DockerCon 2019 Speakers

Mohammed Aboullaite

Mohammed is a community catalyst and a true open source believer and has contributed to various open source projects. He has helped to build many IT communities in Morocco and he currently works at Xhub, a DevOps software company as Deputy CTO.

Jesse Antoszyk

Jesse Antoszyk is a Solutions Architect for BoxBoat. His love for technology began with his first MS-DOS PC, and the endless possibilities it provided. He later found Linux. Jesse was drawn to software engineering as a way to satisfy his creative and technical inclination. He eventually brought his software, DevOps and containerization expertise to BoxBoat, where he educates and accelerate clients of all sizes on their digital journey. He believes in automating the boring stuff so that people can get back to what makes software fun.

Gianluca Arbezzano

Gianluca is passionate about helping teams improve their development environment using continuous integration, automation and modern tools to work better and faster. He embraces the DevOps culture, open source contributor, blogger and speaker. He writes code in PHP, golang, js and other languages.

Michelle Au

Michelle Au is a software engineer at Google and is a Kubernetes SIG Storage maintainer. She has worked on Kubernetes volume security, the Container Storage Interface, volume topology, and local persistent storage.

Mohamed Awad

Mohamed Awad is the vice president of Marketing for the Infrastructure Line of business at Arm. He and his team are responsible for driving go-to-market strategy, ecosystem development, and product marketing for the business unit.

Prior to joining Arm, Mohamed spent 10 years in various leadership roles at Broadcom including establishing the Mixed Signal Asic Products (MSAP) division and building Broadcom’s security and mobile payments business from
the ground-up. Before Broadcom, Mohamed served in various leadership roles at Ember Corporation, an early IoT startup, where he most notably founded their European subsidiary, and held positions at Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, and Avici Systems, where he led the development of various products, including core terabit routers and top-of-rack ethernet switches.

Mohamed has been named inventor or co-inventor on nine patents throughout his career and holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, from the University of Massachusetts.

Don Bauer

Don Bauer started his career twelve years ago in a metrics analyst and systems engineering role with Charter Communications. Since then, he has held roles in development, infrastructure, architecture and operations for both enterprise corporations and startups. He immediately recognized a common thread in each role that allowed him to focus on enabling teams and companies to succeed through standardization, simplification, and automation. Don believes companies and teams succeed through transparency and experimentation without the fear of failure. In his current role, Don operates with one simple principle: to automate himself out of a job.Currently, Don is the Lead DevOps Engineer for Citizens Bank under the umbrella of the company’s innovation initiative. He primarily focuses on automating the integration and delivery of software and services, and he supports innovation using technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Don is also a Docker community leader and co-organizes Nashville’s Docker and Golang meetups.

Sujatha Bayyapureddy

Erica Brescia

Erica Brescia is the co-founder and COO of Bitnami, the leading provider of packaged applications for any platform. The Bitnami application automation platform delivers and maintains a catalog of 120+ ready-to-run server applications and development environments in partnership with the world’s leading cloud providers including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, driving over 1 million deployments per month. That same application automation platform is also available to enterprises via Stacksmith, a tool that simplifies the migration and maintenance of traditional applications on cloud and container platforms. In addition, Bitnami is helping to shape the future of software deployment via its leadership role in the evolution of the Kubernetes ecosystem.

Erica also serves on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation, and as an Investment Partner in X Factor Ventures, which empowers female-led businesses to succeed.

Jason Brown

Jason Brown is an IT Program Manager at Entergy, an integrated energy company headquartered in New Orleans, LA. Jason joined Entergy in October 2017 after serving 10 years across all lines of IT with a Fortune 50 manufacturing enterprise. He is the technical lead for Entergy’s Containerization effort and is passionate about moving the company to a modern SecDevOps operational model. He also earned his AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification in 2017 and is leading the charge of integrating AWS into Entergy’s business strategy. Jason loves to try new sous vide recipes and building Legos with his two-year-old daughter.

Michele Leroux Bustamante

Michele is a cloud/security architect and runs the Microservices Practice and Security Practice at Solliance.net. Her background is primarily focused on distributed compute architectures and production implementations, plus consulting and product development in the identity and access management space. Michele tweets @michelebusta

Lee Calcote

Lee Calcote is the Head of Technology Strategy at Solarwinds, where he stewards strategy and innovation across the business. Previously, Calcote led software-defined data center engineering at Seagate, up-leveling the systems portfolio by delivering new predictive analytics, telemetric and modern management capabilities. Prior to Seagate, Calcote held various leadership positions at Cisco, where he created Cisco’s cloud management platforms and pioneered new, automated, remote management services.

In addition to his role at Solarwinds, Calcote advises a handful of startups and serves as a member of various industry bodies, including Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the Distributed Management Task Foundation (DMTF) and Center for Internet Security (CIS). As a Docker Captain and Cloud Native Ambassador, Calcote is an organizer of technology conferences, an analyst, author, speaker in the technology community. Calcote holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a master’s degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fresno and retains a list of industry certifications.

Justin Cappos

Justin Cappos is a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at New York University. Justin’s research philosophy focuses on improving real world systems, often by addressing issues that arise in practical deployments.

His dissertation work was on Stork, the first package manager designed for environments that use operating system virtualization, such as cloud computing. Improvements in Stork, particularly relating to security, have been widely adopted and are used on the majority of Linux systems.  His research has also been adopted into production use in a variety of other widely used software including VMware, Python, git, and Docker.  More information is available at https://ssl.engineering.nyu.edu/personalpages/jcappos/

Joe Carroll

Joe is a Product Specialist at InterSystems, a passionate problem solver, and a container evangelist. He started his career as a solution architect for enterprise database applications before transitioning to product management. Joe is in the trenches of InterSystems transformation to a container-first, cloud-first product strategy. When he isn’t at a Linux shell he enjoys long walks on the beach, piña coladas (hold the rain), woodworking, and BBQ.

Rosalie Chan

Rosalie Chan is an Enterprise Tech Reporter at Business Insider. She focuses on cloud computing, which includes covering Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and government contracts. Besides that, she is especially interested in writing about open source, DevOps, developer culture, software licensing, and women in tech.

Rosalie joined BI after working as a software engineer and freelance journalist. She has a Bachelor of Science in journalism and computer science from Northwestern University.

Patrick Chanezon

Patrick Chanezon is Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, helping Azure be the cloud you love.

Previously, at Docker Inc., he helped to build Docker, the world’s leading software container platform, for developers and sysadmins.

Software developer and storyteller, he spent 10 years building platforms at Netscape & Sun, then 10 years evangelizing platforms at Google, VMware & Microsoft. His main professional interest is in building and kickstarting the network effect for these wondrous two-sided markets called Platforms.

He has worked on platforms for Cloud, Distributed Systems, Web, Social, Commerce, Ads, and Portals.

Brian Christner

Brian Christner hails from Arizona but now resides in the Alps of Switzerland. Brian’s spent a large portion of his career in the casino industry where he made sure the house always won. Brian is co-founder of 56K.Cloud and a nominated member of the Docker Captain’s program and a seasoned cloud architect. He is also a cloud subject matter expert in the topics of Docker, Cloud Native, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and of course container monitoring. Brian is passionate about advocating for cloud and containers. When Brian is not busy trying to containerize everything he can be found riding his mountain bike or skiing in the Swiss Alps. Brian tweets @idomyowntricks

Andy Clemenko

Andy Clemenko has been putting out virtual and real fires for years. Andy has been a System Administrator/Engineer for over 20 years and a volunteer firefighter for over 15 years. He has enjoyed building solutions from the ground up. Building everything from bare metal to virtual machines to big data, and now containers. Lately he has been working with hundreds of customers and agencies engineering secure supply chains. And when not being a firefighter/engineer he is an avid cyclist and dad to two awesome little kids.

Nathan Coberly

Nathan Coberly leads the Solution Architecture and Application Development practices at Physicians Mutual, an insurance company headquartered in Omaha, NE.  He loves solving complex business problems using technology. His journey began in the U.S. Air Force and then transitioned to a 20-year career in Financial Services as a software engineer and solution architect.  When not at a whiteboard or Linux shell, he enjoys playing guitar, fishing and being a fun-loving dad to his four kids.

Ian Coldwater

Justin Cormack

Justin Cormack is an engineer in the security team at Docker. This means he is fortunate enough to get to work across the whole product, from the open source projects to desktop and enterprise.

Scott Coulton

Scott Coulton is a Developer Advocate and Docker captain with 10 years of experience as a software engineer in the managed services and hosting space. He has extensive experience in architecture and rolling out systems and network solutions for national and multinational companies with a wide variety of technologies, including Azure, Kubernetes, Puppet, Docker, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, and Linux. His design strengths are in cloud computing, automation, and security space. Scott Coulton is a Developer Advocate and Docker captain with 10 years of experience as a software engineer in the managed services and hosting space. He has extensive experience in architecture and rolling out systems and network solutions for national and multinational companies with a wide variety of technologies, including Azure, Kubernetes, Puppet, Docker, Cisco, VMware, Microsoft, and Linux. His design strengths are in cloud computing, automation, and security space.

Kevin Crawley

Kevin is a Developer Evangelist at Instana, an APM and container monitoring service provider and speaks internationally on topics including distributed computing, microservices, containers, monitoring, observability, tracing, logging, deployment automation, public speaking, alert fatigue and human ops. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and the experiences gained during his career as an application developer, team leader, and site reliability engineer. He has successful implemented Docker in production utilizing ECS, Docker Swarm/EE, and Kubernetes at multiple organizations over the past 4 years. When he’s not on an airplane Kevin enjoys cycling, camping, hockey and sightseeing.

Mark Cressey

Mark Cressey is SVP, Corporate IT and General Manager of Infrastructure for Liberty Mutual’s Hosting Services organization. Hosting Services is a team of more than 1,000 technology employees in 40+ offices worldwide who are responsible for building, supporting and maintaining Liberty Mutual’s core infrastructure to provide more than 50,000 global employees with high-performing and reliable technology systems.

Mark has been in his current role for 8 years, but he has been a part of Liberty Mutual’s technology leadership team for nearly 25 years. He graduated from the University of Maine in 1985 with a degree in journalism.

Christopher Crone

Engineering Manager at Docker. Leads the Application Definition team which is responsible for Compose, Compose for Kubernetes, and Application Packages. Previously worked on file sharing and distributed storage at Infinit.

Michael Crosby

Michael Crosby, who has been a Docker open-source contributor since 2013, is a maintainer for Docker, containerd, runc, and TOB Chair for the Linux Foundation’s Open Container Initiative (OCI). He has been using and working on containers before containers were cool as well as finding ways to break them. Michael tweets at @crosbymichael

Spike Curtis

Arko Dasgupta

Arko is a software engineer at Docker working on all aspects of container networking.

Brittany Davis

Brittany Davis leads Backstage Capital’s Deal Flow Team, where they identify and invest in preseed and seed stage companies — selecting investments for the fund and Accelerator.

Previously, she was a Manager at Village Capital where she analyzed opportunities and created investment recommendations in the fintech, education, health, food/agriculture, and energy sectors. Before that, she founded an ecommerce startup, Runway Technologies, while completing an MBA at Harvard Business School. She gained experience supporting entrepreneurs as an Associate at Techstars and as a Mentor at Startup Jamaica, built a solid foundation in finance working at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for 5 years, and received her BS in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kal De

As the CTO and EVP of Product Development of Docker, Kal De will lead technology strategy and help scale product development. He will be responsible for driving continued innovation to both the company’s commercial and open source offerings. Kal brings more than 18 years of experience leading global software development organizations. Most recently, Kal led product development for the Cloud Management Business Unit at VMware, where he was instrumental in helping grow the business from inception to $1.5B+ in revenue. Prior to his time at VMware, Kal has led software development teams at HP Software’s Data Center Automation group, and at Oracle within the Applications Technology and Fusion Middleware groups.

Michael Dodge

Spend most of my day in Java/Docker/AWS in the financial industry, running various production workloads in Docker. Develop off-hours to learn and explore for home automation, weather, and aviation. Passionate about problem solving, optimization, and following emerging technology to better solve business needs and improve the developer experience. “Perfect is the enemy of good” and “the simplest solution is usually best.”

Marius Dornean

Matt Edminster

Matt is the Product Owner of Liberty Cloud Services at Liberty Mutual. At work he focuses on giving our team of over 5000 developers the best DevOps experience possible. Matt first learned about Docker when exploring IoT use cases at Liberty Mutual. He then turned around and applied what he learned to his after-hours passion project – building robots! Over the last 3 years Matt has worked to integrate countless opensource projects using ROS (Robot Operating System) to bring his robot R.O.S.I.E to life. Find out more about R.O.S.I.E here.

Michael Ellison

Michael Ellison is the CEO and founder of CodePath.org. CodePath.org is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit transforming computer science education for underrepresented minorities at 49 colleges and universities by improving curriculum, teaching practices, and student support. Before CodePath.org, Ellison founded three nonprofits and three tech startups starting at age 19. Ellison was a founding board member for Women Who Code and co-founder of Segment, now one of Y-Combinator’s highest valued portfolio companies.

Phil Estes

DE & CTO,Container and Linux OS Architecture Strategy, Charlottesville, Virginia United States of America

Phil is a Distinguished Engineer & CTO, Container and Linux OS Architecture Strategy for the IBM Watson and Cloud Platform division. Phil is currently an OSS maintainer in the Docker (now Moby) engine project, the CNCF containerd project, and is a member of both the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Technical Oversight Board and the Moby Technical Steering Committee. Phil is a long-standing member of the Docker Captains program and has enjoyed a long relationship with key open source contributors and experts in the Docker ecosystem. Phil is a regular speaker at industry and developer conferences as well as meetups on topics related to open source, Docker, Linux container technology and the broader container ecosystem. Phil is a recognized subject matter expert on Linux container technology and regularly assists IBM’s product teams and enterprise customers in their application of container technology for their public and private cloud solutions. Phil blogs regularly on these topics on his personal blog at https://integratedcode.us.

Simon Ferquel

Simon is a senior software developer at Docker. He works within the Developer Solution Group on Kubernetes development tools (Compose on Kubernetes, Application packages, Docker for Desktop…). As an expert on Microsoft OS and SDKs, he contributes to making a great Docker developer experience, especially on Windows.

Bret Fisher

For 25 years Bret has built and operated distributed systems as a sysadmin and helped over 100,000 people learn dev and ops topics. He is a Docker Captain, the author of the wildly popular Docker Mastery series on Udemy, and also provides DevOps-style consulting and live workshops with a focus on immutable infrastructures, containers, and orchestration. He spends his free time maintaining open source and leading Virginia’s local, thriving tech scene. Bret basically spends his days helping people, and giving high fives. He lives at the beach, writes at bretfisher.com, prefers dogs over cats, and tweets at @bretfisher

KellyAnn Fitzpatrick

KellyAnn Fitzpatrick is an Industry Analyst at RedMonk and an Affiliated Researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Having previously worked as a QA analyst, test & release manager, and tech writer, she has experience with PaaS, containers, CI/CD, testing frameworks, documentation, and training. Side projects include teaching, speaking and writing about medievalism (the ways that post-medieval societies reimagine or appropriate the Middle Ages), and running to/from donut shops.

Steven Follis

Steven Follis is a Solutions Engineer at Docker Inc. leveraging container technology to foster greater agility, efficiency, and security for enterprise organizations. Leveraging years of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem, he bridges the gap between traditional Windows shops and the emerging shift to container platforms.

Sharon Frazier

Sharon Frazier is Senior Vice President of Innovation at Citizens Bank. Ms. Frazier is an entrepreneur that believes software should inspire and be a catalyst for creative disruption, whether that is igniting market dominance, shattering personal goals, or forging team cohesion. She is responsible for turning ideas into products, revenue generators, or growth catalysts through appropriate risk-taking and inventiveness; showing customers a new world, not just giving them a better view of the old world. In addition to her current role, Ms. Frazier is an active Advisor and Board member of two start-ups. Prior to Franklin American, Ms. Frazier has been an early employee, executive, or senior leader of a diverse array of companies and understands the nuances of validating product/market fit and continuous challenging of assumptions, the art of pivoting and the financial implications of decisions, as well as the necessary planning needed to hit strategic milestones and unfortunately the consequences of missing them. Ms. Frazier has been working in software and technology for over 30 years. She holds a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelors in Mathematics from Pennsylvania State University.

Ruisi Fu

Ruisi is a student, designer, and activist with passion for solving social issues. Co-founded Youaiwuai Program in 2016, she resolved to raise awareness for the disabled community in China. Now studying Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Cal, she aimed to combine her interest in STEM with her passion for the social good.

Andrea Gallego

Andrea Gallego, GAMMA CTO and Principal at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), manages the innovation and data science product team and helps drive the vision and future of GAMMA’s digital capabilities. Andrea founded Source AI, GAMMA’s first AI/ML software. She holds degrees in econometrics, statistics and computer science. Andrea has taken her career in many directions, pivoting from finance to not-for-profit to technologist and consultant — advocating for women every day along the way.

Rupak Ganguly

A passionate technologist and advocate, Rupak is a Solutions Architect at Docker and believes that customer happiness & success is the goal and technology is just a means to the end. Before Docker, he was an Enterprise Architect and serverless advocate for Serverless Inc. At Time Warner Cable, he built a PaaS platform on Mesosphere, to run containerized workloads via an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline. In 2015, when Docker was still young in its developer tooling, he built several open source developer tools and projects including Panamax, Lorry & ImageLayers as part of the Centurylink team. He was one of the founding members of HP Cloud Services team, and led the open source SDK & CLI efforts. He is a polyglot, API aficionado, hacker, speaker, blogger, author and a budding entrepreneur. When he not geeking out, he loves camping and dutch oven cooking with his son at scouting trips.

Shaker Gilbert

Shaker Gilbert is a Senior Solutions Engineer at Docker focusing on helping customers achieve their container dreams. With over 10 years experience as a technology leader and architect; building, maintaining and deploying complex enterprise architectures world-wide, Shaker has a deep appreciation for Enterprise challenges in today’s global technology landscape that enables him to see past the hype and shape real-world solutions.

Francine Gordon

Francine Gordon, Ph.D., a pioneer of the modern women’s movement, was one of the first two women professors at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. She then held senior management roles at Pac Bell and Ungermann–Bass and was a manager at Boston Consulting Group.

Before becoming a lecturer at LSB, she founded Womennovation. She facilitates workshops and cross-division off-sites to spark increased creativity and innovation. Engagements also include executive coaching with a focus on women leaders.

She is founder and Chair of SV Forum’s prestigious Tech Women Program and she’s been the organizer of TEDxBayArea Women. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Behavior from Yale University.

Darragh Grealish

Darragh has a background in embedded system engineering originally, hacking on networks since thick-ethernet existed and feel’s back at home with enabling cloud technologies to interface with embedded IoT devices. With over ten years experience in IP networks and System Engineering, working for Akamai, Swisscom, Siemens and other technology companies. Now, as Co-Founder of 56K.Cloud, Darragh’s focus is on enabling DevOps in small and large organizations to adopt containers in both Software development and Operations. Darragh tweets @grealish

Tommy Hamilton

Tommy Hamilton is a Docker Captain and a Platform Architect at Quicken Loans, the nation’s largest online mortgage lender, which is based in Detroit, Michigan. His experience includes designing, building and implementing an Enterprise grade CaaS platform that helped decrease handoffs between Dev and Ops teams and empowered Dev Teams to automatically build, test and deploy both Windows and Linux containers. His passions include solving problems that help people, distributed systems, American Football and theorizing how Game of Thrones is going to end.

Roberto Hashioka

Roberto Hashioka is a Software Engineer on the Docker Data Engineering team, where he is responsible for building data pipelines and developing business metrics analysis & reporting with focus on driving the business forward through data. Roberto began his career at Credit Suisse Hedging-Griffo as a Financial Advisor for Private Equity funds. After that, he worked as a Quant Analyst/Engineer at Neo Investimentos developing the automated electronic trading platform and its quantitative trading strategies. He holds bachelor degrees in Business Administration and Computer Science and a diploma in Global Business Management from University of California, Berkeley Extension.

Dave Hedge

Dave is a Compute Architect at ExxonMobil, a passionate problem solver, tinkerer, husband and father of 2 boys. He started his career as a Windows server analyst and has explored many of the infrastructure IT areas within ExxonMobil.  Dave currently has architectural responsibility around edge computing, compute acceleration and storage.  When he isn’t exploring the next new concept, you can find him cooking, playing with his kids or building something.

Blaine Helmick

Blaine Helmick joined the Wiley family in late 2016 as the Senior Manager of Systems Engineering. He brings over 20 years of experience in IT and 10 in the EdTech space creating award winning innovations and providing thought leadership to improve the student experience. He has a BA in Information Systems and MA in Instructional Design both from the University of Central Florida. He’s also a huge Disney nerd and on weekends you’ll find him with his family at the parks enjoying the Most Magical Place on Earth.

Cynthia Hester

Alex Hokanson

Alex is an Infrastructure Engineer at Docker. He is part of a team that ensures stability and growth of a complex Docker-based platform which is consumed by developers across the organization. Previously, Alex worked for companies in the Indianapolis, IN area focusing on web development using Docker. He enjoys spending time with his family and working on small game development projects.

Jeffrey Hummel

Jeffrey Hummel is an IT Infrastructure Architect at Entergy, an integrated energy company headquartered in New Orleans, LA. Throughout his 36-year career, Jeff has been a leader in the areas of software development, enterprise architecture design, and transformational enterprise projects. As a forward leaning thinker, he strives to mentor team members in creative ways to awaken their desire to deliver solutions of exceptional quality.

Jameson Hyde

Jameson is a software engineer at Docker spending a great deal of his time working with the varied requirements of edge security.  Prior to working Docker, much of his experience has been in low-level bootloaders and trusted computing applications for Arm-based MCUs.  His passions include obscure math, rock climbing, ultimate frisbee, and finding ways to break things to make them better.

Alex Iankoulski

Alex Iankoulski is a DockerCon alumni. He was inspired when he attended DockerCon for the first time in San Francisco in 2015 and since then has become known as a Docker evangelist among his colleagues and throughout the enterprise. Since 2015, Alex has attended DockerCon every year. He has been building software using Docker and helping accelerate the pace of innovation, promote sharing, and reuse of software. Alex has 20+ years of experience in the software industry. He is currently a Principal Software Architect for Data Science and Analytics at Baker Hughes, a GE Company where he focuses on enabling deep learning scientists and analytics experts to bring algorithms and new modeling techniques from prototype to production using containers. He believes that good tools get out of the way, empower users to go fast and enable them to stay focused on what they do best. What he likes best about Docker is that the answer is always “yes!” 

Brett Inman

Brett manages the Infrastructure team at Docker. The team is tasked with providing the tools and resources to turn containers into scalable production services, with a focus on Docker Hub, Store, and Cloud. Brett has worked at several startups running infrastructure and tooling for SaaS applications.

Michael Irwin

Michael Irwin is an Application Architect at Virginia Tech who is striving to modernize how software is developed and run on campus by driving the adoption of Docker-based workloads, CI/CD pipelines, the public cloud, single-page applications, and more. As a Docker Captain and Community Leader (meetup organizer), he has the opportunity to share his expertise and experiences with others, but also learn how others are using the latest technologies. When developing, he writes code in Node, Java (Java EE mostly), and JavaScript, but actively contributes to projects written in other languages and frameworks. He’s blessed to have a beautiful wife and four fantastic daughters!

Harish Jayakumar

Harish Jayakumar leads the Solutions Engineering team for North America and Canada. He works with customers in adopting Docker in their organization. Outside of that, he is a regular speaker at Meetups, evangelizing and talking about Docker, Kubernetes, Orchestration and DevOps. He has several years of experience working on infrastructure and systems management solutions both as a Product Manager and a developer. He tweets @harish_jkumar

Pav Jimanov

Pav is the CEO of SoftwareDefined, an innovative consulting practice specializing in DevOps Transformation and modern IT infrastructure. He is passionate about Containers, Virtualization, Analytics, and all things software defined. Pav tweets at @PavJimanov

Scott Johnston

Scott Johnston is the Chief Product Officer at Docker, where he is responsible for the strategy of Docker’s products and technologies. With 25 years of industry experience in software development, product marketing, IT operations and venture capital, Scott has served in leadership and operational roles for some of the most disruptive companies in the industry including Puppet, Netscape, Cisco, Loudcloud (parent of Opsware), and Sun Microsystems.

Roshan Kadasani

Roshan is a cloud platform engineer at McKesson. He helps the application teams to run their containerized applications on a secure, resilient and a highly scalable kubernetes platform. He also has been working on projects that will help accelerate the containerization journey at McKesson. Apart from work, Roshan loves photography and travel.

Samuel Karp

Samuel Karp is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services, working on the Container Services team. For the past four years, Sam has helped build and operate Amazon Elastic Container Service and AWS Fargate. Sam has been a a container enthusiast since 2014, a Docker contributor since 2015, and a containerd contributor since 2016.  Sam currently works on the firecracker-containerd project at Amazon, helping to bring hypervisor-mediated isolation to container workloads.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins and CTO of CloudBees. He is a well-respected developer and popular speaker at industry and Jenkins community events. Kawaguchi’s sensibilities in creating Jenkins and his deep understanding of how to translate its capabilities into usable software have also had a major impact on CloudBees’ strategy as a company. Before joining CloudBees, Kawaguchi was with Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he worked on a variety of projects and initiated the open source work that led to Jenkins.

Sune Keller

Sune is an MSc Eng, currently DevOps architect at the Danish financial corporation Alm. Brand. He is currently building on top of the existing in-house Docker-based platform to ensure devs and ops can spend as much of their time as possible on tasks that can’t (just yet) be automated away.

Susan Kimberlin

Susan is a linguist by training, with a keen interest in the intersection of human language, cognition, information management, and interfaces. She is an early stage investor, advisor, and product development expert by trade. She is passionate about helping humans navigate and use the vast amount of information available to us and believes that diversity, and the varying experiences and opinions it brings, best informs a winning strategy.

Łukasz Lach

Łukasz  is a Docker Captain from Poland, Docker Certified Associate and Docker Community Leader in Warsaw. At the University of Warsaw, he conducts classes with students of the 2nd and 3rd year on the subject of efficient and scalable Internet applications based on Docker. He leads the Docker community in Warsaw, organizes local meetups and workshops. He works as a software architect at GOG.com (CD Projekt RED).

In 2018, with the e-learning project – Docker Quiz, created together with Docker Certification Team and preparing for the Docker Certified Associate exam – he participated as a lecturer at the DockerCon conference in San Francisco. He also lectured at CodeCamp Romania and CareerCon conferences at this year.

Tony Lee

Tony Lee is a software engineer at Splunk in the Infrastructure Engineering Organization. He studied computer science at UC Berkeley. During his undergraduate studies, Tony also taught CS 169: Software Engineering as a teaching assistant and continued his engagement with the course as a reader after his graduation. Tony joined Splunk to focus on building and deploying containerized Splunk software in a large scale. He also has been contributing to multiple Splunk open source projects including Docker-Splunk, Eventgen, and Splunk-Ansible.

Idit Levine

Long Lian

Long is an undergrad in Computer Science/Cognitive Science. Interested in full stack development, distributed computing, and machine learning, he focuses on projects with social impact. He built a package shipping system as a full stack intern, developed web apps for an educational organization, and is now in a Data Science research in Julia at Berkeley. He also built an interactive textbook website for teaching programming.

Christine Lovett

Christine is a Docker Solutions Engineer for the Public Sector team at Docker. She supports Federal Science Agencies and Institutions of Higher Education who have special interests in High Performance Computing. Christine previously developed software for DHS agencies in Washington, DC. Christine tweets @_clovett

Silvin Lubecki

Silvin is a senior software developer at Docker, and a Go addict. He works within the Developer Solution Group on Kubernetes development tools (Compose for Kubernetes, Application packages) based in Paris. He also maintain the Docker CLI in his spare time.

Brandon Lum

Brandon loves designing and implementing computer systems (with a focus on Security, Operating Systems, and Distributed/Parallel Systems). He enjoys tackling both technical and business challenges and has a side interest in organizational behavior and leadership.

At IBM Research, Brandon designs, architects and develops for problems at the intersection of Cloud and Security. He works on various security areas such as: Container content protection via encryption and image signing, Container trusted identity and identity-based data fencing, Techniques to reduce the attack surface on the kernel and a container, and Container Cluster Update Planning.

Brian Magnusson

Brian Magnusson is the Vice President of Technology & Innovation at Lindsay Corporation. In this role, Brian is responsible for Lindsay’s ag technology portfolio, including the FieldNET® brand of remote irrigation management solutions, as well as, Lindsay’s portfolio of IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) solutions, including the Elecsys brand of remote monitoring and control solutions for the oil and gas, rail, and industrial lighting markets. Brian joined Lindsay in 2015 from CNH Industrial, where he most recently served as the Global Director of Portfolio Management for agricultural tractors, including the Case IH, New Holland and Steyr brands. Prior to joining CNH Industrial, Brian spent several years at Bain & Company, a leading global management consulting firm. During his time at Bain & Company, Brian advised executive leadership teams at numerous fortune 500 corporations on strategic growth initiatives. Strong roots in agriculture were the foundation of Brian’s career. He grew up on a row crop and livestock operation in the Midwest and, while in college, worked in sales and marketing for American Cyanamid. He earned an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and began his career as a mechanical engineer with Burns & McDonnell, a global engineering consulting firm, where he later served as an engineering manager and project manager. Following his tenure at Burns & McDonnell, Brian attended the Harvard Business School, where he received a Master of Business Administration degree.

Ada Mancini

Ada is a support engineer working with Docker’s largest customers. An open-source enthusiast, fan of metal music, and an avid member of the #docker community channel on freenode, Ada started on her Docker journey in 2016 as a Linux system administrator in Asheville, NC and quickly fell in love with it.

Derek McGowan

Maintainer of containerd. Software engineer at Docker for 5 years focused on image distribution and storage backends.

Ana Medina

Ana is currently working as a Chaos Engineer at Gremlin, helping companies avoid outages by running proactive chaos engineering experiments. She last worked at Uber where she was an engineer on the SRE and Infrastructure teams specifically focusing on chaos engineering and cloud computing. Catch her tweeting at @Ana_M_Medina mostly about traveling, diversity in tech, and mental health.

Cathy Minter

Cathy Minter is the VP of Americas Sales at Docker. Prior to joining Docker, Cathy was responsible for global sales and operations at SpaceTime Insight, a leading provider of advanced visual analytics and IoT solutions, acquired by Nokia. With more than 20 years of technology and software experience, she began her career at AT&T in New York City as a global account manager responsible for financial services clients including Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse. Following AT&T, Minter held strategic sales positions within Oracle’s Communications Industry, then moved on to executive management positions at SAP, including Vice President, U.S. Communications Industry. Following SAP, Minter was appointed President of Cordys Americas, an orchestration and cloud technology software start-up that was acquired by OpenText. Cathy has a degree in economics from Clemson
University and an MBA from Fordham University. Outside of work, Cathy loves to ski and hit the outdoors with her 2 teenagers and yellow lab. She also enjoys cooking and having family and friends over – especially during college football season to watch the Clemson Tigers!

Brandon Mitchell

Brandon Mitchell is a Solutions Architect for BoxBoat. He started with Linux when Slackware was shipped on floppy disks and has been hooked ever since. In his day job, he helps clients deploying Docker CE, EE, Swarm, and CI/CD pipelines. In his spare time, he’s answering questions on StackOverflow as BMitch or Tweeting under @sudo_bmitch. For a break from the keyboard, he enjoys biking and backpacking, not at the same time. Cats over dogs, vim over emacs, and spaces over tabs.

Lee Namba

Lee is the EMEA Practice Manager at Docker where he works with strategic Docker enterprise customers, providing technical leadership, deep technology expertise, and architecture experience. He previously worked at Atos as a senior enterprise architecture. In a previous life, he started and sold a software company in San Francisco. He is based out of Paris, France.

Mathias Neerup

Mathias got his bachelor in robotics engineering in 2016 from University of Southern Denmark (SDU) where he designed and implemented an architecture for indoor drone localization. He then got his master in robotics in 2018 where he designed the architecture for a scalable recording framework to be used by biologists for audio recordings. After his degree Mathias was employed as a Research Assistant at SDU at the Advanced Computer Systems Group  where he keeps the IT infrastructure of the unit running and develops software used by researchers. Mathias teaches a course focused on the ‘ops’ part of DevOps in the Software Engineering programme, where docker is core in the practical part. Mathias is currently interested in new web technologies, IT-security and distributed storage solutions.

Jeff Nessen

Over the last twenty five years Jeff Nessen has held numerous practitioner and leadership positions in Information Technology. As a leader in Fortune 500 IT environments Jeff learned the relationship between serving customers and providing the best technology platforms possible. After moving from IT to the vendor and provider side of the industry Jeff spent his time helping many large companies determine and execute their digital transformation strategy. Serving as an executive at a startup focused on helping other executives evolve their business models to meet a new generation of demands gave Jeff an appreciation for the software revolution we are currently experiencing. All of this culminated with him joining Docker early in 2017. At Docker Jeff’s focus is to help companies understand how containers and the Docker Enterprise Platform can help reduce cost, increase revenue and speed time to market.

Mike Noe

Mike Noe is an excitable and passionate problem solver. With more than 15 years in operations and engineering, Mike has worked in healthcare, music, military intelligence, and finance industries. Mike can often be heard evangelizing automation, atomic workloads, active monitoring, and, obviously, containers. Mike has supported and developed production Docker environments for over the last 2 years. Prior to joining Franklin American Mortgage, Mike was a soldier in the US Army, supporting intelligence missions. Since then he has gone on to earn a Masters in Information Technology Management from Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. 

Fabio Nonato

Fabio Nonato is a Director of Data Science and Analytics at Baker Hughes, a GE Company. His team works at the interface of DevOps and Data Science, to provide ML/AI based SaaS solutions for the Industrial space. They are focused on integrating domain models, large scale DL models and probabilistic models into production ML pipelines. Fabio is an advocate for containerized orchestrations of AI workloads, passionate about deploying AI into production. If you would like to learn more about designing ML and AI orchestration for Predictive Analytics and Industrial applications of AI, attend Fabio’s talk or connect with him on LinkedIn.

Michelle Noorali

Michelle Noorali is a Sr. Software Engineer at Microsoft. She is a core maintainer on open source projects in the Kubernetes ecosystem including Helm and Draft. She has been involved in the Kubernetes community since 2015 and serves on the Kubernetes Steering Committee. She is passionate about developer experiences.

James Norman

James Norman is a serial entrepreneur who at the age of 16 built his first online company, an aftermarket automotive e-commerce site called MJH Sound.com. While previously he may have been known as a visionary in automotive product planning, over the past 10 years in the media and entertainment industry he has become a thought leader in over-the-top media and consumer video consumption behaviors.

In 2008, James founded Ubi Video, one of the first aggregators of all things streaming video. After a multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) offered to acquire Ubi’s technology, he moved on to develop GroupFlix, an a-la-carte streaming service. By cleverly bundling electronic sell-through (EST) content, allowing users to select the shows they love in a low monthly subscription, GroupFlix was the first viable a-la-carte TV model. His latest venture, Pilotly, is a consumer insights platform that enables content creators to get feedback from audiences at scale. Today, the platform provides insights to the NBCUniversal family, Snapchat, Doner agency, and others.

James earned his BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan and is a proud member of the 500 Startups family. He was given the OTT Genius Award by the OTT Executive Summit in 2014. He has also been recognized for excellence in special automotive projects by Mazda Design North America and Sony Gran Turismo.

Adam Parco

As Director of Engineering for Edge and IoT, Adam leads a team of engineers building out the next generation of Docker Edge and IoT software tools and services. He has a computer science and mechatronic engineering background, and is a licensed professional engineer of Ontario. Adam has experience in broad software domains. Some of which include backend services, desktop applications, operating systems, embedded systems, and IoT platforms. Adam and his team are located in the heart of Waterloo Ontario’s thriving technology sector.

Torben Pedersen

Torben holds a dual Bachelor of Business Administration in Management Information Systems and Marketing from University of Houston and carries 25+ years of industry experience.  He has been an Enterprise Architect at Halliburton for the past 5 years leading the global IT technology strategy and solution designs across multiple domains – from information management and applications, to platforms and infrastructure.  He joined Halliburton after 14 years at Microsoft in consulting and sales roles defining strategies and solutions covering warehouse management, asset tracking, retail data management, portal-and commerce solutions, and more.  Beyond the energy sector, he has covered industries such as; manufacturing, retail, logistics, health, airlines, law firms, and commercial software.  In his personal time he is an avid yard keeper and continued Texas BBQ apprentice.

Sujay Pillai

Sujay is an ECM expert and now currently holds the Sr. DevOps Engineer position at Jabil. He plays a pioneer role in adoption of container technology / training at his work and is a community leader for Docker Penang meetup edition.

Oliver Pomeroy

Oliver is a Solution Engineer at Docker, based out of the London office he supports the adoption of Docker Enterprise Edition within our largest UK customers. He comes from an infrastructure background having worked as a Solution Engineer and Technical Presales at Hewlett Packard helping customers adopt the latest datacentre technologies.

Nigel Poulton

Nigel is a leading name in the container community. He is a Docker Captain, Docker Certified Associate, and the author of many container-related books and video training courses. When he’s not working with containers, he spends time with his family, tries to play golf, and dreams of American muscle cars.

Darren Pulsipher

Darren is an Enterprise Solution Architect in the Data Center Group at Intel. He works directly with governments and enterprise organizations to help them understand the cloud components and elements they need to consider to achieve their goals. He addresses workload migration, developing in the cloud, hyperconverged infrastructure, and modern data center architectures. Prior to joining Intel, Darren was the CIO of a juice company called Xango. His research has resulted in patents in cloud and grid computing infrastructures and his technology has been used in companies to decrease product development lifecycle time through build, test and deployment optimization and virtualization. Darren is a published author with 3 books on technology and technology management, and over 50 articles published in several different industry trade magazines.

R.O.S.I.E

R.O.S.I.E is three year old 3D printed Inmoov robot whose hardware is controlled by Arduino microcontrollers created by Matt Edminster and Billy Ramey. Her software consists of over 30 Docker containers which work together using ROS (Robot Operating System) to bring her to life. R.O.S.I.E makes use of best in class opensource artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies which allow her to understand the environment around her. Learn more about me here!

Aparna Radhakrishnan

Ms.Radhakrishnan works within SAIC/Engility’s Space and Mission Systems Group. Since 2009, she has represented the Engility team, working with the great minds at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) towards the overarching goal of the betterment of our planet. She has served as the Modeling Systems Group liaison for the PMEL Data Integration Group with NOAA PMEL, GFDL’s Empirical Statistical Downscaling, Ensemble Climate Data Assimilation, ExArch-NSF exa-scale initiative, Earth System Grid Federation. As the co-lead of GFDL’s Diagnostics and Evaluations team, she continues to explore the development and promotion of the use of collaborative software and data standards that lead to reproducible climate research.

Anusha Ragunathan

Anusha is a systems software engineer at Docker and a OSS maintainer in the Moby (Docker) project. She has recently been working on storage features in the Docker Enterprise and is the author of Docker plugin infrastructure. Other interests include distributed systems, high availability, performance analysis and debugging.

Amn Rahman

Amn Rahman is a Data Engineer at Docker where she builds and maintains data pipelines and delivery tools for all business units to facilitate strategic data-driven decision making. Prior to joining Docker, Amn worked as an engineer in the media/news industry and at SRI International. Amn holds a master’s degree in Technology and Policy from MIT and an undergraduate degree in computer science from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

Billy Ramey

Billy Ramey is a Principal Software/Systems Engineer at Liberty Mutual currently working on bringing bleeding edge cloud-based collaboration technologies to our users. Outside of work, one of Billy’s passions is building robots. As a robotic hobbyist Billy has learned to 3D print, solder, and weld over the last three years in order to construct his robot R.O.S.I.E. Find out more about R.O.S.I.E here.

Renno Reinurm

Always keep shipping. Renno is software delivery automation engineer at sales-software startup Pipedrive and he always thinks how to make any regular routine more fun, faster and secure. Luckily Docker does most of the heavy lifting either using community or commercial products.

Liz Rice

Liz Rice is the Technology Evangelist with container security specialists Aqua Security, where she also works on container-related open source projects including kube-bench and kube-hunter. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, and competing in virtual races on Zwift.

Rob Richardson

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, Angular and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on his blog at https://robrich.org/presentations.

Jeremy Rickard

Jeremy Rickard is a software engineer on the Cloud Native Compute Microsoft in Colorado working on Virtual Kubelet, Open Service Broker for Azure and Service Catalog. Before that, he worked at VMware and helped build infrastructure and services that support VMware Cloud Services and built services using Spring, Cloud Foundry and Kuberentes.

Matt Rickard

Matt Rickard is a Software Engineer at Google. He works on Kubernetes developer experience and container tooling products at Google, with a focus on local development and CI/CD tooling. He is a maintainer of many open source repositories, including kubernetes/minikube, GoogleCloudPlatform/container-diff, and GoogleCloudPlatform/distroless.

Arjuna Rivera

Arjuna Rivera is Lockheed Martin’s Infrastructure and
International (I2) Labs Senior Manager and Principal Researcher
reporting into the I2’s Technology Office.
In this role, Arjuna is responsible for leading labs to drive
innovation, IT disruption and modern cloud usage across the
enterprise. As an idea incubator and technical facilitator for I2, I2
labs doesn’t just discover products, they bring experiences to
life.
Arjuna’s career spans more than 19 years of service to
Lockheed Martin. He joined Lockheed Martin in 1998 as a
systems engineer and worked assignments of increasing
responsibility within the corporation. Arjuna’s diverse background
includes, but not limited to experience in IT Infrastructure,
Applications, Testing, Security Engineering, Governance, Risk,
Compliance, Incident Response and general management.
Arjuna maintains several industry certifications; he has a MS in
Management with a concentration in IT from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute and BS in Management Information
Systems from the University of South Florida. Arjuna tweets @realarjuna

Jean Rouge

Jean is a software engineer at Docker, where he works on orchestration and contributes to Kubernetes.

Brent Salisbury

Brent Salisbury is a Software Alliance Engineer at Docker with a passion for all things networking. Brent came to Docker via the acquisition of Socketplane which he co-founded and prior to that worked at Red Hat. With over 15 years of experience in networking he has experience ranging from network ops and engineering, network software development and early SDN community leadership. Brent is a USMC veteran who in his free time enjoys hacking on software, blogging and hanging out with his cats.

Jeanie Schwenk

Jeanie is a scrum master, agile project manager, and software engineer at Jireh Semiconductor in Oregon.  Software done wrong is what drove her to find better ways to manage and develop software projects and grow its teams.  With over 20 years’ experience in the software industry, her passion is helping teams become truly functional so they can create the right thing and build it correctly with an eye to the future.

Jeanie is currently bringing agile and scrum to the IT/Automation group at Jireh and is modernizing the complex systems and applications that control the semiconductor manufacturing process.

Steve Singh

Ulysses Souza

Software Engineer @ Docker working in the Developer Solution Group based in Paris. Maintainer of `docker-compose` and contributor on `docker-py`, `docker-app`.

Blaize Stewart

Blaize is a Microsoft Azure MVP with a passion for open source and container technology. Blaize’s interest in development and infrastructure goes back to childhood when he built his first networks and began writing his first apps. Since that time, Blaize has worked in many rolls in both development and infrastructure. Blaize also loves sharing his knowledge about technology. He has trained hundreds of developers and now produces training content, blogs, and vlogs and speaks at meetups, conferences, and code camps– especially about all things containers. Now, Blaize is an architect at Wintellect where he provides strategic leadership to help companies as they adopt cloud technologies. When not containerizing things, Blaize enjoys cycling, photography, model aviation, and spending time with his wife and two girls.

Sebastiaan van Stijn

Sebastiaan van Stijn has been using Docker since version 0.5, and actively contributed to Docker open-source since 2014. He currently is a maintainer and curator for the Docker Engine, the Docker CLI, and a member of the Moby Technical Steering Committee (TSC). In a former life, he was working as a PHP back-end developer. Sebastiaan likes to compete with Gordon the Turtle for being the most noisy community member on GitHub, and visiting concerts in his free time.

Roxy Stimpson

Roxy Stimpson, VP & CTO at D4DT, a Computer Science graduate from University of Washington, has 20+ years in tech with primary focus on connecting systems, machines and human leveraging technology by building manual, automated and hybrid processes for enterprises for industries such as e-commerce, logistics, supply chain and manufacturing.  Roxy has practical experience in leading teams at enterprises specialized in Enterprise Applications and Systems Integration, IoT, IIoT, AI, ML, and Analytics. Roxy also currently serves as Toastmasters District 2 Club Growth Director 2018-2019 responsible for creating new clubs and supporting all clubs in achieving excellence from Canadian border to the end of Kent in Washington State.

Elton Stoneman

I’m a Pluralsight Author, Microsoft MVP and Developer Advocate at Docker. I’ve been architecting and delivering successful solutions with Microsoft technologies since 2000, most recently Big Data and API implementations in Azure, and distributed applications with Docker.
Currently I’m interested the evolution of the Microsoft stack, exploring the great opportunities to modernize existing .NET Framework apps with Docker, and run them alongside new .NET Core apps in Windows and Linux containers.
I’m a regular presenter and workshop host at conferences. I’ve been fortunate to speak at NDC, DockerCon, SDD, DevSum, Container Camp and Future Decoded. You’ll often see me at user groups too – Docker London, London DevOps and WinOps are my locals.

Akihiro Suda

Akihiro Suda is a software engineer at NTT Corporation, a Japan-based telecommunication company. He is a maintainer of several opensource container software such as Moby, BuildKit, and containerd. He is also a Community Leader of Docker Meetup Tokyo. He has previously talked at several FLOSS conferences such as FOSDEM, ApacheCon, and Open Source Summit.

Laura Frank Tacho

As the Director of Engineering at CloudBees and a Docker Captain, Laura has a deep knowledge of developer tools. She has worked on CodeShip, a SaaS CI/CD platform designed to streamline testing and deployment of code, since 2015. Before CodeShip, she co-maintained several open source projects to support Docker in the early stages of the project, including Panamax and ImageLayers, and came to work on developer tools and open source by way of OpenStack and HP’s public cloud offering. She is a member of the Moby Project’s Technical Steering Committee and frequent international speaker. She currently lives in Vienna.

Tonis Tiigi

Tonis Tiigi is a software engineer at Docker and a maintainer of Moby/Docker engine. He has recently been working on the builder features of the platform, for example, multi-stage builds, and is the author of Moby BuildKit project.

Santiago Torres

Santiago is a fourth-year Ph.D. Student at NYU’s Center for Cyber Security (CCS) under the guidance of Prof. Justin Cappos. His interests include binary analysis, cryptography, operating systems, and security-oriented software engineering. His current research focuses on securing the software development lifecycle, password storage mechanisms, and update systems. Santiago is a member of the Arch Linux security team and has contributed patches to F/OSS projects on various degrees of scale, including Git, the Linux Kernel, NeoMutt, and the Briar project. Santiago is also a developer for The Update Framework (TUF) and the lead of the in-toto project.

Tim Tyler

Tim started life as a Mechanical Engineer and spent over 20 years in the Semiconductor industry focusing on high performance computing, design automation, and Open Source compliance and evangelization. Tim particularly enjoys championing and promoting a DevOps culture and Social Coding, as well as building collaboration between development, engineering, and operations teams. Tim recently migrated to the Insurance industry and is a leader and senior contributor on MetLife’s innovation team – The ModSquad. In this role Tim is helping to drive transformative DevOps and Agile change as well as explore exciting new technologies.

Anil Reddy Vatti

Anil Reddy Vatti is a Chief System Architect at Visa. Anil leads the microservices, containers, Kubernetes and Servicemesh efforts in Visa. Anil and his team built a secure, resilient and a highly scalable container platform with several integrations into other tools. Anil also helps the data platform teams to build a ML/DL (Machine learning and Deep learning) platform. Prior to Visa, Anil was a Principal Engineer at WalMart and helped build WalMart’s container platform. You can find Anil spending time with family, playing with his kids, cooking, or building something new.

Nelson Wang

Nelson Wang is a Senior Software Engineer at Splunk, working within the company’s Engineering Infrastructure group. At Splunk, Nelson works primarily on the company’s internal and external containerization strategy – including how to containerize CI/CD pipelines, operating and administrating clusters at scale, and developing a customer-facing open-source Docker image.

Michael Wardrop

Honey Williams

Honey Williams is a Director of Technology Services at Liberty Mutual Insurance. She leads the Application and Data Platforms which run Liberty Mutual’s 1000’s of global applications running in a hybrid-multi cloud environment. Honey has undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Business from the University of Maine and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Boston University. In her 17-year career at Liberty Mutual, Honey has worked as a System Administrator, a Software Developer, and spent the past
9 years in a variety of leadership positions of increasing scope. Over the past year, she has been a mentor for Liberty Mutual’s Women in Technology Mentoring Circles, where she empowers other women to take charge of their careers. In her free time Honey is passionate about getting outside and spends most of her weekends mountain biking or skiing (depending on the season) with her husband and their two kids.

Honey’s teams are using containerization as a way to move legacy technical components to cloud based technology. This has the benefit of minimal code re-writes and increases supportability while decreasing deploy outage windows, and scalability.

Vincent Wu

Vincent is currently a Berkeley Math/CS undergraduate student, interested in research in specific areas of Machine Learning such as sentiment analysis and text summarization. He built a project that facilitates the diagnosis of allergens in certain food through phone camera.

David Yu

David Yu is a Product Manager for Universal Control Plane and is focused on specific areas that include Platform Lifecycle Management, Scalability, and Serviceability. He previously worked with enterprise customers and partners to build Docker Enterprise platforms on their own infrastructure as a Solutions Engineer for 2 years. He is based in San Francisco, CA.

Eric Zielinski

Eric leads the Cloud Delivery organization at Nationwide, where his teams are responsible for cloud infrastructure, containers, security, and site reliability.  With over 20 years of industry experience leading advanced infrastructure operations, engineering, and cyber security, Eric is in his 15th year at Nationwide where he has worked across the company to deliver a portfolio of products and technologies including cloud platforms, security automation, self-service adoption, and DevOps transformation. He is a frequent speaker at conferences such as FIRST, FS-ISAC, 614con, and many others.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from Franklin University and several certifications such as GCCC, GMON, EnCE, and GCIH.