Docker Captains Program

Help steer Docker into the future

We’re on the lookout for passionate developers who love our community just as much as we do.
About the program

What it means to be a Docker Captain

Docker Captains are technical experts and passionate community builders who drive Docker’s ecosystem forward. As active contributors and advocates, they share Docker knowledge and help shape Docker products.
Program perks

Benefits of being a Captain

Becoming a Captain opens up opportunities for career growth, networking, and professional development. Our Captains have a direct line to Docker, get beta access to products, receive Docker swag, enjoy community support, and much more.

Visibility and recognition

Stand out as a Docker expert. Join exclusive events, access Docker customers, and seize networking and career opportunities.

Beta access

Get your hands on beta versions of Docker products and influence their development. Create unique content before anyone else.

Connection with Docker staff

Directly interact with Docker staff, ask questions, provide feedback, and gain insider insights.

Docker swag and discounts

Receive exclusive Docker swag, special access, and discounts on Docker Pro and partner products.

Community support

Join a private Slack channel to connect with other Docker Captains and staff, share ideas, and solve technical issues.

Annual Captains offsites

Be a part of annual events with Docker Captains and staff. Discuss Docker developments and collaborate on projects.

Education budget

Enhance your knowledge and expertise with Docker-related training or courses, covered by an education budget for Captains.

Eligibility criteria

How to become a Docker Captain

  • Must be 18+
  • Show technical expertise in Docker and related technologies
  • Demonstrate active community involvement and thought leadership
  • Provide valuable feedback and ideas for Docker’s products and features
  • Possess a strong online presence with a significant audience or following
  • Have a history of significant contributions to the Docker community
  • Abide by the Docker Community Code of Conduct
    Note: This program is open internationally.
Application requirements

What you need to apply

In addition to the eligibility criteria, Captain applicants should fit into at least one of the following categories:

Docker Advisor

Be endorsed by a member from the Docker engineering or product team, highlighting your proficiency in Docker technologies.

Docker Thought Leader

Demonstrate your influence online, showcasing leadership in the Docker realm.

Docker Community Contributor

Show significant contributions to the Docker community through content creation, event participation, or open-source engagements.

Special exceptions

Sail the extra mile

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria, you might still be called for an interview if:

  • You fit multiple categories
  • A Docker member or Captain vouches for you
  • You are part of an underrepresented group
  • You’re located in a geographical region of particular interest
  • Your application is innovative, and you show genuine enthusiasm
Renewal Process

Looking to renew your Captain status?

Docker Captains enjoy a term of one year. To qualify for renewal, Captains need to persistently meet their joining criteria and continuously contribute to the Docker community. Renewals are evaluated by Docker at the end of each term.

More information

Still have questions? Connect with our Developer Relations team in our Community Slack.

Expertise

Location

Available for

Kaunas, Lithuania

Julius Lisauskas

Visakhapatnam, India

Kunchala Vikram

Daegu, South Korea

Justin Yoo

Ulm, Germany

Tobias Fenster

São Paulo, Brasil

Denis Cruz Rodrigues

Bucaramanga, Colombia

Yhary Estefania Arias Trillo

Southampton, United Kingdom

Steven Hartland

Bucharest, Romania

Flavius Dinu

Chorleywood, UK

James Spurin

Ashburn, USA

Anjan Kumar Reddy Ayyadapu

Banglore, India

Rajani Ekunde

Banglore, India

Akanksha Buchke

Glasgow, Scotland

Alan Torrance

Hyderabad, India

Ajay Kumar Yegireddi

Bonita, CA, USA

Michele Leroux Bustamante

Rockwall, TX, USA

Don Bauer

Longmont, USA

Brandon Hunt

Austin, TX, USA

Balajee Asish Brahmandam

Lucerne, Switzerland

Benito Martin

Warsaw, Poland

Łukasz Lach

Aparecida, Brazil

Juliana Conde Alvarez

Pune, India

Vishal Anarase

Purcellville, USA

Katoria Henry

Bengaluru, India

Chandra Mohan Dhanasekaran

Singapore, Singapore

Nilesh Gule

Austin, TX, USA

Joseph Velliah

Tokyo, Japan

Atsushi Suzuki

Fremont, CA, USA

Uttej Badwane

Virginia Beach, VA, USA

Bret Fisher

Campinas, Brazil

Marcelo dos Santos Gonçalves

Burdur, Turkey

Furkan Türkal

Rotterdam, Nederland

Kasun Rajapakse

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Julian König

Trieste, Italy

Marco Franzon

Pokhara, Nepal

Bishworaj Poudel

Vancouver, Canada

Max Proske

Bengaluru, India

Shubhendu Shubham

Zaragoza, Spain

Angel Borroy

Sydney, Australia

Geshan Manandhar

Quebec, Canada

Hamida Rebai

Mexico City, Mexico

Ravi Kalia

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Natália Granato

Toronto, Canada

Vladimir Mikhalev

Austin, TX, USA

Lee Calcote

Seoul, South Korea

Juyoung Song

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Raeveen Pasupathy

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sudhendu Pandey

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Rossana Suarez

Ciudad Real, Spain

David Jiménez Villajos

Indore, India

Vinayak Singoriya

London, UK

Ian Miell

San Francisco, CA, USA

Prakhar Srivastav

Ankara, Turkey

Baransel Saginda

Madrid, Spain

Pablo Pérez-Aradros

Banglore, India

Md Imran

Cary, USA

Neal Patel

Ayacucho, Perú

Edith Erika Puclla Pareja

Medellin, Colombia

Esteban Maya Cadavid

Austin, TX, USA

Michael Yuan

Freiburg, Germany

Jonas Scherer

London, UK

Madhu Kumar

Dublin, Ireland

Andrew Pruski

Jaipur, India

Gaurav Sharma

Sofia, Bulgaria

Kristiyan Velkov

Aurangbad, India

Ashutosh S. Bhakare

Kitchener, Canada

Rishab Kumar

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Mohammad-Ali A’râbi

Bordeaux, France

Kaan Yagci

Berlin, Germany

Alex Pliutau

Montreal, Canada

David Cardozo

Bochum, Germany

Camilla Hemmer

Copenhagen, Denmark

Lukasz Dynowski

New Orleans, USA

Rajesh Padmakumaran

Salto, Brazil

Renato Jose Groffe

Davenport, USA

Shelley Benhoff

New Delhi, India

Utkarsh Chauhan

Freiburg, Germany

Nicholas Dille

Rome, Italy

Andrea Gallegati

Westfield, NJ, USA

Mike Toscano

Basel, Switzerland

Lize Raes

Punjab, India

Saloni Narang

Sofia, Bulgaria

Denislav Gavrilov

Nürnberg, Germany

Timo Stark

Bengaluru, India

Arpita Patel

Indore, India

Rashi Dashore

Heredia, Costa Rica

Gerardo Lopez Falcon

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Paloma Lataliza

Banglore, India

Sangam Biradar

Cheshire, UK

Nigel Poulton

Richmond, USA

Anil Kumar Moka

Seattle, WA, USA

Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri

Toronto, Canada

Karan Singh

Bogotá, Colombia

Adriana Fernanda Moya

London, UK

Cristian Greco

Austin, TX, USA

Sathiya Shunmugasundaram

Kathmandu, Nepal

Kisan Tamang

New York City, NY, USA

Nick Janetakis

Pune, India

Rashi Chaubal

Batumi, Georgia

Igor Aleksandrov

Patna, India

Pradumna Saraf

Aalborg, Denmark

Martin Terp

Medellin, Colombia

Maris Botero

San Francisco, CA, USA

Alex Iankoulski

Burlington, VT, USA

Julie Lerman

Fairfax, VA, USA

Brandon Mitchell

Rajkot, India

Harsh Manvar

Fenton, USA

Shruthi Sreenivasa Murthy

Santa Clara, CA, USA

Arun Gupta

Indaiatuba, Brazil

Gustavo Oliveira do Nascimento

Pécs, Hungary

Ákos Takács

São Paulo, Brazil

Sergio Lopes

Uruguay, Uruguay

Marcos Lilljedahl

Indore, India

Sarthak Shrivastava

Seoul, South Korea

GeunCheol Yeom

Betim, Brazil

Luiz Carlos

Orlando, FL, USA

Wesley Willians Ramos da Silva

Castle Douglas, United Kingdom

Oli Sturm

Limassol, Cyprus

Suleiman Dibirov

Athens, Greece

Antonis Kalipetis

Johannesburg, South Africa

Nomthandazo T. Tshuma

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fabricio Veronez

São Paulo, Brazil

Felipe Sarmento de Araujo

Norrköping, Sweden

Simon Aronsson

Stockholm, Sweden

Mohammed Aboullaite

Durham, NC, USA

Nirmal Mehta

Quebec, Canada

Julien Maitrehenry

Ahmedabad, India

Mehul Patel

Nonnweiler, Germany

Thorsten Hans

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Camilla Martins

Paris, France

Mazlum Tosun

Denver, USA

Jay Schmidt

Mumbai, India

Yadnesh Nikam

Mahitha Adapa

Jalandhar, India

Karan Verma

São Paulo, Brazil

Julio Arruda

San Diego, CA, USA

Prabesh Thapa

Stezzano, Italy

Ivan Pesenti

Karlsruhe, Germany

Jonas Scholz

Hyderabad, India

Prasad Bhalerao

Chantilly, USA

Swapnil Patil

Seattle, WA, USA

Vinicius Apolinario

Bengaluru, India

Khushboo Verma

Winterthur, Switzerland

Darragh Grealish

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Mike Smith

Nabiac, Australia

Scott Coulton

Golden, CO, USA

Will Crum

London, UK

Mama Samba Braima Nelson Djalo

Osaka, Japan

Masahito Zembutsu

San Francisco, CA, USA

Sumit Gupta

Ankara, Turkey

Çiğdem Kadakoğlu

Nürnberg, Germany

Josua Blejeru

Jaipur, India

Naman Kaley

Toulouse, France

Aurélie Vache

New Delhi, India

Shivay Lamba

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Luiz Carlos Faria

Krakow, Poland

Pawel Piwosz

Tel Aviv, Israel

Ben Greenberg

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Albert Tanure

Leicester, United Kingdom

Rohit Ghumare

Penang, Malaysia

Sujay Pillai

Istanbul, Turkey

Batuhan Apaydın

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Muhammad Suzarilshah bin Zakaria

Oslo, Norway

Rustam Mehmandarov

Atlanta, USA

Shawn Wildermuth

San Antonio, USA

Gabel Wright

Helsinki, Finland

Jami Kousa

Pune, India

Sagar Utekar

Provo, UT, USA

Rob Richardson

Taipei, Taiwan

Kai Kao

Tel Aviv, Israel

Mohammad Hasan Akbari

Tokyo, Japan

Seito Horiguchi

São Paulo, Brazil

Lucas de Faria Polaquini

São Paulo, Brazil

Rafael Pazini

London, United Kingdom

Ashraful Alam

Ahmedabad, India

Shivlal Sharma

Hyderabad, India

Avinash Reddy Thipparthi

Amsterdam, Netherlands

James van den Berg

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Steve Buchanan

Nashik, India

Nasiullha Chaudhari

Mielec, Poland

Damian Naprawa

New Delhi, India

Saurav Jain

Berlin, Germany

Sergei Shitikov

Madrid, Spain

Ulises Gascon

Bruyères, France

Yves Brissaud

Londrina, Brazil

Bruno Henrique de Brito

Santa Catarina, Brazil

Cláudio Filipe Lima Rapôso

Chicago, IL, USA

Advait Patel

Sofia, Bulgaria

Bobby Iliev

Vienna, Austria

Nana Janashia

Berlin, Germany

Sebastián Ramírez

Sydney, Australia

Hasnae Rehioui

Santa Clara, CA, USA

Rami Krispin

Berlin, Germany

Bodo Eichstädt

Rome, Italy

Francesco Ciulla

Lisbon, Portugal

Gustavo Adolfo Jr Valverde De Soto

Melbourne, Australia

Jorge Arteiro

Hyderabad, India

Abhishek Veeramalla

Toronto, Canada

Tatiana Mikhaleva

Kathmandu, Nepal

Saroj Dahal

New Delhi, India

Sarthak Varshney

Chinsurah, India

Rishi Mondal

Millbrae, CA, USA

Rajashree Mandaogane

GLEIZE, France

Rachid Zarouali

São Paulo, Brasil

Pedro Ignácio Rufo da Silva

Banglore, India

Alagu Prakalya P

Vadodara, India

Gauri Yadav

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