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Murali Balcha is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Trilio, a leader in cloud-native data protection. Balcha is a seasoned technical leader who has designed several innovative technologies for the enterprise infrastructure market, including the TrilioVault cloud-native data protection platform. Balcha is responsible for Trilio's technology and product strategy, global engineering organization and patent portfolio.
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Amir Banet is the chief executive officer (CEO) at PerfectScale, an innovation leader in Kubernetes optimization based in Morrisville, North Carolina.
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Nir Bar-Lev is CEO of Allegro AI, which is a pioneer in deep learning and machine learning software lifecycle management and ML-Ops solutions for open-source and enterprise requirements. Prior to Allegro AI, Nir spent a decade at Google in senior leadership roles. Nir is a University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School MBA graduate, an experienced engineer, and an IDF elite technology unit alum.
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Daniel Bartholomew is Co-Founder & CTO at Section, the leading cloud-native distributed compute provider. Daniel has spent over twenty years in engineering leadership and technical consulting roles. His vision for a developer-friendly edge platform was born long before the term ‘edge computing’ was coined and has evolved into a pioneering technology that is focused on meeting the needs of today’s developers.
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Keith Basil is VP, Edge Solutions at Rancher. He brings over 20 years of hands-on experience in cloud and related industries. As Vice President of Edge Solutions, Basil drives strategy and product for Rancher’s k3s and fleet-based offerings. Working with Rancher’s global customer base, he is focused on Kubernetes-driven edge solutions that encompass cluster management, heterogeneous architectures, and zero-trust security approaches at scale.
Basil is also passionate about the next generation of decentralized cloud computing models. As an advocate in this area, he is working with communication service providers and public sector organizations to establish decentralized cloud infrastructure, applications and new revenue models.
Before Rancher, Basil led product management, positioning, and business strategy for security within Red Hat's Cloud Platforms business unit. Prior to Red Hat, he was instrumental in the design of a secure, high-performance cloud architecture that provided compute, storage and application hosting services for US public sector civilian agencies and contractors.
Basil holds a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies from Norfolk State University.
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DevOps coach.
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Brad Beam is a Senior Software Engineer at StormForge. He has been involved in the Cloud-Native ecosystem for several years as both an engineer and a co-founder.
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Jake Beck is a Product Manager at Ambassador Labs. As an engineer turned Product Manager, at work he enjoys working to align engineering work to help advance business goals as well as bridging the technical capabilities of the product to the business. Prior to Ambassador Labs, he was a software engineer at Target and Optum. Outside of work, he loves to exercise, whether it's lifting weights or going on hikes with his 2 dogs in Minnesota.
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Pavan is a DevOps influencer and a contributing author at various technology platforms. He talks about cloud-native technologies and digital transformation strategies.
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Alex Belokrylov is the CEO and co-founder of BellSoft. Alex's Java journey started at Sun Microsystems and was followed by his Oracle experience, which helped to establish Alex as one of the most influential Java thinkers and a significant contributor to Java's evolution and enterprise adoption.
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Glen has been in the IT industry for over 12 years. He began his career with the goal of becoming a Cisco Networking Engineer and earned a CCNA certification. Glen’s journey led him to become a Systems Engineer. In this role he has cultivated his PowerShell skills and is the go-to guy for scripting and automation on his team. His passion for Kubernetes has helped him contribute to new innovations in IT at UWM. As a native Detroiter, Glen is glad to attend KubeCon in his home city this year!
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Sharon Ben Zeev is a Manager of Vulnerability Research at Palo Alto Networks. She specializes in open source security, as well as Cloud and Container security. At Palo Alto Networks, Sharon focuses on researching vulnerabilities in open source projects and investigating different methods of securing them, and improving the product’s vulnerability management.
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Daniel is an IBM Distinguished Engineer responsible for the container and service mesh technical strategy within IBM Cloud. He has direct responsibility for the technical architecture and delivery of the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service providing managed kubernetes clusters worldwide. Daniel has deep knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes and has extensive experience building and operating highly available cloud-native services. Daniel is a member of the Technical Oversight Committee for the Istio.io open source service mesh project and he is responsible for driving the technical integration of Istio into IBM Cloud.
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Dr. Malini Bhandaru is a Cloud Architect focused on confidential compute, cloud2edge security, and ML. Over the last decade she has been involved with open source on projects such as Confidential Containers, EdgeX Foundry, KubeFlow, and OpenStack. She has worked on a variety of applications such as autonomous driving, health care, telecommunications. Her Intel career began as a Xeon server power and performance architect. Malini is a frequent conference speaker, has served on KubeCon and OSS program committees. Malini has a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and over 20 patents. She is a STEM coach and a gardener in sunny California.
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Ritu Bhargava works in DevOps COE in HCL Technologies as Software Engineer, working with Log Monitoring Tool Tools (ELK), GitLab, Jenkins and some other Devops Tools.
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David Bisson is an information security writer and security junkie. He's a contributing editor to IBM's Security Intelligence and Tripwire's The State of Security Blog, and he's a contributing writer for Bora. He also regularly produces written content for Zix and a number of other companies in the digital security space.
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Sourodip Biswas is senior editor, at Space-O Canada, a company having expertise in software and mobile app development. He believes that learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. His work has been published on various distinguished blogs across the web.
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Dan Blum is Managing Partner and Principal Consultant at Security Architects. An internationally-recognized expert in security, privacy, cloud computing and identity management Dan Blum develops Security Architects Partners’ business partnerships, creates content and leads consulting engagements. Formerly, he was a Golden Quill award-winning VP and Distinguished Analyst at Gartner and one of the founding partners of Burton Group. As a Principal Consultant at Security Architects Partners and formerly at Gartner, he has led or contributed to projects such as:
Cloud security and privacy assessment for a pharmaceutical company with a global customer base
Full security assessment for a large U.S. health care network following negative audit results
Security organization review for a major university
Full security architecture for a large U.S. power company
Independent evaluation of the U.S. government’s E-Authentication Program
Directory services architecture for a Swiss bank
Full security assessment for a Fortune 100 technology company
Identity management and PKI architectures for a large pharmaceutical
Recently honored as a Privacy by Design Ambassador, Dan has authored 2 books, written for numerous publications and participated in standards groups such as CSA, ISACA, OASIS and others.
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Sam Bocetta is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyberwarfare, cyberdefense, and cryptography.
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John Boch is a seasoned cloud storage and data management expert with over 12 years of experience in the IT industry. John holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and multiple industry certifications, including AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, and CCIE Data Center. When not working on complex storage projects, John enjoys sharing his knowledge through blogging, speaking at industry events, and mentoring aspiring IT professionals.
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Steve has more than 18 years experience in product marketing and management serving enterprise customers working for industry leaders such as Red Hat, NetApp, Violin Memory, and HP. He has travelled around the world in his career and launched countless storage and server products into the market. At Red Hat, he is responsible for marketing container storage solutions. Steve holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Villanova University and a Master's of Business Administration from Purdue University.
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Don Boxley Jr is a DH2i co-founder and CEO. Don earned his MBA from the Johnson School of Management, Cornell University.
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I have a passion for technology and gadgets--with a focus on Microsoft and security--and a desire to help others understand how technology can affect or improve their lives. I also love spending time with my wife, 7 kids, 2 dogs, 4 cats, 3 rabbits, 2 ferrets, pot-bellied pig and sulcata tortoise, and I like to think I enjoy reading and golf even though I never find time for either. You can contact me directly at [email protected]. For more from me, you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook.
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Robert Brennan is director of open source software at Fairwinds, a cloud-native infrastructure solution provider. He focuses on the development of open source tools that abstract the complexity from underlying infrastructure to enable an optimal experience for developers. Before Fairwinds, he worked as a software engineer at Google in AI and natural language processing. He is the co-founder of DataFire.io, an open source platform for building API’s and integrations, and LucyBot, developer of a suite of automated API documentation solutions deployed by Fortune 500 companies. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Engineering where he focused on machine learning.
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With more than 25 years of experience, Orasi Managing Director Terry Brennan has become an established thought-leader in solving complex software delivery challenges. He has the unique ability to understand and define strategies across many facets of IT delivery, including IT strategy, governance, product ownership, application delivery, infrastructure, testing and operations. Notably, Terry developed his expertise through hands-on experience across most IT domains. In recent years, Terry has architected and helped deliver leading-edge DevOps solutions to significantly reduce throughput and enable continuous flow.
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Pete Brey is marketing manager of hybrid cloud object storage at Red Hat, including Red Hat Ceph Storage and the Red Hat data analytics infrastructure solution.
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Adrian is a technology journalist with three decades of press experience. Primarily he works as a news analysis writer dedicated to a software application development ‘beat’. He has spent much of the last thirty years focusing on open source, analytics & data science, cloud computing, mobile devices & data management. He has an extensive background in communications starting in print media, newspapers and also television.
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Bernard Brode is a product researcher at Microscopic Machines and remains eternally curious about where the collision of AI, cybersecurity, and nanotechnology will eventually take us.
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Tobias Brunner is head of DevOps & Partner at VSHN - The DevOps Company. He has been working in computer science and in the internet space for almost 15 years.
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Scott Buchanan is the Senior Director of Marketing for Cloud Native Applications at VMware. He recently joined the company as part of its acquisition of Heptio, a leader in Kubernetes. Scott has spent the majority of his career helping organizations consider how to best traverse their cloud native journey.
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Haseeb’s passion is solving hard networking problems with elegant, cost-effective solutions. He is focused on working with customers, partners and other ecosystem members to ensure what Rafay builds truly solves a critical problem in a pragmatic way.
Prior to co-founding Rafay, Haseeb founded and was the CEO of Soha Systems, which was acquired by Akamai Technologies. Previously, he held positions at Infineta Systems, NET and Citrix Systems. Haseeb holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
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Jenna Bunnell is the Senior Manager for Content Marketing at Dialpad, an AI-incorporated cloud-hosted unified communications system that provides valuable call details and helpful resources like this meeting notes guide from Dialpad for business owners and sales representatives. She is driven and passionate about communicating a brand’s design sensibility and visualizing how content can be presented in creative and comprehensive ways. Jenna has written for other domains such as PingPlotter and TRACX. Check out her LinkedIn profile.
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Paul Burt is the Director of Community and Marketing at MayaData. He previously worked at CoreOS and Red Hat, and currently moderates /r/kubernetes. Paul has a knack for and demystifying infrastructure, and making gnarly, complex topics approachable. He enjoys home brewing beer, reading independent comics, and yelling at his computer when it doesn’t do what he wants.
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Matt Butcher is co-founder and CEO of Fermyon, the serverless WebAssembly in the cloud company. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide and Krustlet. He has written and co-written many books, including "Learning Helm" and "Go in Practice." He is a co-creator of the "Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes" series. These days, he works mostly on WebAssembly projects such as Spin, Fermyon Cloud and Bartholomew. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy. He lives in Colorado, where he drinks lots of coffee.
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Josh Butikofer has been developing software for the past two decades. He has held a variety of engineering and management roles over the years. Although he considers himself a full-stack engineer, his specialty interests include high-performance computing, large-scale distributed systems, and data center automation. Josh is currently a Sr. Software Architect at Adobe where he helps scale the industry-leading Digital Marketing Cloud. He is also a committed husband and father. Josh graduated summa cum laude from Brigham Young University with a BS in Computer Science. When elusive spare time finally comes his way, he enjoys reading, writing, and cycling.