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Sebastian Scheele is CEO and co-founder of Kubermatic, one of the leading committers to Kubernetes, focused on developing open core software solutions for automating Kubernetes operations, at scale. Sebastian, a developer himself, has his finger on the pulse of where the Kubernetes landscape is going and is contributing many of his team's resources to upstream K8s development.
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Developer Advocate with a great passion for building communities around DevOps, Platform Engineering and. Observability.
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Alan Shimel is founder, CEO and editor-in-chief of Techstrong Group, a Futurum company, and a member of Futurum's executive leadership team. A technology entrepreneur, media executive and industry commentator, Shimel has spent more than three decades building businesses, communities and media platforms serving enterprise technology professionals, including co-founding StillSecure, a network security company, and the DevOps Institute, a DevOps certification and training body. At Techstrong, he leads a portfolio of media brands including DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Techstrong AI, Techstrong IT, Digital CxO, Platform Engineering, Techstrong Semi and Techstrong TV, along with a growing portfolio of events, educational programs and digital communities. With more than 25 years of experience in cybersecurity, Shimel is a familiar voice in the space and was an early advocate of the DevOps movement, helping bring DevOps practices into mainstream enterprise technology. His work today spans cybersecurity, DevOps, cloud-native technologies, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and digital transformation, and he hosts popular programs including Techstrong Gang, Shimmy Says and Still Cyber, After All These Years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics from St. John's University and a Juris Doctor from New York Law School.
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As founder, CEO, and editor-in-chief at Techstrong Group, Alan manages a broad array of businesses and brands including Techstrong Media (DevOps.com, Security Boulevard, Cloud Native Now, Digital CxO, Techstrong.ai, Techstrong IT and Techstrong TV), Techstrong Research and Techstrong Learning. To do so and succeed, Alan has to be attuned to the world of technology, particularly DevOps, cybersecurity, cloud-native and digital transformation. With almost 30 years of entrepreneurial experience, Alan has been instrumental in the success of several organizations. Shimel is an often-cited personality in the security and technology community and is a sought-after speaker at conferences and events. In addition to his writing, his DevOps Chat podcast and Techstrong TV audio and video appearances are widely followed. Alan attributes his success to the combination of a strong business background and a deep knowledge of technology. His legal background, long experience in the field and New York street smarts combine to form a unique personality. Mr. Shimel is a graduate of St. John's University with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics, and holds a JD degree from NY Law School.
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Itiel Shwartz, the CTO and co-founder of Komodor, is an expert in Kubernetes, cloud-native technologies and infrastructure. He has served in technical leadership roles at eBay, Forter, and Rookout.
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Tom Smith (C. Thomas Smith III) is a veteran digital analyst and content strategist who spent more than four years as a Research Analyst at DZone.com (part of Devada), where he conducted thousands of interviews with technology executives and authored roughly 1,500 articles that generated more than 10 million page views across topics including AI/ML, Agile, APIs, cloud computing, DevOps, IoT, Java, Kubernetes, microservices, and security. He holds an MBA in Marketing from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and a B.A. in Political Science from Duke. Smith later worked as a content strategist and technical writer at Cognizant, including stints on Google's Bard (now Gemini) and Meta's AI Business Assistant (MAIBA) "seed" content teams, where he helped train and evaluate large language models. Over his career, he has interviewed more than 4,000 technology executives across AI, cloud, data, security, and storage sectors. He now writes independently through Insights From Analytics and is a contributing writer across multiple Techstrong Group properties, including DevOps.com, Digital CxO, Cloud Native Now, PlatformEngineering.com, and Techstrong.ai, where he covers AI agents, enterprise AI infrastructure, and emerging developer tools.
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Norbert Steiner is Solution Manager Application Platforms, Computacenter
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Will Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Northflank. Will started his career as a software engineer and currently lives in London.
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Swapneswar Sundar Ray is a Principal Machine Learning Engineer and enterprise technology leader focused on AI-powered platforms, cloud-native systems, platform engineering, and software architecture. His work spans Internal Developer Platforms, enterprise APIs, AI governance, developer productivity, and large-scale distributed systems. He is an author, researcher, conference speaker, and reviewer who writes about the intersection of AI, platform engineering, software delivery, and enterprise technology transformation.
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Jon Swartz is senior content writer at Techstrong Group. Most recently, he was MarketWatch’s senior reporter based in San Francisco covering technology and Silicon Valley.
Previously, Swartz was USA Today’s San Francisco bureau chief. He has also written for Forbes, The (London) Independent, London Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Orleans Times-Picayune. He has won numerous journalism awards and is a two-time finalist for the Loebs, the Pulitzers of business reporting. Additionally, he frequently appears as a panelist on Fox Business and NBC Bay Area’s Press:Here program.
He has been nominated four times for the Pulitzer Prize. Swartz is co-author of “Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity” and sole author of “Young Wealth.”