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.