Abby Tse is a Software Engineer in IBM CIO driving the development of internal AI applications. Her work focuses on using generative AI to streamline business operations and boost employee productivity.

I'm a Staff Software Engineer at Lyft in NYC, where I lead a compute infrastructure team managing Kubernetes on AWS and supporting ~1000 services across infrastructure, data platform, and product. Previously, I was a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I built Kubernetes control-plane components and installers used to manage fleets of OpenShift clusters across cloud and on-prem environments.

Ajo Augustine is a Senior Platform Engineer at the Center for Translational Data Science (CTDS), University of Chicago. He works on Kubernetes-based platforms supporting large-scale research workloads. His focus is on platform engineering, GitOps, and infrastructure automation to improve delivery speed and reliability.

Boris is a software engineer based in sunny Austin, TX working on large-scale engineering platforms that span High-Performance Compute (HPC), container orchestration platforms, and cloud systems. He cares about practical DevOps, improving feedback loops, and making complex systems less frustrating for the people who use them.

Carl is has been part of the DevOps community for a long time (too long?), and I love sharing information and experiences with this community. When I'm not talking at DevOps Days, I run the Austin RISC-V Group, and I'm an organizer for the Works with RISC-V project. I'm also a RISC-V Ambassador, and do a lot of DevSecFinOps for my day job, and a lot of self-hosting outside of my day job.

Daniel is a Microsoft .NET MVP and software consultant at Lean TECHniques. He helps teams deliver high-quality software while adopting modern practices such as effective CI/CD, automated testing, AI usage, and product management.

With experience spanning multiple industries, including finance, retail, and agriculture, he has served as a technical coach, agile coach, and tech lead, with a primary background as a software developer.

Outside of work, he enjoys playing piano and guitar, swing dancing, and game development.

Darren Carpenter (and both of his parents) were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico and were all probably raised on renaissance principles, plutonium and tritium (grandpa helped build the bombs, but shhhh...). As far as he knows their neutron emission levels are low enough to make any one or certain combinations of two of them safe to be around, at least in casual company. Darren lived The Phoenix Project as a sort dispositioner, performing and automating away the job role at Intel's Fab 11 in Rio Rancho, New Mexico in 1996 (It's all about the Pentiums!). He kept trying to do DevOps-like stuff blissfully unaware of the movement, or how he was helping fuel it, until about 2016. He finally got around to joining the ranks of the Austin DevOps community in 2018. Being a renaissance guy, he has done lots of different stuff in high-tech, but usually with a strong dose of software automation and a sprinkling of just about everything else too. If you are looking for a nuclear powered automation unicorn, Darren might be interested, especially for short or long-term consulting. When not DevOpsing, he is usually figuring out how to safely divulge all of the non-classified secrets he knows before his second half-life expires and the quantum behaviors in his neuronal microtubules lose any sense of long-range coherence (or Orch OR).

David Boothe is a Principal Software Engineer at Fynix Consulting with over 15 years of experience helping teams ship reliably as systems and processes grow in complexity. He works with both startups and established teams to stabilize long-lived codebases, improve architectural clarity, and restore delivery confidence when velocity begins to slip.

I'm Francisco, an engineering leader with experience in many places and situations. Currently, I'm a Vice President of Engineering at Braze in New York, and I'm passionate about helping engineers collaborate more effectively.

I've been fortunate enough to work as a technology consultant for ThoughtWorks, helping teams all over the world, from startups in the UK to major enterprises in Australia. I've also founded companies and led engineering organizations along the way, gaining valuable insights into managing teams across diverse settings.

You can find more of my writing at https://franciscomt.medium.com/

German Martinez is a DevOps engineer and solutions architect based in Austin, Texas, with a strong focus on cloud-native platforms, developer experience, and automation. He has extensive experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) across enterprise environments. German has led DevOps transformation initiatives for global organizations, helping teams improve delivery performance, standardize workflows, and adopt modern cloud practices.

When Ian isn't slinging code in PHP, Go, or TypeScript, or helping tweak processes at companies to do those things more effectively, he's probably complaining about how they don't make cell phones like they used to, helping organize a handful of events and tools in the PHP community in Austin and beyond, or sharing memes with his wife (and by proxy the family's two cats). Catch him around the Austin DevOps, Go, or PHP scenes for a rant on programming languages, airlines, or utilities (yes, internet connectivity counts).

Kerim is a senior developer advocate at IBM, where he coaches operators and developers on sustainable infrastructure and orchestration workflows.

Before he joined IBM, Kerim worked on Industrial IoT for the Amsterdam airport and helped museums bring more of their collections online.

I help application developers build fast, reliable, and secure software by leveraging cutting-edge technology and AI. With over 16 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, observability, and cybersecurity, I've worked with some of the most innovative companies in tech.

Currently at Grafana Labs, I'm immersed in the world of observability, helping teams monitor and understand their systems at scale.

As a Platform Engineer, Matthew builds scalable, resilient systems and works to instill DevOps culture into the teams he embeds with (SLI, SLO, SLA, anyone?!). Previous roles have included DevOps Engineer, Linux Systems Administrator, and Site Reliability Engineer — oh, and professional Classical musician.

Originally from Columbus, OH, Matthew holds degrees from The Ohio State University and Carnegie Mellon University. He currently lives in Austin, TX, where he enjoys working with cloud native technologies in the age of AI.

Outside of work, you'll find him spending time with his family, training for a marathon, eating a whole-food plant-based diet, and talking or listening to all things Classical music.

Ming Zhao is an open source developer and Developer Advocate at IBM Research, where he helps IBM leverage open technologies while building impactful tools and growing vibrant open-source communities. He’s passionate about making open tech accessible to all and ensuring developers have the tools they need to succeed in the rapidly developing AI space. Ming now leads community efforts around Docling, IBM’s fastest-growing open source project, recently welcomed into the LF AI & Data Foundation.

A talented technology leader and systems architect specializing in high-scale distributed infrastructure and MLOps. With a focus on building resilient cloud architectures and engineering high-performing teams, she has spent her career solving complex technical challenges across the stack.

☕ If you see me around, don't hesitate to come say hi!

🏒 Hockey player 💻 Maker ✏️ Writer / Blogger 🎹 Pianist 🧶 Fiber Art
♟️ Chess Player 🦺 First Responder (paused until after I move)

Dr. Noe Lorona is an Army officer currently serving as a platform engineer for the Army where he plans, develops and deploys cloud architecture to support Agile application development. He later transitioned to to become a platform product manager where he leads his team through tactical platform product development. Noe holds a Doctor of Management from Colorado Technical University. He began giving back to the academic community by teaching online courses and publishing articles about software development and general technology topics in several professional magazines. Noe holds several IT, UX, and Project Management certifications.

Patrick is a Staff Software Engineer at Lean Techniques, specializing as an AI Technical Coach who helps teams use AI tools like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, etc. to improve developer effectiveness and product outcomes. He focuses on practical workflows that help engineers think more clearly, move faster, and deliver real business value. Patrick advocates for the Full Product Developer mindset, encouraging engineers to take ownership of outcomes, not just code.

PJ Hagerty is a well-known figure in the tech industry, particularly within the developer relations and DevOps communities. He is recognized for his work as a developer advocate, community builder, writer, and speaker. PJ founded DevRelate.io, a company focused on helping tech organizations build communities and enhance developer relations. He has a strong presence in the open-source and tech communities, often speaking at conferences and producing content on topics such as software development, DevOps, and community engagement.

Roxy Rodriguez-Becker is a freelance web developer with a background in math education and library science. She created the Tube Feed Tracker PWA for a niche part of the medical community to help thousands of families around the world. Roxy is a Cuban American mother of 3 living in Houston, Texas. She enjoys working out, doing handstands, listening to tech podcasts, and is looking for her next role in tech.

Shravani is a Senior Engineering Manager at SoFi(Galileo), where she leads the modernization of the ACH payments platform that powers some of the largest money movements across the company. Previously, she led platform engineering teams at GEICO and T‑Mobile, building private‑cloud Kubernetes platforms, and served as a Software Development Manager at Amazon, overseeing Tier‑1 services and driving key security initiatives for some of the company’s most vital transportation systems. Her expertise spans distributed systems, identity and access management, DevOps , and large‑scale modernization in regulated industries. Shravani is passionate about building resilient systems, empowering teams, and sharing practical insights from real‑world transformation efforts.

I have worked in startups, design agencies, and for Fortune 50 companies. I have a Computer Engineering background and enjoy artistic endeavors in my free time.

DevOps engineer with experience designing, building, and optimizing cloud infrastructure. I work extensively with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and open source observability tools to improve system reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency in production environments.

Sylvain Kalache is the Head of Rootly AI Labs. A former Senior SRE at LinkedIn, he co-designed a patented self-healing infrastructure. He later co-founded Holberton, training software engineers worldwide. He also writes about AI, automation, and DevOps for TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and The New Stack.

Victor Lyuboslavsky is a software engineering leader and author with over 25 years of experience building products and leading teams. He has co-founded startups, held technical leadership roles at AMD, and now architects secure, scalable systems for enterprise IT at Fleet Device Management.

Victor’s work bridges the gap between hands-on technical execution and strategic leadership. His talks draw on lessons from startups and open source communities, showing how clarity, transparency, and evolutionary design help teams move fast without creating chaos.

Whether speaking on AI’s role in development, scaling architectures, or leading with openness, Victor helps engineers and leaders think like builders of resilient companies.

Vishvesh Pandey is a Senior Data Analyst specializing in data pipeline automation and cloud infrastructure modernization.

He leads initiatives transforming manual processes into scalable automated systems, with expertise in Python, SQL, and cloud orchestration platforms. As a technical coach, he mentors colleagues on automation adoption and AI-powered workflows.

Vishvesh holds a Master's in Information Technology and Management from UT Dallas and has presented at technical conferences on data engineering topics.

Passionate about solving real-world problems through automation while addressing cultural transformation challenges, he focuses on helping teams deliver customer value faster and more reliably.