Become a Platform Engineering Ambassador

Abdel is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Serverless. Abdel started his career in data centers and infrastructure in Morocco, where he is originally from, before moving to Google's largest EU data center in Belgium. Then in Sweden, he joined Google Cloud Professional Services and spent five years working with Google Cloud customers on architecting and designing large-scale distributed systems before turning to advocacy and community work.

Giovanna Faso is a seasoned leader with extensive experience in driving operational excellence and leading high-performing teams within the tech industry. With a career spanning over 15 years, she has successfully navigated the complexities of scaling businesses, optimizing workflows, and delivering results that fuel growth and innovation. In her VP and Director roles, Giovanna has built and refined strategies to streamline operations, improve cross-functional collaboration, and empower teams to thrive in dynamic environments. Her expertise extends to Platform Engineering, where she has played a pivotal role in developing and scaling resilient, efficient platforms that enable seamless product delivery and operational success at scale. An engaging speaker and advocate for leadership development, Giovanna has shared her insights at numerous tech events, focusing on operational strategies, leadership best practices, Platform Engineering, and creating an environment that supports innovation. Her talks aim to inspire leaders to build resilient organizations and platforms that not only adapt to change but thrive in it.

Artem Lajko, certified Kubestronaut and Platform Engineer, specializes in Kubernetes scalability and GitOps-driven workflows. He is the author of Implementing GitOps with Kubernetes, co-founder of connectii, and an IT freelancer writing for various publishers. As a Platform Engineering Ambassador, he supports companies and the community in adopting Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms, and related technologies. Passionate about Open Source, he helps organizations choose the right tools, driving tech adoption and innovation.

Tiago is a Solutions Architect at AWS, focused on assisting startups across Latin America to optimize their container strategies. With over 10 years of experience in tech, he has a deep passion for Containers, SaaS, and Platform Engineering. Tiago works closely with businesses to design scalable, efficient, and cost-effective cloud solutions. Tiago also actively contributes to the tech community as an organizer of KCD Brazil and meetups focused on promoting cloud-native technologies. He presented at major events such as re:Invent, KubeCon, and PlatformCon. His influence extends beyond speaking engagements, having released open-source projects, authored blogs, workshops, and white papers.

Ant(on) Weiss is a Platform Engineering and DevOps expert, evangelist, and enabler. For 20+ years, his focus has been on software delivery optimization through processes, people, and tools. Ant has extensive experience building platform teams and improving software engineering organizations. He's a frequent speaker and blogger on DevOps, platform, and cloud topics. For the last 10+ years, he has been the owner of the platform engineering consultancy Otomato Software. Currently, he's also doing DevRel for PerfectScale.

Bruno works as VP, IT Operations at Fortum - a leading energy company developing clean technologies and sustainable solutions - and he regularly advises and helps organisations in areas such as cloud, data and security. Based in Finland, Bruno has a long history using cloud technologies and driving organisations and engineering teams, in different adoption and transformation stages. Throughout his career he worked in a wide range of positions from senior management to deep technical roles. He is passionate about culture and digital transformation and has been involved in several projects from both the human (Leadership, Coaching, Mentoring) and technical (Cloud, DevOps, AI) perspective.

Bartek is the Head of Cloud & Data Engineering at VirtusLab. Passionate about building tools and platforms to enable another group of people to focus on a higher-level set of problems. Capable of guiding organizations through the different stages of maturity and entire lifecycle, from strategy, and implementation to operations.With extensive experience in software development, architectural design, and cloud-native technologies, he has a proven track record of leading engineering and operations teams in complex enterprise environments. He approaches complex problems with a holistic perspective, considering both the technological and human dimensions.You can find some of his writing at engineeringprimer.com

I find immense joy in collaborating with diverse teams, cultivating a positive work environment that encourages creativity and open communication. Emphasizing team development is essential to achieving successful outcomes and driving innovation in every aspect. Embracing challenges and staying up-to-date with the latest technology trends keeps me motivated and eager to explore new opportunities. I'm a Cloud Native Administrator, Developer, Architect and Fan!

Dwight is a seasoned healthcare executive with over 20 years of experience in health insurance, provider, and life sciences. He has held leadership roles at BearingPoint, HMS Holdings, SCCIPA, and co-founded a population health software company successfully exited with Fortune 20 backing. Now a Healthcare Principal at Red Hat, he helps provides transformative digital capabilities that improve flow, reduce friction, and toil inherent in monolithic IT – the abilities required to transcend the cloud-native paradigm shift. As the healthcare ecosystem and health IT gets more complicated, with more specialized outside applications, we have to create a new technology system in which data flows freely and delivers more insights for patients, providers, and the health system across the health ecosystem.

Lori has a passion and enthusiasm for working with the developer and open source community. She is a CNCF Ambassador, CDF Ambassador, DoK SIG Co-Chair, and is active in the OpenSSF DevRel committee. She co-hosts the CD Pipeline on behalf of the CDF with TechstrongTV. She has spoken at global conferences like All Things Open, CDCon, Kubecon's Project Lightning Talks, FOSDEM, Cloud Native Rejekts, Devnexus, Devoxx Morocco, CodeMask and KCDC. She is committed to helping open source and other tech communities grow and adapt in our ever changing environment. She is currently Head of Community for Percona.

Zahi is a Principal Engineer leading a platform engineering team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). With over 15 years in tech, Zahi is known for solving hard problems in various domains. He's also a sought-after speaker, presenting at Re:Invent for three years straight with sessions consistently ranking in the top five most popular sessions. Zahi's impact extends beyond talks. He's released over a dozen open-source projects, featured a YouTube channel, and authored blogs and white papers.Throughout his career, Zahi has chased innovation and collaboration, inspiring others to push technological boundaries.

Founder @ devrelasservice.com, a technology leader, and a community advocate, serving as a Platform Ambassador, Docker Captain, Google Developer Expert for Google Cloud, and CNCF Ambassador. As the founder of DevRelAsService, he excels in product evangelism and community building, organizing conferences, and nurturing tech communities. Rohit is dedicated to empowering students and professionals in their careers, as well as helping businesses to scale, i.e. startups and scaleups, frequently speaking at conferences to raise awareness about DevOps, AI, Security, and Application networking. His expertise and passion for knowledge-sharing make him a valuable contributor to the Platform ecosystem and the broader tech community.

Marta is a product manager with a strong background in building technical products that balance complex functionality with human-centric design to drive business value. With years of experience in product development, she’s now eager to bring the same principles to the platform engineering space and watch the magic happen.

Wale is a Platform Engineering enthusiast passionate about building scalable platforms and optimizing developer workflows. He enjoys sharing knowledge and tackling challenges to drive innovation. Together, we can enhance platform capabilities and achieve engineering excellence!

Susa is a product manager working in the platform engineering space, focusing on developer tooling and workflows. She is a maintainer and contributor to Score, a CNCF sandbox project that helps simplify application delivery for developers. In her work, Susa prioritizes building features and refining the developer experience across the software development lifecycle, aiming to support engineering teams in staying productive and effective.

Rahul is a passionate DevOps architect with over 8 years of experience designing and implementing robust, scalable solutions in the cloud-native and DevOps ecosystems. His expertise spans across AWS, Kubernetes, machine learning, and platform engineering. Rahul is deeply committed to knowledge sharing and community growth. When he’s not designing systems, mentoring professionals, or contributing to the open-source space, he explores new ways to use technology to empower individuals and drive business transformation.

Oleksii is an IT professional with over 10 years of experience in Information Technologies (product and outsourcing companies), networking, technical support, system administration, DevOps, and banking, certified by several world-famous vendors (AWS, Google, Cisco, Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Hashicorp). AWS Ambassador | AWS Community Builder | AWS User Group Leader | 15x AWS certified, 4x Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS, KCNA).

Since 2001, Lev has been maintaining production systems at scale, working with companies like Etoro, Taboola, and Amobee in IT and Linux system administration roles. In 2014, as a freelancer at Appsflyer, he discovered the true value of public cloud infrastructure and implemented a platform to support DevOps culture and practices. This experience ignited his passion for platform engineering, and he has been dedicated to learning and sharing knowledge ever since. He has been an AWS Community Builder, and a HashiCorp Ambassador for the past three years, and has co-organized DevOpsDays TLV multiple times. He also volunteers with OpsSchool, a nonprofit that teaches practical DevOps skills and helps individuals start careers in the industry.

Johann is a passionate software engineer from Switzerland with over 25 years of experience as a developer, architect, trainer, and consultant across various industries. A strong advocate for the cloud-native movement, Johann actively fosters community engagement by organizing events like Swiss Cloud Native Day and Uphill Conf, as well as hosting meetups. As a platform engineering ambassador, Johann is excited to connect engineers, share knowledge, and inspire collaboration within the vibrant tech community, both locally and globally. He finds fulfillment in building networks that empower professionals to innovate and grow together.

Francisco Meneses is Senior Architect - STP for Latin America at Red Hat. His main role is to help the consulting and TSM team define architectures and support in generating commercial proposals that allow the generation of new opportunities for the company, ensuring the best practices and recommendations. With more than 12 years of experience in the IT industry, Francisco has been with Red Hat since 2016. During his professional career there, he has served as an architect and a Practice Leader, ensuring the adoption of product stack integration technologies. In addition to supporting the transformational processes of all clients (in areas of education, retail, banking, and telecommunications).

Dorian Sezen is a seasoned technology consultant with extensive expertise in DevOps, Platform Engineering, and large-scale transformation projects. With a proven track record of driving innovation and delivering successful projects across diverse industries, Dorian specializes in cloud-native transformations, modernization initiatives, and cutting-edge platform development. An advocate for scalable and efficient solutions, Dorian excels in enabling seamless integrations and empowering organizations with robust internal developer platforms, automated governance, and advanced infrastructure pipelines.

Caio is a student and practitioner of the disciplines of DevOps, Lean, and Platform Engineering. He is a cloud-native experienced engineer, open-source lover, developer at heart, mentor by vocation, and thought leader.

Barnaby is a London-based platform engineer who has come into the discipline from a combination of DevOps and cyber security colliding requiring centralised patterns. Working across a variety of technologies Barnaby Robertson Hurst has been developing platforms that enable developers to consistently and securely deploy applications with the plumbing abstracted away. To further the knowledge of platform engineering Barnaby streams as part of the DevCastOps showcasing how to build a platform, running through the decisions that are required as part of the process, and demonstrating how to deploy the platform in a secure manner.

Anita is a developer advocate and a technical writer specializing in cloud native and DevOps engineering. She is passionate about promoting the growth and adoption of cloud-native solutions across Africa, serving as an organizer for Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Nigeria and the CNCF Abuja community group. She is an open source evangelist and has led great efforts in DEI, documentation, and community growth as a member of the CHAOSS Board of Directors. She has spoken at various international conferences, like KubeCon, DevConf.cz, FOSSBackstage, FOSDEM, and many more.

Scott is a VMware Specialist with 5 years of experience managing VMware infrastructures, including ESXi, vCenter, NSX-v/NSX-T, vRealize Automation, and Log Insight. Proficient in scripting with Bash, PowerShell, Perl, and Python, he excels in automation and system optimization. Scott has extensive knowledge of Active Directory, DNS, Windows Server, and Red Hat Linux, with experience in databases like SQL Server, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Neo4j. He is also skilled in tools such as Rundeck, Ansible, and Control-M, delivering reliable IT solutions in diverse environments.

Award winning engineering leader with 10+ years of experience leading dozens of orgs and specializing in platform engineering and developer experience (DevEx). Demonstrated success in building top-tier teams to architect and deploy robust platforms, optimizing developer workflows, and enhancing overall product quality. Proficient in driving strategic initiatives to elevate DevEx, fostering a culture of innovation, and streamlining processes for accelerated product delivery.

Natan is the founder of Robusta Dev. Before founding Robusta he was a senior engineer and long-time open source contributor to projects like GNOME Linux. When not working on software, Natan can be found in the garden with his son, growing fruits and vegetables for their family.

Mathieu is a problem solver, passionate about Kubernetes, Security and Platform Engineering. He is a developer, cloud Architect, platform Engineer, learner, dad, and tennisman.

Manual tester turned developer advocate. I talk about cloud native, Kubernetes, and DevOps to help others adopt cloud native. I also create content such as blog posts and webinars, host Twitter spaces, and strongly believe in collaborative learning and growth.In addition, I'm also a CNCF Ambassador and the organizer of CNCF Hyderabad. When I am not working, I’m a food and travel blogger who loves exploring eateries and going on road trips. You can find me at @TheTechMaharaj on Twitter.

Innovative, pragmatic, technology and product savvy leader with proven experience in building high performing teams and who creates strong alliances across organizational lines to deliver solutions to complex business needs. Emphasis on fostering team unity through personal relationship building, career growth, and professional development. Predictable delivery by way of proactive product planning and stakeholder management with outcomes that are relevant, visible, focused, and aligned with current and future organizational objectives and key results.

As a senior architect at Red Hat Open Innovation Labs and a passionate techie who believes in the innovative power of Open Source, I work in close collaboration with companies to form, enable, and accelerate product teams by helping them adopt DevOps culture and practices.

Krzysztof (Kris) is a Software Engineer and IT Senior Management Advisor. His interests lie in Architecture, Team Topologies, Agile Delivery, DevOps and Platform Engineering - which he glues all together to boost Business Value Streams. He has 10+ years of experience as a Programmer, Architect, Engineering Manager, and now, Platform Engineering Advisor & Platform Owner. He has a blog, where I share my insights on the topic (khalasa.com) & a polish-market oriented YouTube Channel (@khalasa-com).

Ajay has 3+ decades of technology leadership experience and currently the CTO & MD at Brillio, a digital transformation company, privately held and supported by Bain Capital & Orogen Group. He is the co-author of Effective Platform Engineering, a unique platform Engineering practioner's book from Manning Publications. A regular speaker and panelist, as well as a prolific writer of blogs and other relevant publications, his current interests are around improving developer productivity using domain-driven platform engineering. Ajay is a trained computer scientist with significant technology leadership experience and advanced degrees in business and technology management.

Turja is the Global PreSales Lead for EY Fabric, the foundational technology platform that powers all of EY. As an Associate Director in EY, he manages a global, and diverse team of 20+ Platform Consultants, who work to help increase the adoption of EY's flagship internal technology platform : EY Fabric. He has over 12+ years of experience, with last 5+ years building, managing and selling internal platforms. Before EY, Turja was in Accenture where he led the Global CCoE ( Cloud Centre of Excellence ) for a Beauty client, and PwC where he was working as a Consultant. Turja is extremely passionate about anything Platforms, and regularly talks / posts about them. Turja is extremely active in the community and has over 31k LinkedIn followers.

Steve is obsessed with making tech human, and leveraging it to deliver continuous value. He shows teams how to use simple tools and techniques to make big changes. For the past 20 years, his focus has been on sharing mapping techniques to guide ambitious and struggling teams towards their true north. He's a former startup CTO, agency consultant, systems and release engineer, finance IT manager, tech support phone jockey, and pizza maker. All focused on the flow of value, all the time.

Mallory is a workshop host for Platform Engineering community, and a platform therapist at Humanitec. With a background in customer success, full-stack software engineering, and engineering management, she focuses on the strength of intersection of humans and technology. She brings a passion for education, the anthropological approach to human-computer interaction, and improving developer experience to her work on dozens of platforms of all sizes over the last few years. When not connecting people with their platforms, Mallory is an avid equestrian and hobby farmer, and also a cat and dog mom.

Jon has extensive experience as an individual contributor, CTO, and Tribe Lead Global Platform, leading distributed teams across multiple development hubs in Europe. Based in Trondheim, Norway, he is passionate about balancing business needs with the transformational efforts required to adopt modern development practices, including security, reliability, compliance, and, of course, Platform Engineering!