Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D., is the founder & chief analyst at Platify Insights, the only analyst firm for technology platforms. Before that, he was SVP Product Management at Percona, the unbiased open-source database company, where he led product management, design, and community. Previously he served as VP Products & Advisor at Docker, where he built a developer-focused product strategy with a product-led growth model, with his contributions resulting in a 4x year-over-year increase in ARR. His extensive experience includes acting as Executive in Residence at Scale Venture Partners, leading the DevOps transformation at travel-tech leader CWT (fka Carlson Wagonlit Travel), advising upon development, DevOps and data science at industry-analyst firms 451 Research (acquired by S&P Global) and RedMonk, and leading more than 250 open-source contributors at Gentoo Linux. He also spent more than a decade in computational & experimental drug discovery and biochemistry, including a fellowship at Mayo Clinic. Donnie holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and biophysics from Oregon State University, where he specialized in computational structural biology, and dual B.S. and B.A. degrees in biochemistry and chemistry from the University of Richmond. Follow Donnie on Linkedin & Twitter

Pavel has been a Backend Engineer for years before switching to a DevOps role at Forter — the leading trust as a service unicorn startup. Three years ago, he transitioned into an Engineering Manager role in a team responsible for Forter's CI/CD pipelines and internal developer platform. Since becoming an EM, he has been focused on maintaining happy and effective teams, and he is passionate about developer experience.   Check out Pavel's blog: https://islandofsignal.com/ and his talk from PlatformCon 2023 https://2023.platformcon.com/talks/the-roadmap-impact-a-blueprint-for-success

Nilesh is a Vice President at DBS Bank, where he leads the design and implementation of scalable and innovative solutions using hybrid cloud, big data, and emerging technologies. He has over 2 decades of experience as a software developer, architect, and leader in various domains such as BFSI, healthcare, and retail. He is a Microsoft MVP for Azure since 2018 and the first Docker Captain in Singapore for his excellent contributions to technical communities. Nilesh is passionate about learning, adopting, and experimenting with new technologies, and sharing his knowledge and insights through blogging, speaking, and organizing events. He is a certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, DevOps, and Data Engineer Associate, and a co-organizer of the Microsoft Azure Singapore user group. He lives by the motto of coding with passion and striving for excellence. ------------------------------------- Follow Nilesh on social:  YouTube: https://youtube.com/@nilesh-gule Blog: http://www.handsonarchitect.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/nileshgule Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nileshgule/ Github: https://github.com/nileshgule

A very special K8s4Humans episode with two absolute rockstars! 🤘🏼👨🏼‍🎤🇧🇷👨🏼‍🎤🤘🏼 ☸️ Marcelo Quadros is a Software Expert at Mercado Libre Brazil, the largest marketplace in Latin America. With over 13 years of experience, he specializes in developing and architecting complex systems for diverse domains. Currently, he contributes to the Cloud & Platform team, building a platform that manages over 26,000 microservices and supports 12,000 developers. Outside of work he likes to play with his daughter and loves to watch a good rock ’n’ roll concert. ☸️ Juliano is responsible for the Cloud & Platform teams at Mercado Libre, the largest marketplace and fintech in Latin America. He focuses on improving the experience and efficiency of the development team, creating and maintaining features and services in the Internal Development Platform (IDP), and all non-IDP infrastructure. He has been working in IT for over 20 years, leading teams with a very technical bias. Juliano loves playing video games, especially Zelda, and listening to Pink Floyd!  

Sebastien Goasguen built his first compute cluster in the late 90s when they were still called Beowulf clusters while working on his PhD; he has been working on making computing a utility since then. He has done research in grid computing and high-performance computing and with the advent of virtualization moved to cloud computing in the mid-2000s. He is the co-founder of Trigermesh, the OSS cloud-native integration platform. Previously a Senior Director of Cloud Technologies at Bitnami and a senior Open Source Solutions Architect at Citrix, where he worked primarily on the Apache CloudStack project, helping develop the CloudStack ecosystem. Sebastien is a project management committee member (PMC) of CloudStack and Apache Cloud and a member of the Apache Software Foundation, he focuses on the cloud ecosystem and has contributed to dozens of open-source projects. Sebastien is currently working for Nvidia and already has 3 O'Reilly books under his belt, available on Amazon: > The Kubernetes Cookbook > The Docker Cookbook > 60 Recipes for Apache CloudStack

Pini Reznik, CEO and Co-Founder of re:cinq, discusses his background in software development, the evolution of Container Solutions, challenges with onboarding developers into Kubernetes, and the importance of building sustainable and efficient systems. The speakers also emphasize the responsibility of software in shaping the future.

Ian Nowland, a software development and management professional, discusses challenges in transitioning to Kubernetes in finance, legacy system migrations, and navigating complexity in Kubernetes and observability. He also shares insights on his career journey from mechanical engineering to platform engineering.

Hans Kristian Flaatten from NAV discusses their cloud native journey, DSL for app deployment challenges, responsibilities in money processing organizations, and upcoming industry trends like platform editing, WebAssembly, and serverless functions in Kubernetes.

Ops engineer Charity Majors discusses the journey from Parse to co-founding Honeycomb for observability. Topics include distinguishing monitoring and observability, challenges in the tech industry with similar tools, benefits of new tools, reflections on building databases, and leveraging CHET GPT for code writing.

Guest Joshua Burgin, VP of Product & Strategy at VMWare, discusses his journey from Amazon to founding a startup, challenges in adopting common platform technology, evolution of cloud services at Amazon & VMware, Kubernetes future, and developer onboarding efficiency.