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"name": "Abdel SGHIOUAR",
"bio": "<p>I'm a Cloud Developer Advocate with Google. I co-host for the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and the Cloud Careers Podcast.</p><p>Why I am excited to be an ambassador: Learn from the community. Contribute to the Open Source and Cloud Native world and help inspire others to do the same</p>",
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"location": "Stockholm, Sweden",
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"name": "Abdelkoddous Lhajouji",
"bio": "<p>Abdelkoddous is a seasoned systems architect with over a decade of experience in cloud and systems architecture. He excels in crafting and deploying resilient, scalable infrastructure solutions, drawing upon cloud-native technologies and CNCF principles. With a steadfast dedication to innovation, Abdelkoddous continuously explores emerging trends and advancements in the field to deliver cutting-edge solutions.</p>",
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"name": "Abdullah Ahmed",
"bio": "<p>Meet Abdullah, a seasoned software engineer and cloud-native aficionado with over ten years of groundbreaking work in the industry. As a DevOps guru and expert cloud architect, Abdullah wields a deep mastery of Kubernetes, orchestrating scalable, resilient, and efficient digital ecosystems. His innovative approach and technical prowess drive the cutting-edge of cloud technology, transforming complex challenges into streamlined solutions.</p>",
"company": "Architech",
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"name": "Abhinav Dubey",
"bio": "<p>Hey, This is Abhinav from India. He is an open source enthusiast who loves to share his learnings with the community through blogs/ talks. He is also an active maintainer and contributor to open source project called Devtron (https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron). He is passionate about exploring and working with multiple tools such as ArgoCD, Grafana, Helm, Buildpacks, Prometheus, Kubernetes, Docker, etc. When he's not working, he must be planning his next adventure trip to the mountains. \"Kubernetes Head with a Travelling Soul\"</p><p>Why I am excited to be an ambassador: Abhinav is super excited to be a CNCF Ambassador because he loves to meet and greet like-minded folks around the community and being associated with CNCF, it will open a lot of door for him. Additionally, it will help Abhinav to reach a wider number of audience that would help him to educate/ aware more number of people about Cloud Native ecosystem and tools & technologies used in it.</p>",
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},
{
"name": "Adam Gardner",
"bio": "Adam is part of the Open-Source Program Office (OSPO) at DT where he works as a DevRel focusing on observability and security. SCUBA diving is his passion. Outside work you can find him on, in or under the sea.",
"company": "Dynatrace",
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{
"name": "Aditya Samant",
"bio": "<p>I am a highly experienced IT professional with more than 17 years of experience in the industry. I'm an ex - Director of R&D in Microservices and Cloud Native development, with vast experience in several major domains like SDK, Security, Public Clouds, CI/CD, Backing Services, Observability all on an architecture predominantly based on open-source and Kubernetes by adopting the DevOps culture. I am a member of the Kubernetes GitHub organization via regular contributions to the Kubernetes documentation.<p/><p>My personal website: https://www.adityasamant.dev/ My blog on Hashnode: https://blog.adityasamant.dev/ Kubernetes and Istio are the main CNCF projects that I work with.</p>",
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"location": "Pune, Maharashtra, India",
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"name": "Aditya Soni",
"bio": "<p>DevOps & Cloud Engineer, Public Speaker, Tech Mentor, Lead Organizer CNCG Jaipur, OpenSource & Community Contributor, AWS Community Builder, AWS Community Leader, 1 x (AWS, GCP, Azure), 6 x RedHat, CKA, KCNA certified.</p><p>Why I am excited to be an ambassador: It's been more than three years, I am being part of CNCF programs actively contributing via blogs, and public speaking on different open source DevOps/Cloud technologies at virtual and in-person events, I want to expand my learning and contribution with a wide area of peoples and uplift them with like-minded folks I can grow at the same time can share & help with my ideas to build better community bonding & culture.</p>",
"company": "Forrester Research",
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"location": "Jaipur, India",
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"github": "https://github.com/adityasonittyl",
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"youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/@adityaintech",
"slack_id": "Aditya Soni",
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"DevSpace",
"DevStream",
"Envoy",
"etcd",
"Fluentd",
"Flux",
"gRPC",
"Helm",
"Istio",
"Jaeger",
"Knative",
"Kubeflow",
"Kuberhealthy",
"Kubernetes",
"Kubescape",
"Linkerd",
"Litmus",
"Open Cluster Management",
"OpenGitOps",
"OpenTelemetry",
"Operator Framework",
"Serverless Workflow",
"Service Mesh Interface (SMI)",
"Service Mesh Performance"
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{
"name": "Adriana Villela",
"bio": "<p>Adriana Villela is a Sr. Developer Advocate at Lightstep. She helps companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & DevOps practices. Before Lightstep, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale enterprises, as an individual contributor and leader, including Bank of Montreal, Ceridian, and Accenture. Adriana has a popular technical blog on Medium (https://adri-v.medium.com), is co-host of the On-Call Me Maybe Podcast (oncallmemaybe.com), and is a HashiCorp Ambassador.</p><p>Why I am excited to be an ambassador: Having spent a chunk of my time in the last 10 months working with OpenTelemetry, I'm excited to use my ambassadorship to amplify my voice to promote and generate excitement about OpenTelemetry to the tech community at large. At the same time, I love digging into other CNCF projects like Kubernetes and ArgoCD, and I am looking forward to using my voice to help spread knowledge and excitement for those projects as well!</p>",
"company": "Lightstep",
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"location": "Toronto, Canada",
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"slack_id": "Adriana Villela",
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"Argo",
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"Kubernetes",
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],
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"name": "Alan Flower",
"bio": "<p>Alan heads the HCL Cloud Native & AI Labs business and is also the HCL CTO for Cloud Native. A successful entrepreneur and technologist, Alan is deeply passionate about using technology to support the digital transformation of business and driving the creation of innovative products and services.</p>\n\n<p>Alan has an extensive track record as both a visionary and thought leader. He combines in-depth engineering credibility with real hands-on experience leading global technology organizations. With a track record of bringing over 250 software products to market, Alan has a unique perspective on the application of modern Cloud-enabled services to accelerate market success.</p>\n\n<p>HCL Cloud Native & AI Labs are the HCL Centre of Excellence, helping clients leverage modern technologies and practices to accelerate transformation.</p>\n\n<p>Working closely with HCL ecosystem partners, the Labs showcase the Art-of-the-Possible, and with a track record of over 1,000 engagements, the Labs are uniquely positioned to guide our clients’ complete journey.</p>\n\n<p>The Labs provide engineering assistance to modernize existing applications, or to create innovative new solutions. Deeply collaborative, our Labs also provide education and skills modernization to support the cultural transformation necessary to make the vision of a Cloud Native Enterprise become a reality.</p>\n\n<p>Alan leads HCL corporate participation in leading open-source communities such as the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).</p>\n\n<p>He is a Fellow of both the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs.</p>",
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],
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{
"name": "Alena Prokharchyk",
"bio": "<p>Alena is a software engineer at Apple, working on cloud infrastructure services. Prior to joining Apple, Alena was one of the founding engineers at Rancher Labs. She also served as CNCF TOC in 2020-2022.</p>",
"company": "Apple",
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"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alena-prokharchyk-a7b28213/",
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/Lemonjet",
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"image": "https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/image-1-1.jpg"
},
{
"name": "Alessandro Vozza",
"bio": "<p>Community leader and CNCF ambassador, Alessandro has spent the last few years building cloud native infrastructures for Microsoft customers, animating the Dutch community, and training others to pass the CKx exams. He has passion for all things cloud native, he's been around open source for 25 years and recently founded a startup that offers innovative Namespaces-as-a-service for developers. Twitter handle: @bongo</p><p>Why I am excited to be an ambassador: Because I was before and it was awesome!</p>",
"company": "Kubespaces.io",
"pronouns": "He/Him",
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandrovozza",
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"github": "https://github.com/ams0/",
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"location": "Amsterdam, Netherlands",
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"Cilium",
"CoreDNS",
"Crossplane",
"Dapr",
"DevSpace",
"Istio",
"Kubernetes",
"Linkerd",
"Merbridge",
"Open Policy Agent (OPA)",
"Open Service Mesh",
"OpenGitOps",
"OpenTelemetry",
"Prometheus",
"Thanos"
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{
"name": "Alex Szakaly",
"bio": "<p>Alex is always seeking to expand his knowledge and eagerly embraces new challenges. This drive led him to Kubernetes and subsequently to many other innovative CNCF projects. Whether working on deployments, tirelessly writing new Kubernetes Operators, or contributing to open-source initiatives, he brings a wealth of experience and a proactive mindset to the table. Last but not least, Alex is passionate about the vibrant community surrounding CNCF.</p>",
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{
"name": "Alexej Disterhoft",
"bio": "<p>Kubernetes Platform Engineer and DevOps.</p>",
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"location": "Mainz, Germany",
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