Contributors


Description Ranny Nachmias has 15 years experience in customer successes, business operations and product sales. Ranny’s rich expertise includes the establishment of the global customer success operations at Dynamic Yield. Ranny has held leading roles such as VP Customer Experience and Service Operations at LivePerson as well as leading global pre-sales teams and infrastructure support at Amdocs.
 
Description Raj Nair is a serial entrepreneur who has founded successful startups in the areas of cloud computing and media delivery. As co-founder and CEO of Avesha, he is enabling the next wave of autonomous infrastructure at scale with AI-driven autoscaling and networking. His first startup Arrowpoint Communications, invented L5 network load balancing and was acquired by Cisco Systems for $6B. Later, he co-founded Azuki Systems, a pioneer in Over-the-Top media delivery to phones and tablets and was acquired by Ericsson in 2014. Raj has over 35 patents in a range of communications technologies including content routing, security and load balancing.
  
Description Sagar Nangare is a technology blogger, focusing on data center technologies (Networking, Telecom, Cloud, Storage) and emerging domains like Open RAN, Edge Computing, IoT, Machine Learning, AI). Based in Pune, he is currently serving Coredge.io as Director - Product Marketing.
Description Kendall Nelson is an Upstream Developer Advocate at the Open Infrastructure Foundation. She first started working on OpenStack (Cinder) during the Liberty release (2015) and since then has been involved in Release Management, StoryBoard, the Women of OpenStack (WoO), the First Contact SIG, the Contributor Guide and OpenStack Upstream Institute. She’s recently gotten more involved in the Kubernetes community helping to bridge it with the OpenStack community via SIG Cloud Provider and provider OpenStack. When she is not evangelizing about the awesomeness of OpenStack, bringing people into the community, binding open source communities together, or working to make upstream development in open source a friendlier place, she can be found reading Harry Potter, watching Doctor Who, or out on a photo-taking adventure.
Description Aaron Newcomb is the Director of Product Marketing at Sysdig focusing on the Sysdig Monitor product and related Kubernetes and container monitoring features. He has worked in the technology industry for over 20 years for companies such as AppDynamics, New Relic, NetApp, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett Packard where he worked with APM, Storage, and Systems Monitoring products. He is a published author, non-profit founder, and speaks about cloud technology and open source software regularly at conferences and on podcasts like TWiT.tv. Aaron spends his free time tinkering with Raspberry Pi or Arduino as well as restoring and hacking old computer systems like the Commodore 64, Apple II, and TRS-80 Color Computer.
Description Andre is a technical writer for Gremlin where he writes about the benefits and applications of Chaos Engineering. Prior to joining Gremlin, he worked as a consultant for startups and SaaS providers where he wrote on DevOps, observability, SIEM, and microservices. He has been featured in DZone, StatusCode Weekly, and Next City.
Description Ant is a tech marketer with a strategic brain and extensive background in B2B markets. A true geek at heart, he loves "big rock" projects like thought-leadership, where simplifying and elevating the complex adds real value. More recently, he has been introduced to the terrifying beauty of Kubernetes and the cloud native space through Spectro Cloud, where he leads (most) content. When is not talking, writing or producing all-things containers, he geeks out with fountain pens, vinyls and his two children.
Description Christopher Nichols has always enjoyed using new technology advancements to scale marketing efforts. He believes in data-driven marketing and practices it in his agency, Strictly Digital.
Description Gillian Nieboer is Marketing Director at Appvia, helping platform teams with a secure, resilient, developer-friendly cloud delivery platform. Gillian likes to learn by writing on K8s, DevOps, DevEx and hosting meetups in London for platform engineers. Previously worked at Snyk, Samsara and Salesforce.
Description Jasmine Noel is a senior product marketing manager at NS1. Her career began as an industry analyst covering network management technologies. She then founded Ptak, Noel & Associates to provide research and marketing services to IT technology firms. Prior to NS1, Noel also held product marketing roles in growth companies, including Corvil and Veracode.
 
Description Tina Nolte is VP of Product at Spectro Cloud. She has been in and around cloud native and scale out technologies for the better part of a decade at startups focused on cloud infrastructure and rack scale architectures as well as at more established infrastructure companies. She has a Ph.D. in distributed computing from MIT and enjoys reading science fiction and building large Lego Star Wars kits.
Description Mark Nunnikhoven is the Vice President of Cloud Research at Trend Micro. He is one of the foremost experts on cloud technologies and cybersecurity issues. With a focus on modernizing security practices and usable security systems at scale, Mark works with clients and partners around the world. Often quoted in the media both at home in Canada and internationally, Mark is an engaging public speaker, an O'Reilly video author, an accomplished computer scientist, and security leader.