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- Technical Marketing Manager
- Introduction to Kubernetes for the Virtual Infrastructure Administrator
- Operational Considerations for Virtual Infrastructure Administrators
- Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMWare
Boskey Savla is Technical Marketing Manager @VMware focusing on Cloud Native Applications, she has 15 years of experience in systems and operations.
Boskey Savla is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware focusing on Cloud Native Applications, she has 15 years of experience in systems and operations. She started as a Linux Sys Admin and moved on to solution engineering and system engineering roles in VMware focusing on Virtual and PaaS integrated solutions. She is the Author of the book ‘Kubernetes on vSphere for Dummies' and has spoken and conducted workshops at various events like VMworld, AWS Re:Invent, and Kubecon.
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- Part Developer Advocate, Part Advisory Solutions Engineer at VMware
Cora Iberkleid is part Developer Advocate, part Advisory Solutions Engineer at VMware, helping developers and enterprises navigate and adopt modern practices and technologies including Spring, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, VMware Tanzu, and modern CI/CD.
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- Staff Platform Field Engineer at VMware
Dwayne Ghant is a Staff Platform Field Engineer at VMware.
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- Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware
Eric Shanks is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware where he helps customers build solutions on Kubernetes.
Eric Shanks is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware in the Modern Applications Platform Business Unit. In his role, he helps customers architect and build Kubernetes clusters for use with their applications. Eric is a former VMUG leader and continues to speak at industry events. He maintains a popular blog at https://theITHollow.com.
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- Docker Captain and Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk
Eric is a Docker Captain and Senior Developer Advocate at Snyk.io where he helps developers secure the applications, containers and Kubernetes platforms they build and deploy to.
Eric has about 30 years of professional experience in enterprise software development and architecture, including build, test, and deployment automation. He has been practicing DevOps concepts since long before the term was coined. On practically every project throughout his career, he has worn multiple hats: developer, automated testing evangelist, version control administrator, and build system engineer. Eric has been a continuous integration advocate and implementer for nearly a decade, is a Docker Captain and has been using container technologies since 2013. A second-generation software developer. (his father was a SNOBOL coder in the 60s and the president of the Honeywell/Bull Users society for several years), he grew up in the 1980s and was coding 8-bit machines in elementary school. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, traveling, photography, and is an avid retro computing and EV enthusiast. Eric is "@ericsmalling" on Twitter, LinkedIn and GitHub.
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- Senior Field Engineer at Kong
Hart Hoover is a Senior Field Engineer at Kong. His expertise lies in technical training, consulting, community building, Linux-based operating systems, computing automation, and cloud application architecture. Hart is passionate about making Dev and Ops awesome by helping others.
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- Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Javier has a PhD in Computer Engineering. He has worked for several years in both researching and teaching the application of cloud-native technologies to High Performance Computing.
Javier has a PhD in Computer Engineering. Has worked for several years in both researching and teaching the application of cloud-native technologies to High Performance Computing. He currently works as an engineer in VMware, where he packages applications ready to be deployed in a wide variety of platforms: bare metal servers, virtual machines, cloud instances, containers and Kubernetes clusters. One of his contributions is Kubernetes Sandbox, an all-in-one single VM cluster available in cloud providers like Google Cloud, AWS or Azure.
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- Staff Technical Solutions Architect at VMware
John Gardner is a Staff Technical Solutions Architect at VMware.
John describes himself as a technologist with deep experience in many aspects of software, systems and application development. He enjoys solving the thorny problems of representing complex data, abstracting and breaking down processes for development, and building high performance concurrent systems.
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- Staff Field Engineer at VMware
Hi! My name is John and I'm a Staff Field Engineer @ VMware where I work with customers to help design and implement Kubernetes solutions, in addition to contributing back to upstream open source projects.
I've always been interested in technology and after a 5-year stint as a semi-professional basketball coach in England, I stumbled into a role as an instructor for various DevOps / Continuous Delivery tools. When container technology started gaining interest, I joined Docker to lead the West Region Technical Account Management team. While at Docker, I helped design and implement container strategy and tooling for some of their largest customers and spoke at DockerCon SF in 2018. Eventually, I wanted to be more hands-on with Kubernetes and the upstream open source community. That led me to VMware (via the Heptio acquisition) where I now focus primarily on Kubernetes and associated CNCF projects to help customers make the transition to a cloud native world. Outside of work I love to follow most Boston sports (go Celtics!) and am active in the Seattle tech community. I co-lead DevOps & Linux Meetup groups and volunteer as an industry mentor for ADA Developers Academy. I tweet at @johnharris85 so please come and say hello!
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- Instructor
- Director in VMware 's Cloud Native Field Engineering and Education
- Instructor at VMware
My path to technology took a circuitous route-I started my career working in a microbiology lab. Eventually, I enjoyed the time spent learning how to analyze our data and share with the world via the Internet more than lab work (and was drawn to the much faster results). So, I jumped into technology by completing a Master's in Information Security & Privacy, and joined The Vanguard Group as a software engineer. I spent most of my early career in technology as a software engineer at Vanguard, then as a software consultant at a boutique consultancy, developing large-scale applications for the Enterprise. After an acquisition by Red Hat, I led teams helping our customers implement middleware solutions and build applications to support their businesses. After a foray building the West Coast arm of a boutique consultancy, I arrived at VMware (via the Heptio acquisition) where I manage teams responsible for delivering solutions to customers on the Kubernetes platform.
Eitan is an instructor who joined VMware via the acquisition of Pivotal. In this capacity, Eitan has delivered training on the Tanzu Application Service (TAS), on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI), and on Platform Automation with Concourse.
Prior to VMware, Eitan was a Principal Consultant at ThoughtWorks, where he had the opportunity to lead teams and assist enterprise customers with delivering software, with automated software testing, and with agile transformations.
Eitan has many years experience as a software developer, and spent four seasons as a speaker on the No Fluff Just Stuff conference tour. Eitan's first open source project dates back to 2002 when he developed a database-backed Java API documentation system, which achieved some measure of notoriety after being written up on java.sun.com and later adopted by dzone.com.
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- Member of Technical Staff at VMware
- Member of the Technical
Jose Antonio Carmona is a Member of Technical Staff at VMware. As part of the Bitnami team, he contributes to maintaining an extensive catalogue of apps on different formats such as VMs, containers or Helm charts. He is currently focused on improving testing scenarios. Jose Antonio holds a BS in Computer Science and a MS in Cybersecurity and he enjoys traveling and learning new languages.
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- Staff Cloud Native Architect at VMware
I am a Staff Cloud Native Architect at VMware and have been working in the Kubernetes space for the last 3.5 years.
I started my Kubernetes journey at CoreOS, moved to Heptio, and am now part of VMware. I really enjoy digging into distributed systems and helping others understand the inner-workings. Most of my day-to-day is working with customers on architecting and implementing cloud native systems such as Kubernetes. When I'm not messing with bits, I enjoy climbing on rocks and running around in circles.
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- Member of the Bitnami Content Team at VMware
As part of the Bitnami Content team (VMware), Juan Ariza is responsible of maintaining a catalog of more than 130 apps on different formats such as VMs, containers, or Helm charts. During the last years he's been focused on making this catalog ready for production environments. He has also given several Kubernetes trainings promoting K8s adoption.
As businesses move more applications to Kubernetes, developers and platform operators need to secure those applications and platforms. This course demonstrates concepts and tools your teams can use to secure Kubernetes for applications.
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- Senior Education Engineer at VMware
Lee Xie is a senior education engineer at VMware in the cloud native business who works on creating and delivering Kubernetes education. Previously, he worked for Mirantis and Sony, in roles for education, devops, and systems engineering. Lee has a BS in management information systems from Santa Clara University and graduated magna cum laude. In his free time, he works on Kubernetes community projects, plays board games, and spends time with his twins.
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- Senior Cloud Native Field Engineer
I am a senior Cloud Native Field Engineer at VMware with a focus in helping customers with the adoption of Kubernetes, how to operate cloud native based infrastructures, and how Kubernetes works and how to best to use it.
Prior to VMware, I was a Senior Cloud Consultant at Red Hat for two years, where I helped customers realize their full potential through accelerated adoption and productive use of Red Hat Hybrid cloud technologies (Ret Hat OpenShift, Ansible, and CloudForms).
When I am not working, I enjoy spending some quality time with my wife and 4 kids.
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- Software Engineer at BetterUp
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- Founder and Principal Consultant of Upgear
Nick Stogner is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Upgear. Nick has an app-dev background, having worked with Go and Kubernetes since 2016. Day-to-day, Nick helps customers implement internal Kubernetes platforms with a focus on improving developer productivity. He helps teams extend Kubernetes to fit their business needs through building custom operators and tools. If you can't get a hold of Nick on the Golang or Kubernetes slack channel, it is probably because he is surfing, paddle boarding, or kiteboarding somewhere on the coast of North Carolina.
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- Senior Open Source Community Manager at VMware
Nigel is a Senior Open Source Community Manager based in Austin, Texas. Originally from South Carolina, he was drawn to the craft of software engineering because of the agency it provides people to create and interact with worlds of their own creation. He focuses on Cloud Native Technologies like containers and Kubernetes. His passions in technology are community building, High Performance Computing, and free and open-source software (and hardware).
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- Ex - Scientist
- Staff Solution Engineer at VMware
Olive is an ex-scientist who has found her way into the innovative and sometimes experimental world of Kubernetes and its ecosystem-and feels right at home. She currently works at VMware, which she transitioned to as part of the Heptio acquisition. She is working on upstream Kubernetes, and helps customers design and build their Kubernetes platforms. She has previously worked at Red Hat, HP, and Fujitsu. When she is not working she is busy being happily outnumbered by her two sons.
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- Director for Kubernetes Services in the Modern Application Platform Business Unit at VMware
Patricia Bogoevici is a Director for Kubernetes Services in the Modern Application Platform Business Unit at VMware. Patricia has a strong background in consulting services, helping companies implement digital transformation solutions.
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- Kubernetes Field Engineer at VMware
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- Independent Consultant and Platform Field Engineer
- Product Line Manager and a Member
- Product Line Manager at VMware and a Member
Rich Lander on LinkedIn Rich Lander on GitHub
I am an independent consultant and Platform Field Engineer. I was an early adopter of Docker and Kubernetes and have spent the past few years helping enterprises adopt cloud native technology.
Tim Carr is a Product Line Manager at VMware and a member of the Heptio acquisition.
Tim Carr is a Product Line Manager and a member of the Heptio acquisition. In his role, he helps evaluate and optimize customers' desired architectures. He helps deploy and integrate various CNCF projects to meet advanced needs in alignment with customer goals. He is an active contributor to the upstream Kubernetes community. He participated in the Kubernetes 1.14 and 1.15 release teams and works on the Cluster Lifecycle SIG.
In a previous life I was a python application developer. In 2015, I found myself in a DevOps role and began deploying workloads with Docker. I went to production using Docker before it was wise to do so and learned a lot of valuable lessons that led me to Kubernetes for container orchestration. By the end of 2016, I was running production workloads on Kubernetes. That led me to the Field Engineering teams at CoreOS, Heptio, VMware and finally to doing independent consulting as a platform field engineer. When I'm not issuing kubectl commands, I spend as much quality time as I can with my wife and four children.
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- Lead Education Engineer at VMware
- Lead Technical Trainer at VMware
- Staff Solution Architect at VMware Tanzu
Ryan Schneider is a Lead Education Engineer at VMware in the Tanzu Learning group. He has a passion for architecture and building great systems and is excited about the cloud native movement that the Kubernetes community is driving. Previously he worked companies both large and small and as an adjunct professor in the Software Engineering Department at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). After years of software development and architecture in the industry, he decided to blend his love for teaching and open source software and started focusing on Education and enabling others at startups Elastic, Heptio and now at VMware. Ryan holds a BS in CS and an MS in software development and management.
Neil joined VMware (in fact, Pivotal, before its later acquisition) in 2018, moving into education after more than 30 years spent working in software engineering in telecoms and finance. During that time he has he has managed teams, run critical operational systems, contributed to international standards and led software engineering communities of practice. He has worked on everything from low-level UNIX kernel development to multi-national distributed systems management, tackled sprawling legacy codebases of millions of lines, and encouraged and celebrated highly productive, truly agile teams. Computing technology has changed immensely over Neil's career, from the days of mainframes and dial-up networking to ubiquitous connectivity and hyper-scale clouds. He continues to relish the challenge of learning and problem solving, using the latest technologies, tools and techniques that become available. But software has always been, and continues to be, a "people" business and Neil loves helping other people to learn, grow and develop - both within a work setting and outside.
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- Principal Field Engineer at Kong, Inc
Focused on Kubernetes and related cloud-native technologies. Helps customers deploy and deliver applications with cloud-native and open source technologies.
Scott Lowe is a Principal Field Engineer at Kong, Inc. He is focused on Kubernetes and related cloud-native technologies and thrives in helping customers deploy and deliver applications with cloud-native and open source technologies.
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- Software Development Manager
- Software Development Manager at Amazon
Sean Davis is a Software Development Manager at Amazon. His focus is on leading the delivery of large-scale software applications and the best user experience. His background is in systems design, cloud computing, continuous integration and delivery, user research, and full-stack software development.
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- Staff Open Source Engineer at VMware
Sean McGinnis on Twitter Sean McGinnis on LinkedIn
I am a Staff Open Source Engineer at VMware. For the last several years I have focused on storage and infrastructure automation to enable flexible, cloud native technologies.
While working for a traditional storage company, my role evolved to focus on integrating storage management with vSphere, OpenStack, and eventually containerized environments. I was excited by the containers and Kubernetes could enable application developers to focus on solving their problems, while automatically being able to take advantage of a rich set of platform services. This, along with my passion for open source software, has led me to focus on cloud native technologies and how the open source community can continue to come up with amazing things. When not staring at a screen, I like to bike, travel, and spend time with my family.
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- Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Steve is a Sr. Member of Technical Staff at VMware working as a maintainer of Contour as well as a Kubernetes contributor since early 2015.
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- Platform Services Solutions Architect at VMware
- Solutions Architect
Syeda is a Solutions Architect, with 7 years of experience in education and training. In delivering Kube Academy content, Syeda is excited to combine her passion for education and technology.
Syeda Habib is a Platform Services Solutions Architect at VMware where she guides customers in their implementation of Tanzu applications. Syeda has been an educator for 7 years, teaching in Morocco, New York, Michigan, and DC. In her spare time, Syeda enjoys building skills for Search and Rescue, hiking in Virginia's Appalachian trail, and learning Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Syeda is also an AWS adjunct professor at the University of District Columbia.
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- Senior Developer Advocate at VMware
Tiffany is a developer advocate at VMware. She's focused on Kubernetes and related cloud-native technologies. You can find her on twitter @tiffanyfayj.
Tiffany is a senior developer advocate at VMware and is focused on Kubernetes. She previously worked as a software developer and developer advocate (nerd whisperer) for containers at Amazon. She also formerly worked at Docker and Intel. Prior to that, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in electrical engineering. In her free time she likes to spend time with her fiancé, family, and friends, as well as dabble in photography. You can find her on Twitter @tiffanyfayj.