I've been in the IT industry since 2006: GNU/Linux, Hybrid Cloud Environments, Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration as Code (CaC), containers and automation. Love Linux, concepts of Open Source, FOSS and vendor-agnostic solutions. Long term open source and open standards advocate and lobbyist. Cloud-Native, Declarative resource management and GitOps follower.

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I am a Full Stack Engineer currently working as an Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat. I have a strong interest in building modern web applications and enjoy exploring different areas of software engineering, including full-stack development, DevOps, and AI/ML. I am passionate about learning new technologies and sharing knowledge through the developer community.

I am Akif Mehmood from Tampere, Finland. Currently, I am doctoral researcher at Tampere University and my work focuses on PQC transition for safe internet browsing. Other than security studies, my interests include playing video games, badminton, volley ball, pool, and learning about new security tools.

Expert Data Scientist (banking & telecom) focused on credit risk and production ML. Built online lending and personalization systems, and deployed/monitored ML services using MLflow, Airflow, Docker and FastAPI. Speaker at DevFest Bishkek 2025 on monitoring scoring models in production.

Principal Software Engineer in The Collective team. Responsible for SBOM lifecycle in Konflux.

I’m a software engineer with 25+ years of experience in full stack development, system integration and identity management. I’ve worked on large-scale IAM solutions for Italian universities. Today, I’m part of Red Hat’s Identity team, where I enjoy working with open-source technologies and global communities, focusing on Dogtag PKI and Free IPA projects.

Alessandro is an advocate for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and an enthusiast of the cloud native and automation world.
During his career, he also worked as an instructor and consultant for Red Hat, enabling customers and partners to achieve success with Red Hat products and technology.

Alfonso Cancellara is a Technical Account Manager at Red Hat specialized in OpenShift, though his true passion lies in the "Open Source Way", the art of balancing enterprise-grade stability with the rapid, unbridled innovation of the community.

A familiar face at Red Hat summits and IBM events, Alfonso is equally at home in local community meetups. He is a dedicated community builder, notably serving as the primary orchestrator for Red Hat’s involvement in Linux Day Italy.

Aliaksandr is a co-founder and the principal architect of VictoriaMetrics. He's also a well-known author of the popular performance-oriented libraries: fasthttp, fastcache and quicktemplate. Before VictoriaMetrics, Aliaksandr held CTO and Architect roles with adtech companies serving high volumes of traffic. He holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering. He decided to found VictoriaMetrics after experiencing the shortcomings of all available time series DB and monitoring solutions

Worked as webmaster for several organisations including leading Linux distribution. Lead the Paris Linux user group before leaving France. Living and working in Czechia as a developer for 12 years.

Ami Desai is a Senior Consultant with Red Hat, India. She has lead many Indian customers' engagements which resulted into success path for Red Hat. She has keen interest in emerging technologies and applying those into customer use cases.

System Architect/Team leader with passion for architectures, microservices, orchestration, service mesh technologies and continuous integration and delivery

I am a community facilitator for KubeVirt, a CNCF incubating project that extends the Kubernetes API to provide for virtualization workloads to run natively alongside container workloads. Why is that cool? Primarily because it lowers infrastructure and administration burdens (no relation) by running and treating legacy or uncontainerisable VMs like any other Kubernetes object. There are also added security, isolation, and resource allocation benefits – particular vGPU – from VMs.

I have worked with Linux since 1999.

A Senior Software Engineer specializing in high-performance data infrastructure, Adriana has engineered solutions across the aerospace and automotive industries. With a Master’s degree focused on Intelligent Systems and Computer Architecture, they bridge the gap between academic theory and enterprise-grade implementation, delivering expertise in both Full Stack and Back-End ecosystems.

Technology strategist with two decades of hands-on experience across the full leadership spectrum.
Built and transformed systems in highly regulated sectors, including Government, Healthcare, Finance and Industrial OT.
Contributed to industry standardisation while maintaining active roles in academia and NGOs.
Expertise in bridging organisational silos, translating executive vision into scalable architecture, and delivering enterprise-grade solutions that align with business objectives.

Anežka is a freelance community and event manager based in Czechia. She currently works for two NGOs, Byro and the EuroPython Society, and is a long-term volunteer organizer in the Czech Python community. Most recently, she co-organized PyCamp CZ, and two editions of Python Pizza: Brno and Ostrava.

glibc developer @ Red Hat. Upstream first! Fedora/RHEL. Love helping new contributors find their footing.

Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat, specializing in front-end development.
Work on building responsive, user-friendly interfaces and contribute to projects using modern web technologies.

Software engineer at Red Hat, Google Summer of Code mentor at The FOSSology Project, and occasional GNU C Library contributor. If you use VLC for Android and have ever looked at its user docs, that was me.

I like understanding how things work and then explaining them to people. Outside of work I tinker with microcontrollers, self-host everything I can, and watch too much anime.

Ayushi is an Associate Software Engineer at Red Hat, specializing in AI, python, and open source. With over 2 years of experience, she has worked on rule writing, log analysis, and proactive issue resolution. She is a mentor and public speaker, frequently sharing insights on open source, AI advancements, and career growth in tech. Passionate about scalable automation and AI-driven support systems, she strives to bridge the gap between engineering efficiency and real-world problem-solving.

Associate Machine learning engineer working at Red Hat. Active contributor of Pytorch, vLLM and maintainer of projects like DiceDB.

Basavaraju G is a Product Owner for Redhat OpenShift Add-Ons on IBM Z & LinuxONE at IBM Labs, and a Red Hat Partner Engineer, driving cloud-native parity across OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization, Pipelines, and Red Hat Quay. A researcher and open source contributor, he holds 2 patents and has authored 3 IEEE publications in ML and containers. He actively contributes to Tekton and KubeVirt — CNCF incubating projects — extending cloud-native capabilities to s390x architecture.

Bryn M. Reeves studied computer science at University College London in the late 1990s: in spite of that he has had a productive career in the enterprise software industry. He is a near 30-year veteran of Linux systems administration and development.

His work includes contributions to lvm2, dmstats(8), the kernel, sos, and he is the founder and maintainer of the boom and snapm snapshot management stack.

He types on a Model M keyboard and uses vim(1), tmux(1), and sed(1) as his IDE of choice.

He uses free SW and Linux for more than 25 years.
He is visually impaired.
For last 10 years he works for Red Hat on testing desktop applications focusing on accessibility.

A Principal Engineer in automotive systems, focused on telemetry-driven and distributed infrastructure.

Started on MS-DOS in the early 90s, moved through Solaris and Unix systems, and has been working with Linux since the late 1990s. Last serious encounter with Windows was NT 4.0 — by choice.

Formerly with SUSE, now working in the automotive domain on large-scale Linux-based systems involving telemetry, embedded environments, and reliability under real-world constraints.

Bonnie Mehring has had an interest in Free Software for over 10 years. Through Free Software, she has not only acquired extensive knowledge about computers and technology but has also forged connections with others. She thoroughly enjoys participating in various Free Software conferences and events, where she relishes the opportunity to connect with individuals from the Free Software community.

Brian “bex” Exelbierd is happiest debating the finer points of international taxation over a good coffee. An American expat in Brno, Czech Republic, he balances life as a Linux strategist, home automation tinkerer, and dad. By day he shapes how Microsoft Azure participates in upstream Linux. He spent the previous decade doing similar work at Red Hat. When not reading too much long-form journalism, he writes glue code to connect things that were never meant to be connected.

Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, supporting and promoting various upstream communities over the last 10 years such as InstructLab, Ansible and ManageIQ. She has also been actively involved in open source communities while working for Jolla and Nokia previously. In addition, she has experiences in software development/integration in her 12 years in the mobile industry. On a personal note, Carol plays the Timpani in an orchestra in Tampere, Finland, where she now calls home.

Associate Engineering Manager, Ansible Networking. Lead and manage the Ansible networking content engineering team at Red Hat.

Christian Lölkes (*1990 in White Plains, NY) works at DFS, the German air traffic control provider. There, he builds data centres for mission-critical software and infrastructure. Clean code and accurate documentation form the basis of his work. He studied Electrical and Information Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and in his free time he is passionate about media art and the idea that programming is a creative task and that programmers are therefore also artists.

Christian helps customers to build fault-tolerant, elastic, reliable, and cost optimized workloads in AWS. Author of Kuberentes Scaling book. He’s passionate about Kubernetes, programming, and building tech communities. Christian has spent 19 years working in different companies to build modern solutions using the cloud.

As a ten year employee at Red Hat I have been working in the networking and storage industry for 31 years. I currently manage an engineering development and quality team for the OVN Product. I dabble in home automation, home networking, and consider myself very fluent in python programming.

As the Senior Engineering Manager for Red Hat CoreOS, Clément Verna believes that the best software is built by empowered, well-connected teams. From mastering the nuances of Kubernetes to pioneering bootc workflows, Clément is dedicated to making open-source infrastructure more accessible and scalable. He thrives on helping his team and the broader community achieve technical excellence through a culture of growth and shared learning.

Colin is a software engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He works on various areas such as containers and bootc.

Dan is working as a Senior Full-Stack developer, building container images, creating developer tools and sometimes works on QA at SUSE, which he joined after working as an embedded firmware developer. Originally he started out as a theoretical astrophysicist, but after becoming a contributor to various Open Source projects, he finally made this his full time job at SUSE.

Date Huang is a Solution Architect with 5 years of experience in cloud and datacenter networking. He is the creator of STUNMESH-go and maintainer of EZIO Project. His expertise includes AWS/Azure/GCP networking, OpenStack, Kubernetes, SD-WAN, and open-source development.

David Darrah has over 30 years of industry experience at companies like Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and Juniper Networks, He joined Red Hat in 2016 as the Contain Tools Quality Lead and transitioned last year into the role of Product Owner for both Container Tools and the Universal Base Image program.

David is a Software Engineer at Red Hat working on over-the-air updates in OpenShift, where he has spent the past five years improving the cluster update experience after first joining as an intern.

A Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, Deepesh Nair focuses on building the next generation of developer platforms. With deep expertise in FastAPI, Node.js, and PostgreSQL, his recent work centers on secure AI integration, specifically through MCP servers and schema introspection tools. Deepesh is driven by a mission to make complex enterprise systems accessible through natural language. He brings a unique perspective to security and DX, informed by his experience as a core organizer for DevConf

Dominik Kawka is a Community Architect in Red Hat's Open Source Program Office.

He focuses on AI communities, including CNCF projects such as Kubeflow and KServe, and RamaLama. Having graduated in May 2024 with a degree in Software Systems Development, Dominik is excited to contribute to emerging AI communities.

Dominik started his journey in technology as an SRE, working on projects ranging from warehouse logistics and photobook designers to analyzing satellite imagery. During this time, he discovered his passion for developer tooling and making sure developers can focus on what they do best - build great software!

Now he is working as a Developer Experience Engineer at Grafana Labs, building tools to see clearly in the ever-changing world of software.

Principal Software Engineer passionate about Go, Kubernetes, and virtualization. Currently working on Forklift (Migration Toolkit for Virtualization), helping transition workloads from vSphere, oVirt, and Hyper-V to OpenShift. Enjoys solving deep technical challenges bridging legacy infrastructure and cloud-native orchestration — especially storage protocols and cross-platform APIs. When unplugged, trades debugging for marathon training.

Technology enthusiast with over 20 years of experience building server-side systems.

Works primarily on cloud-native and Kubernetes-based architectures using Go and Java, with a strong background in Linux environments. Enjoys digging into how real-world constraints shape software design, and turning everyday curiosities into practical engineering experiments.

Free software developer, generalist. DNF technical lead.

Encourage Software Engineer with an interest in AI or Open Source projects like Podman Desktop or Fedora MediaWriter. Trying to be best version of myself and challenge myself every day. Cycling in my free time.

After 8 years as a developer at Red Hat, Ewoud is now a product owner at Red Hat. Before joining Red Hat he worked at hosting companies as DevOps. In open source you may have seen his name around Foreman or Puppet/OpenVox.

A 27-year-old Software Engineer at Red Hat with a passion for automation and efficiency. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering with a specialization in Information and Automation Technology from the Czech Technical University in Prague. With a strong focus on optimization and disciplined programming, he continuously explores ways to enhance workflows and build smarter, more efficient systems.

Fintan Bolton is the founder and managing director of Bradan Quantum, which offers training and consultancy services in the field of quantum computing.

Fortune is a backend engineer who is passionate about accessibility and open source. He works at Red Hat and is actively contributing to an open-source project named Backstage, a framework for building developer portals. He is also a master's student focusing on Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Artificial Intelligence.

I translate complex technical risks into decisions people can act on. My background spans infrastructure, systems, and security, but what I've learned over time is that clarity not control is the foundation of resilience. I spend most of my time designing architectures that support trust: between systems, between teams, and between intent and outcome. While the tooling evolves constantly, the core questions stay the same - what matters most, and how do we protect it without standing in the way?

Associate Software Engineer @ibm

Seasoned Software and Security Engineering professional.
Primary interests are AI/ML, Security, Linux, Malware.
Loves working on the command-line.

I am a Senior Software Engineer with Red Hat, and I primarily develop ML-focused JupyterLab extensions. I have a background in mathematics and statistics, and I previously worked as a cancer informatics data scientist. I am based in Boston in the United States, and in my free time, I enjoy running, skiing, and biking with the people I love.

Hema Veeradhi is a Principal Data Scientist working in the Emerging Technologies team part of the office of the CTO at Red Hat. Her work primarily focuses on implementing innovative open AI and machine learning solutions to help solve business and engineering problems. Hema is a staunch supporter of open source, firmly believing in its ability to propel AI advancements to new heights. She has been a speaker at KubeCon NA, Open Source Summit NA, Open Source Summit EU and DevConf CZ.

Hendrik works within the IBM Linux and KVM Virtualization teams to drive the integration of IBM Z/ LinuxONE technologies. He has a strong focus on virtualization, security, and confidential computing technologies.
Hendrik has over 15 years experiences enabling emerging technologies for LinuxONE and contributing to open source communities. He started as Linux kernel developer and expanded his scope to container, security, and virtualization technologies.

Software Engineer at Red Hat working on web systems and AI-driven UI frameworks.
Focusing on Generative UI, MCP orchestration, and building reliable LLM-based agent systems in open source.

Passionate about Virtualization, container technologies and clean design. A fan of old sci-fi movies and series. A father of two kids. A fan of electronic music especially the old stuff.

Igor Konnov is an independent security & formal methods researcher, practicing formal verification and fuzzing of distributed protocols. As a principal research scientist at Informal Systems and senior research scientist at Interchain Foundation, he has experience of integrating formal methods in the blockchain development process. Igor was the principal investigator in the projects Quint and Apalache. He worked as a researcher at Inria Nancy, TU Wien, and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Passionate open-source lead and developer advocate dedicated to building cloud-native developer experiences.

Principle software engineer working for Red Hat.

Kubevirt maintainer.
Kubernetes developer. Lead swap memory development.

For more info: https://www.linkedin.com/in/itamar-holder-39095b108/

Ivica is a cloud engineer mixed with a software developer, passionate about Python and infrastructure-as-code. A problem solver with a firm belief that not every problem is a tech problem.

I am currently a Master's student of Artificial Intelligence and Data Processing at Masaryk University in Brno, where I am also a member of the sec-certs team. In addition to my interest in AI and ML, I love diving deep into how things truly work under the hood.

Ph.D. student focused on fact injection attacks in large language models at Security@FIT lab of FIT BUT. My research also covers jailbreaking techniques and security of synthesized code, with an emphasis on practical risks and mitigation strategies for real-world deployments.

James Freeman is a published author, with more than 25 years of industry expertise. He has tackled complex enterprise challenges in real-world production environments using Ansible, often introducing this powerful automation tool to CTOs and organizations for the first time. As the author of five authoritative books on Ansible, James's passion for empowering others continues to inspire engineers and businesses to unlock new possibilities in IT.

I’m a software engineer and performance specialist with a focus on Linux systems and Python development. At Red Hat, I work on kernel performance and manage hardware lab initiatives, and I’m the creator of Filestorm, an open-source benchmark for testing filesystem performance on aged storage states — a capability that fills a longstanding gap in storage benchmarking. My background also includes machine learning projects, from developing weather nowcasting models to research in medical imaging.

I am been a part of Open Source community from 2013 and know about CentOS and the way to contribute towards it. I am currently in field role working directly with consumers around the globe who believe the computing power of the industry comes from OpenSource. I have been working on kubernetes platforms from last 8 years and have seen the transition of monolithic application to containerisation world. I mainly work in helping consumers onboard their application on kubernetes platform as well.

Jenia is working at Red Hat in the OpenShift Virtualization Storage team. Contributing to open-source projects.

Testing enthusiast and open-source evangelist.

I have been interested in AI for a long time, including language model applications.

I have been working as an engineer at Red Hat for the last 5 years, and most recently on the Log Detective project. I also collaborate with Mendel University on projects on agricultural automation and plant diagnostics using acoustic emission.

In my free time, I enjoy museums, obscure literature and strategy games.

After graduating and some "normal jobs", I had worked as a JDK engineer in Red Hat for 15 years, now I work as JDK engineer in IBM's new software development division in Brno - IBM Middleware Czechia for 15 months.

Jose Ángel Morena is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, where he works on AI Productization. With a background in SRE and DevOps. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and is particularly interested in small language models, agent architectures, and operating AI systems in production.

Product Lead for VictoriaMetrics Cloud. In a previous life, Jose did a PhD for nanothings. Keys, metal and virtual racing.

Josiah England is the author of the Distributed Tracing architecture decision for the Konflux project, where he designed the cross-controller trace propagation model for end-to-end delivery lifecycle tracing. He works on Kubernetes-native CI/CD, focusing on making delivery data navigable and measurable through distributed tracing.

I organize the OpenAlt conference, one of the biggest open-source events in the Czech Republic. I actively promote alternative open-source mobile operating systems such as NemoMobile, Ubuntu Touch, or postmarketOS. My day job mainly consists of GreyCortex MENDEL development. In addition, I am a pilot of a microlight airplane and have a family.

Follow me on my blog or on Mastodon.

Associate Software Engineer in a security-focused team with a sysadmin background across networking, virtualization, Windows and Linux environments. Passionate about trust in software systems, supply chain integrity and making security practical for developers and operators. Previously worked in customer-facing infrastructure roles, now building stronger workflows around artifacts, automation and collaboration in open source ecosystems.

I started my career with Red Hat and am currently working as a Backend Engineer at IBM. Exploring and helping develop Ceph for nearly 6 years. I've been a part of Ceph RGW team since beginning and have worked for the development of Secure Token Service (STS), bucket notifications, multisite and RGW standalone projects. With a focus of continuous learning about new technologies and a solution driven mindset always ready to take up any innovative projects that drives the open source community.

Karel Kotoun is a technology and cybersecurity expert with a strong background in financial services, where he has spent over a decade working with complex, highly regulated IT environments. His experience spans compliance, risk management, cybersecurity, and the design of scalable technology solutions for banks, financial institutions, and large enterprises. He is the founder of Greenometer - Compliance ONE STOP SHOP, a unified platform designed to help organizations manage regulatory needs.

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An ambitious Data Scientist at Red Hat with two years of experience specialized in the development and optimization of Large Language Model (LLM) applications. A dedicated open-source contributor focusing on reducing the "token tax" and improving the efficiency of RAG systems within enterprise environments. I was a featured speaker at DevConf.US 2025, where I shared insights on high-volume prompt engineering and structured data optimization.

Senior Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat, where the job is simple: keep RHEL secure. That means triaging CVEs, backporting upstream fixes, and shipping patches across multiple RHEL versions so enterprise systems stay safe. Passionate about open source and system-level debugging.

Konstantin has 15+ years' experience in software development. His main areas of expertise are Storage Software, Cloud Platforms (OpenShift) and Linux OS. He has also contributed to Open Source projects. Currently Konstantin is working on Software-Defined storage enablement on IBM Linux on Z platform.

Kris Freedain (he/him) is the Community Manager for the OpenSearch Project, and an OpenSearch Ambassador. He has decades of experience in tech, but finds connecting people to be the most fulfilling part of being a community professional.

Branch Manager at the Swedish company Iver, where he and his team are responsible for creating cloud tools that support thousands of Scandinavian IT clients. 💻 In his private life, he's a startupper, triathlete, and a man of a thousand interests. Throughout his career, he's frequently shifted between developer, leader and enterpreneur roles, which sparked the idea of ​​how both sides can work together to get the most out of their work.

Senior software engineer at Red Hat, working on Packit, agentic automation, and open-source projects.

I am a community architect at Red Hat, Open Source Program Office, where I work with open source projects related to Red Hat cloud native technologies (mainly CNCF projects). I work across CNCF landscape and help the projects with governance and growing their open source communities. I am one of the KCD Czech & Slovak organizers and I am also a big StreetComplete fan, bicycle commuter and coffee freak.

I am a software engineer who works for Red Hat. Currently, I am in the RHEL/Insights team, working on projects for the RHEL Image Builder product and osbuild project.

Senior Software Engineer, Data and AI, Red Hat

Marcus Burghardt is a Senior Product Security Engineer at Red Hat and Technical Lead of the team behind the ComplyTime initiatives. With his diverse experience as a Red Hat instructor and examiner, pentester, startup founder, and IT Security Officer, Marcus masters security from multiple perspectives. He combines the drive of a founder with the vocation of an instructor, leading high-impact initiatives and helping people smile while using open source for security, compliance, and innovation.

I am a postdoctoral researcher in usable security at Masaryk University, Czechia. I hold a PhD from the University of Tartu, Estonia, where my research focused on bridging the gap between academic security tools and expert users. Specializing in usable security, regulatory compliance, and information security, I combine technical engineering with human-centric design to build solutions that support security-aware decision-making in organizations.

Maker of things: Technologically (Software, Hardware), DIY (3d printing, sewing, crafting), Engaging Content (GDG Berlin Android, speaker at several conferences and Meetups worldwide)

Let's talk about anything and everything, except for my cats, they already have enough attention ... (JK, obiously we can talk cats too)

I am a physicist who specialized in Quantum Computing and Information, and obtained a PhD in 2022.
I joined Red Hat as a Software Engineer in 2023, and have worked with AI/ML in previous jobs.

I believe I am in a good position to bring the knowledge from the academic setting into our industry, and DevConf is an amazing opportunity for that!

I am very interested in Quantum Computing, Post Quantum Cryptography, and discussions on the ethical use of AI/ML. I gave one talk in DevConf.CZ in 2025.

Mario Fernandez is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on the Observability team. He builds scalable telemetry solutions for Kubernetes and OpenShift. With over 10 years of international experience, he is passionate about performance optimization, system reliability, and clean, maintainable code. Before joining the Observability team, he contributed to Red Hat’s Telco 5G stack, focusing on low-latency workloads for edge computing.

I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, working in the In-Vehicle Operating System Feature Development group

I am an undergraduate IT student at Brno University of Technology who genuinely loves all things programming. I am passionate about creating different kinds of things, but surprisingly my most used projects are Visual Basic macros for Excel.
Also, I am a Linux user and a Rust enthusiast.

Martin has been involved with the development of OpenStack and Kubernetes in one way or another for the last 10 years.

Martin Nečas a senior software engineer by day and a cybersecurity wizard by night. Over the years at Red Hat, he's worked on Red Hat Virtualization, Ansible, and Cloud OpenShift. These days, he is a technical lead of the Migration Toolkit for Virtualization team, helping businesses move from old-school hypervisors to Kubernetes with KubeVirt. GitHub: @mnecas

Product Owner at Red Hat. Working around SBOM lifecycle management.

Software engineer at IBM, BrnoJUG leader, author of Quarkus in Action, MicroProfile committer, working on middleware technologies like Quarkus, SmallRye, Wildfly, JBoss middleware (RESTEasy, Weld, ...), programming and microservices enthusiast.

Matej is one of the RHEL Crpyography Team's Managers.
He has background in Software Engineering and Applied Sciences, so he likes to explore organizational concepts from less traditional angles.

Software engineer with over 15 years of tech industry experience.

DevOpsSRE person and engineer at Red Hat leading the pipeline and reliability work for building "modern" container images in Project Hummingbird

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Principal Technical Writer at Red Hat in Ireland, with lots of side interests

Software Engineer at Red Hat who loves deconstructing complex problems and collaborating with partners to build stable solutions. When he’s not fixing LLM hallucinations, he’s an avid explorer traveling the globe in search of new places and perspectives.

I am a Software Engineering Manager at Red Hat with over 12 years of IT experience. I lead teams in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality, scalable software. My role includes promoting engineering best practices, establishing quality processes, and ensuring products meet technical and business goals. I focus on continuous improvement, fostering collaboration, and working with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, impactful products.

Neal Walfield co-founded the Sequoia PGP project in 2017 and has lead the project ever since. Neal feels that not everyone shares his view that fundamental rights are non-negotiable. That is why he fights for privacy, data protection, and freedom of expression. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, reading - recently “Le Petit Nicolas,” whose stories seem too familiar to him - and cycling whenever possible.

I am a Senior Software Engineer on the Red Hat OpenShift team with over 10 years of IT experience. Specializing in cloud infrastructure and automation, I expertly navigate Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS, Go, and Python. I excel at designing large-scale containerized applications and resolving complex live production issues to ensure minimal downtime. I am passionate about driving innovation and building highly scalable, secure solutions.

Neil has his Computer Science degree from University of Toronto and over 30 years' experience in IT and Software. Senior Manager for the Container Tools team at Red Hat he is passionate about the use of containers. Neil is currently working on moving Podman, Buildah, and Scopio through the CNCF project lifecycle.

Nicola is a free software enthusiast. He discovered free software at university while studying physics. He started his journey in the free software world by blogging and helping build communities. Now he is a Software Engineer at Red Hat, part of the Container Tools team.

Nikhil Ladha is a backend developer from India, working at IBM and has more than 5yrs of industry experience in the domain of storage, web and kubernetes.He is also an active open-source contributor and a maintainer of multiple open-source projects. He loves to travel and explore the world. In his free time, he loves to relax those brain muscles by playing PC games :)

Hello, I am a Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat. I started two years ago as an intern in Technical Support, building strong troubleshooting and customer support skills. I later moved to the Sustaining Engineering team, where I maintain user-space packages, focusing on stability and long-term reliability. I’m passionate about emerging technologies and applying modern innovations in open-source and systems engineering.

Information Security graduate and a Researcher with strong skills in software development, cryptography, and AI systems. Experienced in Python and Rust, with hands-on work in implementing, testing, and debugging secure and performance-critical systems. Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities developed through research and practical engineering work.

Lead DevOps Engineer at Awarri, building production AI infrastructure on Kubernetes, including the platform behind N-ATLaS, Nigeria’s first open multilingual LLM. My work spans cloud infrastructure, GitOps, MLOps, observability, and confidential computing for enterprise model deployment, with a focus on secure, scalable inference and attestation-gated confidential GPU architectures.

DevOps/SRE at DNAnexus, maintaining global infrastructure for genomics data storage and analysis. Previously at Red Hat, he worked as a QE, Developer, and DevOps engineer. His experience spans Linux, Kubernetes, clouds, and large-scale systems.

I'm a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on test automation for the networking subsystem of the RHEL kernel with a focus on performance.

Principal software engineer@Red Hat.
KubeVirt network, compute and tests approver.

Pablo Ridolfi is an electronics engineer with 20+ years of experience in industrial, automotive, and aerospace embedded systems. Holding degrees from UTN and UBA, he has specialized in mission-critical space systems and flight operations. After leading the flight engineering team at Satellogic, he joined Red Hat as a Principal Software Quality Engineer. His expertise includes systems engineering, requirements analysis, and software development for high-stakes applications.

Associate Machine Learning Engineer, PyTorch Engineering Team, Red Hat

Parshant is an Associate ML Engineer at Red Hat and a Gold Medalist in his Master’s in CSE with AIML specialization. He has authored four SCOPUS-indexed research papers in AI/ML. At Red Hat, he contributes to upstream open-source projects like PyTorch. He also has hands-on experience in AI compilers and works with open-source compiler frameworks like LLVM and MLIR, bridging ML workloads with systems-level optimization.

Parul is a Principal Software Engineer in Red Hat's Office of the CTO, working on agentic systems and security. Her work focuses on trust, identity, and observability for autonomous AI agents, including delegation, provenance, and zero trust architectures for agentic workflows. She collaborates with open industry working groups to help shape emerging standards for secure and interoperable agent systems.

I have been at Red Hat for five years and currently manage engineers across multiple teams in the RHIVOS project. I enjoy working across different groups, which gives me exposure to many aspects of product development and release. I’m proud to work at Red Hat, where we’re used to achieving what others say is impossible. Most recently, we’ve helped break new ground by bringing RHEL into the automotive space.
Outside of work, I spend time sailing, playing golf, and I enjoy being outdoors.

Paul W.M. Cuypers is an experienced, certified manager with expertise in program, project, and test management, organizational change, and agile coaching. Additionally, he is an international presenter, author, course instructor, and independent researcher based in Norway. Over the years, Paul has worked on various projects in naval defense, shipbuilding, banking, offshore, and IT. He enjoys developing new practical project management techniques balanced with theoretical models.

Student at Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics
Software maintenance engineer intern at Red Hat Brno

I am a final-year Master’s student in Machine Learning at Brno University of Technology, currently completing my thesis. As a student security researcher at VUT FIT, I previously focused on deepfake detection; today, my work centers on large language models and their safety.

I am a maintainer of Prow, a CI/CD system developed and used in Kubernetes community.

Currently a member of the Technical Release Team at Red Hat, I am building tools that enabled the OpenShift engineering organization to continuously, efficiently and effectively manage the product quality at scale, identifying product regressions over vast corpus of data signals like test results and performance metrics.

Senior Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat working on improving testing tools and processes. Lately focused on tmt, the Test Management Tool, which aims to provide a comfortable and efficient way to develop tests and enable them easily and consistently all the way from the upstream project, through Fedora and CentOS Stream to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Pranjal Bathia is a Senior Engineering Manager at Red Hat, leading the transformation of its MDM platform into an AI-native system. With 10+ years’ experience, she drives product, pricing, and integration modernization, building scalable systems and AI-driven workflows. She actively promotes AI adoption and fosters strong teams, while enjoying creative time with her daughters outside work.

I am a Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience in designing and developing modern web and mobile applications. I specialize in JavaScript technologies including React, React Native, Vue.js, Next.js and Nuxt.js,

I have hands-on experience working across both frontend and backend development, building scalable, high-performance applications with clean architecture and best practices.

Preethi Thomas is a Director of Engineering at Red Hat.

Priscila Gutierres works as Software Engineer on RHEL Lightspeed, breaking stuff and playing with data.

Rahul Sharma is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with over six years of experience building Python systems for cloud-native infrastructure. He specializes in rule-driven diagnostics across Linux and Kubernetes. His work focuses on deterministic, testable architectures on real-world data and integrating LLM components into infrastructure software with strong evaluation and guardrails. His talks draw from production lessons and practical patterns for building systems that scale reliably.

Hi, I’m Raksha, a Tech Lead and Senior Software Engineer passionate about observability, cloud sustainability, and developer platforms. I work on building scalable monitoring and telemetry solutions for cloud-native pipelines, with a strong focus on improving performance, cost visibility, and energy efficiency. I enjoy mentoring engineers and exploring ways to make cloud infrastructure more sustainable and efficient.

I'm Ramesh Sahoo, a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, I’ve spent 15 years evolving with the tech stack, from early virtualization to high-scale OpenShift and Kubernetes. I’m a production-hardened specialist in infrastructure automation and deep-dive troubleshooting. My mission is to tear down the silos between networking and containers, using Python and Go to build seamless, high-performance cloud-native solutions that actually scale.

Software engineer at Red Hat

Roberto is a Principal AI Architect working in the AI Business Unit specializing in Container Orchestration Platforms (OpenShift & Kubernetes), AI/ML, DevSecOps, and CI/CD. With over 10 years of experience in system administration, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML, he holds two MSc degrees in Telco Engineering and AI/ML.

Roberto is an open source and free/libre culture enthusiast, he currently works at Red Hat, more specifically in the Pipeline Security team.

Rodney Callwood is a Scrum Master at Red Hat for the Community Linux Engineering (CLE) team. He specializes in adapting Agile frameworks for distributed, volunteer-heavy ecosystems like Fedora, EPEL, and CentOS. In the last 2 months, Rodney implemented a custom cyclic planning framework to increase visibility and predictability. He champions "Agile in the Open," coaching teams to use Scrum as an empowerment tool that balances enterprise goals with open-source values.

Rohan is a Software Developer focused on improving the developer experience in cloud-native environments, particularly on top of Kubernetes. He has been working on open source projects since 2017 and is a committer at the Eclipse Foundation, contributing to initiatives that enhance Kubernetes developer workflows.

I’m a software engineer focused on building and operating large-scale frontend, platform, and AI-enabled systems. I’ve worked on monorepos, containerized platforms, and production AI integrations used by millions of users. I like sharing hard-earned lessons about system design, operability, and avoiding common engineering myths.

I am a Senior Subject Matter Expert in OpenShift and hybrid cloud infrastructure, with hands-on experience designing, supporting, and operating large-scale containerized platforms across enterprise environments.

I have presented at major international conferences on cloud-native and infrastructure topics, and I bring a practitioner's perspective to every talk focused on what engineers can actually do, not just what the industry is theorizing about.

Rohit Singh Rathaur is an AI researcher and software engineer specializing in Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Quantum Machine Learning. As of 2026, he is a Machine Learning Engineer (MLE) at Red Hat, following previous roles at companies like io.net.

Roman is a cybersecurity expert and leader with 17+ years of experience securing complex systems and products. As Principal Architect at Red Hat, he drives open-source security strategy and cross-industry collaboration to build trusted software ecosystems. Formerly, he led Product Security & Privacy for Data Center and AI software at Intel. Roman contributes to global open-source security initiatives and standardization efforts, including the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Saiesh began in engineering, solving technical problems before bravely deciding people were the real puzzle. He became an agile practitioner, swapping DSA for delivery metrics and learning that debugging humans is far less predictable than debugging code. Today, he engineers high-performing teams with precision (just fewer hard hats and more sticky notes). When he’s not coaching teams, he’s probably reminding someone that “it depends” is, in fact, a complete answer.

Sakshi Nasha is a Software Engineer with a passion for building software and driving diversity in tech. An open-source enthusiast and OpenSearch Ambassador, she actively contributes to FOSS communities and speaks internationally on topics including GO, APIs, Security, PostgreSQL and open-source technologies. Outside of work, she’s an avid athlete who finds balance through trekking and cycling.

Sarah Julia Kriesch is an educated Linux System Administrator and studied Computer Science at the TH Nürnberg. She joined openSUSE directly at the end of her vocational training act. She was elected to the openSUSE Board (2 years) during her studies in Computer Science. She received the responsibility for the s390x port at openSUSE after her Bachelor Thesis at IBM and is Chair of the Linux Distributions Working Group. Sarah is working as a Mainframe Architect - Open Source at Kyndryl.

Satish Mane is a Software Maintenance Engineer at Red Hat working on the RHEL userspace. His primary focus is maintaining ABI compatibility over the 10-year enterprise lifecycle. He backports critical CVE patches like Node.js, Ruby, and Python packages without breaking downstream dependencies. This involves adapting modern upstream fixes for older toolchains, managing RPM macros, and passing strict Koji/TFT gating.

Sebastian Scheinkman is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with a deep focus on advancing high-performance networking. As a maintainer of the Network Plumbing Working Group, I lead initiatives across several key projects, including the SR-IOV network operator, various device plugins, and multiple CNIs. I am especially passionate about utilizing Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) technology to extend Kubernetes scheduling capabilities for demanding networking and AI workloads

I’m a manager who is passionate about helping people grow, do their best work, and actually enjoy what they do. My focus is on building a strong, supportive environment where we work together to deliver great results.
I enjoy coaching, mentoring, and creating a space where people feel safe to speak up, learn, and develop. My goal is to build teams where everyone feels supported, motivated, and proud of what we accomplish together.

Servesha is a seasoned technical writer with over 7+ years of experience, including 4+ years of experience in user-focused documentation, 3 years in technical support, and software development. Servesha has worked across technologies and platforms like Kubernetes, OpenShift, HyperShift, and Ceph.

Shrinidhi Mahishi is a Principal Data Scientist at Red Hat with 12+ years of experience building scalable AI and machine learning systems. His work focuses on Generative AI, Agentic AI, LLM applications, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for enterprise platforms. He is passionate about open-source innovation and building practical AI systems that empower developers. Shrinidhi also holds two patents in anomaly detection and automated correlation analysis.

Shubham Bansal is a performance engineer at Red Hat having 4 years of experience specialising in testing modern applications at a large scale.

Senior Product Owner - Linux Engineering - Networking Services, Red Hat

Stef joined Red Hat in 2012 as an engineer working to make Linux integrated, discoverable, and usable. He has more than 20 years and 100 projects of experience working with open source. Among other things he led the RHEL Web Console “Cockpit” project, and became passionate about automating engineering tasks, integration testing and continuous delivery.

He now leads an engineering organization responsible for a large part of the RHEL and Fedora, CoreOS and more.

Štěpán is a Technology Strategist at Microsoft, guiding public sector cloud adoption. Since 1995 he has worked as developer, evangelist, trainer, and team lead across AWS and Azure. He also serves in the Czech Army’s Cyber Defense Active Reserves.

I'm a software engineer with 4+ years of experience in Kubernetes-based storage systems. I'm a maintainer and one of the top four contributors to the Rook-Ceph CNCF graduated project. I'm also a maintainer of kubectl-rook-ceph. I have spoken at major conferences, including KubeCon, Cephalocon, FOSDEM, and Ceph Days.
My work focuses on distributed storage, Kubernetes operators, and cloud-native infrastructure.

I work in Redhat as Associate software engineer in performance and scale team.

Suyash Nalawade is a security-focused Software Engineer at Red Hat specializing in Linux, vulnerability research, and CVE remediation. His work focuses on Enterprise Linux security and critical infrastructure protection. He is known for delivering practical, demo-driven talks on offensive and defensive security, and contributes to open source while volunteering in community security events.

Red Hat Openshift Site Reliability Engineering - Layered Products (Managed Services ) , Azure Red Hat Openshift Offering .
Interest and experience with Kubernetes , Managing Clusters at scale and Go based Backend Services for Managing Kubernetes resources .

Software engineer contributing to the KernelCI dashboard, currently working remotely from Brazil on the CKI project, where I help maintain parts of Red Hat’s kernel CI infrastructure. And also, a hobbyist dancer!

Developer at heart, tinkerer by trade.
Officially an Engineering Lead (DevOps and SRE), Freelance Consultant, former Wildland Firefighter, and OpenSource advocate.

Thomas Pani works with software teams to build high-assurance systems. He applies advanced verification and falsification techniques (such as model-based testing, deterministic simulation, fuzzing, and model checking) to uncover subtle bugs in complex and distributed systems.
He holds a PhD in formal methods from TU Wien, has worked as a research engineer in both academia and industry, and is a core developer of the Apalache and Quint projects.

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Vaclav Broz is an IT professional focused on quality, delivery, and clear communication. He started in test automation in 2003 and has worked as a project manager, management consultant, and founder of his own consultancy. He specializes in large scale IT delivery transformation with emphasis on DevOps and QA. He runs the Europe wide QA Kitchen community, speaks at meetups, co organizes DevOpsDays, and aims to share practical insights at international conferences.

Rubber Duck herder at VictoriaMetrics, emotional support human, peripheral visionary and luddite sympathizer

Valentin was a core maintainer of Podman, driving advancements in Edge, HPC, security, and performance. He helped kick off Image Mode for RHEL and bootable containers, and served as Product Owner for Image Mode. He pioneered in agentic AI development ultimately leading to his current role as the architect of Project Hummingbird, a critical supply chain security initiative providing a curated catalog of minimal, hardened, and secure container images built on a modern, automated pipeline.

I am working at REd Hat as a software engineer in the area of security and compliance. I am blind and I am developing a Fedora remix called Vojtux as a side project.

William brings over 15 years of experience to the IT industry. His diverse technical background spans ABAP and C to deep expertise in middleware and cloud-native tools. Previously a Maintenance Engineer specializing in JBoss, REST APIs, jBPM, and Drools, he is currently a Software Engineer on the OpenShift AI team. A dedicated advocate for open source, open data and Java, he founded Brazil's first JavaFX group and is a frequent speaker at major conferences including JavaOne, TDC, and FISL.

Xiaofeng Wang is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with 10 years at the company and 15 years of open source experience. Currently on the Image Mode team, Xiaofeng has deep expertise in container-native operating systems, having previously worked on Project Atomic Host and RHEL for Edge. This lightning talk draws from both professional experience building image-based Linux systems and personal experience running bootc as a daily-driver desktop.

Yaacov is a software engineer at Red Hat and a longtime contributor to free software projects. He volunteers with the Nitzanim project, where he helps prepare young adults from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds for successful careers in the high-tech industry. When he's not coding or volunteering, he is a big fan of cats.

I have a background in science (physics), but I have been working a distribution maintainer and a systemd developer for the last 13 years. I'm a member of Fedora's FESCo.