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Bassam Tabbara is the founder of Upbound and the creator of the Rook and Crossplane projects hosted by the CNCF. Prior to Upbound, he was the CTO of Quantum, CTO and co-founder of Symform, a P2P storage startup acquired by Quantum, and a Partner Software Architect at Microsoft where he led key initiatives as part of Microsoft Research, Azure, Windows Server, and Visual Studio.
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Patrick is a senior solution architect at StormForge. He is a seasoned system architect who earned his spurs in several adventures at Red Hat, Verizon, and Deloitte over the past two decades. For the past six years he deepened his understanding in Kubernetes with different K8s engines. When he is not helping others build their cloud-native apps, you will find him building furniture in his woodshop, roasting coffee beans from different parts of the world, or training with other taekwondo blackbelts at his local dojang.
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Twain is a Fixate IO Contributor and began his career at Google, where, among other things, he was involved in technical support for the AdWords team. His work involved reviewing stack traces, and resolving issues affecting both customers and the support team, and handling escalations. Later, he built branded social media applications, and automation scripts to help startups better manage their marketing operations. Today, as a technology journalist he helps IT magazines and startups change the way teams build and ship applications.
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Billy Thompson is a Solutions Engineering Manager for Akamai Cloud Computing Services, helping customers design portable architectures and deploy them at scale for technical and business teams. Billy holds a degree in information security and has a special interest in IaC, Kubernetes, Big Data engineering, and Python and Rust programming languages. He is a longtime Arch Linux user and Vegan and never knows which to tell people first. Outside of work he studies Jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai and boxing. He also volunteers his home for fostering and acclimating rescue dogs.
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Ratan Tipirneni is President & CEO at Tigera, where he is responsible for defining strategy, leading execution, and scaling revenues. Ratan is an entrepreneurial executive with extensive experience incubating, building, and scaling software businesses from early stage to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. He is a proven leader with a track record of building world-class teams.
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Niraj Tolia is the CEO and Co-Founder at Kasten and is interested in all things Kubernetes. He has played multiple roles in the past, including the Senior Director of Engineering for Dell EMC's CloudBoost family of products and the VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Maginatics (acquired by EMC). Niraj received his PhD, MS, and BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Christopher Tozzi has covered technology and business news for nearly a decade, specializing in open source, containers, big data, networking and security. He is currently Senior Editor and DevOps Analyst with Fixate.io and Sweetcode.io.
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Alex Tray boasts a decade of extensive experience within the IT sector, primarily specializing in Windows Server and Desktop Administration. Currently employed as a system administrator at a prominent technology firm based in Texas, Alex brings profound expertise in a multitude of critical areas including Azure, Active Directory, Office 365, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Endpoint Manager (Intune), and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM). His robust skill set and comprehensive knowledge base underscore his invaluable contributions to the company's IT infrastructure and operations.
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Ajay Tripathy is the Chief Technology Officer at Kubecost, a solution for Kubernetes cost management. Before co-founding Kubecost in 2019, Tripathy was a software engineer at Google, working on Google Cloud.