KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe

Aanand Krishnan

Aanand Krishnan is Vice President of Products at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure where he sets the vision, strategy and execution for IaaS and PaaS services. Prior to Oracle, Aanand was the CEO and founder of Tala Security, acquired by Intuit. He has over 20 years of experience delivering market-leading products at Symantec, Dolby Labs and Avago (Broadcom). As an investment banker for Morgan Stanley, he advised leading semiconductor, software and clean-tech companies on a variety of M&A and financing transactions. Aanand holds an MBA from Berkeley, where he was a recipient of the CJ White Fellowship, and a Masters in Photonics and Optoelectronics from UC Santa Barbara, where he was a QUEST Fellow. He has a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering with honors from BITS, Pilani.

Abby Bangser

Abby is a Principal Engineer at Syntasso delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platform, site reliability, and quality engineering.

Adolfo García Veytia

Adolfo García Veytia (@puerco) is the founder of Carabiner Systems. He is one of the Kubernetes SIG Release Technical Leads at actively working on the Release Engineering team. He specializes in improving the software that drives the K8s release process. He is also the creator of the OpenVEX and protobom projects currently incubating in the OpenSSF. Adolfo is passionate about coding with friends, helping new contributors, and amplifying the Latinx presence in the Cloud Native community.

Alex Chircop

Chief Architect at Akamai. Member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee. Previously a founder and CTO of Ondat (formerly StorageOS), building software defined solutions for cloud native environments, and a co-chair of the CNCF Storage TAG. Before embarking on the startup adventure he spent over 25 years engineering infrastructure platforms for companies like Nomura and Goldman Sachs.

Andy Zhang

As a Staff Machine Learning Scientist at Niantic (Scopely), Andy builds scalable ML solutions for one of the biggest mobile games (Pokemon GO) to enhance player experiences and drive business impact. He is passionate about connecting data with product strategy to deliver measurable value.

Anjali Telang

Anjali Telang is a Principal Product Manager for OpenShift Security and Identity at Red Hat, with 16+ years of experience in security and cloud. A passionate advocate for open source projects such as SPIFFE/SPIRE, cert-manager, External Secrets Operator, Secret Store CSI Driver, she focuses on bringing cutting-edge technologies to enterprise customers. Before Red Hat, she held product and engineering leadership roles at VMware and NetApp. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, cooking, and meditation.

Antonio Ojea

Antonio Ojea is a Software Engineer at Google, where he works on Kubernetes. He is one of the top contributors of the Kubernetes project, Tech Lead in Kubernetes SIG Network & Testing with a proven track record in leading technical initiatives to enhance Kubernetes networking stability and performance. Enthusiastic advocate for strong testing practices within open-source communities.

Artur Souza

As a Principal Engineer at Amazon, focus on proactive & reactive scaling, capacity planning and cost controllership. Previously, maintainer at Dapr, Head of Engineering at Diagrid, Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft, Manager at Expedia and Software Engineer at Amazon.

Bodhish Thomas

Bodhish is a Senior Fullstack Engineer, startup founder, and a speaker who leads the Digital Public Goods (DPG) team at Pupilfirst. As the creator of Open Healthcare Network (OHC), he architected tools that power critical care infrastructure across multiple Indian states. Founded during the pandemic, OHC has evolved into a thriving community-driven project. His portfolio of open-source innovations includes Care, MediSpeak, MyTemplate, and AfterFlood, alongside his significant contributions to Pupilfirst LMS. Bodhish’s contributions extend beyond engineering, as he has been at the forefront of integrating AI to solve complex challenges in healthcare and education. As one of the first recipients of GitHub’s Open Source Grants from India, he has demonstrated a unique ability to build and nurture communities that scale impactful initiatives like OHC. His work not only transforms critical care infrastructure but also inspires and empowers developers to contribute to open-source solutions that address real-world problems. With a vision for systemic change, Bodhish continues to showcase how technology can be a powerful catalyst for societal transformation.

Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He’s currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he’s a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.

Chunpeng Wang

Dr. Chunpeng Wang is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, where he has spent the past 6 years developing forecasting algorithms for system load prediction and capacity planning. His work has been instrumental in securing website availability and optimizing infrastructure performance at Amazon’s scale for Amazon’s retail events like PrimeDay.

Faseela K

Faseela is a cloud-native developer at Ericsson Software Technology, Istio Service Mesh maintainer and a twice-elected member of the Istio Steering Committee, driving its Security, Test and Release, and Documentation functions. She is a CNCF Ambassador, LFX Mentor, contributor to the CNCF “ICA – Istio Certified Associate” examination, and the winner of the prestigious CNCF “Chop Wood Carry Water” award, 2023. She is also the co-author of the CNCF Istio Children’s illustrated book – “Izzy saves the Birthday”. She is one of the organizers of Cloud Native Aachen – the official CNCF Chapter of Aachen, Germany. Faseela is a key member driving the 5G transformation of Ericsson, designing Cloud Native Network Functions and bridging the gap between telco and opensource. Her association with opensource starts with OpenDaylight, one of the Linux Foundation’s earliest collaborative opensource projects, where she has served in the Technical Steering Committee for many years. Early in her career, she has served as a maintainer in the Linux Foundation Infrastructure, enabling the required tooling for several LF projects. She was also actively involved in shaping some of the SDN enabler standards like OpenFlow, and Network Service Header (NSH) in Service Chaining, EVPN and BGP for Telco world. In the recent years, Faseela has served as the event co-chair for both the IstioDays co-located with KubeCon in 2023 and has been a Program Committee member at several KubeCons.