Program Committee

Akihiro Suda is a software engineer at NTT Corporation. He has been a maintainer of Moby (dockerd), BuildKit, containerd, runc, etc. He is also a founder of nerdctl and Lima (CNCF project).

Aleks Jones is a technical trainer and course author at the Linux Foundation, focusing on emerging technologies like WebAssembly and cybersecurity. As an editor for the Evil Tux blog, she evaluates technical articles, sharing insight on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. In her leisure, she participates in capture the flag competitions.

Alexander is currently employed by Intel as Principal Engineer, Cloud Software, focusing on various aspects in Kubernetes: Resource Management, Device plugins for hardware accelerators, Cluster Lifecycle and Cluster APIs. Alexander has over 25+ years of experience in areas of Linux distributions, SCM, Networking, Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Cloud Orchestration, Continuous Integration & Delivery. Alexander is an active member of Kubernetes SIG-Node and CNCF TAG-Runtimes.

Ana is the OSPO Program Manager at the Linux Foundation project TODO Group, formed by an open community of practitioners who aim to create, share knowledge, and develop best practices practices on open source management in organizations and ¡ run successful Open Source Program Offices. Formerly she worked at Bitergia, where she finished her MSc in Data Science, whose final thesis focused on measuring DevRel’s success within Open Source development communities.

Engineer, architect, advisor and technology leader based in Seattle, Washington. Current research areas are on LLM inference, open AI, containers & serverless. CNCF Ambassador at the Linux Foundation and community lead of Cloud Native Seattle. Packt tech advisory board. Guest lecturer and industry mentor at the University of Washington. 

Intrapreneur. Has managed, built, and scaled several tier-1 products, new initiatives 0-1, businesses, and teams spanning various technical domains. Include AWS Bedrock (Anthropic LLM model inference), S3, App Runner (Founding engineer & TLM), Fargate, Alexa AI (Founding engineer of Healthcare domain), Payments (manage $110B ARR Bill Run), and Elastic Container Service (ECS). 

Part-time advisor and researcher as well as a public speaker and author. Drive cloud-native solutions adoption across organizations and actively contribute to open-source programs, including Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Flux, Envoy, OpenTelemetry, gRPC, Firecracker, Kafka, containerd, and RocksDB. 

Serve as Program Committee member for prestigious global academic and industry conferences: The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), PyTorch Con, Open Source Summit, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon, DockerCon etc.

Senior speaker at Amazon and author, casually writing blog posts in spare time on technical topics, academia, open source, organizational behavior (OB), and sociology. Pickleball fan.

Homepage: https://pengandy.com/

Ariel Jolo is an Open Source community expert, known for his contributions to tech events and employer branding. He is the founder of Sysarmy and Nerdearla, the largest technology event in Latin America that began in Argentina in 2014 and has since expanded to other countries, including Mexico and Chile.

In addition to his professional endeavors, Ariel has participated in various tech-related events and discussions, contributing to the broader conversation on technology and community engagement.

Atish Patra is a Linux kernel developer at Rivos and an open-source champion driving advancements in RISC-V Linux support, including boot process standardization, UEFI support, virtualization enablement, confidential computing, and performance monitoring. A vocal advocate for open-source innovation, he is a regular presenter at conferences like OSS/ELCE, LPC, and the RISC-V Summit. Atish maintains the RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI) specification and co-maintains OpenSBI, an open-source runtime firmware for RISC-V that enables seamless compatibility across platforms and empowers developers globally.

Ayumi Watanabe is a core member of OpenChain Japan community and known as an evangelist who is certified by the Linux Foundation Japan. Her strong point is a knowledge of many tools for SBOM generation and management, a wide range of experiences as an OSS management consultant, and strong connection with communities regarding OSS compliance. She is also a member of Hitachi OSPO.

Bandan is an engineer at Red Hat focused on systems architecture and virtualization. His primary interests are in performance optimization and in investigating new usecases for emerging technology in virtualization such as confidential computing. Bandan is part of the Red Hat Research program and has co-published papers in topics related to fuzzing and systems security.

Benjamin Cabé is a technology enthusiast with a passion for empowering developers to build innovative solutions. He has over 15 years of experience leading developer engagement initiatives with some of the top communities and companies in the IoT, embedded, and AI space. He has invented an award-winning open source and open hardware artificial nose that he likes to use as an educational platform for people interested in diving into the world of embedded development. He is currently a Developer Advocate for the Zephyr Project at the Linux Foundation and lives in Toulouse, France, where he enjoys baking sourdough bread with the help of his artificial nose.

I am the AI Team lead for the OSPO creating the upstream strategy for Red Hat to align with open source communities aligned to our mission and technical vision.

My role as Sr.Principal Community Architect within Red Hat’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) has allowed me to work in a variety of Linux Foundation communities such as the CNCF, FINOS, Green Software Foundation, LF AI & Data, vLLM and more. I have previously held leadership roles in FINOS and the CNCF Environmental Sustainability TAG.

Cara has over 15 years in marketing and community engagement with the primary focus being in the financial services industry. Cara holds a B.S. in Political Science from Virginia Polytechnic & State University.

Carlos Sanchez is a Principal Scientist at Adobe Experience Manager, specializing in software automation, from build tools to Continuous Delivery and Progressive Delivery. Involved in Open Source for over 20 years, he is the author of the Jenkins Kubernetes plugin and a member of the Apache Software Foundation amongst other open source groups, contributing to several projects, such as Jenkins or Apache Maven.

Chan works closely with technologists to successfully open source and innersource their work and builds community through developer relationships. She is a certified Project Management Professional, holds a Master’s degree in Spatial Analytics, and has experience in program managing federally-funded, health-related, and data-driven research and software development projects. During her free time, she explores adventures like rock climbing, snowboarding, hiking the backcountry, and meditating.

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

Chris Xie is a global open source strategist and advocate for sustainable technology and responsible AI. As Head of Open Source Strategy at Futurewei, he brings extensive expertise from Fortune 500 companies and startups, blending technical vision with strategic leadership.

Chris holds key roles in open source organizations, including:
• Chair, ORES Working Group at LF Energy (open renewable energy systems)
• Chair, SCER Working Group at Green Software Foundation (sustainable computing)
• Chair, Marketing Advisory Committee at LF Energy
• Board Advisor, LF Research

His work spans open source policy, governance, and global collaboration, focusing on Responsible AI, Renewable Energy, and the Decentralized Internet. Through initiatives like the Open Source Congress, he helps shape policy, research, and innovation to drive an inclusive and sustainable digital future.

Chuck Wolber is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow primarily focused on Linux Operating System engineering for airborne avionics. He has developed multiple DO-178C certified Linux platforms currently in service on Boeing production aircraft. Chuck has been a Linux user since 1995 and has served as president and board member of the Tacoma Linux Users Group. Chuck is co-author of the book Linux Toys and is credited with contributions to multiple early editions of the Red Hat Linux Bible. Chuck holds a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Computer Science.

Clare Dillon is an open source and InnerSource advocate and currently works with CURIOSS, a community for university and research institution OSPOs. Clare is also a researcher with Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and a member of Lero’s OSPO team. From 2021-2023, Clare served as the inaugural Executive Director of InnerSource Commons, a global non-profit foundation supporting open collaboration methods in corporate software development. In 2021, Clare co-founded Open Ireland Network, a community for those interested in advancing open source at a national level in Ireland. Clare is a qualified coach and frequently speaks on topics relating to open collaboration and the future of work.

Daniel Izquierdo is a researcher and co-founder of Bitergia and currently holding the position of CEO, he is focused on the quality of the data, research of new metrics, analysis and studies of interest for Bitergia customers via data mining and processing. Daniel earned a PhD in free software engineering in 2012 focused on the analysis of buggy developers activity patterns in the Mozilla community. He is board member at CHAOSS community, President of the InnerSource Commons Foundation, and board member at the Apereo Foundation.

I’m currently the Director for Corporate Solutions for the Education Group at The Linux Foundation. 

I’m responsible for ensuring smooth delivery to commercial clients and partners of The Linux Foundation’s Linux and open source software training and certification portfolio.

I have three decades of corporate finance and operations experience. I’ve spent the last 20+ years working at Linux technology organizations. My educational background includes a BA in Finance and Economics from the University of Western Ontario.

In my free time, true to my northern roots, I love to play ice hockey. Northern California boasts some of the best golfing, fishing, hiking and biking and I like to take advantage of those activities with my family when I’m not on the ice. 

As an operations, sales, and finance professional, key skills include Negotiation, Budgeting, Internal Audit, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Sales Management, Contract review, Channel Reselling, Online Affiliate Marketing and Sales, and Strategic Partnerships.

David Leach has been a software engineer through various technology fields for almost 40 years. He joined Freescale Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors) in 2015 as a software architect to help lead connectivity and various standards engagements. For the last several years, he has been participating in NXP’s open-source software activities and is currently leading the MCU Open-Source Software team in the Security & Connectivity Business Line.

Dr. Dawn Foster works as the Director of Data Science for CHAOSS where she is also a board member / maintainer. She is co-chair of CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy and an OpenUK board member. She has 20+ years of experience at companies like VMware and Intel with expertise in community, strategy, governance, metrics, and more. She has spoken at over 100 industry events and has a BS in computer science, an MBA, and a PhD. In her spare time she enjoys reading science fiction, running, and traveling.

Dr. Deborah Dahl is an expert on Conversational AI and related standards. She has developed many natural language processing systems and has over 20 years of experience in standards work at the World Wide Web Consortium and the Linux Foundation AI and Data Foundation. Dr. Dahl has written many technical papers and four books, most recently Natural Language Understanding with Python, published in 2023.

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.

Dr. Wolfgang Gehring is an Ambassador for Open and Inner Source and has been working on enabling and spreading the idea within Mercedes-Benz. A software engineer by trade, Wolfgang’s goal is to help enable Mercedes-Benz to fully embrace FOSS and become a true Open Source company. He has a passion for communities, leads Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation’s Open Source Program Office, is a member of the Mercedes-Benz FOSS Center of Competence, and a Director of the Eclipse Foundation.

In his free time, Wolfgang likes to engage in conversations about soccer and is an avid traveler and scuba diver. He calls Albert Einstein’s birth city of Ulm his home in Southern Germany.

Linux kernel engineer focused on ARM and RISC-V SoCs.

Passionate open-source advocate for 20+ years. Leading operational teams at Percona. Organizer of Sysarmy, a tech community with 10+ years of history, and Nerdearla, one of Argentina’s leading tech events.

Elena Zannoni is an Senior Director of Linux Engineering at Oracle, with focus on Toolchain and Tracing. Elena has presented at many Linux Foundation conferences on various development related topics, like Tracing, BPF, DTrace, CTF, and more. Elena has been part of the LPC committee, and part of the OSS/LinuxCon Program committee for several years.

I founded ejTalk Inc where I drive R&D for human-computer conversation systems, creating systems to do real-time intelligent and natural conversations with humans. These range from PC based, wearable embedded, and exploratory R&D systems. I have rich experience over the entire scope of the relevant technologies. I personally prefer conceptually hard problems.

I have a unique background that melds modern software development skills with project management and creative experience. This enables me to efficiently shepherd the software development process from ideation to deployment and beyond.

As a teaching assistant at Northeastern University I guided students through the process of learning software engineering. I achieved this by leveraging my ability to communicate complex, technical and abstract concepts.

Founder of Knative serverless project, maintainer of Minder (OpenSSF) and member of sigstore oncall. Currently at Stacklok; previously at Google and VMware, recovering SRE, ongoing runner.

👋 Hi, I’m Ezequiel Lanza (Eze), and I’m passionate about helping people explore the thrilling realm of artificial intelligence. As a regular AI conference presenter, I take pride in creating impactful use cases, tutorials, and guides to assist developers in adopting open source AI tools.

With a solid foundation in engineering and a decade of experience assisting customers and developers in the software realm, I bring a wealth of practical knowledge to the table. Currently, I’m writing my thesis as I pursue a Master’s in Data Science from Universidad Austral in Argentina (Yeah, it was AI before ChatGPT:) ).

I’m usually an AI speaker at conferences like Open Source Summit, Kubecon, All Things Open, ODSC and AAAI among other relevant AI events. 

India’s First!!! Technical Trainer, Author, Maintainer, Moderator and Kubestronaut at The Linux Foundation

Gabriele Paoloni is an Open Source Community Technical Leader at Red Hat where he defines best methodologies and requirements to qualify Linux for functional safety usage.

He is a passionate technologist and has strong experience in both functional safety and Linux Kernel development, including previous roles leading FuSa software architecture for Intel platforms, CCIX vice chairman of the TDL working group and HiSilicon PCIe Linux maintainer.

Gabriele received a master’s degree with honours in electronic engineering from the University of Rome.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is among a distinguished group of software developers who maintain Linux at the kernel level. In his role as a Linux Foundation Fellow, he continues his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of subsystems while working in a fully neutral environment. He also works closely with Linux Foundation members and projects, and on key initiatives to advance Linux.

Greg created and maintains the Linux Driver Project. He is also currently the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of different subsystems that include USB, staging, driver core, tty, and sysfs, among others. Most recently, he was a Fellow at SUSE.

Greg is an adviser to Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab and a member of The Linux Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board. He has delivered a variety of keynote addresses at developer and industry events, and has authored two books covering Linux device drivers and Linux kernel development.

After 20 years of working as a software engineer, Jake stopped writing software and started writing *about* software—and more—at LWN.net. 17 years later, he’s still at it. He lives in Baja California Sur, México with his wife and a loony dog.

Jay is Technology and Academic Leader for Canada DevOps Community of Practice. He is specialized and experienced in Cyber Security, DevOps, Gen AI and DevSecOps. He has more than 9 years of experience and has worked in Big 4 Companies like Ernst & Young. He is passionate and interested to work on DevOps, DevSecOps, IT, Cyber Security, Generative AI, Team/Digital/Cultural Transformations, Telecom and Program Management. He has various Cyber Security and Cloud Certifications and is a Certified DevSecOps Leader & Scrum Master. Jay also has a Master’s Degree from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. He has been previously speaker as well at OSS and ONS NA in 2019. 

Jeremy is an international speaker and is currently the Director of DevRel at OneStream Software, previously at CircleCI, Solace, Auth0, and XDA. With almost 30 years in Tech, covering just about every functional area, including support, system and database administration, application and web development, project management, program management, and systems analysis, Jeremy is active in the DevRel and DevOps communities, a co-creator of DevOpsPartyGames.com, and organizer for DevOpsDays Kansas City. A lover of all things coffee, community, open source, and tech, he’s also house-broken, and (generally) plays well with others.

10-time award winner in Artificial Intelligence and Open Source and the co-author of the book ‘Sculpting Data For ML’, Jigyasa Grover is a powerhouse brimming with passion for making a dent in this world of technology and bridging the gender gap. AI & Research Lead, she has many years of ML engineering & Data Science experience in deploying large‐scale low-latency systems for user personalization and monetization on popular social networking apps like Twitter and Facebook, and e‐commerce at Faire, particularly ads prediction, sponsored content ranking, and recommendation with a recent focus on Generative AI. She is also one of the few ML Google Developer Experts and Google Women Techmaker Ambassadors globally. As a World Economic Forum’s Global Shaper, she ensures the leverage of her technical skills and connections for solution-building, policy-making, and lasting change.

Recently, she was featured at the Google I/O 2024 main keynote and introduced by Sundar Pichai on the stage as she spoke about my experience using Gemini 1.5 Pro’s 1 million token context window. As a part of the Google Developer Advisory Board (gDAB) she collaborates with experts and contributes to shaping the future of Google’s developer ecosystem. She is also involved with Google Developer Experts and Google for Startups, and most recently was on the Generative AI panel with some renowned folks from the industry and startup world.

Jonathan Corbet is the kernel documentation maintainer, co-founder of LWN.net (and the author of its Kernel Page), a member of the Linux
Foundation’s Technical Advisory Board, and the lead author of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

For more than 19 years I have been helping organizations being Lean\Agile and modernizing their App Portfolios and Software Development Life Cycle. Using DevOps, Cloud, PaaS, Containers, Microservices, API we increased delivery velocity and reducing TCO.
Passionate by Open Source, as a pragmatic leader I’m used to work with partners and technologies from everywhere and building bridges between traditional IT and innovative approaches.

As a community member, I have been engaged in various non-profit communities to contribute and promote Open Source. Throughout my career I have been active on producing content as Blog posts, articles, videos about technologies.

Jory Burson is the VP of Standards for the Linux Foundation, where she helps projects identify opportunities for standardization and collaborate on specifications. She is an open source developer-turned-standards practitioner, who is passionate about bringing the best of open source and standards-making best practices to bear in open projects. With over a decade of experience in the field, Jory has worked with several private and non-profit organizations including OASIS Open, W3C, Ecma International, and the web standards consultancy Bocoup, to name a few. She is known for her expertise in web standards, open source governance, and community management.

Jory has played a role in shaping the open source ecosystem through her work with critical open source projects such as jQuery, Node.js, and MDN Content. Jory is a passionate advocate for open source software, diversity, and inclusion in the tech industry.

Working within the Chief Technology Office in building an Open Source Program Office for the Dutch Tax and Customs administration. 

Karen Chu leads efforts focused on the Swift community for OSPO at Apple. Having participated in the cloud native community since 2015, she is a CNCF Ambassador, Helm community manager/maintainer, emeritus Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee member, meet-up organizer, and conference organizer. She has also worked on The Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes book series. When she’s not connecting dots in the community, you can find her pursuing photography, cooking, and sipping on chai lattes.

Kate Stewart works with the safety, security and license compliance communities to advance the adoption of best practices into embedded open source projects. She has launched the ELISA and Zephyr Projects, as well as supporting other embedded projects. With more than 30 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles in software development, architecture, and product management, primarily in the tooling and embedded ecosystem working with international teams.

Katherine Druckman is an Open Source Evangelist at Intel where she enjoys sharing her passion for a variety of open source topics. She is a long-time open source advocate, developer, and podcaster, and is currently the host of Open at Intel and a co-host of the FLOSS Weekly and Reality 2.0 podcasts. Previously, Katherine spent over a decade as Director of Digital Experience at Linux Journal. A passionate Drupalist since she first downloaded a tarball in 2005, she has also been a Drupal contributor and a Software Engineer.

Kerim is a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp, where he coaches operators and developers on sustainable infrastructure and orchestration workflows.

Before he joined HashiCorp, Kerim worked on Industrial IoT for the Amsterdam airport and helped museums bring more of their collections online.

When Kerim isn’t working, he’s either spending time with his daughter, enjoying aerial photography, or baking a cake.

Kersten Rocket joined the Linux Foundation in Jan of 2024 as a Senior Documentation Architect for the RISC-V International team. With over 25 years of experience, Kersten is a proud support of clear, concise documentation and the Oxford comma. 

In her spare time, Kersten enjoys walking her dogs, reading, and writing. You can find her children’s books online at various sites. She lives in Minnesota with her family.

As a Principal Engineer at Red Hat, Laura Santamaria loves to learn and explain how things work to bridge the gaps in engineering disciplines. She is the host of [Technically Leadership](https://packetpushers.net/podcast/technically-leadership/), a podcast on the Packet Pushers network, as well as a cohost for the the [Cloud Native Compass](https://cloudnativecompass.fm/) podcast and was the curator for [A Minute on the Mic](https://aminuteonthemic.com), a cohost for [The Hallway Track](https://thehallwaytrack.fireside.fm/) podcast, and the host of [Quick Bites of Cloud Engineering](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyy8Vx2ZoWlohOiedbaQqT5xYRkcDsm10). As a community member, she co-hosts multiple meetups in the Austin, Texas, area, including Cloud Austin. For many years, she taught Python for the Women Who Code Austin meetup, as well. She is an organizer for DevOpsDays Austin and PyTexas and advises KCD Texas, all community-run conferences, as well as a global core member for the DevOpsDays community. For the past few years, she has been a returning program committee member for Open Source Summit’s Cloud Open track that explores cloud infrastructure and cloud apps. Outside of tech, Laura runs, reads, and watches clouds—the real kind.

Experienced rapport builder with a demonstrated history of working in continuing education and the tech industry. Skilled in non-profit operations, fundraising, networking, team building, sales, and served admirably as a military liaison with confidentiality focus. Strong business development professional with a focus on strategic partnership pathways. Strong business relationships throughout the globe. All around people person. 

Awarded the Secretary of The United States Army Public Service Commendation Medal. 

Recognized as the Military Spouse of the Year, 2019.

Current US Coast Guard STCW certified. 

An internationally known open source strategist and community engagement expert, Leslie Hawthorn has spent her career creating, cultivating, and enabling open source communities. She has driven open source strategy in Fortune 10 companies, pre-IPO startups, and Foundation Boards including senior roles at Red Hat, Google, the Open Source Initiative, and Elastic. She currently leads the team responsible for industry community strategy within Red Hat’s Open Source Program Office in the Office of the CTO.

Lisa is a data engineer and now product manager interested in observability, validation, and reliability in data systems. Through her work at Datastrato she is reinventing new and improved use cases for metadata to be leveraged in AI stacks for DataOps and Data Fabric integrations. She is a Google Women TechMakers Ambassador, Continuous Delivery Foundation Ambassador, and Linux Foundation LiFT recipient for Women in Open Source. Currently, she serves on several boards and committees- namely Linux Foundation’s LF AI & Data, and OPEA.

Luke Philips is a Staff Engineer with The New York Times Company. Trying to sweep together the best ideas from all sources. Previously a long career in Telecom, at Charter, CenturyLink, and Level 3 Communications. With a mixed focus on continuous delivery, orchestration solutions, enterprise, Kubernetes, open source, networking, and cloud-native technologies. On the side Luke dabbles in Wardley Mapping and strategic proficiency.

Dr. Malini Bhandaru is a Senior Distinguished Engineer and Cloud Native Architect focused on AI, confidential compute, security, and performance at Intel. She has over a decade of open source cloud experience working on projects such as the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), Confidential Containers, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, EdgeX Foundry, and OpenStack. At Intel, she leads the Cloud Native Open Source team to enable the discovery, monitoring, and management of hardware resources and capabilities in a generic manner to Kubernetes workloads, be they processor cache, memory bandwidth, accelerators, or confidential computing. Currently, she chairs the OPEA Technical Steering Committee. She started at Intel as a Xeon Server power and performance architect. She has also worked on autonomous driving, health care, online billing, and telecommunication applications. Malini is a frequent conference speaker, served on KubeCon, Open Source Summit, and OpenStack program committees, co-authored the OpenStack security guide, and is a co-author of the AI and Cloud Native whitepaper to name a few. She has a Ph.D. in Machine Learning, 25+ patents, a mentor for women in technology, a STEM coach, and avid gardener.

Marc-Etienne Vargenau is a member of the Open Source team at Nokia.

He has worked as an Open Source developer for many years. Among other projects, he contributed to FusionForge (https://fusionforge.org/) and PhpWiki (https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwiki/).

He is contributing to the SPDX standard since version 1.1.

As part of Nokia OSPO, he helps ensuring compliance of Nokia usage and contributions to Open Source software. He works on tooling to automate handling of Open Source.

Marcel Kurzmann joined Bosch in 1997. After establishing the test-automation service team at Bosch Engineering and Acquisition Project Management in the automotive section he took over the Quality Management of Bosch Software Innovations in 2008. From 2015 he was responsible for the Open Source Management System of Bosch Software Innovations, member of the Center of Competence Open Source at Bosch and is now part of the Center of Excellence Open Source and Inner Source at Bosch Digital. He represents Bosch in the OpenChain Governing Board, is active member of the OpenChain Tooling Workgroup and Co-Maintainer of the Eclipse Apoapsis Project.

Marta Rybczynska has network security background, 20 years of experience in Open Source including 15 years in embedded development. She has been working with embedded operating systems like Linux and various real-time ones, system libraries and frameworks up to user interfaces. Her specialties are architecture-specific parts of the Linux kernel. In the past, Marta served as Vice-President and treasurer for KDE e.V. She has been involved in various Open Source projects, and also contributing kernel-related guest articles for LWN.net. In 2021, she founded Syslinbit, an Open Source consulting company. She has experience with presentations on both scientific and free software conferences, including LinuxCon, Open Source Summit, Embedded Linux Conference, Akademy, FOSDEM and FOSS-north.

Marti is a longtime Zephyr community member. 

Mary Hardy has more than a decade of specialized experience as an in-house open source attorney for large tech companies, advising on all aspects of the use of, creation of, and interaction with open source. She helps enable the responsible contribution to and adoption of open source AI. She has advised on large-scale Linux kernel contributions, corporate merger and remediation strategies on open source, and authored and delivered open source training to thousands of engineers.

Maryblessing is a dedicated community architect and passionate advocate, with strong analytical and engagement skills in tech communities. She’s passionate about a sustainable tech ecosystem with a commitment to championing diversity, inclusion, and belonging within workplaces and the broader tech community.

Masae is a Staff Open Source Program Manager, leading the company’s open source business and community strategy alignment, and strategy consultations. Previously she led numerous programs that include large-scale DX/IT transformation as part of M&A at Cisco, security compliance process implementation, consumer platform development on Linux/Android/iOS at multiple companies including NEC and Renesas. She began her career as a software developer in Japan, then worked in the US/Microsoft, now lives in the UK with English husband and son.

Matthew Crawford has been working at Arm since 2017 mainly focussing on the Third Party Intellectual Property strategy and process management. His professional accomplishments include working to make Arm OpenChain conformant in 2019; involvement in the Google Summer of Code as a mentor and working with the SPDX community. He joined the OpenChain board in 2022 and has a strong passion for open source hardware and software governance, trust and security. Since 2022 Matthew has worked in AI compliance and leads Arm’s AI Office

Responsible for building and maintaining a global safety team, safety architecture, safety culture and delivering a roadmap for safety activities tied into the SOP plans for the SDV Hub. The high performing team integrates with the brands and with the existing Cariad teams to match the pace and scale needed for series production.

Maureen Helm is a Distinguished Engineer in the Software Engineering Solutions Group at Analog Devices, focusing on embedded microcontroller software. She is an upstream maintainer in the Zephyr Project and former chair of the Technical Steering Committee.

Mirko Boehm is a Free and Open Source Software contributor, community manager, licensing expert and researcher, with contributions to major Open Source projects like the KDE Desktop (since 1997, including several years on the KDE e.V. board), the Open Invention Network, the Open Source Initiative and others. He is a visiting lecturer and researcher on Free and Open Source Software at the Technical University of Berlin. Mirko Boehm has a wide range of experience as an entrepreneur, corporate manager, software developer and German Air Force officer.

He joined the Linux Foundation in June 2023 as Senior Director for Community Development for LF Europe, where he focuses on driving engagement and collaboration between all European Open Source stakeholders.

Mirko speaks English and German and lives in the Berlin area.

Nancy Rausch is an R&D Manager and Data Scientist in Research and Development at SAS Institute. She leads a team of research engineers that focus on the application of AI and machine learning methods for Data Management. She is also a researcher in SAS’ energy technology sector, with a focus on leveraging machine learning methods for energy forecasting. 

Natali Vlatko (she/her) is an Open Source Architect at Cisco, specializing in open software, policy, compliance, and governance, and is a SIG Docs Co-Chair for Kubernetes. She plays on the fun computer in her spare time. Her academic background is in Egyptology and Archaeology; specifically, burial customs across the various kingdoms of Ancient Egypt. Ask her about dead stuff.

Natalie has worked with Shipyard since 2021, and joined the team as a full-time engineer in July 2023. She is the primary author behind EphemeralEnvironments.io. Natalie has been an avid programmer since age 13 and enjoys learning new technologies and breaking them down into simplest terms.

Nate is the CNCF’s Head of Mentorship and Documentation. He leads the TechDocs team, which includes a group of writers, designers, and web developers. Together, they deliver high-quality documentation that supports the cloud-native ecosystem. Nate and the TechDocs team help CNCF projects organize and write documentation, ensuring clarity, consistency, and accessibility.

Beyond his work in documentation, Nate also oversees the CNCF mentorship programs. Working with the TAG Contributor Strategy Mentoring Working Group, he helps CNCF projects prepare for mentorship programs such as LFX Mentorship, Google Summer of Code, and Outreachy. He also administers CNCF’s participation in the LFX Mentorship program, working with the Linux Foundation to foster the growth and development of new contributors.

Before joining CNCF, Nate worked as a Senior Creative Technologist at AKQA, where he helped build, install, and support interactive installations for retail spaces, conferences, and other events. His diverse background includes technical writing, systems administration, and embedded software development roles.

Nathalie drives standardization & streamlining of processes + spreading of open source best practices via her role in the Open Source Program Office. In the community, she program manages for the OpenAMP project.

Neetu Jain is the Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase in the Emerging Technology Security division, where she leads initiatives in AI security. With 20 years of experience in the tech industry, Neetu has driven innovation and security across various domains, including network security, cloud security, DevSecOps, SDLC security, InsurTech, MarTech, and FinTech. Her career spans roles as both an engineer and a product leader at top-tier organizations like STM, Interra, HP, IBM, and USAA.

Neetu is passionate about exploring new domains, identifying 10x impact opportunities, and building solutions that address real-world challenges. She is a strong advocate for diversity in tech and leveraging technology for social good. Neetu enjoys engaging in discussions on product management, design thinking, and more. Connect with her on LinkedIn.

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Nick Chase is a seasoned technology leader with over 25 years of experience in AI/ML, cloud computing, and education. Currently the AI/ML Practice Director and Senior Director of Product Management at CloudGeometry, he drives product development and strategy for AI/ML solutions. 

He has a strong background in content creation, technical marketing, and curriculum development, and is the author of “”””Machine Learning for Mere Mortals””””. His expertise spans AI/ML project management, product strategy, and technical communication.

Nicole has worked in different projects developing safety relevant embedded software before starting as an independent safety assessor. 
With now more than ten years of experience as a functional safety expert, she supported several customers to show their compliance with ISO 26262 and/or other safety standards. Currently she is utilizing her experience regarding the development of highly reliable software to enable both closed and open source solutions to be used in critical products, focusing on safety, security and compliance.

Nigel is a Senior Developer Advocate based in Austin, Texas. He was drawn to the craft of software engineering because of the agency it provides people to build and interact with worlds of their own creation. He focuses on Cloud Native technologies and his passions in technology are community building, High Performance Computing, and free and open source software (and hardware).

I am a Software Engineer specializing in managing Kubernetes clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure public clouds. At Confluent, we run stateful and data-intensive applications such as Kafka and Flink on Kubernetes clusters.

With expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and backend development, I help design scalable, resilient cloud-native solutions. 
Previously, I worked on Oracle’s Kubernetes Engine team, enhancing its managed Kubernetes service. 
I’m passionate about solving complex engineering challenges in cloud environments.

Apart from learning about distributed systems and infrastructure, I enjoy cycling & cooking!

Nishant Lakshmikanth is an Engineering Leader at LinkedIn, with over 12 years of experience designing and leading large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure. He currently drives LinkedIn’s recommendation infrastructure, including the People You May Know (PYMK) system, a critical initiative responsible for generating millions in annual revenue, engaging over one billion members worldwide. His work integrates cutting-edge technologies like graph-based models, entity-based recommender systems, and advanced machine learning frameworks.

In the realm of machine learning infrastructure, Nishant has spearheaded the development of distributed training systems, real-time feature population pipelines, and solutions for remotely hosting complex models, enabling seamless integration of large-scale AI systems into production environments and ensuring their accessibility and reliability. He has also contributed to building highly reliable tracking systems, GPU optimizations, and cost-efficient large language model (LLM) deployments tailored for recommendation systems, advancing the scalability and efficiency of LinkedIn’s ML-powered products.

Before LinkedIn, Nishant held key engineering roles at Amazon Web Services and Cisco. At AWS, he contributed to Elastic Block Storage (EBS), where he designed a distributed volume placement system and optimized replication strategies, earning seven patents. At Cisco, he advanced video streaming and encoding technologies, demonstrating expertise in backend systems.

Nishant’s technical contributions extend beyond systems design to fostering innovation, mentoring engineering talent, and advancing engineering standards. His extensive experience with control plane for managing complex distributed systems, bootstrapping cloud services and building machine learning infrastructures places him at the forefront of innovation.

Norio Kobota is a Senior Open Source Strategist in Sony Group Corporation. He is the chair of Open Source Software License Committee in Sony and works to improve OSS compliance and relationships with OSS communities. He represents Sony as a board member of OpenChain Project. And he is participating the SPDX Project and contributing the SPDX Lite.

Oleg is a developer tools hacker, community builder, and DevRel consultant. He’s a passionate open-source software, open ecosystems, and open hardware advocate. Oleg is a core maintainer of the Jenkins project, where he writes code, mentors contributors, and organizes community events. He is a CNCF and CDF ambassador, Testcontainers Champion, Kotlin Foundation Ecosystem Committee Member, and a former Jenkins Board member and CDF TOC Chair. Oleg has a PhD in electronics design and volunteers in the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation, as well as in Ukrainian support and Russian anti-war organizations. He has been a Kubecon | Cloud NativeCon PC Member since 2022.

Paul is a consultant at Codethink, with more than 30 years of experience in the automotive, semiconductor and mobile device sectors. He’s passionate about software engineering processes and the role that open source software and communities are playing in their evolution. His current focus is on the Trustable Software Framework, and the use of Linux and open source tools in the development of safety-related applications for the Automotive industry. He is a certified functional safety practitioner and a member of the technical steering committee for the ELISA project (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications).

Paul Gustafson is CEO of Expert Support Inc., Silicon Valley’s technical documentation services firm. Learn more the company here: https://expertsupport.com, and more about Paul here: https://expertsupport.com/technical-writing-company/paul-gustafsons-bio/ or here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/psgustafson/. 

Pete Brink is a Principal Consultant at UL Solutions and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Pete started his career in 1987 working on Jet Engine control systems and then did embedded systems development on print servers, cable scanners, in-circuit emulators, and satellite modems. Pete then worked at Intel where he developed a variety of PC-based technologies (multimedia, storage, USB) and culminated his Intel career by leading Intel’s ADAS demo at the 2015 CES. Pete then moved to PolySync where he was a Principal Engineer/Director of Engineering focused on creating a software infrastructure to enable autonomous driving. This was followed by a stint working on industrial lasers at nLIGHT.

Pete’s experience with software engineering, including safety-critical software, began with the work on jet engine control systems, but then expanded to be generalized across a wide range of high-quality and reliability products. For many products, up-time was a major consideration, including the embedded communications work across a variety of industries. Pete’s opportunity to reenter the safety-critical world began when he was the lead for the Intel ADAS work. Pete has been working continuously on safety critical software systems since 2012, doing either software development, management, software process control and evaluation or training on software engineering topics.

Since joining UL, Pete has been active in both safety and cybersecurity and has had several clients. He currently has a CFSX in ISO 26262, CASP in ISO 21448 (SOTIF) and CCSP in ISO 21434.

In addition to his engineering experience, Pete has also been an active contributor to the IEEE-CS Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBoK), the Software Engineering Competency Model (SWECoM) as a result of establishing a software engineering curriculum at Intel. Pete also is a Program Evaluator (PEV) in Software Engineering (BSSE) for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET.) Pete has now visited seven universities and evaluated their software engineering programs for accreditation.

Phil is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on core container technologies that power AWS container offerings like Fargate, EKS, and ECS.

Phil is currently an active contributor and maintainer for the CNCF containerd runtime project, and participates in the Open Container Initiative (OCI) as the member of the Technical Oversight Board (TOB). Phil has also been a long-time core contributor and maintainer on the Docker/Moby engine project where he contributed key features like user namespace support and multi-platform image capabilities.

Phil enjoys helping others understand and apply container and cloud native concepts and speaks worldwide at industry conferences and meetups, and is a member of the CNCF Ambassadors program.

Philipp Ahmann is a Senior OSS Community Manager at ETAS GmbH (a Robert Bosch GmbH subsidiary), specializing in safety-critical and automotive-grade open source software. With over 15 years of experience in Linux-based automotive software platforms, Philipp has held various roles including Software Engineer, Technical Team Lead, and Project & Line Manager. He also has experience in technical business development and product management for embedded open source software within Bosch, with a focus on Linux & IoT products.

Currently, Philipp chairs the Technical Steering Committee for the ELISA Project (Enabling Linux in Safety Applications) at the Linux Foundation (LF) and leads the project’s Systems Working Group. He is further inaugural advisory board member of the Linux Foundation Europe.

I am a Software Engineer at IBM, where I play a key role in developing the IBM CI/CD Offering based on Tekton Pipelines. As a lead on the platform development team, my primary focus is on designing and implementing prescriptive pipelines that cater to the diverse needs of hundreds of teams across the organization. I am also a maintainer for Tekton Pipelines and have been serving on the program committee since 2022.

Ricardo currently works at Snowflake as a Cloud Infrastructure Lead helping automate AI/ML infrastructure with cloud native technologies. He’s an open source enthusiast and co-chair of the CNCF TAG-Runtime. He has been working in tech for more than 20 years and comes from a diverse professional background, having been in different roles at large companies such as Rakuten, Cisco and VMware as well as startups such as Branch Metrics, Coupa, Hytrust, Exablox, and SnapLogic.

Richard Sikang Bian is Head of Open Source of Ant Group. As an engineer by training, Richard was an ex-Square, ex-Microsoft software engineer who had been living in the States for 10+ years. He built Ant Group’s first OSPO and has been leading and growing the team from a strategy initiative to a full functional team. He is in charge of Ant OSS governance, operations, strategy, new products and international growth initiatives and is actively working with all open source projects and external partners.

Ronald Petty is a consultant at RX-M, a global Cloud Native an AI advisory and training firm. Ronald works as a consultant/advisor/board-member for both for-profit and non-profit organizations focusing on technology and related policy issues. Additionally, he authors and edits technical material around software development. He participated in the creation of the Kubernetes certifications and is co-lead of the Cloud Native AI Working Group. Ronald is a member of the Internet Society and Association for Computing Machinery, and is the 2024-2025 chair for both San Francisco Bay chapters.

Sandeep Jha, Director/Principal Staff Technical Program Manager at LinkedIn, leads the company’s Generative AI strategy, leveraging over a decade of expertise in data mining and machine learning. Previously, he held pivotal roles at Meta and Amazon, enhancing AI-driven experiences for billions globally. He contributes to open-source initiatives through the Linux Foundation AI & Data, is a keynote speaker at prestigious AI conferences, and serves as a program committee member for ACM KDD and SIGIR.

Sasha helps maintain the Linux Kernel Stable and LTS trees. He is currently employed by NVIDIA where he helps make Linux better. Previously, Sasha was employed by Google, Microsoft, and the Ksplice team in Oracle.

Shane Coughlan is an expert in communication, security and business development. His professional accomplishments include building the largest open source governance community in the world through the OpenChain Project, spearheading the licensing team that elevated Open Invention Network into the largest patent non-aggression community in history and establishing the first global network for open source legal experts. He is a founder of both the first law journal and the first law book dedicated to open source. He currently leads the OpenChain Project and is a General Assembly Member of OpenForum Europe.

Shirley Bailes has been involved in developer communities and building open source programs for over 15 years. She is the Director of Software Ecosystem Strategy in Intel’s Office of the CTO, where she leads thought leadership and strategic initiatives to accelerate startup innovation and developer ecosystem growth. She previously led open source programs at AWS and served as Co-President of the Women at Amazon Global Board.

Shuah Khan is a Kernel Maintainer & Linux Fellow at The Linux Foundation. She is an experienced Linux Kernel developer, maintainer, and contributor. She authored, A Beginner’s Guide to Linux Kernel Development (LFD103) training course. She designed and leads the Mentorship program aimed at increasing diversity in open source and providing equitable access to learning resources.

She serves on the Linux kernel Code of Conduct committee and the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board.

Sriram Panyam is a seasoned Software Engineering Leader with deep expertise in AI, Cloud Computing, and SaaS platforms. As the Chief Architect of Omlet Inc., he drives innovation in open observability through a cutting-edge platform built on OpenTelemetry. Sriram has authored numerous insightful articles published in DZone, IEEE Xplore, and the Forbes Technology Council, and serves as an active reviewer for esteemed conferences and journals, including IEEE Engineering Management Review and Computer Magazine. 

Sriram is a staunch advocate for open source. As part of the LF AI & Data, Generative AI Commons Education and Outreach Committee, Sriram is equally passionate about mentoring and coaching engineers and managers, empowering them to reach their full potential and advance their careers. His leadership philosophy emphasizes technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning, making him a respected voice in the tech community.

Stefano Stabellini is a Fellow at AMD, where he leads system software architecture and the virtualization team. Previously, at Aporeto, he created a virtualization-based security solution for containers and authored several security articles. As Senior Principal Software Engineer in Citrix, he led a small group of passionate engineers working on Open Source projects. Stefano has been involved in Xen development since 2007. He created libxenlight in November 2009 and started the Xen port to ARM with virtualization extensions in 2011. Today he is a Xen Project committer, and he maintains Xen on ARM and Xen support in Linux and QEMU.

Stephen Chin is VP of Developer Relations at Neo4j, member of the LF AI & Data Foundation and Open AI Alliance, and author of several titles with O’Reilly, Apress, and McGraw Hill. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including AI DevSummit, Devoxx, DevNexus, JNation, JavaOne, Shift, Joker, swampUP, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing developers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do AI, embedded, and robot programming together with his daughters.

Married for 38 years with three adult children. Worked at Hewlett Packard for 33 years; over twenty of those years as HP’s Open Source Director with product responsibilities. My Linux Foundation tenure goes back to the founding days of service on the Linux Standards Base and the Open Source Development Lab. I served multiple years as HP’s Platinum representative on the Linux Foundation Board. I am now retired and volunteering my time to Open Source communities, traveling with my wife, spending time with my adult children, and playing in Colorado’s mountains.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-m-geary/

Steven Rostedt currently works for Google on the ChromeOS baseOS performance team. He is the main developer and maintainer for ftrace, the official tracer of the Linux kernel, as well as the user space tools and libraries that interact with the Linux tracing interface. Steven is also one of the original developers for the Real Time patch (PREEMPT_RT) and still helps maintain the stable releases of the Real Time patch set. He also develops ktest.pl (in the kernel) and created the “make localmodconfig” option.

Drawing from extensive experience in product strategy and organizational leadership, Taylor builds and mentors high-performing teams through a blend of strategic wit and thoughtful guidance. His methodology emphasizes rapid experimentation and calculated risk-taking, while maintaining a centered calm that enables clear decision-making in complex situations. By championing a culture of customer-centricity and measurable outcomes, Taylor has successfully guided organizations through digital transformation and market expansion initiatives.

Theodore Ts’o is the first North American Linux Kernel Developer, and started working with Linux in September, 1991. He also served as the
tech lead for the MIT Kerberos V5 development team, and served as a chair of IP Security working group at the IETF. He previously served
as CTO for the Linux Foundation, and is currently employed at Google. Theodore is a Debian Developer, and is the maintainer of the ext4 file
system in the Linux kernel. He is the maintainer and original author of the e2fsprogs userspace utilities for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file
systems.

Tex is an up and coming Open Source Program Manager leading various efforts such as community-maintainer pilots, a Developer Advocate program, and increased transparency across multiple channels with a large Community. He excels at finding unconventional solutions to common problems and adapts to quick moving projects of varied scope. 

Thomas Petazzoni is the CEO of Bootlin, a company specializing in embedded Linux and kernel engineering with a strong focus on open-source and upstream. He has contributed to the Linux kernel, particularly in hardware support, and is a co-maintainer of the Buildroot project. A seasoned trainer and speaker, he has delivered numerous courses and talks on embedded Linux.

Thomas Steenbergen specializes in strategic open source management, helping organizations align their open source practices with business objectives. An expert in open source adoption, community building, and compliance – including Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) – he previously led Open Source Program Offices at EPAM Systems and HERE Technologies. He is a maintainer of OSS Review Toolkit, SPDX, TODO group and a regular contributor to FINOS’s Open Source Readiness and OpenChain. A frequent speaker at global open source conferences, Thomas welcomes discussions on open source topics. For more information about the projects he is involved in and his contact details, visit github.com/tsteenbe. 

Tim Bird is a Principal Software Engineer for Sony Corporation, where he helps Sony improve the Linux kernel for use in Sony’s products. Tim is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Linux Foundation. Tim is active in technical projects related to embedded Linux testing and standards, and is the maintainer of the Fuego test system.  He created the Embedded Linux Conference, and has been working with Linux for over 25 years.

As the VP of education, I’ve had the privilege of leading and nurturing an exceptional team of technology experts while embracing a dynamic set of responsibilities in growing our training program.

My passion revolves around introducing and championing emerging open source technologies. With an eye on cost control, I’ve successfully implemented transformative solutions, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity measures, and cloud-based applications. 

Collaboration is at the heart of my approach, forging strong working relationships across leadership teams, ensuring alignment with our organization’s strategic objectives. My focus lies in achieving the optimal organizational structure, integrating existing teams with acquired entities, and adapting to evolving business needs.

My technical experience spans training courses, application development, documentation, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and cybersecurity. Staying ahead of technological advancements and ensuring our training program remains at the forefront of industry developments is my commitment.

Attracting, developing, and retaining top-tier technical professionals is a personal passion. I continuously evaluate and enhance teams to ensure they possess the necessary skills to excel.

Victory Brown is a design researcher, community builder, and experienced storyteller, interfacing with designers and design communities on the state of digital, ethical, and open design practices

Walt Miner has worked for The Linux Foundation as the Community Manager for Automotive Grade Linux since 2014. Walt has spoken at Automotive Linux Summit, Embedded World Conference in Nuremberg, Embedded Linux Conference, LinuxCon North America, and Open Source Summit North America and Europe. Walt has over 30 years of embedded software development and management experience in the automotive, mobile phone, and defense industries.

Xiaoya Xia is a member of the Ant Group OSPO, where she focuses on catalyzing open source success through data-driven insights. Before joining Ant Group, Xiaoya was a PhD at East China Normal University (ECNU), where she concentrated on research into open source ecosystem sustainability.

Yoshitake Kobayashi is the General Manager of Advanced Software Technology Office at Toshiba Corporation. A part of his team provides a Linux distribution for various Toshiba products. His research interests include operating systems, distributed systems, and dynamically reconfigurable systems. Additionally, he is the Chair of the Technical Steering Committee for the Civil Infrastructure Platform Project, which is hosted by The Linux Foundation.

Cloud AppMod Engineer at Google. Also I am SRE and Chaos Engineering Advocate. Love building software applications, reading blogs, writing articles, solving hard performance and resilience issues and teaching software concepts. 

With 8+ years of software engineering. +2 year as Technical Program Manager of SRE and +3 years of Cloud AppMod Engineer.