Aakansha Priya

DevRel @ EmpathyOps

Aakansha is a DevRel at EmpathyOps. Working on empowering & upscaling the communities. In the past she has been a Community Manager at Hashnode. As a frontend dev turned DevOps explorer, loves sharing tech insights, views on learning & building in public, blogging & building personal brand. A reader and speaker, Aakansha paints, sings and loves spontaneous travel. Catch her at meetups & conferences!

Sessions

• Wed 10:30 25min

  Empathy in Cloud Native Governance: Addressing Bias for Inclusive Decisions

Akin Ozer

Senior DevOps Engineer @ Moonfare

Akin Ozer is a seasoned DevOps engineer and a recognized expert in Kubernetes infrastructure. With over 5 years of experience in cloud computing and container orchestration, Akin Ozer has led several projects focused on optimizing Kubernetes clusters for scalability and efficiency. He currently works at Moonfare, where he is working on making this fintech company efficient with the latest technologies in Kubernetes environments.

Sessions

• Wed 11:30 25min

  Unlocking Efficient Cluster Scaling: A Deep Dive into Karpenter

Alessandro Vozza

DevRel @ Solo.io

Community leader and CNCF ambassador, Alessandro has spent the last few years building cloud native infrastructures for Microsoft customers, animating the Dutch community, and training others to pass the CKx exams. He has passion for all things cloud native, he’s been around open source for 25 years and recently moved to a new Developer Relations role.

Sessions

• Wed 14:00 25min

  The Periodic Table of Cloud Native

Ali Ok

Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat

Ali Ok works for Red Hat as a principal software engineer. He is a Knative steering committee member and works with working groups within Knative.

Besides the technical contributions to Knative and many CNCF projects, Ali is a CNCF Ambassador and a regular contributor to the CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy, where he helps projects with mentorship programs, governance improvements and contributor growth suggestions.

Sessions

• Wed 12:00 25min

  State of developer community and open source in Turkey

Ayse Kaya

Vice President of Strategy and Analytics @ Root

Ayse Kaya is the Vice President of Strategy and Analytics at Root.

She is an accredited data scientist and container enthusiast. A graduate of the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Operations Research Center, Kaya was previously a strategy and analytics lead at CloudLock and Cisco Systems. Ayse Kaya lives in Boston with her daughter. She is an avid runner and student of philosophy.

Sessions

• Wed 17:00 25min

  Closing Keynote - Numbers at the Frontline: Shifting Winds in Cloud Native Security

Dan Mckean

Kubernetes Product Manager @ MongoDB

UK-based Product Manger at MongoDB, responsible for our Kubernetes support including our three Operators - Community Operator, Enterprise Operator, and Atlas Operator.

Sessions

• Wed 15:00 25min

  Building Internal Developer Platforms with Kubernetes Operators

Edith Puclla

Technology Evangelist @ Percona

Edith Puclla is from Peru. CNCF Ambassador, Docker Captain, and Technology Evangelist at Percona. She is also an Open Source contributor, participating in SIG-docs, helping to translate the official Kubernetes documentation to Spanish, and SIG-Operators giving feedback and participating in weekly meetings. She also holds the title of ambassador of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and is a Docker captain. Recently, she took an important step by moving to the UK on a Global Talent Visa.

Sessions

• Thu 15:00 25min

  Kubernetes Operator for Database: Exploring the Mechanics and Benefits

Emin Aktas

Engineer @ Axon Networks

Emin is a person who loves target-driven, versatile and cares about innovative ideas. He enjoys process management and communication. He never hesitates to share his experience on Medium. Not only that, he strongly interested in combination of fields of mechanics, hardware and software. He wants to be more efficient on CNCF projects in the future.

Sessions

• Thu 14:30 25min

  Orchestrating Excellence: A Comparative Analysis of Kubernetes Scheduler and Descheduler Frameworks

Engin Diri

Senior Solutions Architect @ Pulumi

Engin is a Senior Solutions Architect at Pulumi and has been in the IT industry for over 15 years.

He started as a Java backend developer and later migrated to the fronted development.

This is where he found his passion for CI/CD, Cloud technologies and in particular Kubernetes.

Engin is a very curious person and loves learning and testing new technologies.

Sessions

• Thu 12:00 25min

  Gain Platform Superpowers with the KEBAP Stack!

Erkan Zileli

Platform Engineer @ Trendyol

Sessions

• Wed 14:30 25min

  Building Trendyol's Next-Level Application Delivery Platform with KubeVela

Furkan Türkal

Platform Engineer @ Trendyol

Furkan likes to design and implement new tech stacks with a deep focus on distributed and low-level systems. He is interested in contributing to open-source projects, communities, and project management. Strong interest in the CNCF world! Recently, he has been researching Supply Chain Security.

Sessions

• Thu 14:30 25min

  Orchestrating Excellence: A Comparative Analysis of Kubernetes Scheduler and Descheduler Frameworks

George Hantzaras

Kubernetes Engineering Director @ MongoDB

George is a distributed systems expert and a hands-on engineering leader with focus on delivering Enterprise cloud services at scale. He is a Director of Engineering at MongoDB, focusing on implementing cloud native technologies at enterprise scale. Most recently, he has been a speaker at global events like OpenSource Summit, Hashiconf, LeadDev, DeveloperWeek, and more, focusing on agile leadership, scaling engineering teams, and entrepreneurship.

Sessions

• Wed 15:00 25min

  Building Internal Developer Platforms with Kubernetes Operators

Hasan Türken

Principal Software Engineer @ Upbound

Hasan Türken is a software engineer with a focus on Kubernetes. Certified as a Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and Security Specialist (CKS), he has extensive experience in containerizing enterprise applications and guiding cloud-native development. At Upbound, the company behind Crossplane, he leverages his passion for the Kubernetes control plane to innovate SaaS solutions and automation. Hasan is an enthusiast of Golang, open-source software, and all things Kubernetes.

Sessions

• Wed 10:00 25min

  Crossplane: Simplifying Cloud Management with Abstractions

Henrik Rexed

Cloud Native Advocate @ Dynatrace

Henrik is a Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace, the leading Observability platform. Prior to Dynatrace, Henrik has worked more than 15 years, as Performance Engineer. Henrik Rexed Is Also one of the Organizer of the conferences named WOPR, KCD Austria and the owner of the Youtube Channel IsitObservable.

Sessions

• Wed 16:30 25min

  Telemetry Showdown: Fluent Bit vs. OpenTelemetry Collector - A Comprehensive Benchmark Analysis

Jona Apelbaum

Solution Engineering Manager @ Wiz

15 years of experience working with a broad range of technologies, where the last 5+ years have been evolving around Cloud Native technologies (Kubernetes, Docket IaC, etc..). Experience working with customers ranging from SMB’s to large enterprise customers. Considerable experience building and maintaining relationships at all levels and utilizing my network to achieve success.

Sessions

• Thu 14:00 25min

  Securing Kubernetes Workloads: Open-Source Approaches to Enhance Workload Security Posture

Kat Cosgrove

Lead Developer Advocate @ Dell

Kat is a Lead Developer Advocate at Dell focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. In particular, her specialties are approachable 101-level content and deep dives on the history of technology, with a focus on DevOps and cloud native. She has served on the Kubernetes release team since v1.22. When she’s not at a conference, she spends her time playing video games, watching horror movies, or reading science fiction, but her current hyperfixation is film photography. She lives in Scotland with her cat, Espresso, who is the real brains behind the operation and actually ghostwriting all of her tweets.

Sessions

• Thu 09:30 25min

  Opening Keynote - Fly Me to the Moon: Punch cards, Supercomputers, and Kubernetes

Katharina Sick

Software Engineer @ Dynatrace

I’m all about making things user-friendly, especially when it comes to Cloud Native and Kubernetes.

I’ve done a fair share of mobile app and backend work, but lately, I’m really into Cloud Native computing and enjoy it a lot.

Outside of work, you’ll find me hanging out in tech and sports communities, cruising on inline skates, exploring new places, or challenging myself with quizzes and games.

Sessions

• Thu 11:30 25min

  Closing the Loop: Applying Least Privilege and Ensuring We Did It Well

Kunal Kushwaha

Developer Relations Manager @ Civo

Kunal is empowering communities via open-source and education. He finds passion in teaching and has taught thousands of folks online and in person. He is a developer relations manager at Civo, CNCF Ambassador, TEDx speaker and a GitHub Star. He is the founder of WeMakeDevs and also started the official Cloud Native Student Community group joined by thousands of folks, focussed on getting more young people involved in the ecosystem. In the past he has been a track chair of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Major League Hacking Coach and a Google Summer of Code mentor.

Sessions

• Wed 10:30 25min

  Empathy in Cloud Native Governance: Addressing Bias for Inclusive Decisions

Liz Rice

Chief Open Source Officer @ Isovalent

Liz Rice is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium project. She was chair of the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of O’Reilly books “Learning eBPF” and “Container Security”.

Sessions

• Wed 09:30 25min

  Opening Keynote - Cloud Native Superpowers with eBPF

Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino

OSS Software Engineer @ Diagrid

Mauricio works as an Open Source Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. Mauricio also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project and Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative. He published a book titled Platform Engineering on Kubernetes for Manning Publishing and previously worked at VMware and Red Hat, building tools to help developers be more productive.

Sessions

• Thu 10:00 25min

  Unleashing the Power of Serverless on Kubernetes with Knative, Crossplane, Dapr, KEDA, and Friends

Mohammed Fazalullah Qudrath

Senior Developer Advocate @ Amazon Web Services

Mohammed Fazalullah “Faz” is a Senior Developer Advocate at AWS and educates and empowers developers on achieving cloud capabilities, allowing them to concentrate on interesting problems. An architect and a technical evangelist at heart, he speaks on various trends in the containers and observability space with the focus of building and scaling in the cloud in and around Asia and Europe.

Sessions

• Thu 16:30 25min

  My pods are not responding! - A Kubernetes troubleshooting journey

Mustafa Akın

Co-founder @ Resmo

Mustafa Akın, co-founder at Resmo with past roles at Atlassian and Opsgenie, has a diverse background in Linux and Kubernetes. He has been involved with Docker since 2013 and actively shares his knowledge on software development and Kubernetes on his blog. Mustafa also embarked on a PhD journey, focusing on Kubernetes scheduling algorithms, before deciding to leave academia.

Sessions

• Thu 10:30 25min

  Kubernetes Extensibility Explored: Custom Watchers and CRDs

Mustafa Yumurtacı

Platform Engineer @ Trendyol

Sessions

• Wed 14:30 25min

  Building Trendyol's Next-Level Application Delivery Platform with KubeVela

Nicolas Ehrman

Product Marketing Manager @ Wiz

Nicolas is a product marketing manager at Wiz and focuses mainly on the security of containerized environments and cloud-native applications. For over 20 years in IT, he has specialized in cloud infrastructure, automation and security, and has worked for companies such as EMC, Red Hat and HashiCorp. Outside of work, he loves traveling, discovering new cultures, and especially the foods of all over the world.

Sessions

• Thu 14:00 25min

  Securing Kubernetes Workloads: Open-Source Approaches to Enhance Workload Security Posture

Onur Beygo

Senior Engineering Manager @ Mambu

Onur is an engineering leader who has a broad range of experience in cloud infrastructure, data, observability and DevEx areas. He has seen the highs and lows of defence, manufacturing and finance industries and continuing his journey as a Senior Engineering Manager for Builder Experience in Mambu. Born & raised in the Anatolian heartland, he enjoys the tranquility of the Dutch countryside for the last few years .

Sessions

• Thu 15:30 25min

  Observability 2.0 : With a little help from my friend (Opentelemetry)

Rewanth Tammana

Independent Consultant @

Rewanth Tammana is a security ninja, open-source contributor, & an independent consultant. Previously, Senior Security Architect at National Bank of Dubai. He is passionate about DevSecOps, Cloud, and Container Security. He added 17,000+ lines of code to Nmap. Holds CKS, CKA & CKAD.

Rewanth speaks & delivers training at international conferences worldwide including Black Hat, Defcon, Hack In The Box, CRESTCon UK, PHDays, Nullcon, Bsides, CISO Platform, null chapters & multiple others.

Sessions

• Thu 16:30 25min

  My pods are not responding! - A Kubernetes troubleshooting journey

Thomas Labarussias

Senior Developer Advocate @ Sysdig

Thomas is Senior Developer Advocate at Sysdig, the company which created and open-sourced Falco, the Security Runtime Engine for Kubernetes and Cloud-Native technologies. Thomas worked for Qonto, a modern banking for SMEs and freelancers, where he managed their Kubernetes clusters and the enthusiastic tools around, like ArgoCD, Traefik, Prometheus. He also assisted for many years pure-players and e-business companies for a large managed service provider, as an AWS expert and FinOps. He’s one of the longest tenured members of the Falco community, and creator of Falcosidekick and Falcosidekick-UI, two major components of the Falco ecosystem.

Sessions

• Thu 11:30 25min

  Closing the Loop: Applying Least Privilege and Ensuring We Did It Well

Tobias Schneck

Principal Architect @ Kubermatic

Tobias Schneck is a Principal Architect at Kubermatic, an open-source platform for Kubernetes management. He is a passionate advocate for open-source technologies and has a deep understanding of cloud-native infrastructure. Tobias has over 10 years of experience in the IT industry and has held various positions in development, operations, and architecture. Bringing the advantages of cloud native technologies and development workflows to everybody is his aim.

Sessions

• Wed 15:30 25min

  Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast!?!

Utku Darilmaz

Site Reliability Engineer @ Firefly

Utku is a passionate DevOps Engineer currently based in Dubai. With more than five years of experience in the field, he has developed a strong proficiency in a wide range of DevOps & SysOps practices. His expertise includes designing cloud architectures, implementing CI/CD strategies, designing system architectures, improving DevOps cultures, utilizing GitOps practices, and deploying software in various environments based on their specific requirements. He is passionate about learning & sharing.

Sessions

• Thu 17:00 25min

  Use GitOps like a Pro with a Common Cloud Native Stack

Viktor Farcic

Developer Advocate @ Upbound

Viktor Farcic is a lead rapscallion at Upbound, a member of the CNCF Ambassadors, Google Developer Experts, CDF Ambassadors, and GitHub Stars groups, and a published author.

He is a host of the YouTube channel DevOps Toolkit and a co-host of DevOps Paradox.

Sessions

• Thu 10:00 25min

  Unleashing the Power of Serverless on Kubernetes with Knative, Crossplane, Dapr, KEDA, and Friends