Community Ambassadors

Alex Lines

Sr. Containers Specialist @ Amazon Web Services

Alex's day job is helping organizations build data workloads on Kubernetes. Since joining the Containers team at AWS, he's carved out a role specifically focusing on data workloads on Kubernetes, and he's excited to get involved with the DoK community. Outside of his day job, you can find Alex spending time with his son, sous vide cooking, or chasing favorable surf forecasts.

Bhavin Shah

Principal Product Manager @ NetApp

Bhavin Shah is a Principal Product Manager with NetApp’s Cloud Storage BU. He has 6+ years of experience working on all things Kubernetes and cloud native storage. Bhavin is a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer and also co-hosts the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. In his spare time, Bhavin likes to go for hikes and try some local brews!

Danish Khan

Staff SDE 1B @ EDB

Working as Staff SDE at EDB.Certified Kubernetes Application Developer and Admin.Contributor to CloudNativePG(OpenSource), Seasoned Software Engineer adept at executing automation strategies via unique management and design style. Known for tackling difficult implementations in software applications with agility and tireless commitment.Core areas of expertise include Infrastructure automation, Virtualisation, Kubernetes and Containers, Automation testing, GO, Python, and Cloud technologies.Currently working on Kubernetes, Go, Ginkgo development, and chaos engineering. My commitment is to bring stable and reliable PostgreSQL to Kubernetes folks.

Divine Odazie

Technology Evangelist @ Severalnines

Divine Odazie is a Technology Evangelist at Severalnines with over 5+ years of experience in Technology and a track record in Backend Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Native and Developer Relations on a global scale. He has given talks/workshops at developer conferences like Open Source Summit Europe, KubeCon North America, Cloud Native Rejekts, and Ansible Contributor Summit, etc.

Edith Puclla

Technology Evangelist @ Percona

Edi is a Tech Evangelist at Percona, an open source contributor, and a student at Code in Place and 42 Silicon Valley School in California in 2020. She was part of the Outreachy Internship in 2021. Edi is a Docker Captain with more than 5 years of DevOps experience. She is a Docker and Kubernetes enthusiast that loves to create content in different ways. When Edi is not on the computer, she listens to audiobooks and plays with her cats and her brother.

Gabriele Bartolini

Vice President/CTO of Cloud Native and Kubernetes at EDB

A long time open-source programmer and entrepreneur, Gabriele has a degree in Statistics from the University of Florence. After having consistently contributed to the growth of 2ndQuadrant and its members through nurturing a lean and devops culture, he is now leading the Cloud Native initiative at EDB. Gabriele lives in Prato, a small but vibrant city located in the northern part of Tuscany, Italy - famous for having hosted the first European PostgreSQL conferences. His second home is Melbourne, Australia, where he studied at Monash University and worked in the ICT sector. He loves playing the Blues with his Fender Stratocaster, but his major passions are called Elisabeth and Charlotte!

Ganesh Kumar Kasiviswanathan

Container and DevOps Practice Lead @ Tata Consultancy Services

I work as Containers and DevOps Practice Lead in Agile Infrastructure CoE for Cognitive Business Operations at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). With overall 13 years of IT experience in DataCenter and Cloud Technologies, I support in building growth and transformation solutions and simplifying business challenges through technology innovation. I am responsible for Consulting, Solution Design & Implementation of Hybrid and Multi-cloud Kubernetes Platform solutions in CBO Unit.

George Hantzaras

Director of Engineering @ MongoDB

George is a hands-on engineering leader with a focus on delivering Enterprise cloud services at scale. He is a Director of Engineering at MongoDB, focusing on implementing cloud native technologies and enabling platform engineering teams. He is the author of the Platform Engineering Playbook, by Packt. Most recently, he has been a speaker at global events like Kubecon, OpenSource Summit, Hashiconf, LeadDev, DeveloperWeek, and more, focusing on agile leadership, scaling engineering teams, and entrepreneurship.

Itamar Marom

Platform Engineer @ AppsFlyer

Itamar Marom has been working with Kubernetes for the past few years, collaborating on multiple Kubernetes operators open-source projects like Terraform controller and Apache Druid operator. He is experienced with managing data in a very large scale with technologies like Apache Spark, Druid, Airflow, among others. Itamar has invested a lot into the worlds of Data, Kubernetes, and open-source, as he believes in the innovative potential they bring to the technology ecosystem.

Jonathan Battiato

Staff Engineer @ EDB

Jonathan Battiato began his career as a Linux systems administrator, but during his time at 2ndQuadrant, he developed into a consultant, administrator, and support engineer for PostgreSQL and related projects for business continuity in production. Since 2019, he has been part of the Cloud Native Team, where he worked as a QA and automation engineer for CloudNativePG tests on Kubernetes environments, thanks to obtaining CKA and CKS certifications. He currently works as a benchmark executor for disk performance of PostgreSQL on Kubernetes.

In his private life, he is a nerd like many others, with passions for DIY, music, video games, and science fiction.

Lu Qiu

Staff Machine Learning Engineer @ Alluxio

Alluxio PMC Maintainer, long-term open source contributor.

MD Shahriyar Al Mustakim Mitul

Student

I am a student currently and mostly working in Quantum Computing, ML, AI in academics and DevOps and Cloud Computing as skill development.

Nandini Taneja

Director, Global Technology @ Prudential

Focused, organized, results-oriented, technology driven professional with 20+ years of experienced in Software Solution Delivery, Application Design and Implementation of software systems, Agile process implementation, Amazon Cloud Platform, and Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes. Strong experience in Kubernetes and docker platform using Docker EE 2.0; strong experience in AWS cloud native solutions for deploying dockerized applications on ECS, EKS and Fargate solutions.

Olyvia Rakshit

VP Product and Marketing @ Avesha

Olyvia Rakshit is a founding member and the Vice President of Marketing and Product User Experience at Avesha Inc., where she spearheads initiatives in cloud-native technologies and collaborates with industry frontrunners to embrace groundbreaking AI and cloud solutions. An entrepreneur by nature, Olyvia founded ComicFlix, steering it from seed stage to revenue. Her passion for product building is evident from her experience in product management and software development at leading firms such as RSA (EMC division), Nexant, and Tata Technologies.

Ravi Yadav

Principal, Product & GTM Strategy @ AWS

Ravi leads the go-to-market and product strategy for AWS Containers and Serverless services. Prior to AWS, Ravi has experience in product management, product/corporate strategy, and engineering across companies including Moody's, Mesosphere, IBM, and Cerner.

Robert Hodges

CEO @ Altinity

Robert started working on database applications in 1983. Since that time he has worked with or helped develop 20 different DBMS types ranging from prerelational systems like M204 to real-time analytic databases. Besides data, his technical interests include distributed systems, security, and open source. Robert caught the Kubernetes bug in 2018 at VMware. His day job is CEO of Altinity, an enterprise provider for ClickHouse.

Ryan Wallner

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Ryan is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Portworx by Pure Storage and host of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast. Ryan is a cloud native and Kubernetes enthusiast and dad of fearless daughter. Find Ryan creating blogs, podcasts, light boards, demos, and hands-on labs within the container cloud native ecosystem. Before Pure, Ryan spent time at Dell, ClusterHQ, and Athenahealth where he focused on DevOps and Storage. In his free time, you can find Ryan spending time outdoors adventure riding dual sport bikes, hiking, and mountain biking.

Shubham Pampattiwar

Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat

Shubham Pampattiwar is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, focusing on the OpenShift API for Data Protection product. He is also a maintainer for the open-source Velero project, which provides backup and recovery solutions for Kubernetes clusters.

Steve Sklar

Senior Cloud Engineer @ QuestDB

Coming from a background in finance and economics, Steve taught himself how to code on a bond trading desk and hasn't looked back since! He's since architected, developed, deployed, and maintained mission-critical software systems for financial firms, ML startups, and most recently, QuestDB, a time-series database company. Steve particularly enjoys the "dev" component of DevOps by building custom software solutions to automate infrastructure management at scale. In his spare time, he enjoys playing guitar and bass.

Vinod Kumar

Principal Engineer @ Arcesium India Private Limited

Experienced Cloud Architect with over 16 years of comprehensive development and architectural expertise within the software industry. I have worked on various client-side projects spanning different business domains in Saudi Arabia, Singapore & the United Kingdom. Currently, I am working as a Principal Engineer(AWS) with a financial services company, Arcesium. Here, I manage data engineering, cloud infrastructure (AWS), the whole SDLC process (using GitLab), and work on Machine Learning models using AWS Bedrock. I have also spearheaded cloud infrastructure development in the past at a leading SaaS-based IPO bound Startup and have migrated the whole product from Salesforce to AWS bringing a significant reduction in billing cost to the company. Furthermore, I love technologies & continue to invest my time in learning new things and using them in my work and I hold triple active certifications in AWS, along with individual certifications in Google Cloud and Azure, as well as all certifications in Kubernetes, including CKAD, CKA, CKS, KCNA, and KCSA. I also have a passion for contributing to various open-source projects of CNCF and Terraform from HashiCorp and writing blogs on cloud-native technologies on Medium/LinkedIn/Dev.io sharing the knowledge with others and developing the community.