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Sarah has worked with Hashicorp, Microsoft, Edera, and Buoyant. She has worked in open source since 2017, where she attended her first KubeCon.
PROJECT MAINTAINER OF
- Consul
- Hashicorp Raft
- Boundary
- Open Service Mesh
- Porter
- Zarf
PUBLIC SPEAKING
WRITING
Lena is a UX Designer and Strategist with eight years of experience designing digital products alongside software engineers. She has led UX and marketing at SQUER, and worked in global brand marketing at Red Bull. She was organizer of two editions of code crafts.
WHERE SHE SHINES
- Lead UX Strategist & Designer at SQUER
- Head of Marketing at SQUER
- Global Brand Marketing at Red Bull
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Riccardo has worked as a cloud and platform engineer in multiple enterprise organizations. He has successfully passed every Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) certification, becoming a Golden Kubestronaut. He is fluent in GitOps, Platform Engineering, AWS & Azure. He's built platforms from the ground up, and is familiar with constructing Kubernetes Operators - so he speaks from experience about observability and security.
Organizer Of:
- Vienna DevOps Meetup
- Cloud Native Trento community
PUBLIC SPEAKING
- Building Platforms with Crossplane — Cloud Native Days Italy 2026
- What Makes Platform Teams Succeed (and Why Others Don't) — Navigate Kongress
WRITING
Scott has worked with NASA, Replicated, Weaveworks, Codecademy, and NBCUniversal as a Cloud Architect, Helm Project Maintainer, and in Developer Experience. He's been within the CNCF ecosystem for the last nine years as a maintainer, contributor, certificate content creator and ambassador.
MAINTAINER & AMBASSADOR
- Helm
- Flux
- OpenGitOps
PUBLIC SPEAKING
WRITING