Kubernetes for Humans

Kelsey Hightower is a minimalist. 

Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D., is the founder & chief analyst at Platify Insights, the only analyst firm for technology platforms. Before that, he was SVP Product Management at Percona, the unbiased open-source database company, where he led product management, design, and community.

Previously he served as VP Products & Advisor at Docker, where he built a developer-focused product strategy with a product-led growth model, with his contributions resulting in a 4x year-over-year increase in ARR. His extensive experience includes acting as Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners, leading the DevOps transformation at travel-tech leader CWT (fka Carlson Wagonlit Travel), advising upon development, DevOps and data science at industry-analyst firms 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global) and RedMonk, and leading more than 250 open-source contributors at Gentoo Linux. He also spent more than a decade in computational & experimental drug discovery and biochemistry, including a fellowship at Mayo Clinic.

Donnie holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from Oregon State University, where he specialized in computational structural biology, and dual B.S. and B.A. degrees in biochemistry and chemistry from the University of Richmond.

Pavel has been a Backend Engineer for years before switching to a DevOps role at Forter — the leading trust as a service unicorn startup. Three years ago, he transitioned into an Engineering Manager role in a team responsible for Forter's CI/CD pipelines and internal developer platform. Since becoming an EM, he has been focused on maintaining happy and effective teams, and he is passionate about developer experience.

Nilesh is a Vice President at DBS Bank, where he leads the design and implementation of scalable and innovative solutions using hybrid cloud, big data, and emerging technologies. He has over 2 decades of experience as a software developer, architect, and leader in various domains such as BFSI, healthcare, and retail. He is a Microsoft MVP for Azure since 2018 and the first Docker Captain in Singapore for his excellent contributions to technical communities.

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☸️ Juliano is responsible for the Cloud & Platform teams at Mercado Libre, the largest marketplace and fintech in Latin America. He focuses on improving the experience and efficiency of the development team, creating and maintaining features and services in the Internal Development Platform (IDP), and all non-IDP infrastructure. He has been working in IT for over 20 years, leading teams with a very technical bias. Juliano loves playing video games, especially Zelda, and listening to Pink Floyd!

Sebastien Goasguen built his first compute cluster in the late 90s when they were still called Beowulf clusters while working on his PhD; he has been working on making computing a utility since then. He has done research in grid computing and high-performance computing and with the advent of virtualization moved to cloud computing in the mid-2000s.

He is the co-founder of Trigermesh, the OSS cloud-native integration platform. Previously a Senior Director of Cloud Technologies at Bitnami and a senior Open Source Solutions Architect at Citrix, where he worked primarily on the Apache CloudStack project, helping develop the CloudStack ecosystem.

Sebastien is a project management committee member (PMC) of CloudStack and Apache Cloud and a member of the Apache Software Foundation, he focuses on the cloud ecosystem and has contributed to dozens of open-source projects.

Pini Reznik is the CEO and Co-Founder of re:cinq, a Green Software Services business that is helping save the world by reducing carbon emissions produced by Software and IT systems. Former Software Engineer, long-time manager, tech executive, and entrepreneur.

Ian has been in the software development industry for over 25 years, with the last 14 in management. That includes a long stint in AWS EC2 and a shorter stint at a quant hedge fund Two Sigma. Up until recently, he served as SVP of Core Engineering at Datadog, managing about half the engineering org that built the company's core data and platform systems. Ian is now enjoying his post-Datadog days and working on a new book about platform engineering. 

Hans does Platform Engineering at the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) responsible for the NAIS platform. NAIS is an application platform built to increase development speed by providing our developers at NAV with the best possible tools to develop and run their applications.

Charity is an ops engineer and accidental startup founder at honeycomb.io. Before this, she worked at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Lab on infrastructure and developer tools, and always seemed to wind up running the databases. She is the co-author of O'Reilly's Database Reliability Engineering, and loves free speech, free software, and single malt scotch.