Aakanksha Duggal is a Principal Data Scientist at Red Hat, leading synthetic data generation efforts on RHELAI. Her work focuses on advancing scalable and impactful technologies in the field of AI.

Abhishek Bhandwaldar is a Research Software Engineer at Red Hat and IBM Research, leading knowledge infusion efforts for RHEL AI. At the MIT-IBM AI Lab, he worked on reinforcement learning, language model alignment, and synthetic data generation to improve retrieval-augmented generation and code models. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from UNC Charlotte.

Aditi is a Technical Product Manager at Red Hat AI, working on Instruct Lab’s synthetic data generation capabilities. She is passionate about leveraging generative AI to create seamless, impactful end user experiences.

Aditya Gidh is from Boston, Massachusetts where he works as a Software Engineer at IBM. As a mid-career engineer with experience in the technical, leadership and management tracks, Adi enjoys problem solving right from the word go. He often finds himself getting into the crux of the problem and loves collaborating and developing creative solutions. Adi is very passionate about Software Engineering, and strives to better himself as an engineer understanding and learning through all the different facets of the development lifecycle.

Adi holds a Masters of Science in Information Systems from Northeastern University, and a Bachelors in Information Technology from the University of Mumbai. During his nine year tenure at IBM, Adi has worked across a wide array of business units focusing on full stack development in product teams, to customer facing sites. 

In his free time, Adi enjoys working on his food blog: Hangry Tummy. He is also an avid runner, and is pursuing to develop his photography skills.

Alessandro Sangiorgi is a Software Engineer in the Emerging Technologies Group within the Office of the CTO at Red Hat. He has extensive experience across Cloud, Distributed Systems, AI, and Networking products and technologies.

A lover of coffee, technology, open source, privacy and security, I am part of the Midori Browser development team, and Astian services.

Specialist Leader at Deloitte with a focus on transformative technologies. Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of assisting large organizations in navigating the complexities of digital transformation. My expertise lies at the intersection of cloud-native implementations and GenAI solutions, where I have played a key role in advancing technological maturity and operational excellence across various industries. By leveraging the power of GenAI and cloud adoption frameworks, I strive to enhance efficiency, security, and scalability for enterprises. I am dedicated to understanding the challenges and opportunities associated with adopting cloud and AI technologies. My work involves guiding organizations through the intricacies of cloud migration, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.

Senior Technical Project Manager supporting Core Platforms through process design and implementation, agile team support, project management, and Jira ninja-ry.

Andrew Miller is the founder of QuCelerate, a fractional CTO consultancy. Andrew is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building software for regulated industries. For the last seven years, he has been heavily involved in building AI/ML solutions that drive business efficiency for large enterprises such as IBM Watson and IQVIA.

Andrew is a quantum computing enthusiast looking for ways to apply quantum processing to everyday business problems. He believes fault-tolerant quantum computing will revolutionize our daily lives.

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A diverse Software Engineer with experience as DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer & Site Reliability Engineer.

Senior SRE with strong experience in AI, Video, CDN/caching, Kubernetes, cloud native, microservices, AWS, multi-cloud, Terraform, Observability, Python & GO

Open Source is the only way to Innovate

Software Engineer at Red Hat with a passion for cybersecurity.

Accomplished engineering leader with 15+ years of experience in AI, cloud-native platforms, and infrastructure. Proven track record of building and scaling high-performing teams and delivering significant performance improvements in enterprise AI products. Combines deep technical expertise in AI/ML with strategic vision to drive product innovation and business impact.

Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on containerization

Bill is an Engineering Manager at Red Hat looking after the Quay registry and OpenShift Compliance.

Boaz is a diversified product management professional with more than 20 years of experience in security, application development and infrastructure solutions. At Red Hat, Boaz focuses on the Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security product, based on the open source Stackrox.io project.
Prior to joining Red Hat, Boaz held senior product management roles at CyberArk, Trilio and Dell EMC.
His personal Interests include playing live music and chess.

Email: Boaz.Michaely@redhat.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/boazmichaely/

I'm a husband and father of four children. My nineteen+ year career at Red Hat has spanned test automation, development, DevOps, release engineering and management. I'm thankful I get to use and create open source software every day.

Cedric Clyburn (@cedricclyburn), Senior Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an enthusiastic software technologist with a background in Kubernetes, DevOps, and container tools. He has experience speaking and organizing conferences including DevNexus, WeAreDevelopers, The Linux Foundation, KCD NYC, and more. Cedric loves all things open-source, and works to make developer's lives easier! Based out of New York.

Product Leader at IBM | Data Security & Crypto Agility Expert

Chaitanya Challa is a product leader at IBM with a deep expertise in data security, threat management ,encryption, and crypto agility. Her career began as a developer and technical lead, where she honed her skills in software engineering and architecture, contributing to major projects such as IBM Sterling OMS and IBM Kenexa BrassRing.
Transitioning into product management, Chaitanya’s journey led her to take on critical leadership roles within IBM’s QRadar and Guardium teams, where she focused on developing and delivering security solutions that help organizations protect their most sensitive data. Over the years, she has played a pivotal role in driving innovation in areas like data discovery, classification, key lifecycle management, and post-quantum cryptography (PQC) readiness.
Her leadership on the Guardium by introducing Mainframe Security Posture Management and Quantum Safe further solidified her expertise in managing complex security products at scale. Most recently, Chaitanya has been leading efforts to enhance IBM's encryption and crypto agility strategy, working on building future-proof solutions in the face of quantum threats.
At RSA Conference 2025, she presented a session on a modernized approach to key management in the post-quantum era, focusing on how organizations can adopt crypto agility to stay ahead of regulatory and technological challenges.
With a passion for helping teams build secure, compliant, and future-ready products, Chaitanya has been recognized as one of IBM’s top 1% technical talents. She also participated in IBM Tech 2024 in San Diego, sharing her knowledge of security practices and emerging technologies.
Chaitanya's journey from software development to product leadership gives her a unique perspective on both the technical and business aspects of building and delivering innovative data security solutions.

Christopher Nuland is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager for AI at Red Hat and has been with the company for over six years. Before Red Hat, he focused on machine learning and big data analytics for companies in the finance and agriculture sectors. Once coming to Red Hat, he specialized in cloud native migrations, metrics-driven transformations, and the deployment and management of modern AI platforms as a Senior Architect for Red Hat’s consulting services, working almost exclusively with Fortune 50 companies until recently moving into his current role. Christopher has spoken worldwide on AI at conferences like KubeCon EU/US and Red Hat’s Summit events.s

Software Engineer at Red Hat working on EU funded projects focused on the cloud edge continuum

People manager for Emerging Technologies, RH Waterford. 4 EU projects: AC3, INCODE, CODECO, and Green.Dat. Previously, research at Walton Institute (TSSG), computing and digital media lecturer at SETU (WIT)-30 years. Course leader project mgt, industrial liaison, interns, research. Facilitator.

Daniel Walsh has worked in the computer security field for over 40 years. Dan is
a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Red Hat. He joined Red Hat in August 2001.
Dan is a lead architect of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Edge team concentration on In Vehicle Operation System. Prior he led the Container Runtime Engineering team. Dan has been working on container technologies for 17 years. Dan focusess on the CRI-O Container Runtime for Kubernets, Buildah for building container images, Podman for running and managing containers, containers/storage and containers/image. Authored the Podman in Action book. Formerly he led the SELinux project, concentrating on the application space and policy development. Dan helped developed sVirt, Secure Virtualization as well as the SELinux Sandbox. Previously, Dan worked Netect/Bindview's on Vulnerability Assessment Products and at Digital Equipment Corporation working on the Athena Project, AltaVista Firewall/Tunnel (VPN) Products. Dan has a BA in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross and a MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Twitter: rhatdan Blog: danwalsh.livejournal.com Email: dwalsh@redhat.com

Dave Neary has been active in free and open source communities for more than 20 years. In that time, he has worked on projects relating to infrastructure management, cloud computing, and the telecommunications industry. He currently leads the Developer Relations team at Ampere Computing, promoting the adoption of Arm64 Cloud-Native Processors.

Dave Darrah has been at Red Hat for 9 years, primarily as the QE lead for Container Runtimes and RHEL/UBI Base Container Images

David has been involved in building Enterprise Linux and Containers solutions across many different clouds both public and private. For more than a decade, David has been building Red Hat solutions for customers and partners for so long that his first Red Hat Certified Engineer was awarded on Red Hat Linux.

Dominic has worked in software engineering at Red Hat since 2018, and currently focuses on pipeline security.

Douglas Schilling Landgraf is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, specifically working in the Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System (RHIVOS) group. He has been a part of the Red Hat team for more than 15 years and has contributed to open source projects in various areas, including containers, kernel and virtualization.

Senior Software Engineering at Red Hat with over a decade of experience in C/C++, embedded Linux, and system performance. Currently focusing on boot time optimization and performance testing for Automotive platforms.

Eric Deandrea is a Java Champion & Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat, focusing on application development technologies. Eric has over 25 years of experience designing and building Java-based solutions and developer training programs. He is a contributor to various OSS projects, including Quarkus, Spring, LangChain4j, WireMock, and Microcks, as well as a speaker at many public events and user groups around the world. Eric recently put his Quarkus and Spring knowledge to use by publishing his first book, “Quarkus for Spring Developers (https://red.ht/quarkus-spring-devs).” Outside of work, Eric enjoys boating on the lakes of New Hampshire, ice hockey, and martial arts, in which he holds a black belt in Kempo Karate.

Erik is the AI and Data Science lead at Red Hat's Emerging Technologies group, where he leads a team of data scientists and software engineers who evaluate new technologies at the intersection of data science, AI and cloud native development.

Guangxuan (GX) Xu is a Research Engineer at Red Hat AI Innovation, where he focuses on large language model alignment, emergent reasoning, and production-scale AI systems. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from UCLA, with research published at top venues like ACL and on arXiv. He has contributed to InstructLab and RL-driven model optimization at IBM Research. GX has led open-source releases in event-based NLP and dialogue safety, and his work bridges cutting-edge machine learning with enterprise deployment at scale.

Hadar is the co-founder and CTO of Myop, a developer-first platform transforming how UI and UX are built, controlled and optimized in production.
Hadar brings over 15 years of hands-on development experience and a deep focus on frontend infrastructure.

Over the past decade, he’s led engineering teams at some of Israel’s top tech companies. At Wix, Hadar served as an architect and then head of the frontend guild, managing over 700 developers and helping shape the company’s core frontend systems. Prior to that, he held senior R&D leadership roles at Jive Software and Rafael, driving large-scale frontend development across complex products.

A Unit 8200 alum, Hadar brings not only technical depth but also a strong understanding of organizational scale, cross-team architecture, and how to evolve legacy systems. His experience spans both building systems from scratch and leading long-term frontend transformations in high-growth environments.

Being the best at what I do, seeking to deliver the best of me to others and trying to live a righteous life and be happy.
Growing as a person, always seeking improvement and success, providing everything in my scope, acquiring knowledge by learning from others, helping the growth of the workplace for mutual success.
I am an open-minded person, and free spirit, who likes to enjoy every moment, whether it is going out to enjoy sports, technology and family.

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 previous speaker at Open Source Summit, KubeCon, DevConf CZ and FOSSY.

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Iman is the Head of AI at Catio where they build smart systems using LLMs, multi-agent setups, and custom search tools to make sense of complex data.

Prior to Catio, Iman built and scaled the data team at MacroHealth as Director of Data Science Product. There he led the efforts to design and build their Network Optimization that accelerated delivering client solutions from 3months to a day.

As Principle Product Manager at Splunk, Iman was the lead Data Scientist for the Machine Learning Advisory Board and founding member of the Data Science Guild. All while launching the top downloaded app - the Machine Learning Toolkit.

In Iman's 14 plus years as a Data + AI engineer and scientist, he is passionate about empowering organizations to harness value in their data, and solve real-world problems with AI.

Isaac Chute joined RISC-V International in March 2023 as a Director of Software Ecosystem, RISC-V. He comes to us with over 20 years experience in the UNIX, Storage and Linux spaces. Isaac led Red Hat’s Engineering Partner Management team for over a decade during which time he worked with the partner community to enable new hardware platforms to run Red Hat Enterprise Linux, such as x86, PPC, s390 and Arm. He also helped Red Hat to expand its engineering engagements with the major cloud and telco vendors. During his free time Isaac plays the Highland Bagpipes as well as singing opera.

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Jenn Giardino is a Senior Principal User Experience Designer at Red Hat with a range of experience from research and discovery to usability and accessibility. She’s currently leads a team of UX designers focused on creating intuitive and accessible interfaces for Red Hat OpenShift AI.

Solving things, slinging opensource

Jeremy is a Principal Architect at Red Hat. He helps Red Hat's customers to design and deliver applications, works with Red Hat engineers to create great products, and occasionally speaks at conferences.

Before joining Red Hat he wrote a lot of code in C, C#, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Visual Basic; mostly Java.

He currently co-lead Red Hat’s Application Development Community of Practice, and used to lead Red Hat's Microservices Community of Practice and the Business Rules and Workflow SME group. He has recently spent a lot of time with Quarkus and Kubernetes.

He recently acquired a Marshall amp after relying on Fenders for years.

John Amaral is the CTO and co-founder of Root.io. John has more than 25 years of experience as a technologist and product development leader in information security and networking. Before Root, John was Head of Product at Cisco Cloud Security. John previously held product and engineering leadership roles at CloudLock (acquired by Cisco), Trustwave (acquired by Singtel), and Vericept, among others.

In 2007, John was selected as a top 40 under 40 business leader by American Venture Magazine. John holds an Executive MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.

Dr. Jonathan Perry is a maintainer of the OpenTelemetry Network Collector and CEO of Unvariance, which develops tools to detect and mitigate noisy neighbors. He received his PhD from MIT in mitigation of noisy neighbors in datacenter networks, then founded Flowmill, where he developed eBPF-based network monitoring tools prior to the company's acquisition by Splunk. He is based in Austin, Texas.

Free and open source software passionate, little geek, I love GNU/Linux Operating System. Still learning and always promoting the use of Linux, not only in the professional field.

Joseph Zikusooka (ZIK) is the Founder and Technologist at Jambula Labs, an IT solutions company specializing in Linux-based server products and services.

With a focus on stability and reliability, Zik has assisted numerous organizations and businesses across Africa in maintaining robust Linux and UNIX based systems.

A dedicated advocate for Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), Zik has passionately promoted open source software solutions and shared his expertise by teaching Linux administration and server skills to students in several African countries.

Currently, Zik is the developer of Jambula OS, a custom Linux operating system designed for SoC devices like the Raspberry Pi. Jambula OS is utilized by Jambula Labs to create smart devices such as JambulaTV, a low-cost smart home hub that automates tasks while providing security and privacy.

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, driving innovation in OpenShift to build and scale containerized applications. With over a decade of experience in software development, specializing in Kubernetes and hybrid cloud solutions, and focusing on enhancing Windows node support and workload integration. As an active contributor to the Kubernetes SIG-Windows community, collaborates to advance orchestration for Windows containers, ensuring seamless interoperability and performance. Passionate about open source collaboration and exploring the future of hybrid cloud ecosystems

At least, I have more than 10 years dedicated to Linux Operating Systems. During this time, I have worked with embedded systems, robotics, virtualization, software development and kernel (today). During my M.Sc., I also dedicated my time to work on HPC problems including the ones specific to machine learning techniques. Finally, no matter which subject I'm involved with I always try to contribute to open source communities.

Keerthi is an AI aficionado passion-wise and Data Scientist professionally with a wide range of experience in building LLM applications with different models and researching new fine-tuning methods. I consider myself a Thinktank with industry-ready and domain specific skills to apply and innovate for the betterment of society. I also spoke in various other meetups, podcasts and technical events regarding LLMs and Data Science. My previous talk was in Bangalore, India Techtonic 2.0 event regarding LLM Security. Connect with me to collaborate on various AI projects and participate in Hackathons to build for the society.

Keren Fanan is the co-founder and CEO of Myop, a developer-first platform transforming how UI and UX are built, controlled and optimized in production.
Keren has held key leadership positions at Moon Active and Gett and has a proven track record of success in scaling startups, launching strategic partnerships and driving profitability.
At Gett, a global B2B transportation leader and unicorn, Keren served as Chief Revenue Officer and GM Enterprise. She was instrumental in scaling the company from its early stages to over $200 million in revenue, leading international SaaS strategy and overseeing marketing, sales, and business development.
Following Gett, Keren joined Moon Active, a $5B gaming company, as VP of Product & Monetization. There, she led cross-functional teams, shaped product direction, and grew average daily revenue from $10K to $200K, contributing to over $1.5B in total revenue.
Keren is a passionate advocate for women’s inclusion in tech and serves as a board member at Women in Tech (WIT). She also actively mentors and supports the next generation of female tech leaders.

Principal Software Engineer SAP and automation.

Legare Kerrison is a Developer Advocate on Red Hat's AI team, focused on open source tools for building and deploying AI. Currently, she works with projects like InstructLab, which simplifies fine-tuning large language models; vLLM, a high-throughput inference engine; and Podman Desktop, which supports containerized and Kubernetes-based workflows. She is based in Boston.

Major works on all kinds of technology at Red Hat, including artificial intelligence, Linux on public clouds, and automated kernel testing. He's served in various leadership roles in the Fedora project and he maintains several Fedora packages. Before Red Hat, he worked in the OpenStack community as part of his role at Rackspace.

Away from work, Major enjoys getting on the air via amateur radio (W5WUT), running, and learning more about financial markets. He also maintains a technical blog at major.io.

Mark is a Senior Support Engineer at HashiCorp, where he helps customers architect and operate resilient microservices environments using Consul, Kubernetes, and Envoy. With a strong background in distributed systems and service mesh technologies, Mark is passionate about improving observability and automating the debugging of complex infrastructure. To further support these efforts, he created xDSnap, an open-source tool that simplifies Envoy and Consul dataplane troubleshooting in Kubernetes. Mark enjoys exploring low-level networking with tools like Wireshark and believes in building solutions that reduce toil and accelerate incident response

Maryam is a Principal Engineer on the Emerging Tech team in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat. She is currently focused on integrating Triton-Lang into the Kubernetes ecosystem to enable more efficient and scalable machine learning deployments. More recently, she contributed to the Kepler project, advancing GPU metrics collection for sustainability-aware scheduling. A long-time open source contributor and leader, Maryam has deep roots in high-performance networking—she led the effort to adapt AF_XDP for cloud-native use cases, is a maintainer for both DPDK and CNDP, integrated DPDK into Open vSwitch, and led two projects within OPNFV (VSPERF and Barometer). She has also contributed to 5G Core and Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC) initiatives.

Mary is a Sr. Interaction Designer at Red Hat, currently working on the company's primary SaaS platform. As a platform designer, Mary focusses on information architecture, way-finding, and creating affinity across the services that the platform serves. In addition to her work in the realm of UX, Mary also is a leader at both Red Hat and the Boston community when it comes to STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) education equity and outreach. Since completing her Masters in Secondary Education, her passion for connecting underserved youth to opportunities in the tech industry has only grown through helping pioneer Red Hat's High School Internship Program and organizing dozens of Red Hat x Boston-area public school collaborations throughout the years.

Matt Flug is a research manager within IDC’s Cloud Application Deployment Platforms research practice. Matt’s research focuses on software vendors, cloud providers, and end-customers' software development/deployment plans and experiences. He is responsible for insights and analysis on emerging Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions that support developers deploying highly performant, modern, and cloud-native applications.

Matt has been a Software Engineer on Red Hat's Containers team for 10 years, where he works on Podman, Netavark, and Aardvark.

Mayur Shetty is a Principal Ecosystem Solution Architect at Red Hat, collaborating closely with AWS to drive innovative solutions. With nearly a decade at Red Hat, he previously contributed to the OpenStack Tiger Team, focusing on cloud infrastructure and storage solutions. Mayur brings a wealth of experience in Application Modernization, Containers, OpenShift, and Kubernetes, enabling enterprises to adopt cloud-native technologies efficiently. His expertise spans designing, deploying, and scaling modern application platforms, helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation.

Before joining Red Hat, Mayur specialized in OpenStack Swift, Ceph, and other Object Storage software, helping organizations optimize their infrastructure architectures.

mb Pierce has never been able to do things the easy way. They’re in their 4th year managing engineering teams at Red Hat where they lean heavily on their professional experiences as a wilderness therapist, full-stack developer, high school/college instructor, quality engineer, logistics manager, small business owner and general troubleshooter/maker.

They believe in building teams on a foundation of psychological safety and trust, striving for a balance of complimentary strengths and struggles across members, where failure is always an acceptable risk as long as you learn from the experience, and where curiosity, empathy and creativity are among the quick-grab tools when faced with challenges.

A Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat, where I work with the OpenShift Container Platform team.

Apart from the full-time job, I also participate in upstream community initiatives, such as being a Branch Manager in v1.31, a CI Signal Lead in Kubernetes Release v1.28 (been a shadow in v.127 & v1.26), a GSoC’22 Student Developer who focused on integrating ArgoCD with Keptn, an LFX Spring Mentee'22 at CNCF worked on improved planning of SIG Network Gateway API Docs.

Dr. Michele Dolfi is a technical lead in the AI for Knowledge group at IBM Research, focusing on knowledge engineering and understanding. Michele is one of the researchers who created the Deep Search platform and the Docling open source project. His expertise spans from artificial intelligence to high performance computing.

Software Engineer at Odigos, working on eBPF-based automatic instrumentation for observability with OpenTelemetry.

Open Source contributor who worked on Fedora and CentOS and currently working on Podman.

A research engineer with a focus on language models. Currently working on model reasoning, efficiency, and customization. Previously worked on text-to-SQL translation, speech recognition, and distributed systems for AI/ML workloads.

Namita Soman is a Senior Engineering Manager at Red Hat focused on Identity Management. She empowers teams by connecting strategy with execution, building trust, and fostering clarity in complex, changing environments. She collaborates closely across functions to align vision and delivery. Outside of work, she enjoys staying active, exploring new places, and connecting with people over good food and great conversation.

Nikhil Nayak is a researcher specializing in large language models, with a focus on parameter-efficient adaptation, fine-tuning strategies, and trustworthy machine learning. He holds a Master’s in Data Science from Harvard University and has been working on advancing continual learning and interpretability in LLMs.

Patrick is the engineering lead for the OpenShift Installer team. He received a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering at Boston University as part of the LEAP Program. He lives in Milton, Massachusetts with his wife and two children.

Paul is an associate software engineer based in Waterford, Ireland. He is currently working on the P2CODE EU Horizon research project, with a focus on cloud and storage.

Technical lead and chair of the steering committee of Docling.

Prithvi Raj is working as a Community Manager & Developer Advocate at Mirantis and is leading the community efforts for the OSPO at Mirantis including the k0s project, k0smortron, and the other OSS projects Mirantis is contributing to. He previously led the LitmusChaos project community, and has helped scale a community of 3000+ folks from scratch.
He is also a CNCF Ambassador and has closely worked to co-organize KCD Bengaluru, Chaos Carnival and LitmusChaosCon
He was previously at Harness.

Quinn is a leader in engineering and sales with a specific focus on Kubernetes and AI. She has worked at Red Hat for over four years and leads her teams with compassion, empathy and innovation. She is an Army Veteran where she served as a combat medic and maintains a sidegig as a professor where she teaches microcomputing, AI and Linux. She is also pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence.

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I'm Renata Ravanelli, a senior software engineer working with CoreOS at Red Hat/Fedora. I'm based in Brazil, where I work passionately on developing and enhancing CoreOS technologies.
Throughout my career, I’ve primarily focused on infrastructure, DevOps technologies, and Linux development. With over 10 years of experience in Linux development, my passion lies in open-source technologies. I love how collaboration and transparency bring people together, and I am dedicated to using the power of open source to create new things and help those around me. Outside of coding, I find balance in outdoor sports: climbing, running, swimming, surfing, and powerlifting are my outlets and sources of energy.

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.

https://rosecrisp.com

Sai is a Senior Manager of Global Software Engineering at Red Hat where he leads the teams responsible for performance and scale of OpenShift, Red Hat's Kubernetes offering. More recently, his team has helped bootstrap the next evolution of Red Hat's Managed OpenShift. Sai was previously Principal Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Red Hat. Sai holds a Masters in Computer Networking from NC State University, Raleigh, USA and an MBA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.

Sally Ann O'Malley is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. She has worked on various teams within OpenShift. Currently, she is with the Emerging Technologies group. She enjoys combining open-source tools in creative ways to solve complex problems. Occasionally, she creates something new!

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I'm a DevOps and SRE enthusiast focusing on automating processes and enhancing collaboration to drive scalable, reliable cloud applications. My expertise lies in implementing best practices for continuous delivery and infrastructure automation, along with optimizing system performance.

Shivchander Sudalairaj is a Senior Research Engineer at Red Hat AI Innovation Team, where he leads the development of tooling for synthetic data generation to customize large language models. His work focuses on customizing large language models for enterprise use through instruction tuning and inference-time scaling. Previously, at IBM Research, he contributed to LLM alignment for the Granite model family and methods for generating differentially private synthetic data. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati.

I'm Suriya Prakash, a Quality Engineering lead on the User Experience Engineering team at Red Hat.

With 9 years of Quality Engineering expertise under my belt, I've honed my skills in crafting automation solutions that empower teams and elevate software quality. From scaling test automation frameworks for fortune 500 companies to optimizing CI/CD pipelines for increased efficiency, I thrive on tackling complex challenges and delivering impactful results.

I am a dedicated Software Engineer, specializing in Linux packages, with a deep passion for security, open source, and Python. I break down complex security challenges into clear, accessible insights. I have presented a well-received talk at DevConf India, where I helped engineers and students understand Denial of Service attacks with live demos. I have also volunteered to organize tech conferences and hackathons, nurturing a collaborative community that drives innovation and continuous learning.

Golang developer, creator of Souin and active contributor for Caddy, Træfik and API Platform

Taylor Smith, Senior Developer Advocate at Red Hat, is an advocate of open source AI innovation and democratization. She has a background in software development and working with open source technologies like Kubernetes and linux. Taylor loves music, animals, and helping to solve real-world problems with technology. Based out of North Carolina.

Twinkll Sisodia is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, where she has been contributing for the past five years. She specializes in building AI applications and leading cutting-edge projects in collaboration with Red Hat partners. Currently, she is working on AI observability initiatives, including the development of the open-source AI Metric Summarizer blueprint, which combines Prometheus and large language models to generate actionable insights from AI system metrics. Twinkll is also a passionate advocate for sustainability, often speaking about the intersection of AI and climate change—emphasizing both AI’s potential to combat the climate crisis and its hidden environmental costs. She is committed to advancing responsible, sustainable, and observable AI innovation.

Tyler Auerbeck is a Principal Engineer at Equinix focusing on unlocking developer productivity through providing flexible, self-service developer platforms. This currently includes smashing Kubernetes into new and unexpected shapes and tying various open source technologies into beautiful bows to meet the needs of our developer communities.

Urvashi is a Principal Software Engineer on the OpenShift MCO Team at Red Hat. She has spent the last few years developing Open Source container tools including Podman, Buildah, CRI-O, Skopeo, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. She is passionate about sharing her work and has given talks at various conferences including KubeCon, DevConf, and SCaLE. Urvashi is also a co-organizer of DevConf.US and an instructor at Boston University.

Vijaya Bashyam is a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM Software designing and developing business analytics software. She is a recognized, often-sought leader, by customers and partners for guidance on key performance challenges to help customers expand their scalability of applications. She is a member of IBM’s Open Innovation Community and Academic Ambassador to universities in MA and NH. She educates and judges many STEM projects with schools and colleges worldwide. She is also an active contributor in community activities and an avid mentor in SWE, SWENext, Grace Hopper organizations for students in high school, college graduates and those re-entering workforce.

Vince is a Principal Interaction Designer on Red Hat’s user experience design team. He started his professional life as an electrical engineer and worked for six years before making the enlightened decision to attend graduate school to study what was then called human factors. He earned a Masters and Ph.D. in psychology from North Carolina State University. His thirty year career has spanned both hardware and software UX design along with some research and consulting. He is currently a UX designer on Red Hat’s OpenShift AI product, a platform for managing the lifecycle of predictive and generative AI models.

Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, Inc with 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering and Performance Engineering.

I am a Senior Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat, primarily responsible for the investigation and testing of virtualization and container networking projects, such as vDPA and VDUSE. I actively engage in these projects from the early PoC stage and explore key components . Additionally, I focus on functional validation and performance benchmark to ensure reliability and efficiency.

I am a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and have been working in the industry for 8+ years. I am the Technical lead of a team focused on building applications and tooling for the build to release pipeline. Now a days, I am working with Go, Python, Rego, Tekton, ArgoCD and Kubernetes. I am currently contributing to Konflux which is an open source development platform that helps you build secure artifacts.

Yu An, Ph.D. is a Senior AI Engineer on Red Hat’s Emerging Technologies team with expertise in AI and data science. With more than six years of industry experience and a strong academic record, she currently focuses on building accessible open source AI agents through agentic frameworks and tool invocation. Her work connects academic research with real-world practice to advance future AI innovations.