DevOps Advisory Board

Solo Founder of Squadcast, an AI-driven Devops and SRE automation platform that has been covered by Gartner in multiple reports, and also part of the Leader Quadrant in G2. Raised multiple rounds of financing from top-tier institutional VCs in the bay area. Previously helped build companies like Freshworks, Chargebee, Browserstack and others who are all valued at over $1 Bn. Have worked as an engineer, Product Manager, VC investor and Strategy consultant in the past. Graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur with a Bachelors and Masters in Systems Engineering.

Accomplished Vice President of Engineering with a distinguished career spanning enterprise and healthcare software development, from initial concept to market launch. Proven expertise in agile methodologies, technical strategy alignment, and championing quality-driven software development. As a Certified Scrum Master, I've consistently led teams to enhance delivery efficiency, achieving significant reductions in lead time and defects. My strategic leadership has directed multi-tiered technical teams, ensuring products align perfectly with corporate visions. I've also been privileged to share my insights at major industry events, showcasing the future of software engineering.

Anton is AWS Community Hero and helps companies around the globe build solutions using AWS and specializes in infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, and reusable infrastructure components.

He spends much of his time as an open-source contributor on various Terraform & AWS projects, such as Terraform AWS modules (downloaded more than 300 million times), Terraform-best-practices ebook, Doing serverless with Terraform (serverless.tf), Terraform Weekly (weekly.tf), and a few more.

He continuously experiments with technologies and tries to come up with new fresh ideas businesses will ask for soon. One of his latest projects is modules.tf, which aims to improve developer productivity for Terraform users.

I am an entrepreneur and a software executive with 20 years of experience in both B2B and B2C product areas. I was the co-founder and CTO of Yonja.com, Turkey’s largest social network in the mid 2000s, which had a successful exit in 2006. Then, at Google as a senior product manager, I built and delivered multiple products that generated north of $1B revenue for Google. The next 10 years, as the co-founder and CTO, I was responsible for the product development and technology of Qubit. Currently, I am the CEO of Cerbos, and authorization as service product for developers.

Helen Beal is chair of the Value Stream Management Consortium, co-chair of the OASIS Value Stream Management Interoperability Technical Committee and chief ambassador at DevOps Institute.

Helen is the author of the annual State of VSM Reports from the VSMC and the State of Availability Report from Moogsoft. She is a co-author of the book about DevOps and governance, Investments Unlimited, published by IT Revolution. She is a DevOps editor for InfoQ, and hosts the Day-to-Day DevOps webinar series for BrightTalk.

Casey has over 15 years of experience as an engineering and product leader in consumer and B2B SaaS, including hyperscale public cloud IaaS, where he helped drive a devops revolution for container infrastructure and continuous delivery. Casey has worked with open source communities throughout his career, and demonstrated continued focus on the delight and simplicity in the tools and systems we build and depend on.

James Brookbank is a cloud solutions architect manager at Google based in NYC. Solution architects help make cloud easier for Google’s customers by solving complex technical problems and providing expert architectural guidance. Before joining Google, James worked at a number of large enterprises with a focus on IT infrastructure and financial services.

Pete Chestna serves as the CISO of North America at Checkmarx, where he provides customers and prospects with practical advice for building successful application security programs. Bringing more than 16 years of direct AppSec practitioner experience, Pete has held roles ranging from developer and development leader to his most recent position as the Global Head of AppSec for the Bank of Montreal where he was responsible for the security of thousands of applications.
Pete has spoken internationally at numerous prominent security and developer conferences including DevOpsDays, All Day DevOps, OWASP AppSec, Security BSides, and DevSecCon.

DeveloperSteve comes from a strong background as a developer, with over 20 years industry experience he has worked with companies, startups and not for-profits of all sizes. DeveloperSteve has worked closely with developer communities as a Tech Evangelist and Advocate to develop and nurture the healthy developer and start-up culture that continues to flourish. With a passion for sharing knowledge DeveloperSteve is an established international speaker and loves geeking out with people everywhere. As a Tech Evangelist and Advocate he has represented and worked with global companies such as Snyk, IBM, PayPal, Braintree, Xero, Telstra, Nginx, Gitlab and more.

Philip is a seasoned systems, devops, and cybersecurity professional that has aided in the development, growth, and security of many organizations, small to enterprise.

Currently, Philip is leading the engineering organization of a boutique cybersecurity consulting firm based in Los Angeles, CA.

Anthony is the Head of Engineering at Chainguard. Chainguard is a startup that focuses on securing software supply chains.

Dan is the Co-Founder and Chief Open Source Officer at Codefresh. His work in open source includes being an Argo Maintainer, and co-chair of the GitOps Working Group. As a technology leader with a background in full-stack engineering, evangelism, and communications, he led Codefresh's go-to-market strategy and now leads open source strategy. You can follow him at twitter.com/todaywasawesome

Shinjani is a results-driven engineering leader with a passion for excellence in DevOps, Developer Productivity, SRE, and Observability. Her outstanding interpersonal, presentation and communication skills position her as an innovative leader in dynamic engineering environments.

She has over 20 years of experience working in startups and large enterprises, where she has played a pivotal role in establishing DevOps functions, CI/CD operations and infrastructure support.

In addition, she proactively mentors individuals from underrepresented backgrounds, serves as a speaker and panelist at conferences, and has made exceptional contributions to the Digital Infrastructure community.

Co-founder & CPO

Laurent oversees product and business development at CAST AI. Laurent was co-founder and Chief Product and Business Officer at Zenedge (acquired by Oracle), and CEO and co-founder of Viewdle (acquired by Google). He holds degrees from the Cybernetic Institute of Ukraine (Doctorate Honoris Causa), the Wharton School of Business (MBA), and Supélec (M.Sc., Computer Science and Signal processing), among others.

My expertise lies in distributed systems, networking, and security. I have over 15 years of working experience in these areas. Currently, I am functioning as CTO at D2iQ where I am mainly focused on building a smart cloud-native platform that could automate much of the operational aspect of maintaining modern days micro-service-based applications.

Lacework keeps organizations secure in the cloud, allowing them to innovate faster with confidence. Cloud security requires a fundamentally new approach and the Lacework platform is designed to scale with the volume, variety, and velocity of cloud data across an organization’s cloud environment: code, identities, containers, and multi-cloud infrastructure. Only Lacework provides Security and Development teams with a correlated and prioritized end-to-end view that pinpoints the largest risks and handful of security events that matter most. Dan leads the PM team at Lacework, and is focused on security in the application development lifecycle.

Anurag is an entrepreneur and software product engineer working on challenges in Observability at Calyptia. In the past, Anurag has worked at Elastic, Treasure Data, and Azure across cloud and open-source product lines.

Liam is a Regional Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, UK and an Auth0 Ambassador who focuses on DevOps, automation and Go. He is an IoT hobbyist, a tech blogger and a Software Engineer with multiple professional cloud certifications. He is passionate about cloud computing, clean code and creating simple and concise content for others to learn from. When he is not writing code or presenting, you'll either find him searching for the next best eatery in London, studying different cultures or at the airport jetting off to explore the next city on his TODO list.

Nik is a value engineer and business consultant at Heart. Formally, he is Director of Solution Engineering for Dynatrace ANZ and currently heads up a team of Solution Consultants and Architects in the region. Nik has more than a decade of BizOps, Release Automation, SRE, and DevOps consulting experience for leading global software vendors in the space. In addition, Nik has featured as a speaker at world-leading conferences like Reinvent, Kubecon, DevOpsDaysTalk, Perform, Chaos Carnival and more.

Sergey leads global engineering, data analytics and quality assurance teams at Catchpoint, improving the performance and resilience of the Catchpoint platform.

Sergey holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Before Catchpoint, he worked to push the boundaries of what’s possible on the internet, with roles at Coyote Point, Fortinet, and Interface Masters/Niagara Networks. At these, Sergey developed products which improved network performance, security, and application delivery, garnering several patents. Now at Catchpoint, Sergey is using his previous experience of what can go wrong with networks and applications to make the internet more resilient.

Jeff Keyes is a seasoned product marketeer, leading product marketing for Value Stream Management Solutions at Planview. With over 30 years in high-tech roles ranging from developer to product manager, he's helped organizations transition from waterfall to continuous delivery methodologies. Jeff is also a founding member of the Value Stream Management Consortium. His passion lies in humanizing technology and aiding others in improving application delivery using value stream management, Agile, and DevOps methodologies. Contact Jeff at www.linkedin.com/in/jeffdkeyes to explore the future of connected work.

Kunal is empowering communities via open-source and education. He finds passion in teaching and has taught thousands of folks online and in person. He is a developer relations manager at Civo, CNCF Ambassador, TEDx speaker and a GitHub Star. He is the founder of WeMakeDevs and also started the official Cloud Native Student Community group joined by thousands of folks, focussed on getting more young people involved in the ecosystem. In the past he has been a track chair of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, Major League Hacking Coach and a Google Summer of Code mentor.

Paul has been in the IT industry for almost 30 years and opened his first computer store in 1996 and then an ISP in 1997. He's worked as a unix system admin and platform engineer and then later as a devops engineer before it was a term. He's worked for Boeing, NASA, the US Army, John Deere, Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, and Queensland government amongst others. Paul's speciality is security automation, via code, especially at scale. He now is the founder and CTO of SecureStack a security platform built by developers FOR developers.

Jeremy is a Developer Relations and Community professional, formerly the Director of DevRel & Community at CircleCI, and previously at Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area including Support, SysAdmin, Application Developer, Program Manager, and Business Analyst, Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, and is a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com. A lover of all things coffee, community, open source, and tech, he’s a husband and father, and is also house-broken, and (generally) plays well with others.

Senior Solutions Engineer at Dynatrace.

Former DevOps Manager.
Web & Mobile Developer with more than 20 years of experience.

Technical Writer and International Speaker.

Proudly a member of the following programs: DevOps Institute Ambassador, GitHub Campus Advisor, GitKraken Ambassador, Progress NativeScript Developer Experts, Auth0 Ambassador, and GitLab Heroe.

Leads and co-organizes some tech local communities (OWASP, The DevOps Workshop, HTML+JS).

Jason Morgan is Technical Evangelist for Linkerd at Buoyant, maintainer of the CNCF Cloud Native Glossary, and co-author of the CNCF Landscape guide. Passionate about helping others on their cloud native journey, Jason educates engineers on Linkerd, the original service mesh. You might have encountered his articles in The New Stack, where he breaks complex technology concepts down for a broader audience. Before joining Bouyant, Jason worked at Pivotal and VMware Tanzu.

Lukonde is a Principal Technical Evangelist at SUSE and an AWS Container Hero. He is part of the SUSE & Rancher Community team and has years of experience in application development, cloud engineering, and DevOps workflows. He is a life-long learner and is passionate about sharing knowledge and contributing to the developer community through content such as technical articles, conference talks, live webinars, and on-demand videos. Nowadays, Lukonde spends the majority of his time contributing to the cloud-native community with the SUSE & Rancher team, providing content, training, and support in the Kubernetes ecosystem and SUSE's open-source container management stack.

I'm Joshua, Developer Evangelist at Merico. I'm leading open source programs for Apache incubated DevLake project. I have also hosted a Podcast to feature makers of open source, communities and products.
Spoke at various virtual events and hackathons internationally. Aside my profession, I also advocate for open source sustainability by being a member of Sustain OSS, Mental health and Productivity.

Software & Technology Executive with 25+ yrs. experience in complex license sales, increasing license revenue, product development and design, R&D, Go-To-Market (GTM) analysis and planning, as well as early adopter phase technical solutions for Venture-backed and Private Equity-backed software companies. Led teams of up to 100+ employees in multiple countries.

Confident, visionary leader with strong business savvy capabilities marked by a blend of strategic, financial, operational, and technical acumen. Seasoned P&L owner and operator with a track record of delivering results in hyper growth businesses with teams consistently delivering double digit top line growth and double digit KPI improvements year over year.

IBM Distinguished Engineer, CIO DevSecOps CTO. Rosalind is responsible for driving the Developer Experience for the DevOps transformation for the IBM CIO. In her role she will be working to make IBM CIO's a hybrid cloud showcase and driving the continuous improvement culture within the developer community. In her prior role she was responsible for bringing open modern toolchains to the z/OS platform and working with clients on their DevOps transformation. She is a frequent speaker at conferences, master inventor, a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, author of Enterprise Bug Busting.

Angel is an entrepreneur and hands-on tech CEO who drives the vision and innovation behind Cuemby. Angel has a passion for sharing the knowledge which he does through public speaking as a member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation speakers bureau and Fundacion Hispana de Cloud Native helping the Hispanic community to have access to content in their native language. As one of the early adopters of Kubernetes, he is a certified Kubernetes administrator and part of the team that curates the exam. Angel is also involved in the Linux Foundation, helping curate multiples exams.

Alois is the Chief Product Officer for Dynatrace cloud automation technology. He is also the co-chair of TAG App Delivery and was a contributor and founding member of several W3C standards; most recently Trace Context. Alois has successfully developed several products in the monitoring and observability space and is strong support of open source technologies in the cloud-native space.

I am a technical Application Security Testing (AST) leader with a record of consistent accomplishment in sales and sales engineering management roles. More than 20 years of application security sales, sales engineering leadership, software development, marketing, and consulting experience. I was a key thought leader for two AST vendors growing from startup phase to major acquisition (Fortify and Checkmarx). Also, very accomplished public speaker and I have been quoted in 50+ AST industry media publications. Extensive background in application security, object-oriented programming, multi-tier architecture design and implementation, and internet/intranet development. Highly developed presentation, written, and verbal communication skills.

Based in Berlin since 2018, Ilya is a technology and engineering leader with more than 20 years of experience working in scaleups, startups, and large enterprises with a deep passion for everything related to platform engineering, developer experience, and SRE.
Prior to running a platform and infrastructure organization in Codility, Ilya was leading of Infrastructure alliance in hyper-growing rapid-delivery pioneer - Getir. Before that, Ilya spent several years with Hellofresh modernizing the QA organization as well as establishing the SRE function and leading the platform group.

Before moving to Berlin, Ilya worked with RSA Security, Microsoft, and CA

David focuses on the product management of Puppet’s development ecosystem and integrations. Before this, he worked within Puppet’s Solutions Architect team where he helped Puppet’s largest customers deliver infrastructure automation at scale and supported these customers DevOps working practices. He spent eight years at NatWest as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer delivering their IaaS Platform. David has a passion for delivering change into traditional working environments, breaking down team silos, and integrating DevOps working practices within heavily regulated and audited environments.

David enjoys hillwalking, reading sci-fi and fantasy books and regularly visits most of Scotland's tractor parks with his sons.

Darwin Sanoy has spent his career in strategy, architecture, and engineering for scaled provisioning and automation. Before joining GitLab, Darwin was the Service Manager and SRE Manager for GitLab as a Service that addressed the needs of over 100 public facing SaaS stacks built by 4000 developers. He reads and seeks out customers on topics in and around how technology can be leveraged to create business and customer value.

Darwin is Enterprise Architecture certified, AWS DevOps Pro certified, is a DevOps Institute Ambassador and loves volunteering at Economic Mobility Nonprofits that bootstrap people into tech careers

Or is currently the founder and CEO of Lightlytics, building a platform that Empowers developers and engineers to code and operates cloud configurations with speed and confidence.

Before Lightlytics, Or led multiple complex and multi-disciplinary technical products, involving hardware and software, mostly in the cloud and data center domains at NVIDIA.

He was the founder and CEO of Cigol a leading provider of Cloud network security solutions. Cigol was acquired by Mellanox(Nvidia Networking), Inc (Nasdaq: NVDA).

Or Served at the Israeli-NSA, where he Built complex technological projects from definition through implementation in the field of network security.

Dave Stokes is a Technology Evangelist for Percona Corporation and a long time advocate for open source software, especially databases. He is the author of 'MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide' and resides in Texas.

Vishnu Vasudevan is director and head of product engineering and management at Opsera. He's a DevSecOps leader and a SAFe Agilist with additional expertise in analytics and machine learning.

Vilas has spent his past work life at Comcast, Netflix, Walmart and Bill building high performance teams that focus their attention on automation, chaos engineering, CI/CD at scale and improving developer experience across the enterprise by enabling engineers to do more with tools. He is currently the VP of Software Engineering at Truckstop

Builder of an award winning security engineering function and leader of a team of highly skilled engineers. Driving a DevSecOps transformation within Pearson with the goal of enabling product teams to become responsible for their own security. 11 years experience working in IT across engineering and security focused roles.

Benjamin is the CEO & co-founder of Steadybit, an orchestration platform to help teams keep their systems up and running.
Benjamin spreads his enthusiasm and new knowledge as a speaker and author – especially in chaos and resilience engineering. For example, he created the open-source project Chaos Monkey for Spring boot, which received 790 stars on GitHub. Benjamin believes that chaos engineering is just a means to an end towards establishing a culture of resilience. One thing he does to relax his mind is to push his body while shredding MTB trails.