has been part of the Kubernetes Release Team since v1.25, serves on the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee, and is on the GC for CNCF's Keptn project, When time permits, she leads efforts to dispel the stigma surrounding mental health and bring more Black and Latinx folks into tech.
Gabriela Medvetska is a Software Engineer at eBay. As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, she worked on a variety of projects ranging from developing UIs for internal observability tooling to implementing machine learning algorithms to improve site resiliency during external vendor outages. She is a banana slug from Ukraine and has a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Being a typical Gemini, she has 50 billion hobbies, but she is most excited about a cyberpunk festival called Neotropolis coming up in April.
Jeremy is a seasoned DevRel & DevEx leader, an international speaker, and is currently the Director of DevRel at OneStream Software, previously at CircleCI, Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area, including support, system and database administration, application and web development, project management, program management, and systems analysis, Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com, and organizer for DevOpsDays Kansas City. A lover of all things coffee, community, open source, and tech, he is also house-broken, and (generally) plays well with others.
Nick Meyer studied physics and computer science at Caltech, and is currently a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform Engineering team at Academia.edu. A major focus during his tenure at Academia.edu has been streamlining and modernizing the data layer, in particular projects around operations of Academia.edu's PostgreSQL clusters, including upgrades, partitioning, and backup tooling.
Worked in the distributed computing field for over 25 years, starting with designing data serialization algorithms for MPI (PhD subject), time synchronizing multimedia network streams collected using commercial-off-the-shelf hardware, developing a job scheduler, architecting data-driven research evaluation platforms, and conceiving and leading the team building an agnostic benchmarking model to allow researchers to bring their algorithms to specialized datasets.
Co-chair of the OpenStack Scientific Working Group for North America.
Co-chair and one of the authors of the now published IEEE 2302-2021 Cloud Federation standard.
Co-Author of the NIST Technical Series Publication SP 500-332 "The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture".
Passionate about teaching and mentoring others in the fields that I have been fortunate to work on over the years, be it Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Architecture and Infrastructure, Project Management, Growth mindset, .
Noel Miller is a Technical Account Manager at Red Hat, and the Core Contributor at Universal Blue.
He has been working in IT for a little over 10 years, with most of his career being focused on Small and Medium Size businesses. For his day job, he works at Red Hat as a Technical Account Manager with a focus on Ansible.
He is a Core Contributor at Universal Blue. Universal Blue builds a diverse set of continuously delivered operating system images using Fedora Atomic Desktop's support for OCI/Docker containers.
Outside of his IT endeavors, he enjoys spending time with his family, playing video games, listening to heavy metal music, and playing guitar.
For more information, please visit: https://noelmiller.dev/pages/about
DJ is the Founder and CEO of ZConverter, a pioneering cloud migration software company with 20 years of experience. Prior to establishing ZConverter, DJ spent a decade at IBM, where he served as a Principal in Virtualization and High-Performance Cluster Technology. Currently, DJ is committed to helping organizations streamline and expedite their migration from VMware to OpenStack. Outside of his professional life, DJ is an avid tech enthusiast who enjoys mentoring young entrepreneurs and exploring the latest advancements in cloud technology.
Jash Mistry is a Senior Software Engineer at eBay. As a member of the Site Reliability Engineering team, he played a crucial role in the evolution of monitoring—expanding on absolute error counts and average latencies to develop a highly reliable SLO-driven observability platform. He has a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. Movie theatres are his second home, but he does not mind seeing one from the couch as long as it's on Mubi or the Criterion Channel.
Zach is an Engineer at flox and a member of the Nix Documentation Team.
In a previous life Zach built lasers and performed quantum mechanics simulations, but now he builds software with Rust and Nix. Zach has always had a knack for teaching, receiving multiple teaching awards during his PhD. This knack stems from an empathy for the struggles of new users of any technology. Enabling engineers and tinkerers alike to get things done or scratch their own itch has always been a joy for Zach.
Zach has spoken at multiple conferences and meetups, including NixCon 2023 and RustConf 2023. He also organizes the Boulder Rust Meetup.
Kevin Mittman is a GNU/Linux enthusiast with a passion for automation. He is a system software engineer at NVIDIA, with a focus on the installer packaging and release process for CUDA, the NVIDIA driver, and other CUDA-X products. Before joining NVIDIA, Kevin began his career in the open source community, maintaining Debian packages for Maemo and later an ArchLinux-based kiosk Linux LiveUSB distro.
Erik Alessandro Mondrian (he/they) is a writer, visual artist, vocalist, musician, filmmaker, scholar, coder, and longtime explorer of virtual worlds. He holds a BA in French, with a minor in Spanish, from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; an MA in Communication, with a specialization in Mass Communication and Media Studies, from San Diego State University; and an Interschool MFA in VoiceArts & Creative Writing, with a concentration in Integrated Media, from the California Institute of the Arts. He is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
I'm a recovering Music Education major that's currently working as a SysAdmin for University of California. Been a Fedora user since Fedora 12 and an Ambassador since Fedora 15. I've been a Fedora Jam (Pro Audio focused spin) contributor since it's conception, and I own way too many guitars.
I got my start working in the tech world back in the dot-com days, at an Idealab! startup. I have also spent time in Web2 at MySpace, and more recently in Web3 at my own startup. I have worked extensively with systems and networks, including as a Principal Architect in the CDN world. I present on various topics at a wide variety of venues, with recordings and slide decks posted online. I am currently the Principal Architect at Inertia Labs, a consulting firm dedicated to issues around serving infrastructure quality such as SRE, Observability, and Platform Architecture
Alex is a high school junior interested in the social aspect and uses of information technology. He’s been gaining experience in digital community leadership for over 2 and a half years in the online gaming space. While learning computer science in high school, he leads his own gaming community, developing new techniques and gaining experience-based information on project management, social organization and the theory behind the success and failure of communities, especially in the online gaming scene. Outside of the field, Alex has won numerous awards participating in diplomacy and learning international relations in Model United Nations, and enjoys reading and playing the saxophone and piano in his spare time.
Eisly Morales is a seventh grader at Los Nietos STEAM Academy. She plays soccer, paints, reads, and helps take care of her neighbors animals during her free time. Eisly likes cybersecurity because she is able to help protect others. She is a member of the Cybersecurity Club at her school and competes in CyberPatriot.
I have spent over ten years helping launch Bloomberg's OpenStack private cloud. As part of this effort I was chairman and co-organizer of the Openstack Operators Meetups team and we successfully organized multiple meetups around the world including in New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin and Mexico City
David Morgan teaches computer science at Santa Monica College, USC, and UCLA Extension. For 20 previous years he worked for a minicomputer manufacturer and three software companies in Los Angeles.
In academia his course subjects are operating systems, linux, networking, and security. In industry he had technical marketing roles. Their common purpose was giving customers technical understanding of products through support, training, conferences, and trade shows.
David first encountered Microsoft Xenix in 1986 and linux in 1996. He has continued to use UNIX in his career and teaching ever since. He seeks to distill the do-it-yourself learning process into scripted exercises and demonstrations. They lead to essential conclusions but minimize time-consuming trial and error for students. He deploys many exercises, including this demonstration for SCALE 13x, on USC's DETER remote network testbed hardware. David gave a beginner track talk on "Basic TCP/IP in Linux" at SCALE 3x in 2005.
Skilled software architect with 20+ years of experience in crafting enterprise Edge and Multi-Cloud architectures for
High Performance Computing. Possess hands-on implementation experience in Equinix Data Center Digital Services and
hyper-converged multi-cloud infrastructure private connectivity solutions for Azure, GCP, AWS, and Oracle Cloud.