Ambily KK is a seasoned professional in the field of Cloud computing and DevOps, currently serving as a Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer at GitHub. With over two decades of industry experience, she brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her role, making her a valuable asset to the organization.

Ambily KK is not just a professional; she is also a passionate writer, blogger, and coder. Her enthusiasm for technology and her dedication to sharing knowledge and insights with the community is evident through her written work and online presence.

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Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to work. He is a proponent of product development and engineering teams that put the community first.

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Animesh Rastogi is an accomplished Technical Account Manager at Searce, specializing in delivering highly intelligent solutions and offering valuable suggestions for technical enhancements. With expertise as a solution architect and Google Cloud specialist, he is not only an exceptional public speaker but also an exceptional leader.

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Karthikeyan VK has dedicated 18 years to the tech industry, and along the way, he's been honored with the Microsoft MVP award. He's had the privilege to work with few fortune 500 companies and has always been passionate about creating efficient cloud-based solutions. Karthikeyan believes in giving back to the community: he often conducts workshops on Microservices and DevOps, hoping to share what he's learned. He's also keen on exploring ways to make cloud services more affordable. In his free time, he enjoys discussing new tech trends at meetups and writing blogs about the challenges he encounters.

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Arsh is a Developer Experience Engineer at Okteto. He is a CNCF Ambassador and has also been awarded the Kubernetes Contributor Award previously. Prior to joining Okteto, he worked at VMware by Broadcom and was an active contributor to the CNCF projects cert-manager and Kyverno. Arsh has written blogs and spoken about different topics in the cloud ecosystem. Recordings of some of his previous talks can be found at: https://arshsharma .com/speaking/

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Sreeram Venkitesh is a Software Engineer at BigBinary, where he is building a cloud deployment platform, neetoDeploy. He is also active in the Kubernetes open source community. He is part of the v1.29 release team. He also helps write the Last Week in Kubernetes Development newsletter.

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Debabrata is a Software Engineer turned Developer Relations at Harness, working and evangelizing on improving Developer Experience using Internal Developer Portals. Previously he has been an active contributor to CNCF projects like ChaosMesh and Kubernetes.

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Shivay Lamba is a software developer specializing in DevOps, Machine Learning and Full Stack Development.

He is an Open Source Enthusiast and has been part of various programs like Google Code In and Google Summer of Code as a Mentor and has also been a MLH Fellow. He is actively involved in community work as well. He is a TensorflowJS SIG member, Mentor in OpenMined and CNCF Service Mesh Community, SODA Foundation and has given talks at various conferences like Github Satellite, Voice Global, Fossasia Tech Summit, TensorflowJS Show & Tell.

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Ashik, an Engineering Manager at Cloudera, Bangalore, brings over 12 years of experience tackling challenges at scale across diverse production environments. His current focus centers on container orchestration and cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes and KubeVirt. At Cloudera, Ashik leads the internal cloud platform team, driving innovation and solutions for the organization's evolving needs.

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Sibiraja is a Senior IT professional with over 14 year’s experience experience in SRE, Devops and operations of critical production environments.

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Arka Saha, a VMware Software Engineer, leads Kubernetes releases & maintenance for Tanzu Extended Support.He manages VMware's Prow infrastructure, ensuring long-term support for k8s, etcd, containers, Golang & related components. Previously he managed Red Hat OpenShift clusters & developed Golang operators for Tekton at IBM CIO. He has been contributing to k8s and etcd since early last year and actively supports the community by improving pipelines by contributing to test-infra.

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As a Site Reliability Engineer, he dedicates his expertise to Rancher, contributing actively. Within the Kubernetes community, he serves as the SIG-Release Enhancement Shadow for Kubernetes v1.29. He is a mentee at the SIG-CLI Kustomize Maintainer Training Cohort. Beyond his professional commitments, he finds joy in diverse meetups and conferences, where he forges connections with fellow enthusiasts, contributing to the dynamic Kubernetes community.

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Ajay is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator(CKA), with 3+ yrs experience of handling large scale cloud managed cluster with the help of CNCF projects. A Seasoned Speaker at different technical events.

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Jiffin Tony Thottan is part of the IBM Software Storage Team working as a Software Professional. Initially part of the NFS team and contributed to GlusterFS , NFS-Ganesha projects. He was an active contributor for both projects worked on implementing different features like nfsv4acls, SELinux support, pNFS etc. He has given presentations about his work in various conferences like FOSDEM, Storage Developer Conference, LinuxCon(now OSS) and VAULT. In 2018 he moved to the Rook project which is the storage provisioner for ceph storage in Kubernetes. His focus is to provide support for the ceph object store aka RGW for applications running on the same. And also working closely with the COSI initiative in the Kubernetes community. In 2023 onwards, he started working on core RGW features like cloud transition.

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Sudhish works as a Senior Software Maintenance engineer at Red Hat India Pvt Ltd. He majorly focuses on Cloud native development products and Opensource frameworks like Business Automation, Enterprise application platform, Quarkus runtime, Tekton pipeline and knative platforms based on OpenShift.

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Sunita is a founding engineer at SigScalr, a silicon valley VC funded company. Sunita has over 15 years of software development experience ranging from small to large enterprises. She holds a bachelor’s degree from PICT , Pune and lives in Pune with her husband and two daughters. Outside of work she enjoys outdoor hikes and baking.

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Sonam Gupta is a founder engineer at SigScalr . She recently completed her bachelors in Computer Engineering from Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University, Lucknow.

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Aditya is a Software Engineer working at Walmart on technologies like Blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric, Ethereum, Kubernetes, Operators, Platform Engineering etc. He is also an instructor at Udemy where he shares his knowledge of blockchain, Hyperledger Fabric, Kubernetes etc. He is also very active in the open-source ecosystem and currently, he is the maintainer of some of the Hyperledger projects

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Sagar is currently working as Site Reliability Engineer MTS3 @VMware by Broadcom He is Docker & CNCG Pune leader, as well as CNCF Ambassador and AWS Community Builder. He is Open Source Enthusiast and firmly believe in giving back to the community. He has given multiple talks in online/offline events, meet-ups, and have mentored 10000+ students and professionals to kickstart DevOps, cloud, open source journey and have helped help them with job search, career guidance. He is Google Summer Of Code Admin, Mentor and also been mentee at PEcAn organisation.

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Manoj Kumar is a DevOps lead located in Chennai. With a rich experience spanning three years, I have specialized as a DevOps engineer. I have been responsible for many production-grade K8s clusters in several projects. I have a strong passion for open source and thoroughly enjoy connecting with new individuals to exchange knowledge.

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Pravar has around 7 years of working experience in Cloud and Infrastructure automation, with over 3 years dedicated to Kubernetes and K-native tools. Currently part of IBM Cloud Kubernetes service(IKS) backend team.

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An avid coder, a systems engineer working on solutions involving security and performance optimizations of cloud-native technologies. He has contributed towards several open sources including Linux Kernel and worked closely with IETF Standards Working Groups (such as ROLL, 6lo, LWIG) and Linux Foundation Groups. Taken several projects from conception to market and is an active maintainer for CNCF Sandbox project, "KubeArmor" and the lead author for IoT simulation framework "Whitefield". He co founded Accuknox where they are enabling runtime, zero-trust security by leveraging Linux-LSM/eBPF based security for k8s and containerized/cloud-native workloads. He has 22 patents and several publications to his name and is active in CNCF/k8s communities. He is proud to be associated as a CNCF Ambassador 2023. Twitter: @nyrahul Github: nyrahul

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Ravi is the lead for AccuKnox Cyber Security team and specializes in red-teaming efforts in AccuKnox whereby he identifies attacks, security flaws in the target environments.

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Tamil vanan is a cloud native Tech lead at Arcesium and a former Kubernetes SME at VMware by Broadcom. He is passionate about finding solutions to problems in the cloud native environment. He works with cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes, multi-cloud and networking. He is a passionate supporter of open source and CNCF and actively participates in it.

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Software professional trying to break the code. Currently focussed on the container line of business ,helping deliver Kubernetes based security products to customers.

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Prathamesh is a Developer Evangelist at Last9. In his free time, he runs SRE Stories - sharing stories from the SRE community, and O11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.

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Abhinav is a highly motivated and a lifelong learner with a passion for open-source software and cloud-native technologies. Currently, he is working as a DevOps Engineer at Devtron Inc. where he is responsible for managing the deployment of cloud-based applications. He’s also one of the active maintainers and contributors to the open-source project called Devtron. As a CNCF Ambassador & AWS Community Builder, Abhinav is dedicated to democratizing Kubernetes adoption by sharing his knowledge and experience with the community.

Ashish, a Cloud Engineer at Asecurecloud Inc, is adept in AWS compliance and template development (CloudFormation, Terraform, CLI). He leverages his expertise in DevOps and Cloud technologies for developing solutions for in his consulting work. Ashish, rejoining the AWS Community Builder program, actively contributes to the AWS User Group Delhi NCR and other tech communities. He also supports open-source projects like Fedora and Steampipe. Beyond tech, he enjoys old-school and 2000s Hindi music and is a keen PC gamer, favoring FPS with friends and open-world games solo.

Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about Cloud Native, Kubernetes & DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content – blog posts, webinars – and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth.

In addition, I'm also a CNCF Ambassador and the organizer of CNCF Hyderabad. When I am not working, I’m a food & travel blogger & love exploring eateries & going on road trips. You can find me at @TheTechMaharaj on Twitter.

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Saurabh is a Devops,Google Cloud architect and SRE Practices that has a particular interest in all things related to DevOps, Cloud, Automation & Machine Learning. Saurabh is existing DevOps Institute Ambassador/organizer , Google Cloud Champion Innovator,AWS CB and Calico Big cats

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I'm Joinal, an AI/ML Engineering Leader, Tech Advocate, and Educator. My journey in data science involves successfully managing cross-functional teams, delivering ML projects involving GenAI, Responsible AI, RecSys, MLOps and NLP/CV in sectors like Healthcare, E-commerce, Automobile. Mentoring is my passion, and I've guided over 1000 students through collaborations with Upgrad, AlmaBetter, Great Learning, DPhi and Scalar. I contribute actively to the AI/ML community as a reviewer and committee member at conferences like EMNLP, SIGIR, and NeurIPS, shaping the industry's future.

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Mr. Deepak Ranjan Mishra - As the founder and CEO of Prodevans Technologies, which is a cloud automation solution partner with a strong consulting bias, Deepak is responsible for the overall technological and business success of the organization in markets like India, Singapore, UAE, and North America. Deepak sets and evolves the strategic direction for the company and its portfolio of offerings, while nurturing a strong leadership team and collaborative culture to drive its execution. Deepak is a serial entrepreneur having started his entrepreneurial journey with COSS in 2000. He is a student of Technology and a passionate teacher at the same time, who has mentored numerous super successful professionals. He has nearly two decades of experience in the IT services industry working with Leading Fortune 500 organisations such as ANZ, Bank of America, Oracle and GE Capital and has a strong track record of driving digital transformation for enterprises, executing business turnarounds, change management and strategic initiatives.

Jayapriya Pai (Jp) is a Senior Software Engineer from OpenShift Monitoring team at Red Hat. She is a prometheus-operator member and a key contributor for past 2.5 years.

Before joining Red Hat as Senior Software Engineer she has worked in Production Engineering for 5.5 years at Cerner Corporation and 2 years in Quality Assurance at Infosys Ltd. She moved from System Engineering to Software Engineering role in 2021 and tries to utilise her experience working on production systems to build better software.

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Oshi Gupta works as a DevOps Engineer and Technical Writer at CloudYuga Technologies. She is a CKA certified and has been selected for LFX mentorship in Spring 2022 for CNCF Kyverno. She is a Dan Kohn scholarship recipient for KubeCon NA 2023. She loves writing blogs and is keen to learn about various cloud-native technologies.

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Avin has 15+ years of experience in the IT industry. He has worked across diverse technological prospects including mobile enterprise applications, web applications and standalone applications. Currently working as an application as well as a platform architect predominantly involved in industry level problem solving and application modernization. He is always interested in new technologies and aims to work across technical aspects of the project. He's a firm believer of Spirit Never Dies attitude and loves to work across challenging environments.

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Rahul Sreenivasan is a Solution Sales Specialist with Red Hat, and he is focused on augmenting the SAARC region for developing awareness of curated opensource solutions.

He is an IT Industry veteran with 15+ years of experience in IT solution consulting, pre-sales, and architectural design of complex IT infrastructure and operations. He specialises in the areas of IIoT, Industry 4.0, Industrial Automation and Edge.

As a tech speaker he has spoken in various venues with the Computer Society of India, DRDO on Edge, IoT and automation.

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Susanth Kurunthil is the Chief Executive Officer of Infoparks Kerala, popularly known as Infopark, based in Kochi with its satellite centres in Thrissur and Cherthala. He holds the additional charge as the CEO of Cyberpark, Kozhikode.

A seasoned entrepreneur in the IT industry, Susanth brings with him more than three decades of experience in leadership, software development, consulting, and entrepreneurship. He served as the country head of a US-based software company and has set up and run three different companies.His educational background includes a BTech in Computer Science from Government Engineering College, Thrissur and an MBA degree from San Jose State University, USA.

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