Featured Speakers
Viktor Nagornyy is a seasoned marketing professional with 15 years of experience helping organizations achieve digital independence. As the Marketing Manager at Nextcloud, he works with government agencies, enterprises, and educational institutions to establish digital sovereignty through Nextcloud's open-source collaboration platform.
A passionate open-source advocate and contributor, Viktor helps organizations transition from proprietary solutions to self-hosted open source alternatives. He writes about sustainable open source funding models at fundingopensource.com and believes open source can democratize access to knowledge, empower institutions, and foster innovation while maintaining data sovereignty.
Viktor frequently speaks at events about digital sovereignty, open source adoption in regulated industries, privacy and data protection, and building sustainable open source businesses. His insights help bridge the gap between institutional needs and open source solutions.
Autumn is a product manager at Microsoft Azure specializing in Linux security. In her previous role at AWS as a software engineer, she focused on the development and release of Amazon Corretto (Java) while actively engaging in the OpenJDK community; before that, she worked as an AWS NoSQL Solutions Architect and created educational content in Python and Java.
Autumn co-hosts the exciting new "Fork Around and Find Out" podcast, sharing stories on tech lessons learned, with her previous co-host of the popular "Ship It!" podcast. A proud mom and "Rewriting the Code" alumni, Autumn serves as the Board Chair of Education at MilSpouse Coders, leading the chapter in the Greater Seattle Area, due to her advocacy for collaborative learning and community development.
Michal is a Senior Technical Lead at StackHPC. He has worked in OpenStack across different companies for 10+ years including Enterprise, Telco and HPC markets. He currently serves as a Project Team Lead for OpenStack Kolla and core team member for OpenStack Magnum.
Dave Neary has been active in free and open source communities for more than 20 years. In that time, he has worked on projects relating to infrastructure management, cloud computing, and the telecommunications industry. He currently leads the Developer Relations team at Ampere Computing, promoting the adoption of Arm64 Cloud-Native Processors.
Joe is a security researcher who loves to experiment with embedded devices, signals, and really anything with electrical signals. He lives in a server room and would love to be let out from time to time. When not stuck in a server room or being electrocuted he also dabbles with cloud research. He is currently a full time student at California Polytechnic Pomona.
Kendall first started working on OpenStack in 2015, and has since been bridging open source communities together (like OpenStack and Kubernetes) through her passion to collaborate.
When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of open source, creating a welcoming community, or generally making upstream development in open source a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo taking adventure.
Hoang Dinh Nguyen works as a Cloud Solution Engineer at Viettel Group, where he is responsible for developing solutions for cloud platform services (Viettel Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Observability, and Internal Developer Platform) on Viettel Public Cloud, also as an approver of the KusionStack Community.
Tim led ML teams at Spotify and worked on GKE at Google before starting Flightcrew - the config copilot that helps engineers bulletproof and and scale their cloud. He lives in Brooklyn with his family and will happily share pizza and bagel recommendations.
Rickard Nilsson has worked as a freelancing Nix/NixOS expert for over a decade. Five years ago he founded nixbuild.net, which is an advanced scalable build cluster for Nix offered both as a cloud service and for enterprise deployment.
Paul Novarese is a Principal Solutions Engineer at Hunted Labs. He has been working in open source software for over 25 years, specializing in enterprise infrastructure/operations, security and containers. Recently, he has been studying the industry response to Log4Shell, particularly examining how application developers, security teams and DevOps practitioners in the trenches responded, looking for what worked and what didn’t.
Jason is a young professional in the HPC industry passionate about developing the next generation of lean, mean, open source supercomputing machines. By day, he works at Canonical as their resident HPC engineer making Ubuntu better for supercomputing, and by night he leads the Ubuntu HPC community team as one of its “Not so Ancient Elders.” He is focused on addressing current and future challenges facing the HPC industry such as the convergence of cloud and HPC systems, the impending end of Moore’s Law, and supporting research software engineer workflows. In his free time, he likes to work on several of his open source projects, organizze open source community conferences such as the Ubuntu Summit, and travel to new places to teach others about how great HPC and supercomputing is. Recently he’s started learning the Crystal programming language out of personal interest for its potential applications inside HPC environments. Why Crystal specifically? Well… he loves OOP programming!
Jussi Nummelin is a tech veteran with 20 or so years in IT and software. Currently a Senior Principal Engineer at Mirantis, he leads the k0s Kubernetes distro development efforts. Jussi embraced containers early, deploying Docker 0.6 to production. Since 2017, he's been working in and around Kubernetes. Being hardheaded he still takes joy from building tools and solutions to bring cloud-native to masses. Beyond tech, he finds peace as an avid fisherman.
Currently the Founder of EverythingDevOps, Divine Odazie is a Developer Relations Professional and Technical Writer with over 5+ years of experience in Technology and a track record in Backend Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Native and Developer Relations on a global scale.
He has given talks/workshops at developer conferences like Open Source Summit Europe, KubeCon North America, Cloud Native Rejekts, and Ansible Contributor Summit.
He also supports the cloud native community in Africa as a KCD (Kubernetes Community Days) Organizer, and other communities empowering Africa with Technology.
Distinguished Researcher, NTT Network Innovation Center. He is a PTL of Tacker from Victoria cyclea, and a maintainer of tosca-parser and heat-translator. He joined NTT in 2003. His research interests include distributed systems, network virtualization, and network architectures.
Philippe Ombredanne is a passionate FOSS hacker on a mission to make it easier and safer to reuse FOSS code. He is the maintainer of ScanCode, the industry standard tool for software composition and license detection along with other open source tools for software composition analysis, license and security compliance (aboutcode.org). Philippe is the creator of Package URL, a de-facto standard to identify software packages across the supply chain adopted industry-wide which is the essential glue between SBOM and VEX standards and SCA tools. He contributes to several other projects including the Linux kernel SPDX-ification, CycloneDX, SPDX, ClearlyDefined, Google OSV, strace, several Python tools, and previously to JBoss, Eclipse and Mozilla. He is also a long-time Google Summer of Code mentor and org admin.
Work-wise, Philippe is the CTO and co-founder of nexB, helping software teams track what’s in their code with DejaCode, an open source governance and compliance dashboard.
Heather Osborn, Engineering Manager, Developer Enablement, Zapier
Heather Osborn has been working in technology as a system and operations engineer and manager for the last 25 years, moving from physical to cloud infrastructure.
Heather is an avid long distance runner who has lots of time to think about these things while pounding the pavement.
Steve Oualline is the author of "Practical C Programming", "How Not to Program in C++" and many other programming books. He has been a professional programmer for over 45 years and currently resides in San Diego.
I have been working in the cloud for over 15 years with a focus/specialty on Cloud Security. For most of my career I worked as a consultant serving all sorts of businesses in varying size, vertical, technical maturity, etc. My mission is to help companies sift through the marketing of various security tools and truly provide them with the security that they NEED to run a secure business. This often times is not just a technical implementation, but an educational one. I have taught many enterprises about cloud security and various aspects that they can understand and improve on to bolster their position against attackers. My unique quality is my myriad of experiences produced a very broad spectrum of understanding the specific problems faced by organizations of various size and industry.
Goutham has been a contributor to OpenStack since the Liberty release (2015). He has been most active within the OpenStack Shared File Systems (manila), Block Storage (cinder) and UX (openstackcli, openstacksdk) project teams. He is currently the Chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee: https://governance.openstack.org/tc/. He's a Principal Software Engineer within the OpenStack Engineering team at Red Hat Inc. Prior to working on OpenStack, he has worked on several projects involving data protection across storage systems. Aside from his code contributions, Goutham spends a lot of his time building cross project synchronization and advocating for user experience and API stability. He was a Project Team Lead and the API working group liaison for the Shared File Systems project. As a firm believer in the OpenStack community and its ideals, Goutham devotes significant time to mentoring and onboarding new contributors.
Ray is a Community Manager at PingCAP where he is helping to grow the TiDB community. Prior to PingCAP, Ray managed open source communities at Cube Dev, GitLab and the Linux Foundation. Ray has been a speaker at open source conferences such as All Things Open, Community Leadership Summit, FOSDEM, GitLab Commit, Open Source Summit, and SCaLE.
Ray lives in Sunnyvale, CA with his wife and daughter and all three are loyal season ticket holders of the Bay FC women's soccer team.
Marco Palacios is the Pacific Hackers Association President and the Global MDR Customer Success Manager at Fortinet. He started his career in IT and spent over a decade in IT operations before transitioning to Cybersecurity. A Blue teamer by heart, Marco has spent the last eight years specializing in defending organizations and building and implementing modern Security Operations. Marco is also a co-founder of the non-profit Pacific Hackers Association (PHA). Through the PHA, he mentors and advocates for veterans and underrepresented communities to help them find non-traditional paths in the cybersecurity industry. He served in the United States Air Force and deployed as part of “Operation Enduring Freedom.” He holds a Master’s in Cybersecurity, a bachelor’s in information systems, and different industry cybersecurity certifications such as GCIH, GMON, GNFA, GISF, GSEC, GCED, SSCP, CySA+, Net+, and A+.
I’m an open-source database engineer, with deep experience scaling databases in production — critical databases behind a lot of the products and services your company uses every day.
Jamie Parker is a Product Manager at Red Hat who specializes in Observability, particularly in the Logging and OpenStack areas. At Red Hat, Jamie works with organizations and customers to learn about their needs within the ever changing Observability landscape, and based on their feedback, Helps to guide upcoming products within the Red Hat Observability Platform. Jamie enjoys sharing lessons learned to the community by frequently speaking at meetups and conferences, and by blogging.
Rajan Patel is the Product Manager of Livepatch and Landscape, and focuses on systems management and security at scale. In his spare time, Rajan explores the intersection of performance optimisation and cost optimisation for public, private, hybrid, and multi cloud workloads.
I have been building cloud, edge, cloud native and telecommunications solutions for many years.
Senior DevRel Engineer, Keploy.io. Animesh Pathak, is an avid tech community enthusiast, having worked with various technologies such as NodeJS, Serverless, API, NoSQL and Containers, he has spent the last 4 years empowering tech communities and is currently active as a Gold MLSA, Postman Student Leader and Twilio Field Operator. He has been an open-source contributor and mentor for projects like Keploy, MatterMost, Meshry via programs like GSoC, GSSoC and etc..Loves talking about developer productivity,
Kyle is part of the ecosystem team at dagger.io working on the future of CICD. He has a background in DevOps and just loves giving demos!
Murriel is a Customer Engineer with Google Cloud, and works with enterprise customers to solve technical and business challenges and build applications on the cloud. She is currently enthusiastic about DevOps and Platform Engineering, Kubernetes, and the Developer Experience. She leads the Social Impact committee for the local chapter of Women@Google and is an advocate for mentorship and community building. Murriel also holds a position on the executive committee for Surfrider Long Beach. When outdoors, she can often be spotted on a bike or on skates, by the coastline, in the garden, or covered in sawdust.
Jonathan Perry is a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry eBPF network collector. His PhD research at MIT CSAIL focused on performance isolation in datacenter and cloud networks, aiming to enhance network efficiency and reduce latency. Jonathan founded Flowmill, where he developed eBPF-based network monitoring tools prior to the company's acquisition by Splunk. He is based in Austin, Texas.
Arun Pandiyan Perumal, an accomplished Technology Infrastructure Specialist, boasts over eleven years of experience in Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering. His career at top organizations has been marked by leading teams and projects in building secure cloud infrastructures, designing highly scalable systems, integrating DevOps tools for automation, enforcing cloud security practices, and managing globally distributed multi-cloud infrastructures for hosting several critical business applications. Beyond his professional engagements, Arun actively contributes his expertise to research and technical communities and collaborates on various research initiatives. His involvement in key positions, such as serving on the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Cloud Summit, AICTC, SIOTEC, ICICC, ETNCC, Applied Artificial Intelligence, and IEEE CLOUD 2024 conferences.
Christophe has been working with PostgreSQL since 1997. He is the CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.
Gilou is an opensource enthusiast, has been a Linux sysadmin for more than 20 years. He sometimes code using Python, and is a huge Proxmox fan. He runs his own company, plays the trumpet, hosts and produces radio shows.
Cloud-native software engineer and research software expert. Building reliable, scalable solutions for academia and beyond. Co-founder of the Exosphere Project. Working on Indiana University's OpenStack research cloud, as well as supporting Jetstream2 - the NSF-sponsored, national research cloud.
Elizabeth is a Software Engineer in Search Infrastructure at Airbnb and has a non traditional pathway from Customer Support Specialist to Software Engineering at Airbnb. Elizabeth actively contributes to fostering an inclusive and diverse tech community at Airbnb and beyond through mentorship and community building. Elizabeth's hobbies include thrifting, running, karaoke, computer projects with their husband, and ocean visits with family.
Steve is a dad, partner, son, a founder, and a principal developer advocate at Voxel51. He can teach you about Computer Vision, Data Analysis, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, Microservices, and Kubernetes. He has deep expertise in GIS/Spatial, Remote Sensing, Statistics, and Ecology. Steve has a Ph.D. in Ecology and can be bribed with offers of bird watching or fly fishing.
Avi Press is a developer tool author, functional programming language enthusiast, and founder/CEO of Scarf. Avi loves thinking about and discussing how people can solve problems by more effectively sharing data, and how that applies to building a sustainable open-source ecosystem.
Allison is the VP of Marketing & Community at the OpenInfra Foundation (previously the OpenStack Foundation). Her mission is to continue the storytelling of the global community by building relationships with the developers, operators and ecosystem around global open source communities. In her free time, she likes to listen to Celine Dion, rank local margaritas, and travel.
Aaron Prisk is a Community Engineer at Canonical who works to support, empower and the grow the global Ubuntu community. Prior to working for Canonical, they spent a decade working in public education IT spearheading various nationally recognized open source initiatives. When they aren't tinkering on some open source project at home, they're probably going on adventures with their kids, brewing beer or reading an old book.
Kyle is the creator of DockerSlim (aka MinToolkit/SlimToolkit), a popular tool to minify, inspect, build, run and debug containers. He's the founder/CEO of AutonomousLayer (aka AutonomousPlane) and he's also the founder/CTO of Slim.AI. He's building an AI agent to automatically fix vulnerabilities in the cloud native applications. Kyle has been building applications and platforms using many different programming languages since the early days of cloud computing. His "50 Shades of Go" is still one of the popular guides for Go gotchas for many new developers learning the language. Kyle been involved in security for more than two decades wearing many different hats as a builder, breaker and defender.
Tim has been a Linux geek since the 1.x days, he is currently a TMM at Coder. His days are spent working on Coder’s Cloud Development Environment, tinkering with Linux and Kubernetes, and trying to keep developers all around the world In Flow.
As Distributed Systems Lead at Kwaai, Brian focuses on building decentralized AI training and inference systems with an emphasis on privacy, security, and performance. Previously, he has held key roles at companies and systems integrators architecting cloud-native solutions, automation frameworks, and AI-driven platforms, including a provably accurate medical technology infrastructure. A passionate advocate for open-source technology, Brian co-founded the San Fernando Valley Linux User Group (SFVLUG), fostering a community of engineers, developers, and technology leaders.
Nithish Raghunandanan is an engineer who loves to build products that solve real world problems in short spans of time. He has experienced different areas of the industry having worked in diverse companies in Germany and India. Apart from work, he likes to travel and interact and engage with the tech community through Meetups & Hackathons. In his free time, he likes to try stuff out by hacking things together.
I'm the PM for Community images on Microsoft Azure to enable open-source communities become successful on Azure.
Nish is a Production Engineer at Meta in the Cloud Foundation team. The scope of his team's work spans running compute workloads in the Cloud for many applications running at Meta. Outside work Nish is also a photographer (https://www.nish.photo). At SCaLE, Nish takes professional headsots at the Open Source Career Day.
Atom is a student at UC Merced pursuing a degree in Applied Mathematics with an emphasis on Computer Science. He is currently the president of UC Merced ACM chapter. He’s interested in cyber security, Linux, programming, and Basketball. He has given talks about PKI, Linux security, Linux installs as the ACM Cybersecurity SIG lead.
Marie Curie Ramirez is a high school student at Bishop Amat High School with a interest in Cybersecurity and Linux. She's been competing in cyber defense competitions for several years and plans to pursue a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. She has published online articles on cyber security topics such as "Overcoming a girl's struggle in Cyber Security", "Staying safe by understanding common cyber threats", and "How secure is your password?". She also enjoys dance and volleyball.
Alok Ranjan is an Engineering Manager at Dropbox, where he leads the storage-platform team, delivering secure, reliable, and cost-efficient storage solutions at scale. With over a decade of experience at companies like VMware, Big Switch Networks, and Cisco, Alok specializes in scalable infrastructure and data encryption technologies. He holds a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University and is passionate about mentoring engineers and advancing cloud storage innovation.
Alok is known for his strategic leadership, managing cross-functional projects that drive business impact. He frequently participates in tech conferences, sharing insights on scaling cloud storage and security optimizations. Outside of work, he mentors at AI-based startups, staying engaged with advancements in AI. His result-driven approach emphasizes fast execution while fostering strong team collaboration and long-term success.
Kyle Rankin is a security and infrastructure expert with over two decades of professional Linux experience. He is the author of How To Write A Tech Book, The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks, DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Third Edition, Knoppix Hacks, 2nd Edition, and Ubuntu Hacks, among other books. Rankin was an award-winning columnist and tech editor for Linux Journal, and speaks frequently on Free and Open Source software including at SCALE, FOSDEM, O’Reilly Security Conference, Linux Fest NorthWest, OpenWest, BSidesLV, CactusCon, OSCON, Linux World Expo, and Penguicon.
Pragmatic idealist in software engineering. Open source developer. Tech entrepreneur.
Reza Rassool is the Founder of Kwaai.ai, driving AI democratization through a Personal AI Operating System.
Formerly CTO at RealNetworks, he led their pivot to AI leadership. With a track record of >$1Bn exits, Reza is an award-winning innovator with 27 US patents. His extensive expertise spans computer vision, edge AI, and founding roles at Zya and Widevine Technologies (acquired by Google), and contributions to the development of Lightworks NLE, a Technical OSCAR/EMMY-winning product.
Debo Ray is the co-founder and CEO of DevZero, a company focused on providing cloud-based development environments that offer production-like conditions to streamline software development. Before founding DevZero, Debo worked at Uber, where he led infrastructure projects that tackled the complexities of microservices at scale. His innovations at Uber, such as creating remote development tools like DevPod, significantly improved developer velocity and productivity by optimizing build times and code deployment processes. With DevZero, Debo aims to empower engineering teams with the same tools and strategies that transformed Uber’s development workflows, enabling faster releases and a more efficient engineering process.
Justin Reock is the Chief Evangelist and Field CTO of Gradle Enterprise, and is an outspoken blogger, speaker, and free software evangelist. He has over 20 years of experience working in various software roles and has delivered enterprise solutions, technical leadership, and community education on a range of topics.
Luke Repko is a passionate engineer with a lifelong curiosity for deconstructing complex systems and understanding how they work. Starting his journey as a customer of Rackspace and an end user of the Nova project, Luke has spent the last decade diving deep into OpenStack and its infrastructure. Now a seasoned Racker, he brings a wealth of hands-on expertise in cloud technologies and their evolution.
Luke’s top 5 Clifton Strengths — Achiever, Analytical, Communication, Learner, and Responsibility — perfectly reflect his approach to both technology and teamwork. He thrives on solving problems, sharing insights, and empowering others to learn and grow.
Hey! I’m Jaiden! I'm the COO at Fyra Labs, we're empowering people to change their world with open-source technology. This is my second time attending SCALE, I'm excited to see everyone again!
I motivate, mobilize, and connect cross-functional teams with technical solutions and support and provide customer-focused Computer Professional services with System Administrator experience in commercial and non-profit industries.
I deliver system, network, and security support in a wide variety of business and home environments. I partner with clients for training and end-developer support efforts, especially in the areas of configuration management, operating system integration efforts and cluster computing.
In 2001, Todd and his co-founder Sunil Saxena brought InMotion Hosting online from a data center in Los Angeles. Today, InMotion and a suite of subsidiary brands handle 100,000+ customers with the help of 300+ team members from around the world.
As an open source advocate and ambassador for ongoing usage of OpenStack, Ceph and other key open technologies, Todd once again saw a challenge he wanted to resolve. He wanted to break down the complexity of accessing OpenStack and make it very simple for organizations and individuals of all sizes to use, helping to expand the open source community. His solution…OpenMetal.
Today, Todd Robinson is the President of OpenMetal, where he sets the strategic vision of the company, drives the product development of OpenMetal cloud services, and focuses on ensuring explosive growth.
Ben Rockwood is the VP of Engineering & Operations at Mondoo
AL Rodriguez is a developer, cloud enthusiast, sometimes-blogger, and definitely NOT 3 kids in a trench coat. His background with .NET will usually take over when he starts a new project. Whether it’s a backend, frontend, UI testing, or even Infrastructure as Code, C# is his first thought for developing high quality solutions.
International artist, author, and FOSS advocate C.Rogers is a career designer, having more than 20 years experience using FOSS in graphics and production workflows. He's served on the Board of Inkscape and is presently living in London, UK.
I hold a bachelor's degree in Literature from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a master's degree in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.
Currently, I am a Software Engineer at Meta. I have worked as a developer at UCLA, Sarah Lawrence College, The City University of New York, Zeebox, and Spotify.
I also enjoy cooking, playing the guitar, horology, and taking long walks with my wife and dog.
Low level programmer, OS/Zig/Linux dev, Nixpkgs & LLVM committer. Likes to watch 大空スバル (Subaru Oozora).
Hrittik is currently Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and a CNCF Ambassador, who has previously worked at various startups helping the scale their content efforts. He loves diving deep into distributed systems and creating articles on them and has spoken at conferences such as Azure Cloud Summit, UbuCon Asia and Kubernetes Community Days - Lagos and Chennai among others! His best days are when he finds ways to create impact in the communities he’s a part of either by code, content, or mentorship!
Rob received his B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was admitted as a Regents Scholar. He is currently a Data Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence \& Analytics Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and serves as the Systems Integration Lead for various robotics projects, including NAISR/NeBula and EELS. Rob is a leading practitioner and subject matter expert in Generative AI (GenAI) at JPL, and is also registered as a NASA AI Advisor. He has worked on numerous innovative GenAI projects, such as utilizing retrieval-augmented generation to analyze vast datasets, developing code generation tools for flight software, and creating applications that enable users to interact with their documents through conversational interfaces. His extensive experience in software engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics has culminated in the development of ROSA, the Robot Operating System Agent.
Alexander is a Principal Security Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading RDS security team.
Alexander worked with MySQL since 2000 as DBA and Application Developer. Alexander was working as MySQL principal consultant/architect for over 15 years, started with MySQL AB in 2006 (company behind MySQL database), Sun Microsystems, Oracle and then Percona. He helped many customers design large, scalable and highly available MySQL systems, optimize MySQL performance and improve MySQL security.
Éamon is a Senior Principal Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, where he builds and maintains internal and external environments, builds out advanced workshops, provides input on product use-cases and acts as a subject matter expert in some specific areas.
Éamon has done the full rounds of customer-facing tech roles over the years: Support, Education/Training, Professional Services, Solutions Engineering and now Field Engineering, giving him tons of customer insights and viewpoints he uses to fuel his work.
Éamon has a background in infrastructure, having worked at VMware for ~8 years before migrating to Pivotal and ultimately to Grafana Labs. Originally hailing from Ireland, he has been living in California since 2014.
Amber is a Senior Field Engineer at Grafana Labs, where she focuses on observability solution architecture, building and maintaining complex demo environments and observability workshops, and provides expertise for customer solutions requiring metrics, logs, and Grafana observability tooling.
Amber has a background in infrastructure and monitoring, primarily working in Customer facing roles for Solution Architecture and Customer Success Engineering at Pivotal/VMware, Sysdig, and Grafana.
Amber is based out of Chicago, IL and has always called the midwest home. In her free time she enjoys exploring the surrounding city and nearby nature, and is an avid cyclist.
Vijay Samuel works with eBay's observability platform as its architect. During his time at eBay Vijay has transformed eBay's observability platform into a cloud native offering that is primarily built on top of open source technologies. He loves to code in Go and play video games.
Matthew is an engineering leader focused on building reliable, scalable, and observable systems. Matthew is known for using his breadth and depth of experience to add value in minimal context situations and help great people become great engineers through mentoring. In his spare time, Matthew spends time with his family, helps grow his wife's chocolate business, works on home improvement projects, and reads technical resources to learn and tinker.
Kerim is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp, where he coaches operators and developers on sustainable infrastructure and orchestration workflows.
Before he joined HashiCorp, Kerim worked on Industrial IoT for the Amsterdam airport and helped museums bring more of their collections online.
When Kerim isn't working, he's either spending time with his daughter, enjoying aerial photography, or baking a cake.
Guillaume Saunier is a professional focusing on the intersection of tech and politics. He is dedicated to helping organizations worldwide make pro-social technological choices. As the Partnerships and Fundraising lead at Octree, he spearheads civic-tech projects like Voca.city, creating sustainable, collective alternatives. Previously Guillaume worked at International Organizations where he was involved with fundraising and donor relations. With a Master's in International Business from the University of Edinburgh, and Bachelor in Politics from the University of London Guillaume focuses on harnessing tech for political and social impact.
Anthony Scheller is a seasoned cybersecurity professional with a decade-long track record of success. His journey began at PwC, where he specialized in offensive security, assisting Fortune 500 companies in fortifying their defenses against cyber threats through penetration testing.
Transitioning into the technology sector, Anthony assumed leadership roles (technical & strategic) in security engineering at industry-leading companies including Hulu, Flexport, and Twilio. At Hulu, he played a pivotal role in establishing and leading the cloud security engineering function, ensuring the robust protection of Hulu’s cloud assets and customer data. He currently holds the position of Head of Security Engineering at Stubhub where he will be focusing on maturing security at all layers of the stack.
In the time he is not maturing the security of organizations you can find him road cycling with friends or working on cars / motorcycles.
Michel started his career as a medical officer in the Royal Dutch Airforce. After the air force, he continued in clinical pharmacology. While there, he transitioned to IT.As his career developed, his responsibility shifted from a deep technical perspective to a more visionary role. He speaks about technology and the impact of innovation at national and international conferences. He contributes actively to the open-source community and solutions regarding containerization, CI/CD, & DevOps.
Katie works on developer relations at Tigris Data where she plays with object storage and GPUs for fun and profit. Before Tigris, Katie was a Director of Engineering working on Open Policy Agent, an Engineering Manager at HashiCorp, and Director of Snark at Fly.io. She specializes in infrastructure platforms and getting others excited about what's possible.
Bruce Schneier is an American cryptographer, computer security professional, privacy specialist, and writer. Schneier is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society as of November, 2013
Matt Schnittker has worked in the entertainment industry since 1998 as Linux developer and technology manager. His involvement in feature film production started with Disney's ambitious 2000 animated feature, "Dinosaur," and he most recently worked on the Studio's upcoming feature release, "Encanto". Schnittker has been involved in both traditional 2D, and fully digital 3D animation pipelines. He has contributed to several Disney patents and won an International 3D Society Lumiere Award for his work on 3D Pipelines. For hobbies, he likes repairing old vacuum tube radios and living history events.
I am the CEO of Oxen.ai. We are building an open source, scalable version control tool called "oxen" that is built for the size and scale of data needed for modern day ML workflows. From low level merkle tree optimization, to hashing, to network protocols we make collaboration on large scale data easy.
My background is in AI/ML and worked on early deep neural networks for natural language processing and computer vision as well as on IBM Watson. Since then I have consulted in the AI/ML space building generative 3D models and real time computer vision models.
I started Oxen.ai to solve a pain point I'd felt over and over again and am excited to help others manage the data that powers their AI.
Doc Searls is the former editor-in-chief of Linux Journal, where he was on the masthead for 24 years. During that time he did much to establish open source as a Thing, earning a Google-O'Reilly Open Source prize for Best Communicator in 2005. In 2006 he became a fellow with Harvard's Berkman Klein Center and started ProjectVRM, which is all about increasing personal agency in networked markets, and which informed his 2012 book The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge. He also co-authored The Cluetrain Manifesto in 1999, which has been a hot topic ever since. And he sees personal AI as required approach to making many long-held dreams of cyber-utopians such as himself come true.
Vlad Seliverstov is a Observability Team Lead at ClickHouse, where he oversees the internal observability platform and develop telemetry solutions that provide critical database insights to customers. With a strong foundation in database engineering and observability, Vlad previously led the databases team at Datadog and worked on Magic Pocket, multi-exabyte datastore that Dropbox built to host customer data.
I am the Chief Engineer at Veritas Automata, currently focusing on distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applications. I am an enthusiastic believer in blockchain technologies, supply chain, cold chain, pharma applications, and trust in automation. I actively work on innovation, following the latest technologies and integrations, including AI and controls in automation.
My current most involving activity is the development of the Hivenet platform for VA, to provide k-native options to whoever needs to get a ready-to-use toolset to solve the future.
Srirama Sharma is a Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) in IBM Z Systems and is Product Owner of IBM Cloud Infrastructure Center which provides Infrastructure management capability for Hybrid cloud deployments on IBM Z / LinuxONE. He is also the Chief Architect for IBM Cloud Paks on Z, leading cloud-native enablement of Enterprise software stack on IBM Z systems. He has 20+ years IT experience in various systems stack like device drivers, Desktop development contributing to various open source projects, Operating Systems, Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud and Systems Management. He has also worked with various Banking and FSS Industry clients and is an enthusiast of open source technologies.
Paul works at Dropbox improving the logging, tracing, profiling, and error monitoring tools. More recent work includes deploying Grafana Tempo. In his free time, he's focused on using computers more ergonomically by shifting his computer usage to the terminal and his own AI chat TUI, XR display glasses, and voice transcription.
Evan Shortiss is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat, where he helps developers to be successful with cloud-native technologies. He has more than ten years of development experience, with a focus on building web applications and backends using JavaScript ecosystem technologies.