Coffee and Open Source

Lukas Gentele is the co-founder and CEO of Loft Labs. Loft delivers Kubernetes-native tools, functionality and frameworks purpose-built for platform engineers to manage, activate and optimize their platform stack. Gentele is an experienced platform engineering innovator, committed to delivering solutions that empower platform teams to build seamlessly on Kubernetes. Prior to Loft, Gentele served as the co-founder and CEO at covexo GmbH and Webmans. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Information Systems, and a Master of Science, Computer Science & Management of Enterprise Information Systems, both from the University of Mannheim. You can find Lukas on the following sites: Twitter LinkedIn Here are some links provided by Lukas: Loft Labs DevSpace PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

Chris DeMars is a Senior Developer Advocate at DigitalOcean. He has over 20 years of technical experience and speaks globally on various frontend topics and has received accolades for his community contributions, including the prestigious Microsoft MVP and Progress Champion awards. Chris is passionate about enhancing web development and helping developers achieve their goals. In his free time, he enjoys writing blog posts, rating Detroit-style pizza, and investigating UFO's. You can find Chris on the following sites: Twitter LinkedIn GitHub PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

April is a senior developer advocate and DevOps practice lead at GitHub, specializing in application transformation and DevOps ways of working. Her focus is to take customers of a journey from legacy technology, to serverless and containers, where code comes first, while enabling them to take full advantage of DevOps practices. In April’s spare time she spends time outdoors hiking, skiing or scuba diving. She is also a triathlete competing in Ironman and Half Ironman triathlons. April is often asked to present at events to showcase the latest GitHub and Microsoft technologies and also to present live demos that are industry specific and applicable to real life use cases. You can find April on the following sites: Twitter Website GitHub PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

David is a software engineer who spent most of his career in the Seattle area, working at Microsoft and Google. He has contributed to a range of products over the years, including ASP.NET, NuGet, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Microsoft Office and Google Cloud infrastructure. He now lives in Paris, near where he grew up, and is currently taking a break from corporate life. In addition to family life, he spends his time trail running, playing pickleball, and contributing to various OSS projects to keep his coding skills sharp! You can find David on the following sites: Twitter Blog GitHub Mastodon PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

Emily Freeman believes the greatest challenges we face aren’t technical, but human. She is a bestselling author of two books, DevOps for Dummies and 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know, and a prolific speaker, traveling across the globe to educate executives and engineers on the best approaches to AI, DevOps, and cloud engineering. Emily has been studying, leading, and shaping the developer journey for the last 15 years. She has led developer relations and product marketing at AWS, Microsoft, and cutting-edge startups. Her mission is to transform technology organizations by creating company cultures in which diverse, collaborative teams can thrive. Emily’s work has been featured in outlets such as Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, and the New Stack. She is widely recognized as a thoughtful, entertaining, and professional keynote speaker. Emily is best known for her creative approach to identifying and solving the human challenges of software engineering. It is rare in the technology industry to find individuals equally adept with code and words, but her career has been defined by precisely that combination. You can find Emily on the following sites: Twitter Website Mastodon Here are some links provided by Emily: Giving a Tech Talk DevOps for Dummies PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

David Giard is a former accountant and a former biochemist, who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies for over three decades. Currently, David helps people design and build solutions in his role as a Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft. David has been very active in the developer community, speaking at numerous major conferences, code camps, and user groups around the world; helping to lead user groups; and helping to organize conferences and other geek events. He is the host and producer of the mildly popular online TV shows Technology and Friends and GCast. He is the co-author of the Wrox book Real World .NET, C#, and Silverlight. You can read his latest thoughts at DavidGiard.com. His hobbies include video, photography, sports, and embarrassing his sons. You can find David on the following sites: Twitter Website GitHub Here are some links provided by David: Technology and Friends Podcast PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

Zach is a serial entrepreneur, engineer, and cofounder of Fleet, where he works to unlock the full potential of osquery for enterprise and open-source customers. He brings the vision and experience of co-creating and working with osquery since the earliest design documents at Facebook in 2014. He has served as a member of the Linux Foundation osquery Technical Steering Committee since its inception in 2019. Prior to Fleet, Zach founded open-source security consultancy Dactiv, and co-founded endpoint security company Kolide. Zach graduated Summa Cum Laude with a BSE in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania where he conducted wireless security research and lectured on the Python programming language. You can find Zach on the following sites: Twitter Website GitHub LinkedIn Here are some links provided by Zach: Fleet osquery PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

Marc is a Sr Developer Advocate at Diagrid with a strong focus on event-driven architectures. He loves helping developers to achieve more every day. You might have seen Marc at a developer meetup or conference, since he's a regular speaker and event-organizer in the area of Dapr, Azure cloud, and serverless technologies. From 2019 to 2024 Marc received the Microsoft Azure MVP award for his community contributions. In his spare time, Marc likes to give attention to the creative part of his brain. He likes to create pixel art (check out VSCode Pets), code visuals & music, and create an occasional retro game. You can find Marc on the following sites: Twitter Website Dev.to Mastodon GitHub LinkedIn YouTube Here are some links provided by Marc: Diagrid Marc's Pixel Art PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

Joe Guadagno is a currently Vice President of IT for RT². He has been writing software for over 20 years, has been an active member of the .NET community, serving on the .NET Foundation Board of Directors, as President, and has been a Microsoft MVP in .NET for more than 15 years. He has spoken through the United States and international events on topics ranging from Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Azure, Ionic, Bootstrap, and many others. You can see the complete list at https://www.josephguadagno.net/presentations. When not sitting at a computer, Joe loves to hang out with his family and play games. When not playing games with the family, Joe is checking out the latest in Home Automation. You can find Joe on the following sites: Twitter Website Mastodon GitHub LinkedIn YouTube PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin

Eric Lippert is a designer of fine programming languages; at Microsoft he worked on Visual Basic, VBScript, JScript and C#. At Facebook he worked on Hack (a gradually-typed PHP) and Bean Machine (a probabilistic extension of Python for data scientists). He is at present enjoying taking a break from corporate life. You can find Eric on the following sites: Twitter Mastodon Blog PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube Music Amazon Music RSS Feed You can check out more episodes of Coffee and Open Source on https://www.coffeeandopensource.com Coffee and Open Source is hosted by Isaac Levin