Aakanksha Duggal is a Senior Data Scientist in the Emerging Technologies Group at Red Hat. She is a part of the Data Science team and works on developing open source software that uses AI and machine learning applications to solve engineering problems.

Adam Kaplan (he/him/his) is a software engineer at Red Hat, a maintainer of the Shipwright and Tekton projects, and former CD Foundation Governing Board member. He currently leads efforts at Red Hat to simplify hybrid cloud application development, and previously maintained developer-focused components for OpenShift. Before joining Red Hat, Adam helped companies ship freight containers at a logistics-focused technology consulting firm.

Fedora Quality team lead for Red Hat. Fedora openQA maintainer. Contributor to Bodhi, Fedora CI, greenwave, waiverdb etc.

With an undergrad in psychology, Amber worked in healthcare software for fifteen years. During that time, she made a shift from blaming users for getting confused, to realizing that the software system itself needed to be consistent and user-friendly to meet their expectations. She pursued dual master certifications, one in UX Research and Design, and a second in Interaction Design and UX Management. Amber believes that we should not be blinded by what we can see, and should always seek the perspective of our users before making decisions that impact them. As an associate manager at Red Hat, she supports researchers and the Design and Research Operations team.

Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat that works with organizations to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies with a focus on security to reducing the overall delivery time. Andrew is the author of several publications on solutions within the Kubernetes ecosystem, a maintainer on the Helm project, and a contributor to several Open Source projects including Sigstore.

Solutions Architect at Google Cloud.
Focusing on Serverless and GenAI technologies.

Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrey-shakirov-000b4a5/

Andy Braren is a Principal Product Designer at Red Hat who likes making stuff that helps people solve problems and feel more organized, capable, and happy. He joined Red Hat straight out of Tufts University where he studied Engineering Psychology / Human Factors and turned his hobbies around software development, interaction design, and physical prototyping into an interdisciplinary club focused on design thinking, product design, and making cool stuff like BB-8 droids and Oreo de-creamers. He continued his education to explore the intersection of K-12 education and engineering, and is continuing to live at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and design at Red Hat.

Angela Andrews is a senior solution architect as well as co-host for Compiler, a Red Hat podcast where they go beyond the buzzwords and jargon to simplify tech topics. She joined Red Hat in 2020 and before that, she spent the past 15 years working as a systems administrator in higher education supporting Windows, Linux, virtualization, storage and automation. In her free time she likes to read, workout and play with her dog, Scout.

Anish is an engineering manager at Red Hat in the OpenShift AI organization. He is working on making machine learning easier for the wider community by building a platform out with cloud capabilities at the core. Most recently, his interests have been focused on the Distributed Workloads space and technologies such as KubeRay, Kueue, and CodeFlare. He has previously been invested heavily in areas such as monitoring, scalability, and reliability.

I've been a software engineer for 20 years, and I was a manager for 3 years. I've worked in research, consulting, web portal development, IT systems management development, cloud computing, hybrid cloud, deployment automation, web platform development and operations, and most recently, developer tools for Kubernetes, DevOps, SRE and platform engineering.

My specialties are DevOps, cybersecurity, platform engineering, artificial intelligence, continuous delivery, cloud computing, distributed systems, agile development, continuous integration, web operations, and high availability / disaster recovery for IT services.

In my free time, I enjoy reading, scuba diving, travel, games, and having fun with my husband, two daughters, and the family dog.

Hi, I'm Anuj Singla, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. I spend most of my days writing code and working with technologies like React, Angular, JavaScript, and Node.js. In addition to my work, I also like to share my knowledge on YouTube through my channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/AnujSingla/videos. Currently, I am also learning Salesforce.

I graduated from Pune University, where I earned my Bachelor’s in Engineering degree, specializing in Information Technology. My professional journey began at Red Hat as a Technical Writer intern, and today, I proudly work as a Senior Technical Writer, leading the documentation efforts for my team. I am a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) with 7 years of experience in the technical writing field.
Over the years, I’ve had the privilege to present at numerous events, including Red Hat’s QEcamp in Bangalore and virtually across Red Hat, the Summit at Sites APAC level, and various “Lunch and Learn” sessions. Outside of Red Hat, I was honored to speak in the TWT conference and a lightning talk at the WTD Australia conference. When I’m not working, you’ll find me capturing moments with my camera, exploring new cuisine, or enjoying hockey matches while remembering my days as a hockey player.

Asaf Blubshtein is a Solution Architect at env0, helping DevOps teams optimize and scale their Infrastructure as Code operations. In previous roles he helped various customers adopt and integrate native cloud solutions. He is passionate about technology, technical design, and continuous learning and development.

Beau Morley is a User Experience Designer working at Red Hat. She leads a team of designers that focuses on the Developer Experience, Dev Ops, and Software Supply Chain Security. She has been working in UX for over 20 years. Prior to that she worked as a full stack developer. She’s passionate about UX strategy and working with engineering and product management to create technically feasible, desirable, and usable products.

I'm a husband and father of four children. My eighteen+ year career at Red Hat has spanned test automation, development, DevOps, release engineering and management. I'm thankful I get to use and create open source software every day.

Brian Masney has been a contributor and user of Linux and open source projects since 1996. He has 25 years of commercial experience, and has worked professionally on large distributed backend systems in userspace, automated large infrastructure in the cloud and data center, and is a contributor to the upstream Linux kernel. Brian currently works as a Principle Software Engineer at Red Hat on their kernel team.

Carles Arnal is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working on Apicurio Registry, an open-source high performance runtime registry for API designs and schemas. He’s responsible for multiple features from Apicurio Registry over the last three years, especially around security (Keycloak integration) and also around data serialization using different formats (Avro, Protobuf). He’s also an active committer of Quarkus and has over 10 years of industry experience.

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

Chris Hambridge started his software engineering career in 2006 and joined Red Hat in 2017. He has a Masters in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is passionate about cloud-native development and DevOps with a focus on pragmatic solutions to everyday problems.

Christina is an Associate Software Engineer on the TrustyAI team at Red Hat. Her work focuses on designing and implementing explainability algorithms on large language and machine learning models.

Colette Basiliere is the Executive Director of Public Interest Technology - New England, a consortium of leaders from academia, government, non-profits, and the private sector who are passionate about building and growing a responsible workforce that can use technology to solve our community's pressing issues. Colette received her Master's in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and has previously worked as a software engineering in the biotech industry.

I'm somewhere between a Data and Full-stack Software Engineer, with a wide range of tech & job exposure both in academia and industry. For the past 6 years I've been around various teams in CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research). For the past 1.5 years, I've also been part of the group's solution architects team.

I'm working with a team of wonderful people on making the CERN visitor experience as smooth as possible, by developing and maintaining all of our internal and outside-facing platforms for "site management". I'm also the leader of our internal UI Community of Practice, where we give way to our creativity and invest time in innovating our tools and processes.

Java Champion, Developer Advocate, Technical Marketing, CNCF Ambassador, International Speaker, Published Author

Long-time Open Source Technologist.

Daniel Walsh has worked in computer security for over 40 years as a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat since 2001. Lead architect of the Container Runtime Engineering team. Worked on container technology for 17 years. Dan focusess on the CRI-O Container Runtime for Kubernets, Buildah for building container images, Podman for running and managing containers, containers/storage and containers/image. Author of Podman in Action. He formerly led the SELinux project. Twitter: rhatdan Blog: danwalsh.livejournal.com Email: dwalsh@redhat.com

David is a Sr. Manager in Partner Solutions Architecture at Amazon Web Services and an active member of the Fedora Cloud Working Group.

Biograpy Deepak is an experienced engineering manager with a passion for psychology and organization design. Throughout his career, Deepak has been fascinated by the intersection of psychology and organizational design. He believes that a deep understanding of human behavior and motivation is essential to building high-performing teams and organizations. He has applied this knowledge to develop innovative management strategies and leadership practices that have helped to improve productivity and employee engagement.
In his current role as a senior engineering manager at Red Hat, Deepak is focused on creating a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. He works closely with his team to identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, and product design improvements. He also invests time in coaching and mentoring team members to help them reach their full potential.
Deepak is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events, where he enjoys learning about the latest developments in psychology, organization design, and engineering. He is also an avid reader and is always looking for new insights and perspectives to apply in his work.

Douglas Schilling Landgraf has been working in the computer industry for years, in Red Hat in the last 15th years. Currently, Douglas is a Senior Software Engineer in the Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System (RHIVOS) group.

During his career Douglas has contributed to open source in different areas like containers, virtualization and operational system.

Software Engineer working on open-source things

Eric is a Software Engineering Manager at Red Hat responsible for integrating OpenShift on OpenStack. Aside from learning about new technologies, Eric's passions as a people manager include career development, mentoring, creative ways to leverage agile methodology for real world productivity, and continuous learning in DEIB topics.

Prior to Red Hat, Eric was a Software Engineering Manager and/or Software Engineer at Bose, EMC, and Quantum. Eric enjoys spending time outdoors, at museums, and saying hello to friendly cats.

Erik Erlandson works at Red Hat's Emerging Technologies group, where he leads a team of data scientists and software engineers who evaluate new technologies at the intersection of data science, AI and cloud native development.

Passionate pythonista, proud RedHatter.

Federico Lucifredi is the Product Management Director for Ceph Storage at Red Hat and IBM, 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.

Gabriele, a co-founder of 2ndQuadrant and open-source advocate, has been instrumental in PostgreSQL's global growth. Focused on enhancing business continuity for large-scale databases, he has championed stateful workloads in cloud-native environments since 2019. As a co-founder and maintainer of CloudNativePG, PostgreSQL Contributor, and Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Ambassador, he actively shapes PostgreSQL's evolution in Cloud Native environments. Currently, he is a VP at EDB.

George Trammell is an undergraduate senior studying in Boston University’s Computing & Data Sciences program with a focus on big data engineering and transformer-based architecture. Aside from academics, he has served as music director of BU’s premier all-gender a cappella group In Achord and as co-author of GAIA, the department’s current policy on the use of generative AI in the classroom.

Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat.

I have been at Red Hat for 18 years, and have spent the last 10 years as an engineering manager across a number of products, including OpenShift, Ansible, and RHEL. I try to stay current on Red Hat Technologies, but often find I'm playing catch up. Outside of work, I spend time with my family, try to keep our cats entertained, and play drums when I get the chance.

Harsha Cherukuri is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Python, DevOps, Ansible, and container-based tools. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer with Red Hat. He is passionate about open-source development and is based out of Ottawa, Canada.

Senior Software Engineer working in the OpenShift AI space. Active contributor in OpenDatahub, Elyra, and Kubeflow open source community. My interests lies in Artificial Intelligence, DevOps, Backend and Cloud Computing.

Hema Veeradhi is a Principal Data Scientist working in the Emerging Technologies team part of the office of the CTO at Red Hat. Her work primarily focuses on implementing innovative open AI and machine learning solutions to help solve business and engineering problems. Hema is a staunch supporter of open source, firmly believing in its ability to propel AI advancements to new heights. She has been a previous speaker at Open Source Summit NA, KubeCon NA, DevConf CZ and FOSSY.

Intern on the Openshift Machine Config Operator Team

Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat Research

I am an Associate Software Engineer on the Virtualization team at Red Hat. I primarily work on Confidential Computing, but I also work alongside the Podman team on Podman machine.

James Busche is a senior software engineer in the IBM Open Technologies Group, currently focused on the Open Source CodeFlare project. Previously, James has been a DevOps Cloud engineer for IBM Watson and the worldwide Watson Kubernetes deployments.

Building APIs at Red Hat.

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 one of their resident HPC engineers working to make 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, organize open source community conferences such as the Ubuntu Summit or UbuCon @ SCaLE 21x, and travel to new places to teach others about open-source HPC and supercomputing. Recently he’s started learning the Crystal programming language out of personal interest for its potential applications in HPC environments. Why Crystal specifically? Well… after five years, he still hasn’t decided if he wants to write Rust or not.

Director of Software Engineering, Global, Red Hat In Vehicle Operating System and Edge.

Jefro is a community architect with Red Hat's Open Source Program Office, focusing on automotive communities as well as edge & IoT and RISC-V. He has been working in open source communities as a developer, technical writer, and community advocate since the early 1990s. Jefro is currently on the CentOS board and serves as chair for the CentOS Automotive SIG.

Jefro is a serving CentOS board member and chair for the CentOS Automotive SIG. He works at Red Hat as an open source strategist and community architect for automotive and edge communities as well as RISC-V. Prior to Red Hat, he spent two years at the Linux Foundation working on RISC-V and LF Energy; eight years at Intel where he helped launch and run the Yocto Project, Zephyr Project, OpenBMC, project ACRN, and a number of other communities; and 20 years as a technical writer, mostly focused on embedded systems and open source.

Jen is the VP of Engineering Operations at Github. She is a technology enthusiast with 25+ years of experience in delivering software and infrastructure development products in open source software environments. She is passionate about building strong happy teams, taking a no BS approach, and ensuring that effective lean process improvement is a cornerstone of any organizations she supports.

She is most proud of the time she spent as Red Hat's Chief Agilist, leading teams into agility in a way that respected and supported Red Hat’s commitment to Open Source, while modernizing and transforming their $2B Red Hat Enterprise Linux business. Jen now works for GitHub as the VP of Engineering Operations and Chief of Staff to the Chief Security Officer and SVP of Engineering.

Jeremy Peterson is a Staff Engineer on the OpenShift team at Red Hat.

Jimmy Zelinskie is a software engineer and product leader with the goal of empowering the world through the democratization of software through open source development. He's currently the CPO and cofounder of authzed where he's focused on bringing hyperscaler authorization best-practices to the industry at large.

At CoreOS, he helped pioneer the cloud-native ecosystem by starting and contributing to many of its foundational open source projects. After being acquired by Red Hat, his focus shifted to the enablement and adoption of cloud-native technologies by enterprises. To this day, he continues contributing to the cloud-native ecosystem by building the future on top of these technologies and maintaining standards such as Open Container Initiative (OCI).

I am a Software Engineer at Meta working on BPF related things like bpftrace. 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 in Peekskill with my wife and dog.

I am a RHEL kernel security engineer at Red Hat working on fixing security bugs and maintaining a downstream kernel component. I co-run a kernel development program to teach college students kernel engineering. I help out with getting kids involved in STEM early as much as I can!

I'm an engineering manager at Red Hat, lifelong learner, and avid reader.

Karen Noel is a Sr. Director, Software Engineering in Linux Engineering at Red Hat. She has been working on operating system kernels since 1990 and on Virtualization technologies since 2005. She was formerly with Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard and joined Red Hat in 2011. Her engineering teams live and work around the globe and work on technologies such as Networking, Virtualization, Storage, Filesystems, and High Availability.

Head of Engineering at Stakater AB, a company laser-focused on Kubernetes enablement.

I have 18 years of experience in software development, product development, technical documentation, research, sales, marketing, support, business development, management, and leadership. Worked, lived, and studied across Sweden, the US, China, Japan, India, Uganda, and Australia.

Kelly is a software engineer at IBM Research with extensive experience in developing cloud platforms tailored for AI workloads. She is currently leading the development of a Kubernetes-based tuning management platform for Large Language Models (LLMs), contributing back to the open source community.

As a curious and motivated self-learner, Kelsey Hightower gained an interest in computing at a young age and started his IT career by opening a small consulting shop 20 years ago. From those beginnings his career progressed quickly, eventually passing through the halls of Google, Puppet Labs, New Relic, and CoreOS.

Hightower is a system administrator by trade, a programmer by necessity, but a problem-solver at heart. With a passion for helping others, many successful speaking and teaching engagements under his belt, and a proven track record of getting things done and enabling others, he hopes to solve the many problems facing IT culture by equipping people with the mental and computational software they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology.

I am a UX Designer with expertise in user-centered design, UX strategy, product analytics, and outcome-driven designs. Skilled in web design and digital multimedia, I create intuitive user experiences by leveraging data and research. I excel at collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver projects that exceed expectations and drive business growth.

Engineering background mostly in Trusted Computing, Crypto and Security development, managing Open-Source engineering teams since 2011, currently responsible for KVM Userspace in RHEL Platform Virtualization Team.

My name is Lei Yang, a senior software quality engineer from Red Hat KVM QE team. I joined the company as an intern in 2019. In the past five years, I mainly responsible for testing Virtual Network, Passt and vDPA and the automation of these feature's related cases.

Lisa is a product designer residing and working in the Boston area. Her strong communication skills and deep understanding of human factors, combined with her passion for problem-solving, accessibility, and user advocacy, contribute to her expertise in user experience design. With a commitment to achieving both business and user objectives, Lisa initiates her design process by engaging in collaborative problem definition and stakeholder analysis with her team.

Her educational background encompasses an MS in Human Factors in Information Design, BS in Industrial Design, and a Certificate in User Experience. Lisa effectively applies her research and human factors knowledge to enhance user experiences across physical hardware and digital software platforms.

In addition to her professional work, Lisa serves as a professor at Boston University, teaching an introductory course in User Experience Design. Her teaching role further underscores her dedication to sharing knowledge and nurturing the next generation of UX designers.

I am a Computer Science, CTE - Career Pathways Visual Communications 1 and 2, teacher. This is my 9th year at Boston Public Schools. I transitioned from the Business and Technology industry to Education. As a Boston Public Schools alumni, I am passionate about opening doors of opportunity for Boston students. I have studied at Northeastern University and Boston University. My philosophy on education is to inspire every student to reach their full potential. My experiences have taught me that competition for jobs is high and students need solid technical skills to enter the ever smaller global workforce.

Mark Bestavros is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, working with his team on the Enterprise Contract project. He has contributed to a number of open source projects in the software supply chain security space, including Sigstore and Keylime, and has attended several related conferences. These include Red Hat Day Turkey 2022, where he delivered a talk on Red Hat’s secure software supply chain work, and Kubecon NA/SupplyChainSecurityCon 2021. He has a BA/MS in CS from Boston University.

Mary is a Java Champion and an experienced, passionate Developer Advocate, and Software Consultant for both profit-based companies and non-profit tech communities. She has worked with companies such as IBM and DataStax as an advocate, focusing on topics including GenAI, Streaming Systems, Open Source, Java, Cloud, and Distributed Messaging Systems. She began her career as an engineer in Unix/C, transitioning to Java around 2000 and has been dedicated to it ever since. Mary is an active builder of tech communities outside her day job, currently serving as the President of the Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG) and the Chicago Chapter Co-Lead for AICamp.

Mary is a Senior Interaction Designer at Red Hat as well as a leader in the STEM education realm at the company. She completed her Masters in Secondary Education in May of 2024 with the intention of growing her efforts in the community to connect public school youth in the K-12 age range to pockets of the tech industry that they may not have awareness into.

I am a Systems Engineer at Fidelity Investments. My role consists of a mixture of DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering in support of Web Development. I graduated with a Masters in Computer Engineering from UMass Dartmouth back in 2016, but the first steps of my career began in public school when I enrolled in the IT shop at my local vocational high school. My skillset gives me a unique opportunity to dive deeply into complex technical issues while also translating decisions to non-technical audiences who need to make critical decisions about the systems they depend on. I enjoy working with computers, helping others, and giving back to the community.

Matt has worked on Red Hat's Containers team for the last 10 years, and is one of the original authors and core maintainers of Podman.

I am Max Karambelas, a dedicated professional based in Boston, MA, with a strong focus on AI and product management. Currently, I serve as a Project Manager at BU Spark, where I lead a student team in developing an RAG application for the automation of cloud-based projects, working closely with Google experts to enhance our project's reach and efficacy. My previous experience includes an internship at USAA, where I played a key role in improving the performance of an AI chatbot by developing a machine learning algorithm, and helped pioneer monitoring tools for large language models. I am pursuing a BS in Data Science with a minor in Business at Boston University, enriching my technical skills through hands-on projects in predictive modeling and OCR technology. My expertise in AI, machine learning, and strategic product management drives my passion for leveraging technology to solve complex problems and deliver outstanding products.

Meera Malhotra (she/her) is a computer science student at Boston University, and a Red Hat software engineering intern in the Research Department. She currently works on the Open Education Project, and is passionate about open source.

Michael DiDato is a Senior Ansible Automation Consultant at Red Hat. Mr. DiDato is focused on utilizing open-source technologies, practices, and principles to tackle customer issues and solve their strategic technology and business challenges. He is well-versed in automating infrastructure builds in all major public clouds, and has over 20 years of experience in the Telco and financial industries. Michael currently holds seven active Red Hat certifications and is a Red Hat Certified Architect.

My career began in Telecommunications, data communications, and radio that involved significant remote work and travel. I developed an independent outlook that prepared well for a career in IT in Australia, working for Red Hat. At Red Hat - career number two, I forged experience in a customer facing role over 6 years supporting customers globally. More recently with Red Hat, as an infrastructure specialist for the last 10 years, with a focus on utilities, including DNS.

Michael St-Jean collaborates with partners across Red Hat's partner ecosystem to develop solutions and cross-route initiatives that deliver business value for organizations around the world. For more than 2 decades, Michael has worked with cross-functional teams to help organizations solve complex business challenges with innovative technology solutions and strategies.

Michael Zamot is an open source enthusiast whose passion began in 2004, when he discovered Linux. Ever since then he has worked and played with various open source projects, including Linux, OpenStack, OpenShift/Kubernetes and many more, and participated in community events by teaching, conducting workshops, and providing technical support and mentorship. He currently works for Red Hat as a Principal Consultant, designing, deploying, and supporting complex cloud and telco solutions.

Software Engineer at Google working on GCP, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes. Author of "The Kubernetes Operator Framework Book"

Currently a Software Engineer Intern at Red Hat on the Java Monitoring team. I'm also a senior at the University of Toronto, majoring in Machine Learning.

Hi, I am Nancy Jain, and I am the Quality Engineer Manager at RedHat. I have been working in the quality assurance industry for over 11 Years.
As the Quality Engineer Manager, I am responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of quality control processes and systems, as well as ensuring that our products meet the highest quality standards. Me and my team also committed to continuously improving our quality management processes and collaborating with our cross-functional teams to achieve our quality goals.
Apart from work, I would like to spend time with my 1yr old son and travel to different places with him and solo to experience different cultures, cuisine, and traditions.

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

Nikhil is a Senior Software Engineer and a member of Performance and Scale Engineering at Red Hat. Nikhil's current focus is primarily on serving LLMs and performance optimizing their deployment in Kubernetes/Openshift environments.

I am Pauline Kimsoung, a dedicated Middle School Computer Science teacher at Marshall Simonds Middle School. With a strong belief in the significance of integrating real-world scenarios into computer science education, I strive to provide my students with practical and hands-on learning experiences.

I value technical education and believe in exposing K-8 students to the industry at an early age. By emphasizing the importance of industry exposure, I equip my students with the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in the rapidly advancing field of technology.

Throughout my tenure as a Computer Science educator, I have consistently emphasized the relevance of real-world applications in the field of computer science. My innovative teaching methods and commitment to fostering a deeper understanding of technology have inspired countless students to explore the intersection of theory and practice in the digital age.

At Marshall Simonds Middle School, my passion for connecting classroom learning to real-world situations has empowered my students to develop critical thinking skills and problem-solving abilities essential for success in the ever-evolving world of technology.

Peter Hunt is a Senior Software Engineer working at Red Hat. Passionate about free software, Peter focuses on maintaining CRI-O, attending SIG node, and ~writing~ squashing bugs. Outside of the virtual world, Peter likes collecting floral-printed pants, baking, and dancing.

Peter Zaitsev is an entrepreneur and co-founder of Percona, Coroot, FerretDB, and other tech companies. As one of the leading experts in Open Source strategy and database optimization, Peter has used his technical vision and entrepreneurial skills to transform Percona from a small startup into the leading open source company in the business with over 350 employees. Peter now continues to serve as a board member and advisor to a range of open source startups. Peter is the co-author of the book "High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backup and Replication," one of the most popular books on MySQL performance.

Rajan is an experienced engineering leader with a commitment to fostering innovation and championing inclusion. Throughout his career, Rajan has been dedicated to creating inclusive cultures and promoting agility and leadership in technology.

As an engineering leader at Red Hat, Rajan drives technological advancements and forges strategic partnerships. He leverages Agile practices, UX design, and community management to advance various initiatives. With a strong background in both hardware and software, he blends technical expertise with business acumen, thanks to his MBA from Symbiosis.

In his current role, Rajan also serves as the Co-Chair of Red Hat WLC India, championing inclusion and community-centric values. Additionally, he leads the Pune Chapter of Culture First, focuses on enterprise design thinking, and is a YLC member at AIMA, reflecting his dedication to continuous learning and leadership development.

Rajan is passionate about technology, leadership, and personal growth. He is a coach and mentor who invests time in developing his team members to help them reach their full potential. An avid learner, he continuously seeks new perspectives to apply in his work, eager for meaningful conversations and opportunities to make a lasting impact.

Randy Romero is a Senior Ansible Consultant and Red Hat Certified Architect at Red Hat where he specializes in IT automation with Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform. He has experience in the cable, insurance, and loyalty-marketing industries, having performed multiple roles starting with junior Systems Administrator all the way to Cloud Architect with over 30 years of experience in the IT industry.

Ran Ne'man is a seasoned product development and management executive with over 25 years of experience spanning start-up companies, NASDAQ-traded enterprises, and government agencies. Bringing years of innovation-driven expertise in cloud services built for modern security practices, fraud prevention, identity management, and communication markets, Ran has a successful track record of creating groundbreaking products and guiding them from ideation to large-scale success stories. His skills include managing product lines, strategic accounts, market penetration efforts, and business development.

Rey Lejano is Solutions Architect at Red Hat and currently serves as co-chair for Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) Docs and helps maintain the upstream Kubernetes documentation. Rey leads the Kubernetes SIG Security Third-Party Security Audit subproject and helped release the last Kubernetes security audit in April 2023. He is a member of seven Kubernetes Release Teams, including serving as the 1.23 Release Lead and 1.25 Emeritus Adviser. Rey has been a Program Committee member for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon (2022 Detroit, 2023 Amsterdam, 2023 Chicago), a Track Chair for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris, and a co-chair of CloudNativeSecurityCon 2024. Rey was awarded the CNCF Community Award for Top Documentarian in 2022 and Kubernetes Contributor Awards in 2021 from SIG Release and 2023 from SIG Security. Rey is a CNCF Ambassador and DevOps Institute Ambassador.

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.

I am going on my 25th year working with youth in the Boston area. I have worked for numerous youth based non profits in Boston & I currently serve as the Director of Student Advancement & Partnerships at the Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School. As with my colleagues, we have seen what having opportunities for our students and how access to functional tech can positively benefit our communities. Technology is not slowing down & as leaders we need to continue on a path as being first instead of working from behind. In my experience, building partnerships with local organizations gives us another tool to serve our students that we may not have otherwise.

As a Principal Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Red Hat, I lead a team of engineers who are responsible for ensuring the performance and scalability of OpenShift. With 10 years of experience at Red Hat, I have seen and tangled with many performance issues and truly enjoy pushing our products to their limits.

Sage is a security analyst at IBM who is passionate about the intersection of computer security, privacy, formal languages and systems. They have degrees from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of California, Santa Cruz and are working hard to make the world a better place through computing.

Sam is a software engineer at Red Hat on the KubeArchive Team and a maintainer of KubeArchive.

Savitha Raghunathan is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on Container Migration and Application Modernization technologies. She leads K8s sig-security-documentation sub-project aiming to create security awareness through docs. As a maintainer of the Konveyor project, she leads the community engagement efforts, fostering collaboration and driving its continuous growth. Savitha's passion lies in nurturing the Open Source community, where she finds great joy in mentoring new contributors and empowering them to make significant contributions.

10+ Years of experience in the worlds and Cloud and Automation. Currently Scott is the lead
architect in the CTO office at TeraSky and leads the platform engineering and cloud native initiatives.
Scott has vast experience with both the legacy datacentre as well as cutting edge Public Cloud  and
cloud native technologies and specializes in bridging the gap for customers and easing their
transition to the new digital transformation era. Scott is active in the Kubernetes project and its
ecosystem tools, including Pinniped, CusterAPI, Carvel, Cartographer, and KubeApps.

Shawn Hurley is a speaker working on open-source cloud-native journeys. With a focus on simplifying complexity, he has gotten heavily involved in the Konveyor community. Shawn Hurley has contributed to notable projects and collaborations, leveraging open-source principles to foster innovation. He enjoys hanging out with his puppies and wife in his free time, traveling, and the occasional rock climbing excursion.

Tom is a Senior Principal Software Engineer currently working on AI Model Storage at Red Hat. He has previously worked on CNCF Backstage, the Operate First SRE community, ManageIQ, and many other projects ranging from QA enablement tools to a cloud-native monitoring stack. Away from computers, he enjoys all things astronomy, organising LARP and coffee festivals and events, and bonsai.

Torsten Steinbach is the Chief Architect for Analytics, ML and AI at EDB. He is responsible for the architecture and design to uplift Postgres towards a platform for analytics and AI workloads, in order to drive an integrated Data Lakehouse functionality and an end-to-end Generative AI data management in-database. Torsten previously held senior positions in engineering of cloud, database and analytics technology at IBM for over two decades.

Virtualization developer working on containers infrastructure and virtual machine monitors.

Tyler Yahn is a Senior Software Engineer at Splunk and a Maintainer of the OpenTelemetry Go project. He has a background in designing, building, and running distributed systems. Currently, he devotes his time to building and improving OpenTelemetry.

Urvashi is a Principal Software Engineer on the OpenShift Containers Team at Red Hat. She has spent the last few years developing Open Source container tools including Podman, Buildah, CRI-O, Skopeo, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. She is passionate about sharing her work and has given talks at various conferences including KubeCon, DevConf, and SCaLE. Urvashi is also a co-organizer of DevConf.US and an instructor at Boston University.

Foundations, application connectivity, and API management technologies. He is passionate about understanding customers' challenges and use cases and showcasing how Red Hat products can address them. He has built solution patterns and demos for sales to showcase product capabilities to customers. Vamsi has been with Red Hat for the past 6 years and has taken up various other responsibilities including GTM strategies, competitive intelligence, and partnerships. He is an avid speaker and has spoken on different topics at various public conferences such as Red Hat Summit, API Days, API World, Summit Connect etc. Before joining Red Hat, he was a software engineer in the telecommunications space.

Vince is a Principal Interaction Designer on Red Hat’s user experience design team. He started his professional life as an electrical engineer and worked for six years before making the enlightened decision to attend graduate school to study what was then called human factors. He earned a Masters and Ph.D. in psychology from North Carolina State University. His twenty-plus year career has spanned both hardware and software UX design along with some research and consulting. He is currently a UX designer on Red Hat’s OpenShift AI product, which provides a platform for creating, managing, deploying and monitoring AI and Machine Learning (ML) models.

Waiman Long is an experienced kernel software engineer at Red Hat, Inc.
His major focus areas are kernel synchronization primitives, performance
and scalability, and cgroup in the upstream Linux kernel as well as
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.

He has multiple years of working experience on Linux, HP-UX and Tru64
UNIX in both the kernel and the C runtime library.

An engineer focusing on AI/ML.

I am a Software Quality Engineer with a focus on the CentOS Automotive Special Interest Group (SIG) effort, where I have been involved for the past two years.

My experience spans many years in Telco software development, equipping me with a strong understanding of telecommunications standards and open-source projects.
In the past, I led the Red Hat OpenStack NFV Quality and Automation framework, achieving notable success in the field.

My work in the CentOS Automotive SIG/ Fedora has provided valuable insights into automotive software development automation and testing.

Yash is a Principal Software Engineer in the Virtualization group at Red Hat. He is currently working as a Product Owner, leading the efforts to productize Confidential Computing technologies related to virtual machines, containers and workloads at Red Hat. Yash is also a member of the Technical Advisory Council (TAC) at the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC), which is a Linux Foundation community focused on projects securing data in use and accelerating the adoption of confidential computing through open collaboration.

I'm from Red Hat Virtualization QE team.

Jerry started as an intern at Red Hat in 2016 and quickly became passionate in cloud platforms and their infrastructure management. Having worked on multiple projects around the space, such as Atomic, CoreOS, Kubernetes/OpenShift, Jerry hopes to share his journey, learn from others', and explore the future of Hybrid Cloud together with the community.

Zack Zlotnik is a senior software engineer at Red Hat working on OpenShift’s Machine Config Operator, which lies at the intersection between Kubernetes and operating systems. He aims to produce tools and experiences that delight both end-users and developers alike. His diverse background has been molded and shaped throughout years of professional curiosity and self-learning.