F5 NGINX Sprint
Speakers
About Alessandro Fael Garcia:
Alessandro is a Senior Solution Engineer in the NGINX product group at F5. He empowers engineers in their journey to stay ahead of the curve by using the latest NGINX tech offerings. In his free time, Alessandro enjoys traveling (currently on hold), cooking, and any and all outdoor exercise.
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Alessandro Fael Garcia
Senior Solutions Engineer, Community & Alliances at NGINX
About Amir Rawdat:
Amir is a Technical Marketing Engineer in the NGINX product group at F5. He started his career as a programmer, then moved to reproducing live customer networks in data centers and building software automation tools to accelerate IT operations. Amir has a degree in Computer Engineering and hands-on experience with performance-tuning open source technologies on the Linux operating system.
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Amir Rawdat
Technical Marketing Engineer II at NGINX
About Brian Ehlert:
Brian is a Director of Product Management in the NGINX product group at F5. During his career, Brian has filled roles in telecom, systems engineering, auditing, networking, systems hardening, and disaster recovery, resolving complex, deep, and multi-faceted systems issues. Before joining F5, Brian was a technically focused Product Manager specializing in Microsoft technology in the Microsoft Solutions group at Citrix, where he began as a research test engineer.
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Brian Ehlert
Director, Product Management at NGINX
About Casey Zednick:
Casey is the tech lead of the delivery engineering tools team in the NGINX product group at F5. He believes in the power of asking why, meeting his customers where they are, and being data driven, with the goal of ensuring that NGINX developers have a delightful experience. Casey's background spans from startups to public companies, which enables him to be customer focused while understanding larger companies' processes.
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Casey Zednick
Senior Software Engineer at F5
About Christine Abernathy:
Christine leads the Open Source Programs Office at F5. Christine joined F5 from Facebook (now Meta Platforms) where she was instrumental in growing the company's open source presence. Prior roles included Developer Advocate for Parse, a Facebook platform, and Partner Engineer in the Mobile group. Before Facebook, Christine headed up engineering at Mshift, a mobile banking software provider, delivering iOS/Android apps and mobile browser-based products. Prior experiences include co-founding Clickmarks, a mobile and enterprise middleware provider.
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Christine Abernathy
Senior Director, Open Source at F5
About Christopher Harrison:
Christopher is a long-time geek who's spent the bulk of his career training, supporting, and up-skilling developers. He's a web developer at heart, with passions which span from Python to DevOps to TypeScript to AI. In his current role as an Enterprise Advocate at GitHub he seeks to help organizations improve their DevOps process and culture. When not found writing code he can be found running, playing Civilization, or spending time with his partner and their four-legged child (a rescue mutt).
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Christopher Harrison
Enterprise Advocate at GitHub
About Damian Curry:
After many years of managing infrastructure for multiple companies, Damian now heads up all things technical for Partnerships and Alliances in the NGINX product group at F5. Damian is a long time NGINX user, and it has played a key role in almost every environment he has managed.
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Damian Curry
Community & Alliances Technical Director at NGINX
About Dave McAllister:
Dave works with open source projects in the NGINX product group at F5 to promote the advantages of modern architectures and orchestration for solving the challenges of large-scale distributed systems, especially with today's fast-moving cycles.
Dave has been a champion of open systems and open source from the early days of Linux to today's world of clouds and containers. He speaks on topics such as the real-world issues associated with emerging software architectures and practices. Currently, his driving interests are app management, observability, and service mesh.
Dave was named as one of the top ten pioneers in open source by Computer Business Review, having cut his teeth on Linux and compilers before the phrase "open source" was coined.
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Dave McAllister
NGINX, OSS Technical Evangelist at NGINX
About Dylen Turnbull:
Dylen has accumulated more than 22 years of experience in enterprise/open source software and solution development, at companies including Symantec, Veritas, F5 Networks, and now the NGINX product group at F5. Working with NGINX Business Development on strategic partner alliances with Rancher and Grafana Labs, his primary focus is integration work with open source technologies including Rancher, Rancher Kubernetes Engine, K3s, Prometheus, and Grafana in the containerization, virtualization, and continuous integration/delivery solutions space.
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Dylen Turnbull
Solutions Architect, Community & Alliances at NGINX
About Elijah Zupancic:
Elijah is a Solutions Architect in the NGINX product group at F5, with experience as a software engineer, architect, and technical manager. Elijah has been leading software teams in architectural design, product development, and holistic improvement for over 10 years and loves to geek out about infrastructure, architecture, application composition, service design, and the psychology of making real-world applications work.
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Elijah Zupancic
Solutions Architect, Community & Alliances at NGINX
About Eric Braun:
Eric Braun is the Vice President, Product Management and Commercial Strategy for the NGINX product group at F5. He is a veteran of SaaS, PaaS, cloud (IaaS), enterprise software (including virtualization from the OS to containers and workload orchestration), telecommunications, and use cases for emerging AI, ML, and XR solutions as well as connected devices.
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Eric Braun
Vice President, Product Management and Commercial Strategy at NGINX
About Granville Schmidt:
Granville serves in the Office of the CTO at F5, where he focuses on innovation and standards across the enterprise. Granville is a contributor to the OpenTelemetry project and chair of the Security Task Group for the JavaScript/ECMAScript specification (TC39).
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Granville Schmidt
Architect - Office of the CTO at F5
About Hannah Ouellette:
Hannah is the Senior OSS Community Manager for the NGINX product group at F5. They discovered their passion for OSS community at Kong before serving as community manager at Postman. They believe that diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are crucial to a healthy community. When they're not in front of their computer, they can be found jumping horses and putting together jigsaw puzzles.
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Hannah Ouellette
Senior OSS Community Manager at NGINX
About Jason Schmidt:
Jason is a Solutions Architect in the NGINX product group at F5 and has experience in operations, development, project management, product management, customer support, field services, and consulting. Jason believes in the power of open source to provide solutions, drive innovation, and increase collaboration while providing significant cost savings. Experience with both startups and large multinational organizations has provided Jason with a wide array of communication skills and a deep understanding of needs and capabilities which are the foundation for finding answers that deliver immediate returns and long-term value.
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Jason Schmidt
Solutions Architect, Community & Alliances at NGINX
About Javier Evans:
For the past ten years Javier has worked in companies of various sizes doing product-focused full stack software development. He believes that work at every level of the software stack is relevant to user experience. Come talk to him about NGINX, Elixir, and kindness in software development.
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Javier Evans
Solutions Engineer at F5
About Javier Perez:
Passionate about technology and open-source software, Javier is Chief Evangelist for Open Source and Security at Perforce Software. He is responsible for technical thought leadership and advocacy for the open-source and application security portfolios.
Javier has been in the application development, open-source, cloud, app security, AI, SaaS, and mobile industries for 20+ years, and has had the opportunity to speak at industry events all over the world. Javier holds an honors degree in Computer Systems and an MBA.
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Javier Perez
Chief Evangelist - Open Source & Security at Perforce Software
About Liam Crilly:
Liam, a Senior Director of Product Management in the NGINX product group at F5, has 20 years of experience in the Internet industry. He knew the Internet was going to be a big deal when he wrote his first web app in 1993, at the dawn of the graphical Internet. Liam has held various product management roles at organizations of all sizes. In his spare time, he exercises his hidden talent for racing fast cars.
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Liam Crilly
Senior Director, Product Management at NGINX
About Matt Butcher:
Matt is a founder and CEO of Fermyon. He is one of the original creators of Helm, Brigade, CNAB, OAM, Glide, and Krustlet. He has written or co-written many books, including Learning Helm and Go in Practice, and co-created the Illustrated Children’s Guide to Kubernetes series. These days, he works mostly on WebAssembly projects such as Spin, Fermyon, and Bartholomew. Matt holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and lives in Colorado.
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Matt Butcher
CEO at Fermyon
About Nina Forsyth:
Nina is Director of Product Management in the NGINX product group at F5. She currently drives innovation for NGINX Open Source, NGINX Plus, and NGINX Instance Manager. She also shapes the product roadmap and partners with development and UI teams to inject the user viewpoint into our latest technologies.
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Nina Forsyth
Director of Product Management at NGINX
About Rey Lejano:
Rey Lejano is a Field Engineer at SUSE by way of Rancher Labs. Rey is a contributor and maintainer of the Kubernetes project as the Kubernetes v1.23 Release Lead, v1.25 Emeritus Adviser, Kubernetes Security Special Interest Group sub-project lead, and co-chair of the Kubernetes Documentation Special Interest Group who maintains kubernetes.io, reference documentation for the Kubernetes API, kubectl, and kubeadm.
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Rey Lejano
Kubernetes Field Engineer at Rancher
About Rob Whiteley:
Rob is the Vice President, General Manager of the NGINX product group at F5, overseeing engineering, product management, and marketing. He also maintains dotted-line responsibility for NGINX sales, support, professional services, finance, HR, and legal resources within corporate F5. Rob joins F5 from Hedvig, where he built the marketing function and helped launch the company from stealth. Prior to that, Rob was at Riverbed, where he held various marketing and operations roles, including GM of Riverbed’s Storage Delivery Business Unit. Before Rob got started in marketing, he spent 10 years in various analyst and executive roles at Forrester Research where he was responsible for 400 members of the research staff when he left in 2012.
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Rob Whiteley
Vice President, General Manager at NGINX
About Stephen Chin:
Stephen is VP of Developer Relations at JFrog, chair of the CDF governing board, member of the CNCF governing board, and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the upcoming DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O’Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including swampUP, Devoxx, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do embedded and robot programming together with his teenage daughter.
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Stephen Chin
VP of Developer Relations at JFrog
About Timo Stark:
Timo has been a passionate web developer for more than 15 years, having started when he was just 12 years old. He started his professional career as a web developer and solutions architect in the automotive industry. He joined the NGINX product group at F5 as a Professional Services Engineer in February 2020 and focuses on helping customers integrate NGINX products into their solutions. Outside of work, he volunteers as a firefighter.
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Timo Stark
Product Management Engineer II at NGINX
About Ward Bekker:
Based in the Netherlands, Ward works as a Solutions Engineer at Grafana Labs. As a big fan of the Grafana Loki project, he likes to publish Loki how-to videos on YouTube, share project news and tips on social media, and give Loki-flavored workshops. Earlier in his career, he specialized in big-data cybersecurity and as a developer of high-traffic websites.
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Ward Bekker
Sr. Principal Solutions Engineer at Grafana