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Michael Cade is a community first technologist for Kasten by Veeam Software. He is based in the UK with over 16 years of industry experience with a key focus on technologies such as cloud native, automation & data management. His role at Kasten is to act as a technical thought leader, community champion and project owner to engage with the community to enable influencers and customers to overcome the challenges of Cloud Native Data Management and be successful, speaking at events sharing the technical vision and corporate strategy whilst providing ongoing feedback from the field into product management to shape the future success.
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Lee Calcote is the Head of Technology Strategy at SolarWinds, where he stewards strategy and innovation across the business. Previously, Calcote led software-defined data center engineering at Seagate, up-leveling the systems portfolio by delivering new predictive analytics, telemetric and modern management capabilities. Prior to Seagate, Calcote held various leadership positions at Cisco, where he created Cisco’s cloud management platforms and pioneered new, automated, remote management services.
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Stevie Caldwell is the SRE Tech Lead at Fairwinds.
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Kyle Carberry is Coder's co-founder and CTO, directly responsible for Coder’s open source projects.
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Fernando Cardoso is a Solution Architect at Trend Micro and brings more than 10 years of experience working in the cybersecurity field. Previously, he worked as a Network Engineer and a Sales Engineer, with Datacenters, Cloud, DevOps, and Cybersecurity remaining the center of his passion. In the past four years, Fernando has been involved in numerous Cloud Security and DevSecOps projects, and shares his experiences on his Medium account.
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Shalom Carmel is the CIO of GlobalDots, a web, cloud and security integration partner. Shalom is an information technology expert with strong business and technological skills. An entrepreneur at heart, Shalom is always looking for ways to improve on the status quo, and is experienced in working both in multinational mega-corporations and in shoe-string startup operations. A couple of years ago Shalom became a published author with his book called 'Hacking iSeries'. Shalom is also a well known speaker having participated in several security conventions including BlackHat, DeepSec, and Hackin9.
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Jeff has worked as a software engineer and architect in multiple industries and as a developer advocate helping engineers get up to speed on Apache Cassandra. He's involved in multiple open source projects in the Cassandra and Kubernetes ecosystems including Stargate and K8ssandra. Jeff is the author of the O’Reilly books Cassandra: The Definitive Guide and Managing Cloud Native Data on Kubernetes.
Colin Cavalancia
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Alex Chalkias is a Product Manager at Canonical working with data center solutions such as Kubernetes and Ceph. He has 8 years of work experience in telecommunications, project management and IT consulting and has also been involved in projects related to volunteering as a member of the TEDxAthens team. He has a Master’s degree from the school of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Patras. During his studies his main occupations were programming and new technologies, such as Augmented Reality and Human – Computer Interaction. Technology and how it can be used to improve people’s lives is the subject that he is most passionate about. In his spare time, he enjoys tennis and CrossFit, listening to music, good food and coffee.
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Nick Chase is Head of Technical and Content Marketing for Mirantis, and is deeply involved with cloud computing using Kubernetes and OpenStack. A former release team member for Kubernetes, he is a frequent speaker on technical topics and author of hundreds of tutorials and over a dozen books, including Machine Learning for Mere Mortals.
Pete Chestna
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As Director of Developer Engagement, Pete provides customers with practical advice on how to successfully roll out developer-centric application security programs. Relying on more than 10 years of direct AppSec experience as both a developer and development leader, Pete provides information on best practices amassed from working with Veracode’s 1,000+ customers. Pete joined Veracode in 2006 as a platform developer and was instrumental in delivering the first version of Veracode’s service to customers. Later, as Director of Platform Engineering, Pete managed the Agile teams responsible for delivering Veracode’s SaaS platform and built the first DevOps team.
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An award-winning freelance writer, Ericka Chickowski covers information technology and business innovation. Her perspectives on business and technology have appeared in dozens of trade and consumer magazines, including Entrepreneur, Consumers Digest, Channel Insider, CIO Insight, Dark Reading and InformationWeek. She's made it her specialty to explain in plain English how technology trends affect real people.
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Alex Chircop is the founder and CEO of Ondat (formerly StorageOS), which makes it possible to easily deploy and manage stateful Kubernetes applications with persistent data volumes. He also serves as co-chair of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Storage Technical Advisory Group. Alex comes from a technical background working in IT that includes more than 10 years with Nomura and Goldman Sachs.
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Matt Chotin is Sr. Director of Developer Initiatives at AppDynamics, charged with leading AppDynamics products to better support developers in improving improving performance and achieving business outcomes. Prior to AppDynamics, Matt held product leadership roles at Chegg and Adobe and co-founded his own startup.
Oleg Chunikhin
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With 20 years of software architecture and development experience, Kublr CTO Oleg Chunikhin is responsible for defining Kublr’s technology strategy and standards. He has championed the standardization of DevOps in all Kublr does and is committed to driving adoption of container technologies and automation.
Oleg holds a Bachelor of Mathematics and a Master of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Novosibirsk State University, and is an AWS Certified Software Architect.
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Chris Clark is a Project Manager for the Linux Foundation and a software engineer with a background in JavaScript and Node.js development. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and daughter. He enjoys music, games of skill and road trips, among other things
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Michael Clark is the Director of Threat Research at Sysdig, managing a team of experts tasked with discovering and defending against novel security threats. Michael has more than 20 years of industry experience in many different roles, including incident response, threat intelligence, offensive security research, and software development at companies like Rapid7, ThreatQuotient, and Mantech. Prior to joining Sysdig, Michael worked as a Gartner analyst, advising enterprise clients on security operations topics.
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Kit Colbert is VP & CTO, VMware Cloud, driving technical strategy and innovation across VMware's multi-cloud offerings. Previously, he was CTO of Cloud Platform, GM of Cloud-Native Apps, CTO for End-User Computing, the Chief Architect and Principal Engineer for Horizon Workspace, and the lead Management Architect for the vRealize Operations Suite. At the start of his career, he was the technical lead behind the creation, development, and delivery of the vMotion and Storage vMotion features in vSphere. Kit holds a ScB in Computer Science from Brown University and is a recognized thought-leader on Cloud-Native, End-User Computing, and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure trends. He speaks regularly at industry conferences, on the main stage at VMworld, and is the Hybrid Cloud voice for the VMware Office of the CTO blog.
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Danielle Cook is the vice president of marketing at Fairwinds, a Kubernetes governance and security company. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Chris is the Developer Advocate for Coralogix and is passionate about all things observability, organizational leadership and cutting-edge engineering.
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Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. Cf. cote.io, and is @cote on Twitter. Texas Forever!
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Kevin Crawley serves as the Developer Advocate for Containous, a cloud-native networking company behind the open source projects Traefik and Maesh. He is passionate about championing the benefits of Open Source, DevOps, automation, observability, distributed tracing, and control theory.
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Brendan Creane is Head of Engineering at Tigera, where he is responsible for all engineering operations, including Calico Cloud, Calico Enterprise and Project Calico. Brendan has several decades of experience building enterprise security, observability, and networking products.
TC Currie
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TC Currie is a journalist, writer, data geek, poet, body positive activist and occasional lingerie model. After spending 25 years in software development she started reporting on cloud technology, DevOps, AI/ML and workplace culture for The New Stack, Programmable Web & TFIR.io. She’s written content for Oracle, CloudBees, NGNIX, Digital Ocean, and Armory.io.
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Anthony Cusimano is a Kubernetes Expert at Veritas Technologies. He has spent his entire professional life performing a plethora of roles at Veritas - starting in quality assurance automation and quickly moving into full-on software engineering. Anthony cut his teeth building a greenfield product that stretched the limits of what a modern DevOps program could look like. After project completion, he moved into a sales architect position focusing on cloud solutions - changing the way the team talked about the next-generation portfolio. Anthony enjoys learning about technology and sharing that knowledge with those around him.