KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India

Atul is a Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies, a CNCF Ambassador and a technical storyteller with over a decade of experience spanning manual testing, Android development, and more recently into the cloud native space.

With a background in computer science and business administration, Atul brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to his work to help individuals and organizations adopt open source tools and platforms through code, content, and community engagement.

He has made significant contributions as Co-chair of the Platforms Working Group under the TAG App Delivery, helping develop the maturity model and the functioning of the group.

He’s also actively involved in organizing the Cloud Native Hyderabad community events and was part of the first KCD in Hyderabad.

Atul has presented on platform engineering at KubeCon in Paris, Salt Lake City, London, and India. His philosophy of “learning, sharing, and growing together” drives his approach to developer advocacy.

When not empowering developers and communities, Atul steps away from his keyboard, and indulges his passions as a food and travel blogger, constantly seeking out new flavors and destinations to explore. In digital spaces, he goes by the moniker Maharaj.

Bhavani is a Staff Platform Engineer at Zscaler. She plays a pivotal role in streamlining and optimising DevOps and CloudNative solutions, ensuring seamless and efficient software delivery. Previously, at ServiceNow, she was actively involved in migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes, managing microservice deployments, Kubernetes application backup, and monitoring. Her deep technical acumen in cloud-native technologies has been instrumental in driving scalability, reliability, and automation across organisations.

Beyond her engineering contributions, Bhavani is a CNCF Ambassador and an Organizer for Women in Cloud Native, actively advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech. She is also a keynote speaker at KubeCon India and a driving force in the CNCF Hyderabad community, where she mentors aspiring engineers and fosters community engagement.

A passionate educator and thought leader, Bhavani thrives on sharing her knowledge through high-impact conference talks and insightful blogs on Kubernetes and cloud-native tools. Her unwavering commitment to mentorship and empowerment fuels her mission to inspire the next generation of women in tech, encouraging them to break barriers, embrace challenges, and lead with confidence.

Chris Aniszczyk is an open source executive and engineer with a passion for building a better world through open collaboration. He’s currently a CTO at the Linux Foundation focused on developer relations and running the Open Container Initiative (OCI) / Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Furthermore, he’s a partner at Capital Factory where he focuses on mentoring, advising and investing in open source and infrastructure focused startups.

At Twitter, he created their open source program and led their open source efforts. For many years he served on the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors representing the committer community and the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee. In a previous life, he bootstrapped a consulting company, made many mistakes, lead and hacked on many eclipse.org and Linux related projects

Janakiram is a practicing architect, analyst, and advisor with a focus on emerging infrastructure technologies. He provides strategic advisory to technology platform companies, startups, ISVs, and enterprises. As a practitioner working with a diverse Enterprise customer base across the domains of AI, IoT, Cloud, Microservices, DevOps, and SaaS, Janakiram gains insight into the enterprise challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities involved in emerging technology adoption.

Janakiram is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, and a CNCF Ambassador. He is also a certified AWS Architect, Google Cloud Architect, and Azure Developer.

Hi, myself Aditya. I did my undergrad from DTU in Computer Engineering and since then I have had an unquenchable thirst for different technologies. This started off with some AI / ML research works, followed by some Web based full stack personal projects and now finally the DevOps domain. I have around 4 years of work ex since my graduation and this spell has only fortified my passion for the computer technologies and the challenges that come along.

Isha is a Platform Engineer at Expedia Group, where she brings her expertise as a Software Development Engineer 3 to the forefront of creating seamless travel experiences.

Isha remains committed to leveraging her technical expertise and creativity to shape the future of travel technology, making travel simpler, smarter, and more enjoyable for millions of users worldwide.

Saiyam is working as Principal Developer Advocate at Loft Labs. He is the founder of Kubesimplify, focusing on simplifying cloud-native and Kubernetes technologies. Previously at Civo, Walmart Labs, Oracle, and HP, Saiyam has worked on many facets of Kubernetes, including machine learning platforms, scaling, multi-cloud, and managed Kubernetes services. He is also a CNCF TAG sustainability lead, runs a YouTube channel, and can be reached on Twitter @saiyampathak

Arnab Chatterjee is a seasoned technologist who has nearly two decades of industry experience in Cloud Native,Data Platforms ,Tools and best practices

Daniel Oh is a Java Champion and Senior Principal Developer Advocate at Red Hat to evangelize developers for building cloud-native apps and serverless ob Kubernetes ecosystems. He’s also contributing to various cloud open-source projects and ecosystems as a CNCF ambassador for accelerating DevOps adoption in enterprises. He’s speaking at lots of technical seminars, workshops, and meetups to elaborate on new emerging technologies for enterprise developers & DevOps teams.

Divya is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, advocating for and contributing to its projects. She is a Kubernetes documentation maintainer and a co-chair for the SIG Community under the Bytecode Alliance. As one of the KCNA exam creators and a lead for the Asian chapter of the CHAOSS Project, she is invested in making technical communities & technologies more accessible & inclusive.

Audra Montenegro has spent over ten years organizing global events, with seven of those working on programs for large tech conferences and small summits with O’Reilly Media. Currently she is a Community Program Manager at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) running global programs such as Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs), Cloud Native Community Groups (CNCGs), and ChatLoopBackOff (CLBO) livestreams.

Audra’s passion is connecting and spotlighting industry leaders, innovators and technical practitioners, and elevating new, intelligent voices.

– Senior Data and Cloud Engineer @Ahead
– Worked with 4 early-stage startups.
– CNCF Ambassador & Organizer at CNCF Gurugram, India
– Mentored 120+ Students Currently.

I’m Ramesh Kumar, and I work at  Apple Inc., as a Systems Architect and I’m a CNCF Ambassador.

I’m a passionate advocate of cloud-native technologies and a dedicated mentor. I organize the CNCF/Kubernetes Sacramento and CNCF/Kubernetes Penang Meetups.

Through my meetups, collaboration, and expertise in CNCF technologies, I strive to build a more inclusive and innovative tech community, one act of kindness at a time.

Rohith is a technology entrepreneur with nearly two decades of experience turning complex challenges into simple, scalable, and secure solutions. He’s worked with early-stage startups, growth-stage ventures, and leading enterprises like TCS, ISRO (IIRS), HDFC Life, TATA AIG, and Edelweiss Tokio. Currently focused on helping organizations harness agentic AI, Rohith and his team build intelligent, autonomous systems that adapt, learn, and make informed decisions in real time. He works hands-on across the spectrum—from product strategy to AI-driven system design—always grounded in real-world impact.

Vignesh is the founder of PilotApps.ai, which offers an AI-first business app suite for SMEs. He previously led a successful exit with Mowbly, an enterprise mobility platform acquired by ASG Technologies in 2018. Before that, he headed Engineering and Product at Cordys (acquired by OpenText), and has been a key player in enabling enterprise no-code/low-code adoption. Vignesh brings deep insights into how abstraction layers and AI can transform software delivery and entrepreneurship.

Ritesh is a Principal AI Engineer at Microsoft, a Microsoft Regional Director, and Regional Lead for Microsoft Certified Trainers. A published author of 10 best-selling tech books, his expertise spans Blockchain, Azure, GenAI, MLOps, LLMOps, and enterprise automation. He’s spoken at Microsoft BUILD, TechEd, and 25+ conferences, and is an active open-source contributor—his AI and GenAI GitHub projects have driven multi-million dollar revenues.

Priyanka Kamath is an Internationally Awarded & Nasdaq EC Recognized Founder

With her expansive global experience in solution-oriented TECH CONSULTING stints from #Novartis, New Jersey • #WorldBank (IFC) Washington DC • #Pepsico TX/Toronto diving into Automation Workflows & Cybersecurity for upto ~600MM+ market worth applications, that have shaped her ENTERPRISE journey profoundly. Dabbling an Executive Role @ Fortune 500 company (Corporate America) to an AI-Tech Startup Founder in India, heralded a thriving entrepreneurial journey after resigning that cushy job in Corporate America to achieve gender-balanced innovation for Viksit Bharat 2047

I’m a Senior Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean, where I lead teams focused on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). My work revolves around building and optimising cloud infrastructure that is both scalable and secure. With a passion for innovation, specially green innovation, I strive to reduce environmental impact while enhancing business efficiency.

Atul is a Senior Developer Advocate at InfraCloud Technologies, a CNCF Ambassador and a technical storyteller with over a decade of experience spanning manual testing, Android development, and more recently into the cloud native space.

With a background in computer science and business administration, Atul brings a unique blend of technical expertise and business acumen to his work to help individuals and organizations adopt open source tools and platforms through code, content, and community engagement.

He has made significant contributions as Co-chair of the Platforms Working Group under the TAG App Delivery, helping develop the maturity model and the functioning of the group.

He’s also actively involved in organizing the Cloud Native Hyderabad community events and was part of the first KCD in Hyderabad.

Atul has presented on platform engineering at KubeCon in Paris, Salt Lake City, London, and India. His philosophy of “learning, sharing, and growing together” drives his approach to developer advocacy.

When not empowering developers and communities, Atul steps away from his keyboard, and indulges his passions as a food and travel blogger, constantly seeking out new flavors and destinations to explore. In digital spaces, he goes by the moniker Maharaj.

Bhavani is a Staff Platform Engineer at Zscaler. She plays a pivotal role in streamlining and optimising DevOps and CloudNative solutions, ensuring seamless and efficient software delivery. Previously, at ServiceNow, she was actively involved in migrating infrastructure to Kubernetes, managing microservice deployments, Kubernetes application backup, and monitoring. Her deep technical acumen in cloud-native technologies has been instrumental in driving scalability, reliability, and automation across organisations.

Beyond her engineering contributions, Bhavani is a CNCF Ambassador and an Organizer for Women in Cloud Native, actively advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech. She is also a keynote speaker at KubeCon India and a driving force in the CNCF Hyderabad community, where she mentors aspiring engineers and fosters community engagement.

A passionate educator and thought leader, Bhavani thrives on sharing her knowledge through high-impact conference talks and insightful blogs on Kubernetes and cloud-native tools. Her unwavering commitment to mentorship and empowerment fuels her mission to inspire the next generation of women in tech, encouraging them to break barriers, embrace challenges, and lead with confidence.