Tatiana Mikhaleva

Tatiana Mikhaleva is a Docker Captain, CNCF Ambassador, and IBM Champion — peer-nominated recognitions held by a select group of contributors across the cloud-native ecosystem. Her ambassador roles span eight developer tooling programs in total.
As founder of DevOps.Pink, Tatiana runs one of the fastest-growing independent cloud-native education practices in the industry, reaching tens of thousands of engineers worldwide. Her work focuses on making Docker, Kubernetes, and the emerging agentic-AI stack accessible through walkthroughs, demos, and production-ready code — with a particular emphasis on shipping close to release cycles so the community can learn alongside the newest features.
Through her work with Docker’s beta programs, Tatiana has contributed early feedback across MCP Toolkit, Model Runner, and Sandboxes, bringing a developer’s perspective to features before they reach general availability. She runs the Toronto Cloud-Native & Container AI community, speaks across vendor channels on container tooling and AI-augmented development, and publishes editorial work on cloud-native developer experience.
A journalist by training, Tatiana brings editorial rigor to technical education. DevOps.Pink is where container engineering meets the agentic-AI era — and where the next generation of cloud-native practitioners learns to ship.