Abel Navarro is a Senior Engineering Manager working in Platform Engineering. During the last 25 years he has worked across infrastructure, cloud platforms, observability, databases, networking and developer experience in companies ranging from startups to large international organizations.
His current focus is helping platform teams operate as internal products, reducing cognitive load for engineers and improving the flow of value across the organization. Abel is particularly interested in the intersection between technology, organizational design and platform adoption.
- The Hardest Platform Problems Weren't Technical
Carlos Augusto Pega is a Senior Platform Engineer at Mews, based in Barcelona. With 15+ years of experience spanning the full software development lifecycle - from frontend and backend engineering to DevOps, platform, and security - he has built and shipped software at every layer of the stack.
Beyond engineering, Carlos co-founded a company he helped grow to 50+ people, navigating the full operational and organizational challenges of scaling a business from scratch.
Originally from Argentina, Carlos brings the same patience required for a proper asado to platform engineering - good infrastructure, like good fire, can't be rushed.
- Access Without Chaos: SQL Guardrails When Everyone's a Builder
Christian is a Platform Engineer, technical writer, and community organizer. Over his career across fast-growing tech companies, including Amenitiz and Adevinta, he has specialized in Kubernetes orchestration, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and resilient cloud architecture.
Beyond hands-on platform engineering, Christian is deeply involved in the local open-source ecosystem as a co-organizer for the CNCF Barcelona community and speaker at cloud-native conferences. He is passionate about sharing lessons learned from real-world outages, scaling challenges, and production tooling.
- It's too late to scale up now: how to choose the right metric to scale
As PassionIT Group’s Director of Training, Chris Ward brings a diverse background of IT and Project Management work for over 30 years. From broadcasting operations to training development, Chris has participated in million-dollar projects to small installs at a local health care provider. He has held numerous CompTIA, Microsoft and Cisco certifications in the past and currently holds the ITIL 4 and (version 5) Master, ITIL-Expert (v3), PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, CRISC, CISA, PSM, DevOps. His passion is to help people learn, to have "light bulb moments", and to continue their careers in IT Service Management and Project Management. From development to delivery, Chris has worked with some of the top eLearning companies in the world as well as Cisco and VMWare.
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- Extra Crispy: Your Incident Process Is Burning Out Your Engineers
I started working as a sysadmin when workloads ran on bare metal and Devs were the enemies of Ops. The industry changed and we changed with it, but at the end of the day we're still the ones that receive an alert when things stop working.
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- DevOps in Space: Lessons from Low Earth Orbit
Diana Nanuti is a Senior Software Engineer at Chainalysis and a 2025 UK Gold Winner at the Women in Tech Global Awards. She specializes in cloud infrastructure and data engineering, architecting the resilient, institutional-grade systems that power high-stakes blockchain intelligence.
At Chainalysis, Diana ensures the core blockchain data platform operates with the precision and performance required by global financial institutions and law enforcement. Her work focuses on building mission-critical, cloud-native platforms where reliability and security are non-negotiable.
Beyond the code, Diana is a public speaker and mentor dedicated to engineering excellence without burnout. A champion for compassionate leadership and psychological safety, she helps teams and individuals bridge the gap between high-performance technical output and sustainable human culture.
- Burnout: The Hidden Failure Mode of High-Performing Teams
Dri Cardoso es neurocientífica y neuropsicóloga clínica, hospitalaria y del deporte, con experiencia en evaluación neuropsicológica y biopsicosocial para la clasificación de personas con discapacidad en empresas medianas y grandes. Su trabajo se centra en la salud en contextos de alta demanda cognitiva, especialmente en la comunidad tech. Es fundadora de NEUROPSI.io, una healthtech nacida en la Universidad de São Paulo (DNA USP) e incubada en el CIETEC, donde desarrolla soluciones que conectan la neurociencia aplicada con los desafíos reales del entorno tecnológico y corporativo.
João Brito es administrador de sistemas especializado en Kubernetes, con base en Brasil y una fuerte participación en comunidades técnicas. Durante siete años, fue presentador de Kubecast, el mayor podcast de Kubernetes en Brasil, contribuyendo a la difusión del conocimiento y al fortalecimiento del ecosistema DevOps. Su experiencia práctica complementa el enfoque científico de la charla.
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- Código y Cerebro: Salud y Rendimiento en Entornos Tecnológicos de Alta Demanda Cognitiva
Chris Corriere has been working with data, phones, networks, and writing software for over 20 years. His background in mathematics and engineering has helped him adapt to new, industry-specific technologies and has created many unique consulting opportunities. As a DevOps practitioner, Chris is committed to culture, automation, learning, sharing, and having a good time while getting work done.
- The Carcinisation of AI
Me gusta salir de mi zona de confort. Llevo 4 años trabajando trabajando y creciendo sin parar en lo que me gusta: DevSecOps.
Soy curioso por naturaleza, me gusta probar cosas nuevas, estar en entornos complejos y trabajar bajo presión.
La mejor experiencia de mi carrera fue formar parte del equipo que se encargó de montar las elecciones en Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Sharjah en Scytl en el año 2023. Fue un proyecto con muchos retos y situaciones difíciles.
También disfruto conduciendo por toda España para ir a eventos de tecnología como RootedCON, The Wave o cualquier otro que descubra.
- Entitlements as Code: gobernanza de accesos para la era cloud-native
Estela is a Senior Technical Architect in Web Performance at Shopify, where she helps merchants build faster and more performant experiences for their customers. Deeply involved in the global tech community, Estela is an international speaker, the co-founder of #MujeresEnSEO, and a co-organizer of PerformanceObserver.dev. She is dedicated to sharing technical knowledge and advocating for more diversity in the industry. When she isn’t debugging JavaScript issues, she is usually on a mission to find the city’s perfect latte macchiato or practicing her own "high-performance" sprinting while chasing her children through the park.
- Not on my watch! Catching Web Performance disasters in CI
Esther Yébenes is a Senior DevOps Engineer specialized in infrastructure, automation, and system reliability, with more than 20 years of experience designing, managing, and evolving technology platforms across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Throughout her career, she has contributed to large-scale technology transformation initiatives, data center migrations, high-availability architecture deployments, and the adoption of DevOps and SRE practices. She has led engineering teams, driven automation and observability initiatives, and supported organizations in improving the resilience, scalability, and efficiency of their platforms.
Today, she combines deep technical expertise with a people centered approach, believing that system reliability depends as much on the people who design and operate technology as it does on the technology itself.
In addition to her engineering work, Esther is an author and instructor of specialized courses on Linux, automation, and cloud infrastructure, reaching more than 40,000 Spanish and Portuguese speaking students. She is passionate about sharing knowledge and helping professionals build simpler, more robust, and sustainable systems.
- Kafka a escala: cómo pasar de un mapa de metro a una arquitectura simplificada
I have been designing and developing enterprise software solutions since 1998, mostly through freelance and entrepreneurial roles, for a variety of international organizations. My work has spanned software architecture, full-stack development, and machine learning, often in regulated environments like medical devices.
I have led teams of up to 20 people, always with a servant leadership approach, focused on enabling others to thrive and deliver their best work. I have also contributed to cultural and technical assessments as part of the recruiting process.
I have been active for many years as a speaker, conference presenter, classroom and e-learning instructor, and author—opportunities that have developed my communication skills and allowed me to give back to the tech community.
I am a musician with four released albums, and a long-time reader and writer of science fiction.
I am bilingual in English and Italian, and also speak French, German, and Spanish.
- From backlog to pull request: building an AI-augmented development lifecycle
Floor is a Principal Program Manager at EDB, working in and with the open-source community. She’s a DevOpsDays Core Co-Chair and previously organized DevOpsDays events in Amsterdam and Eindhoven. She’s a PostgreSQL Significant Contributor, Chair of the PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee, serves on the Contributors Committee, the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Committee, and she’s a PGDay Lowlands organizer. You know, among other stuff.
After Art School, Floor “fell into” Tech, Ruby and Rails got her into open source software, and she never looked back. She enjoys (learning) languages and reading.
- The Contribution Firehose: Open Source in the Claude era
Specialist Solutions Architect at AWS with roots in infrastructure and a passion for efficient compute, cloud, and performance engineering. From co-founding a trailblazing startup to architecting services across major cloud platforms, Guillermo bridges the gap between low-level optimization and real-world impact, helping teams build faster, leaner, and smarter.
- Tu sistema no es lento, lo estás midiendo mal
Ilia Dubovskii is a Systems engineer and founder of Beamreach, a company focused on AI-powered DevSecOps automation. With more than 13 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, security, and operations, he has helped organizations design, migrate, secure, and operate large-scale systems in the Cloud and On-Premise
His current work explores how autonomous AI systems can safely participate in engineering workflows, with a particular focus on trust, observability, security boundaries, and human oversight. Drawing from both enterprise environments and startup experimentation, Ilia shares practical lessons on building systems that engineers can confidently rely on.
He lives in Portugal with his family and continues to divide his time between hands-on engineering, product development, and exploring the future of DevOps.
- One Fake Password Is Worth More Than 10,000 Alerts
Javier Turégano is a platform engineering leader with 20+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems. He has held senior roles at Canva and Slack, where he worked on edge, gateway, identity, and service-to-service architectures handling trillions of requests and extreme traffic spikes.
His work focuses on system design, resilience, and SRE practices, including high-availability architectures, incident response, and operating reliable 24x7 platforms at global scale.
Now an independent consultant, Javier advises companies on scalable architecture and resilient system design, and runs engineering leadership bootcamps in Spain and Australia.
- Lessons from Building at Massive Scale
Soy Joan León, Web Performance Artisan, Google Developer Expert en Web Technologies y Cloudinary Ambassador. Me apasiona el rendimiento web y ayudar a equipos y empresas a crear experiencias digitales más rápidas que mejoren la conversión y generen impacto real en el negocio.
Disfruto compartiendo conocimiento en meetups, conferencias, workshops y en mi blog joanleon.dev. También estoy siempre activo en @nucliweb, compartiendo recursos, herramientas y novedades del ecosistema frontend en general y de Web Performance en especial.
Actualmente, exploro el uso de IA y agentes para automatizar auditorías y mejorar los procesos de optimización web.
Creo que la velocidad no es solo una métrica, sino una forma de mejorar la experiencia de las personas y hacer crecer los proyectos en la web.
- Multi-Agent Performance Audits: Automatizando Core Web Vitals en tu plataforma interna con MCP
João Brito is a CTO, tech podcaster, and infrastructure specialist passionate about open-source technologies. He frequently explores the intersection of technology, cognitive science, and human performance, focusing on sustainable engineering practices and mental well-being for high-performing teams.
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- Código y Cerebro: Salud y Rendimiento en Entornos Tecnológicos de Alta Demanda Cognitiva
I am a Cloud Architect and DevSecOps specialist with more than 20 years of experience in software development, cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, and large-scale digital operations.
Throughout my career, I have worked in complex international environments supporting global companies and business-critical platforms, helping teams design, modernise, and operate distributed systems across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, observability, security, and reliability engineering.
A major part of my current work focuses on the practical integration of artificial intelligence into software delivery and operations. I design and evaluate AI-assisted workflows, agentic systems, and operational agents capable of gathering context from multiple platforms, using tools, analysing intermediate results, refining hypotheses, and supporting engineers during incident investigation and technical decision-making.
My interest in agentic AI goes beyond conversational assistants. I focus on the architecture required to make these systems useful in enterprise environments: tool orchestration, context management, access boundaries, validation, auditability, stopping conditions, human oversight, and the balance between autonomous reasoning and deterministic automation.
I am also a qualified teacher with more than 15 years of training experience. I have delivered technical education for companies and professional teams, as well as meetups, webinars, workshops, and sessions at venues including Google Campus Madrid.
My goal as a speaker is to turn complex technical subjects into clear, practical lessons grounded in real production experience, including not only what worked, but also the limitations, failed approaches, and engineering decisions behind the final result.
- De los dashboards a las decisiones: integración de IA en operaciones DevOps a gran escala
Josh is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience, specializing in a broad range of topics including operations, observability, agile methodologies, and accessibility. His passion for technology is matched by his enthusiasm for sharing knowledge through public speaking. Currently, Josh serves as a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he creates educational content on ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry, and he is a contributor to the OpenTelemetry project.
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- Uncovered: The Hard Truth About OpenTelemetry's Vendor Neutrality
Jos is a Technical Architect with extensive experience helping customers transition to cloud-native solutions and infrastructure. He’s also passionate about community organizing and has been part of the organizing teams for DevOpsDays Amsterdam and Eindhoven, but also KCD Amsterdam and Utrecht.
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- Flocks vs Pyramids: When self-organization stops working
Koray works at Kubermatic as a Kubernetes Consultant and Trainer, helping companies on their cloud-native journey. Before that, he worked for startups and enterprise companies in the advertising, banking, and telecom industries as a SysAdmin, Application Admin, DevOps Engineer, and SRE for more than 20 years. He is a CNCF and Platform Engineering Ambassador. He organizes the KCD Istanbul and DevOpsDays Istanbul events, as well as other local meetups.
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- The 7 Deadly Sins of GitOps
I’m Kritik Sachdeva, currently working as a Support Professional at IBM. I’ve worked with Ceph & OpenShift for the past 5 years, and since college, I've been very interested in technologies like K8S, containers, and Ceph.
Since then, I’ve enjoyed exploring how different technologies can be integrated to solve real-world problems,
Over the last couple of years, I’ve had the opportunity to speak at various community events & these experiences have helped me grow both technically and personally.
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- Self-Healing AI on Kubernetes: Build an Operator for Your LLM App
I'm a senior software development engineer with a background in Neuropsychology.
I spent a decade working in clinical settings and neuroscience research, until in 2020 I enrolled on a web development bootcamp, landing my first software development role in 2021 and joining Criteo in 2022 where I've been working since.
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- 🧠 The developer’s brain: Cognitive science for better code
After falling in love with programming at age 12, Mario has spent 20 years in software engineering, as a scientific researcher, PhD student, university teacher, backend developer, and book writer. During the last 7 years Mario has been focused on monitoring and observability at different layers.
- Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook
Miguel Angel Ortega is a Senior Observability Architect at Grafana Labs.
- Getting started with OpenTelemetry instrumentation: A practical playbook
I'm a Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience and a background in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Data Engineering, and Analytics, in large organizations, startups, and a nonprofit.
In 2025, I launched my consulting practice and built a community for engineering leaders (Berlin VSM), 280+ members strong.
I live in Berlin, but I’m from Lisbon. I love the sun and Portuguese food, my dog, and Kickboxing, which I’ve been practicing for 11 years.
- Intro to Value Stream Mapping for Leaders
Miguel es especialista en Datos e IA en Google Cloud, donde se centra en arquitecturas de datos y su integración con aplicaciones para soluciones empresariales. Actualmente, dedica la mayor parte de su tiempo a optimizar la capa de datos para sistemas de IA Generativa a gran escala y a compartir estrategias prácticas sobre cómo las arquitecturas de datos modernas pueden impulsar el futuro de la IA.
- GenAI in a box: Construyendo una Plataforma de IA en Kubernetes
I am a passionate DevOps engineer and aspiring Developer Advocate, specializing in Chef, compliance automation, and infrastructure management. With hands-on experience in Chef Infra, Chef Compliance, Chef Courier, and Jenkins pipelines, I have automated configuration management, integrated compliance scans, and streamlined CI/CD workflows.
Currently focused on technical writing, conference presentations, and community engagement, I aim to simplify complex infrastructure topics and bridge the gap between developers, operations, and security teams.
As a speaker and content creator, I want to deliver insightful talks and blogs on Chef, agentless automation, and DevOps best practices, making technical concepts accessible and actionable.
- From Manual to Autonomous: What Breaks When You Automate Everything