Contributors


  
Description Mostafa Radwan is a consultant who specializes in cloud and cloud-native computing. He started his career as a software engineer before getting in the trenches doing application and production support. He enjoys partnering with CIOs and IT leaders to adopt DevOps and cloud-native technologies and drive better business outcomes. When not serving clients or tinkering with technology, Mostafa likes to read, bike, and travel the world with his family. He can be reached at [email protected]
Description Ms. Ragan has had extensive experience in the development and implementation of business applications. She began her consulting career in 1989 consulting to fortune 500 organizations in the areas of testing, configuration management and build management. It was during her consulting experiences that Ms. Ragan recognized the lack of build management procedures for the distributed platform that had long been considered standard on the mainframe. In the four years leading to the creation of OpenMake Software she worked with development teams in implementing a team-centric standardized build management process. Ms. Ragan served on the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors as an Add-in Provider Representative for 5 years. Ms. Ragan received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA.
  
Description Prasanna Raghavendra is co-founder and serves as CTO at CloudMunch. Prasanna leads the architectural vision for the CloudMunch DevOps platform. Prasanna has many years of experience in the IT industry where he has held various software delivery roles, built software engineering and cloud platforms. An expert in cloud platforms, SaaS and Web 2.0, Prasanna led technology projects at Infosys, where he was head of engineering for the SaaS practice. In his last role at Misys, he led engineering for the BankFusion platform that enabled faster development & delivery of its products. Prasanna is passionate about Agile development & DevOps practices.
Description Aziz Rahman is the Lead Architect for the EDB Container Platform at EnterpriseDB, which delivers an enterprise-ready data management platform based on open source Postgres. He has been working extensively with Docker and Kubernetes for the past several years and is responsible for delivering a containerized Postgres ecosystem on Kubernetes-based container orchestration platforms.
 
Description Over the last 15 years prior to co-founding Avi Networks, Ranga has been an architect and developer of several high-performance distributed operating systems as well as networking and storage data center products. Before his current role as CTO, he was the Senior Director at Cisco’s Data Center business unit, responsible for platform software on the Nexus 7000 product line. Joining Cisco through the acquisition of Andiamo where he was one of the lead architects for the SAN-OS operating system, Ranga began his career at SGI as an IRIX kernel engineer for the Origin series of ccNUMA servers. Beginning his journey with a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Engineering in EEE from BITS, Pilani, India, he now has several patents in networking and storage.
Description Anirudh Ramanathan is CTO of Signadot where he focuses on building tools that enable testing of microservices at scale. Prior to this, he was a Software Engineer on the Kubernetes Team at Google where he worked on Kubernetes workload controllers and enabling stateful and batch workloads in Kubernetes.
Description Niranjan is a senior product marketing manager at HyScale, an application deployment platform for Kubernetes. At HyScale he works closely with a growing team of developers, DevOps and industry experts solving some of the nuanced problems with cloud and Kubernetes adoption.
Description Karthik Ranganathan is co-founder and CTO of Yugabyte. An ex-Facebook product leader, Karthik helped build the NoSQL platform that powered Facebook Messenger and its internal time series monitoring system, along with other Yugabyte co-founders, Kannan Muthukkaruppan (CEO) and Mikhail Bautin (Software Architect).
Description Hazel Raoult is a freelance tech writer and works with PRmention. She has more than six years of experience writing about technology, entrepreneurship and all things SaaS. Hazel loves to split her time between writing, editing and hanging out with her family.
  
Description Luca Ravazzolo is the product manager responsible for the strategy and the technologies used for the cloud enablement of the new InterSystemshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/luca-ravazzolo-06aa9/ IRIS Data Platform. He focuses on leveraging the best of breed technologies to optimize processes that provide solutions to market needs.
Description Matt Ray is the Director of Developer Relations at TriggerMesh. Matt is also the Co-host of the Software Defined Talk podcast with over 4,500 listeners. Previously, Matt held customer architect and community manager positions at Chef Software and Zenoss.
Frank Reno
Description Frank Reno is a Principal Product Manager at Sumo Logic, where he leads Product for Data Collection. He also serves as Sumo Logic's Open Source Ambassador co-leading all efforts around Open Source. He is also an active contributor to Sumo Logic's open source solutions and the general open source community.
Description Boris Renski is the co-founder and CMO at Mirantis, responsible for company's go-to market strategy. Over the last 10 years, Boris helped evolve Mirantis from little-known start-up to an established player in the open source infrastructure space with over 200 customers and 500 employees across 7 locations. Always curious and hands on with cloud native infrastructure, Boris is a frequent speaker at technology events and is an acting liaison between Mirantis and various cloud-native open source communities like Kubernetes, Spinnaker, Telecom Infra Project, OpNFV etc.
  
Description The World in Which in We Live (www.TheWorldInWhichWeLive.com) is created by ROELBOB: humor, art and technical insight coming together to explore the world of modern technology via thought provoking cartoons.
Bill Reynolds
Description Bill has over 10 years of experience in various IT engineering, support, and leadership roles, but found his true calling as a DevOps practitioner and evangelist in 2018. In his current role as a DevOps Engineer within UWM's Platform Automation team, he has been a core contributor in designing and implementing their CI/CD toolchain and software delivery pipeline. As a Kubernetes enthusiast in and out of his day job, he has played a key role in guiding UWM's IT organization forward in their adoption of containerization technologies.
 
Description Pini Reznik is co-founder and chief revenue officer at Container Solutions.
Description Robert Richardson has years of experience in software development and in writing about technology–cyber security, cybersecurity and AI in particular. He served as editorial director of TechTarget’s Security media group until late 2018. Prior to this post, he was editorial director at Black Hat, developing online products for the highly successful computer security conference. He spent several years as the director of the Computer Security Institute, where he was on staff from 2003 through early 2011. In that capacity, he’s given keynote presentations on three continents, often speaking about the CSI Computer Crime and Security Survey done in conjunction with the FBI, an undertaking he directed for several years. Prior to CSI, he was senior editor of Communications Convergence magazine for two years, where his beats included telecom security, wireless, Internet messaging and next-generation phone systems. Robert started out his career as a systems-level programmer developing early PC network applications, leading to his writing articles that saw him become a frequent contributor to magazines and Web publications such as Ziff-Davis Internet Computing, BYTE, Network Magazine and Small Business Computing. On occasion, Robert has also taught introductory courses in computer science at Swarthmore College.
Jared Richter
Description Chris Riley (@hoardinginfo) is obsessed with bringing modern technologies to those who need to solve real-world problems, going from unicorn to reality. Chris speaks and engages with end users regularly in the areas of DevOps, SecOps and App Dev. He works for Splunk as a Tech Advocate and is a regular contributor to industry blogs such as cloudnativenow.com, DevOps.com and Sweetcode.io. He is also the host of the podcast, Developers Eating the World.
Description Carmine Rimi is a Kubernetes lead at Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu.
Description Gaurav Rishi is at the forefront of several Kubernetes ecosystem partnerships and has been a frequent speaker and author on cloud native innovations. He previously led Strategy and Product Management for Cisco's Cloud Media Processing business. In addition to launching multiple products and growing them to >$100M in revenues, he was also instrumental in several M&A transactions. Gaurav is a computer science graduate and has an MBA from the Wharton School.
Description Eduardo Rocha is a Pre-Sales engineer at GlobalDots with a strong experience in the field of Internet traffic analysis and security. He successfully concluded a Doctoral degree in Portugal after which he moved to Germany where he worked on prestigious companies in the field of network analysis and security.
Description Robert Ross is the founder and CTO of Curtail Inc. Prior to Curtail, Ross served as CTO of Translattice, as a research scientist at McAfee and as a developer at eEye Digital Security. He also developed deception-based systems and high-speed network intrusion detection systems at Recourse Technologies, which was acquired by Symantec. He holds more than 15 patents in computer security, database and distributed systems technologies.
Hal Rottenberg
Description Hal is an experienced enterprise systems engineer, having worked for several Fortune 20 companies over his career. In 2012, he joined Splunk, where he spent 2.5 years in Business Development as a solution architect and consultant. Most recently, he's moved to the Office of the CSO, where his passion for speaking and education are used to help grow the Splunk developer platform ecosystem, and build programs to sustain that growth. Hal is also the co-host for the long-running PowerScripting Podcast, a weekly Internet radio show which focuses on Windows PowerShell. Since 2007, the show has had over 300 episodes and 900,000 downloads. He is also a published author, and an accomplished technical trainer.
  
Description Nikki Rouda has deep experience leading enterprise modern apps, containers, big data, analytics, and data center infrastructure initiatives. Before his current role at Replicated, Nikki held senior positions at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudera, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), Riverbed, and Veritas. Nikki has an MBA from Cambridge's Judge Business School, and a ScB in geophysics from Brown University. Nikki does not often refer to himself in the third person, but wasn't sure how else to do it here.
Description Shauli Rozen is CEO & Co-founder of Cyber Armor.
Description Gareth Rushgrove, Director of Product at Snyk, works remotely from Cambridge, UK, helping to build interesting tools for people to better secure infrastructure and applications. He has previously worked for the UK Government Digital Service focused on infrastructure, operations and information security, as well as at Puppet and Docker. When not working he can be found curating the Devops Weekly newsletter, hiking or reading a good book.