Contributors


Description Puja Abbassi is the VP of Product at Giant Swarm. As a CNCF ambassador, he’s passionate about bringing cloud native technologies to more developers and their companies around the globe. In Kubernetes, he focuses on security and authentication as well as extending Kubernetes with custom resources and controllers (aka operators). With years of Kubernetes experience and having been in the beta batch of CKAs, he enjoys solving problems and helping people in Kubernetes Office Hours, Slack, and Discuss. He is also a contributor to the CIS Kubernetes Benchmarks.
 
Description Noah runs the Las Vegas Kubernetes community, and shepherds OSS projects at StormForge. He is a CNCF ambassador, has previously been part of the Kubernetes Contributor Experience team, and led the non-code contributor guide efforts. He has been working in Cloud for over a decade and in Tech since the 90s.
Description Bob Adair is the head of product management for CloudCasa at Catalogic Software. Bob has 30 years of experience in the IT, storage, and data protection industries. Since beginning his career in IT on Wall Street, he has held senior positions in engineering and product development at companies including Storage Networks, Veritas, Symantec, Savvis, EMC, and Dell.
 
Description Anshu is the CEO and co-founder of Nimbella, a serverless cloud provider. She has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, building and evangelizing products that have solved real-world problems for organizations large and small across the globe. She served on the Board of Directors of the OpenDaylight Project, Linux. Prior to Nimbella, she successfully led product and marketing teams at four infrastructure startups: Cedexis (acquired by Citrix, 2018), ConteXtream (acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 2015), Ankeena Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks, 2010), and Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai, 2005). Anshu holds a B.S. E.E. from IIT/Roorkee, India; M.S. E.E. from Rutgers; and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Description Mohamed got his PhD in High Performance Computing. He has several publications and patents in performance engineering and operating systems. He has led infrastructure teams building distributed systems on top of AWS and Microsoft Azure infrastructures. During his tenure at Microsoft and AWS, Mohamed shipped several products. He also received an Entrepreneurship and Innovation Certificate from Stanford university.
  
Description Shedrack Akintayo is a Developer Advocate and software developer from Lagos, Nigeria, who has a love for community building, open source, creating content, and software for the next billion users. As a technical writer and speaker, he shares his knowledge about JavaScript, React, and building APIs. Shedrack is passionate about learning, growing and helping local developer communities to plan and organize events. In his free time he loves music, Bollywood movies and playing football (known as soccer in the U.S.).
Karena Angell
Description Karena Angell, Product Marketing Principal at Red Hat, focuses on data solutions for the hybrid cloud. She brings expertise in enterprise storage with experience across multiple departments, including Sales, Marketing, and Product Development. Karena delivers real-world solutions for many of today's emerging data-driven workloads.
Description Chad Arimura is Vice President of Serverless at Oracle, currently leading The Fn Project, open source serverless FaaS platform and orchestration. Prior to this he was a three-time entrepreneur, most recently as co-founder and CEO of Iron.io that had a multi-million dollar ARR business helping pioneer serverless computing. Iron.Io was acquired by Oracle in 2017.
  
Description John Armstrong is Director of Product Marketing at Tigera. He has two decades of go-to-market experience working with category-creating startups as well as established technology vendors. John has a deep security and networking background in both commercial and open-source environments.
Ariel Assaraf
Description Ariel Assaraf is CEO of Coralogix. A veteran of the Israeli intelligence elite, he founded Coralogix to change how people analyze their operation, application, infrastructure and security data—one log at a time.
  
Description Lee Atchison is an author and recognized thought leader in cloud computing and application modernization with more than three decades of experience, working at modern application organizations such as Amazon, AWS, and New Relic. Lee is widely quoted in many publications and has been a featured speaker across the globe. Lee’s most recent book is Architecting for Scale (O’Reilly Media). https://leeatchison.com
Description Shahar Azulay, CEO of groundcover, is a serial R&D leader. Shahar brings experience in the world of cybersecurity and machine learning, having worked as a leader in companies such as Apple, DayTwo, and Cymotive Technologies. Shahar spent many years in the Cyber division at the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office and holds three degrees in Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology as well as Tel Aviv University. Shahar strives to use technological learnings from this rich background and bring it to today’s cloud native battlefield in the sharpest, most innovative form to make the world of dev a better place.