OpenShift Commons Gathering Co-located Alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024
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Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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This in person OpenShift Commons Gathering will be held on November 12th live in Salt Lake City, Utah and co-located with CNCF's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA.
This Gathering will focus on talks from and by Cloud Native practitioners with production deployments sharing their use cases, insights into their workloads and lessons learned along the way.
Adam Sykes is a Deloitte Engineering leader in building Developer Platforms in the Cloud and an overall Developer Experience for enterprise. He serves customers across Government and Commercial sectors and strives to bring acceleration to environments for happy developers.
Alan Cowles is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager on the Customer and Field Engagement team at Red Hat. He specializes in hybrid data center architecture and the development of solution patterns using Red Hat OpenShift, with a particular focus on OpenShift Virtualization. These patterns combine both native features and partner solutions to demonstrate how to best meet customer needs. In the world away from work, Alan can often be found running or biking on one of the many trail systems in central North Carolina, playing softball or golf, or hanging out at home with his wife and two children.
Alireza Rahmani is a Senior Cloud Success Architect at Red Hat and a Doctoral Engineer candidate at Penn State University, specializing in AI/ML optimization, cloud computing, and CNCF projects. A dedicated professor and open-source advocate, he bridges academia and industry, empowering future tech leaders through education and innovation.
Amy is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat specializing in OpenStack. She currently serves as the Chair of the CentOS Project, as Vice-Chair of the Open Infrastructure Foundation Board of Directors and on the CHAOSS Project Governing Board. In addition she serves on the OpenStack Technical Committee, as chair of the OpenInfra Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, and contributes to several OpenStack projects, and previously served as the chair of the OpenStack User Committee.
Andrew Block is a Distinguished Architect at Red Hat who works with organizations to design and implement solutions leveraging cloud native technologies. He specializes in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies with a focus on security to reduce the overall delivery time. Andrew is the author of several publications on solutions within the Kubernetes ecosystem, a maintainer on the Helm, ORAS and SOPS projects, and a contributor to several Open Source projects including Sigstore.
Andy is the Head of Partner & Solutions Marketing at Portworx by Pure Storage, a role he has held since May 2021. In this role, Andy is responsible for driving the GTM and strategic efforts with key technology and channel partners. Prior to Portworx, Andy held multiple product management and product marketing roles at IBM with a focus on Red Hat OpenShift solutions. Andy has also spent time as a management consultant with a focus on the healthcare and higher education industries. Andy received both his BA and MBA from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, where he still resides with his wife, son, daughter, and 90 pound Great Pyrenees.
Anjali Telang is a Principal Product Manager for Security and Identity in OpenShift at RedHat. She is a security, networking and cloud enthusiast with over 16 years of experience. Prior to joining RedHat, she worked in various product and engineering roles at VMware and NetApp. In her free time, she loves to read, cook and meditate.
Blair McDuff is an Account Executive at Crunchy Data. She works with enterprises across North America to ensure the backend data store for their applications is highly available and secure. She focuses on providing open-source software solutions, an exceptional customer experience, and business value.
A lifelong Texan (so far), I have been a Linux admin since 2002. I have worked for a newspaper, the government, and now the financial sector. Our OpenShift journey at Frost Bank began in 2021 and I have been transforming into a Kubernetes engineer ever since.
Carl has worked in the IT industry for over a decade. He is a senior HPC specialist at New York University, focused on designing cloud native solutions to facilitate academic research and promoting the adoption of enterprise automation, microservices and event driven architecture throughout research technology. Previously, he was a Senior Systems Engineer at Columbia University Medical Center, where he managed HPC and cloud operations at the Institute for Genomic Medicine. He also worked for UCLA where he managed research and instructional technology for the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences.
Christophe Fargette is a Product Manager at Red Hat, specializing in the development and enhancement of the Red Hat Developer Hub. With a passion for empowering developers and optimizing workflows, Christophe leads initiatives to create user-centric solutions that streamline internal development processes. With his extensive expertise in developer experience, Christophe brings a unique blend of technical expertise and strategic vision to his role. He is committed to understanding the diverse needs of developers within the organization and works closely with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative tools and resources that enhance productivity and collaboration.
Derek Carr is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He is the lead architect for OpenShift products and services. He has worked in the Kubernetes and related cloud-native open source communities since 2014. In the Kubernetes community, he is an emeritus member of the Kubernetes Steering committee, and a co-chair for Architecture and technical lead for Node special interest groups.
Diego Torres is a software architect with more than 10 years of experience leading customers to implement intelligent applications through the use of process automation, decision management, and artificial intelligence. As the managing architect at AI Practice pre-sales, he leads a talented team of consulting architects that provide proposals to Red Hat AI Consulting Services clients, and drive adoption of the Red Hat Openshift AI product.
Doron Caspin is the Sr. Manager, Product Management for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security, based in Chapel Hill, NC. He has 25 years of experience in the industry and holds both an MBA from North Carolina State University and CSSLP certifications.Doron joined Red Hat from IBI, where he was Director of Product Management and led the company's transition to the cloud. Before IBI, he was a Senior Offering Manager at IBM, overseeing QRadar Security SaaS products. He also served as a Senior Product Manager at Dell-EMC, focusing on Data Protection and Security for Hybrid Cloud Solutions. Doron has also worked as a Principal Architect at RSA Security. Doron enjoys the outdoors, building things, and listening to music outside of work. He lives in Chapel Hill with his four daughters.
Doug Smith is a Principal Software Engineer for OpenShift Engineering at Red Hat. Focusing on Network Function Virtualization and container technologies, Doug integrates new networking technologies with container systems like Kubernetes and OpenShift. He is a member of the Network Plumbing Working Group and a contributor to OpenShift, Multus, and NFV-related projects.
Fernando Alvarez, based in Argentina, is currently the IT Infrastructure Lead at ARSAT, where he heads group initiatives in information technologies. His expertise centers around leveraging Linux, virtualization, and IaaS cloud computing as core technological tools at the National Data Center. Fernando has previously held various roles at ARSAT - Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales S.A. and has academic experience from the University of Buenos Aires. He is a graduate of the Universidad Nacional de La Matanza. With a strong technical skill set, Fernando is proficient in virtualization technologies, Linux distributions (including Debian and RHEL), Bash scripting, and more.
Francisco Meneses is Senior Architect - STP for Latin America at Red Hat. His main role is to help the consulting and TSM team define architectures and support in generating commercial proposals that allow the generation of new opportunities for the company, ensuring the best practices and recommendations. With more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry, Francisco has been with Red Hat since 2016. During his professional career there, he has served as an architect and a Practice Leader, ensuring the adoption of product stack integration technologies. In addition to supporting the transformational processes of all clients (in areas of education, retail, banking, and telecommunications)
Hugo Guerrero is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat with over two decades of experience in software development. Throughout his career he has taken on diverse roles, including developer, consultant, architect and software development factory manager. Passionate about event-driven architecture, Hugo actively promotes the adoption of AsyncAPI, volunteering his time to raise awareness of this technology as an AsyncAPI ambassador. He is also a dedicated contributor to open-source projects and is responsible for maintaining the Microcks Docker Desktop Extension.
Jamie Parker is a Product Manager at Red Hat who specializes in Observability, particularly in the OpenShift Logging and OpenStack Telemetry areas. At Red Hat, Jamie works with organizations and customers to learn about their needs within the ever changing Observability landscape, and based on their feedback, helps to guide upcoming products within the Red Hat Observability Platform. Jamie enjoys sharing lessons learned to the community by frequently speaking at meetups and conferences and by blogging.
Jason Moody is a lifelong Texan as well as a former Linux and Windows admin. Jason has over 20 years of IT experience. He is currently the Capability Leader of Platform Engineering at Frost Bank. Before this role, Jason worked at several large companies across different industries including telco, healthcare, hosting, and tech. Jason is passionate about OSS/CNCF, building high performing teams, and Kubernetes. In his spare time he can be found reading (mostly about technology and leadership), hiking/mountain climbing, and traveling.
Joel is a Principal Software Engineer with Red Hat focusing primarily on integrating OpenShift and the cloud. He's been working with and building on Kubernetes since 2017. With Red Hat since 2020, he now leads the team behind Machine API and Cluster API as well as Cloud Controller Manager and autoscaling integrations. Joel is also one of the OpenShift API review team and is responsible for assisting OpenShift engineers across the board with their architecture and API design.
Ju Lim is a Senior Manager, OpenShift Product Management and Distinguished Engineer. She works on the core Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments to enable customers to run Red Hat OpenShift anywhere. Ju leads the product management teams responsible for installation, updates, provider integration, and cloud infrastructure.
Kevin Dubois is a Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, where his deep passion for open source, Java and cloud-native development shines through. As a recognized Java Champion, accomplished software engineer, author, and keynote speaker, Kevin is dedicated to pushing the boundaries of modern software development. His role at Red Hat allows him to immerse himself in cutting-edge open source projects while enhancing the developer experience across the globe. A true advocate for the open source community, Kevin also contributes when he can to projects like Quarkus, Knative, Apache Camel and Podman (Desktop). He's also an organizing member of the Belgian CNCF and the Belgian Java User Group. Multilingual and multicultural, Kevin speaks English, Dutch, French and Italian fluently. Currently based in Belgium, he has lived in Italy and the USA, giving him a global perspective that he brings to his work.
Matt is a 15+ year IT veteran with a passion for educating others about emerging technologies. From roles in development, to sales, to enablement, Matts career has continually focused on creating connections between customer value and technical problem solving. His work at Kasten includes designing and delivering training on Kastens product and Kubernetes ecosystem for employees, partners, and the community. Matt holds a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Northeastern University.
Matt brings over 15 years of experience to his role as Principal Solutions Architect at Kasten by Veeam. He has a background in cloud computing, DevSecOps, and IT infrastructure, including cloud infrastructure, virtualization, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and web application development
Michael Clifford is a Principal Data Scientist in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat. He is a member of the Emerging Technologies team where he focuses primarily on the intersection of AI tools and cloud native development.
Michael Lightfoot is an Account Solution Architect and RHCE at Red Hat. His role is to work with organizations to adopt solutions using Red Hats portfolio of technologies. Michael joined Red Hat in 2022, and prior to that had over 20 years experience with systems administration and infrastructure management spanning the USAF, NASA, higher education, and the oil and gas industry. When hes not at work, Michael can be found outdoors, volunteering with the World's Championship Barbecue Contest, or (most importantly) trying to keep up with his 3 year old son!
Michael St-Jean collaborates with partners across Red Hats partner ecosystem to develop solutions and cross-route initiatives that deliver business value for organizations around the world. For more than 2 decades, Michael has worked with cross-functional teams to help organizations solve complex business challenges with innovative technology solutions and strategies.
Vice President and General Manager, Red Hat Hybrid Platforms
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'Mike Barrett is the Vice President and General Manager of Red Hat Hybrid Platforms. He looks after Red Hat OpenShift, Red Hat Cloud Services, Red Hat OpenStack and most of Red Hat's Cloud Native Computing Foundation investments.
Mrunal Patel is a Distinguished engineer at Red Hat working on OpenShift and Kubernetes. He serves as a Kubernetes SIG-Node Chair and Technical Lead, contributing to the evolution of container orchestration. As a founder of the CRI-O container runtime and a maintainer of the OCI runtime spec and runc, Mrunal played a pivotal role in advancing containerization and runtime standards.
Paul Trebe has spent his entire career in observability, and has worked in pre-sales engineering, sales, marketing, and go-to-makret strategy. At groundcover, Paul runs sales and partnerships working with companies of all sizes from 40 person startups and Fortune 100 companies who are leveraging groundcover unique eBPF sensor and a BYOC architecture to monitor their modern cloud applications and infrastructure. groundcover offers free and commercial offerings leveraging eBPF to seamlessly gather logs, metrics, and traces, with zero configuration.
Pavol Loffay is a Principal Software Engineer, tech lead, Red Hat build of OpenTelemetry and OpenShift distributed tracing. He works on open-source observability technology for modern cloud-native applications. He contributes to and maintains the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects OpenTelemetry and Jaeger. In his free time, Pavol likes to hike, climb, and ski steep slopes in the Swiss Alps.
Peter is a product manager in Red Hat Hybrid Platforms, focused on OpenShift, virtualization, and performance & scale. He's been building high-tech solutions for enterprise storage, virtualization, databases, hyperconverged infrastructure, and cloud for longer than he cares to admit.
Raffaele Spazzoli is a full-stack enterprise architect with 20+ years of experience. Raffaele started his career in Italy as a Java Architect, then gradually moved to Integration Architect and then Enterprise Architect. Later he moved to the United States to eventually become an OpenShift Architect for Red Hat consulting services, acquiring in the process, knowledge of the infrastructure side of IT. Currently Raffaele covers a consulting position of cross-portfolio application architecture with a focus on OpenShift. For most of his career Raffaele has worked with large financial institutions allowing him to acquire an understanding of the processes, security and compliance requirements of large enterprise customers. Raffaele has become part of the CNCF TAG Storage and contributed to the Cloud Native Disaster Recovery whitepaper. Recently Raffaele has been focusing on how to improve the developer experience by implementing internal development platforms (IDP).
Ravishankar Rao is Principal Architect at Mastercard Inc. He is a seasoned technology leader with a passion for designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems. With extensive experience in creating on-prem platforms with GPU compute capabilities, Ravishankar has successfully architected and implemented scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions. He is the architect behind Mastercards AI-Workbench, a cutting-edge AI/ML platform that enables rapid prototyping, training, and deployment of machine learning models. Ravishankar is a strong advocate for automation, CI/CD, and Zero Trust frameworks, and has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions that drive business growth. He is currently exploring the application of Large Language Models (LLMs), and is working on expanding the capabilities of AI-Workbench to support LLM Ops.
Rodolfo Casás is a Senior Solutions Architect from Madrid, Spain, working for Trilio with a special focus on cloud-native computing, hybrid cloud strategies, telco and data protection. He started working with Solaris back in 1998, and GNU/Linux back in 2001 and developed a passion for Open Source software. His main fields of interest are cloud computing, data protection, automation, and systems performance tuning. He also is a Red Hat Certified Technology Instructor, teaching many classes about GNU/Linux, OpenStack, Ansible and OpenShift. He is an active member of the Open Source and Kubernetes community, and is often featured in thought leadership discussions and events.
Ryan is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Portworx by Pure Storage and host of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. Ryan is a cloud native and Kubernetes enthusiast and dad of a fearless daughter. Find Ryan creating blogs, podcasts, light boards, demos, and hands-on labs within the container cloud native ecosystem. Before Pure, Ryan spent time at Dell, ClusterHQ, and Athenahealth where he focused on DevOps and Storage. In his free time, you can find Ryan spending time outdoors adventure riding dual sport bikes, hiking, and mountain biking.
Mauricio "Salaboy" Salatino works as an Open-Source and Ecosystem Software Engineer at Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. He also serves as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project, Co-chair of the Application Development Working Group at the CNCF, and Dapr Maintainer. He published a book titled Platform Engineering on Kubernetes for Manning Publishing and previously worked at both VMware and Red Hat, building tools to help developers be more productive.
Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes
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Scott Berens is a Senior Manager, Product Management, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, with a focus on multicluster management. Scott has 20 years of experience with IBM and Red Hat working in virtualization, orchestration and management across private, hybrid and multicloud. Scott leads the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes product management team as part of the Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus offering. Scott likes technology that just works, live music, bbq, tennis, skiing and pretty anything outdoors [except yardwork].
Shane Baker is an Openshift Technical Account manager with Red Hat. During his Red Hat tenure, he has worked with a wide variety of industries including financial institutions, health care, and higher education, employing technologies like Openshift Virtualization, Openshift Data Foundations, Advanced Cluster Security, and more, and has been deeply involved in large scale virtualization migration projects. Prior to joining Red Hat he led an international team of systems administrators in the clinical research software development space, supporting cancer research institutions worldwide in their mission to eradicate disease and improve patient outcomes. Shane is a commercial pilot, and can most likely be found poking holes in the sky in his free time.
Surya is an Open Source advocate and contributor, active in the Kubernetes SIG-Network working group. She is working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat on the OpenShift Networking team. Her areas of interest include Cloud Infrastructure and Networked Services and Systems. She loves solving problems in any sphere of life (specially if it involves coding and collaborating with people from diverse backgrounds). When she is not working, she loves to bike, swim and binge watch.
Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal Architect at Red Hat, focusing on the developer journeys in Kubernetes and emerging technologies. Before this role, she worked with high-profile customers, helping them adopt new technologies, and worked closely with developers and platform engineers. Her background is in software engineering. She built software for 15 years, working in diverse roles from Developer to Tech Lead and Architect, from retail, healthcare, financial, e-commerce, telco, and many other industries. She loves contributing to the community and the industry and has spoken at conferences such as OReilly, KubeCon, Open Source Summit, Red Hat DevNation Day, and others. She is a KCD organizer and a project member of the OpenGitops project.
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