CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent

Adam is the CEO and Co-Founder of System Initiative. He's an engineering and product innovator, with decades of experience designing, building, and managing large production systems. Adam previously co-founded Chef Software, was the original author of Chef, served as CTO, and was on the board of directors.

Software developer at Red Hat working on Foreman and its plugins, mostly focused on Foreman's background processing engine and remote execution capabilities built around it.

Alain van Hoof is a Linux user since 1993, when XFree86 settings could blow up your VGA monitor. At the age of 42 (yes 42) he became a MSc in System and Network Engineering at the University of Amsterdam. Doing all the Hipster things like CI/CD and Cloud as a consultant he ended up where his heart belongs: in an academic HPC environment where he can do Linux professionally and at scale. At home his Kubernetes cluster in “de meterkast” has an uptime of many years, running a website with 1 visitor a day. Besides the IT, his hobbies in include (Islay) whisky, speed skating, running and cycling.

Alessandro Franceschi has been working in IT since 1995 when he opened a Linux-based ISP in Italy.

Serial enterpreneur, he worked as webmaster, Linux trainer, network administrator, security expert, system administrator, web developer, infrastructure architect, consultant and trainer.

In 2007, he started using Puppet (version 0.21) while working as a sysadmin at the Bank of Italy.

That has been a first-sight love, which has been maintained over the years.

Alex is a software engineer at SUSE where he works on Salt and Uyuni.

Alina Buzachis, PhD, is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Ansible, where she works primarily on cloud technologies. Alina received her PhD in Distributed Systems in 2021, focusing on advanced microservice orchestration techniques in the Cloud-to-Thing continuum. In her spare time, Alina enjoys traveling, hiking, and cooking.

Andrew Jones is a Professional services engineer who joined Puppet at the end of 2019 having previously been the Puppet administrator at a global engineering company. He spends much of his time working with a wide range of customers from initial installations for new users to upgrades, architecture reviews and code reviews for existing users as well as delivering the Puppet training courses.
Outside of work, Andrew can be found cycling around the country lanes of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland.

Founder, Community Builder, and Developer Advocate; Ben gets to build neat things -and- talk to people! \o/

Ben is a software engineer and community leader with extensive knowledge and expertise in the Puppet ecosystem. He's honored to call many of you friend and learn from you every day. He's been organizing Linux Users Groups, run clubs, and roller derby teams for most of his adult life and even a bit before that. Before coming to Puppet, he taught Anthropology grad students how to code in Java and then used that experience to introduce Puppet to many of you.

Ben has been obsessed with collective benefit for decades and is motivated by enabling the success of others. He's been dreaming of a world in which his skills don't just feed the capitalist maw. He is a long-distance runner but isn't interested in boasting about race times; he'd rather hear how your race went for you.

He's currently building a VC-free company at https://overlookinfratech.com.
Find him online at https://hachyderm.io/@binford2k

Blerim Sheqa is the COO of Icinga, a leading open-source monitoring platform. With a strong background in system administration, Blerim has been instrumental in guiding Icinga’s strategic direction, ensuring that the platform continues to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving IT landscape. In his role, he oversees the development of new features and innovations, focusing on making monitoring simpler and more effective for modern infrastructures. Blerim’s combination of technical expertise and product management skills allows him to bridge the gap between development teams and end-users, delivering solutions that are both technically robust and user-friendly.

Bo Maryniuk has more than 25 years experience driving Open Source projects and currently works as Principal Software Engineer in Automotive industry at e.solutions GmbH, Germany.

Brónach Falls is a Software Engineer who began working for Puppet in September 2022. She works on the Integrations team, where she is actively involved in aligning Puppet products to meet customer requirements and to meet dynamic industry standards. Most recently, she has been involved in the trial of some new AI products.

Bryan's been interested in computing for as long as he can remember. Even studying electronic engineering, just to understand how a computer could add 2 numbers together on a transistor level.

Recently, he's been interested in the smaller details of operating systems. How they work, why they look they way they do, and why LISP machines never took off.

Please don't hesitate to approach him about anything tech, or music, related. But, be warned, he has a tendency to just keep on talking once he gets going.

Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, supporting and promoting various upstream communities such as InstructLab, Ansible and ManageIQ. She has been actively involved in open source communities while working for Jolla and Nokia previously. In addition, she also has experiences in software development/integration in her 12 years in the mobile industry. Carol has spoken at events around the world, including AI_Dev in France and OpenInfra Summit in China. On a personal note, Carol plays the Timpani in an orchestra in Tampere, Finland, where she now calls home.

Since 2006, Christian Stankowic has enjoyed working with the gray boxes that are supposed to help you solve problems that you wouldn't have had without them. He is particularly interested in Linux, virtualization and infrastructure as code. His favorite tools include: RHEL/CentOS, Foreman/Katello, SUSE Manager/Uyuni, Terraform and Ansible. He also collects ThinkPads and hosts the “FOCUS ON: Linux” podcast.

Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk. His daily-ish newsletter is at newsletter.cote.io.

Fullstack Engineer who focuses on some of Perforce’s latest initiatives using AI. Prior to this, she worked within Puppet’s Comply and CD4PE team where she helped with the migration of one of Puppet’s products to deliver a more streamlined product to some of Puppets largest customers . Dana’s passions are in researching new technologies, product ideation and development

Outside of work, Dana teaches yoga and enjoys getting involved in her local community.

Dave is a long time free software and open source advocate, and contributor to multiple open source projects over the years. He currently leads the Developer Relations team at Ampere Computing, helping aise awareness and adoption of Ampere Arm64 processors in cloud computing. He has spent his career working on open source projects, including infrastructure projects and developer tooling. He lives in the Boston area with his family.

Hey, I'm a Software Engineer who first began working for Puppet as a Graduate in 2016. Since then, I have worked for several different teams within Puppet and later Perforce, the majority of which were working with Open-Source content. I now work within the Developer Experience or DevX team, with his main focus being the maintenance and expansion of the PDK

Outside of work I have been an avid reader and gamer for most of my life and in more recent times to take better care of myself, I have begun attending a local powerlifting gym regularly throughout the week, while spending the weekends either cycling around the area where I live or taking long hikes through local nature preserves depending on the weather.

David is an author and experienced DevOps professional who is the Community and Developer Relations lead for Puppet.

He previously worked on the product management of Puppet’s development ecosystem and integrations while working with Puppet’s largest and most complex customers to deliver automation at scale and support their DevOps working practices.

He spent eight years at NatWest as a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. David has a passion for delivering change into traditional working environments, breaking down team silos, and integrating DevOps working practices with heavily regulated and audited environments.

Outside of work, David is an accomplished hillwalker (Munroist number: 3085) having climbed all 282 of the Scottish Munros. He also enjoys sci-fi and fantasy books and regularly visits Scotland's tractor parks with his wife and two sons.

I am a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. I have been a Pulp developer for the last 10 years. I've been operating Pulp as a Service at Red Hat for the last two years. I have a passion for open source software and juggling.

Dirk Götz is working as a Manager for NETWAYS, still being as Consultant and Trainer at customers.
As part of his daily work he writes concepts, implements, reviews and teaches Puppet, Ansible and Foreman in many different environments.
He created a training course based on Open Source Puppet for his employer and the official Foreman Training as corporate project of NETWAYS and the Foreman Project.

Ansible community engineering team at Red Hat

As a Senior Solutions Architect at Pulumi with over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, including roles at the Schwarz Group and W&W Versicherungen, I bring extensive expertise with an end-user and enterprise focus. Currently working for a startup while collaborating with enterprise clients has further enriched my experience!

I began my career as a Java backend developer, transitioned to frontend development, and ultimately specialized in CI/CD and DevOps. Working with ANT and Cruise Control to switch to Jenkins and Microsoft Team Foundation Server added some traumas on top! But as they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

I have now embraced the dynamic world of DevOps and Platform Engineering, leveraging cloud technologies and Kubernetes.

Recently, I have been exploring AI to find ways to make myself redundant in the future.

Erwin Staal is an Azure Architect and DevOps consultant working for Xebia in the Netherlands. Helping companies deliver their software to customers using DevOps practices and cloud-native architectures is what he loves to do. He believes in the power of both the monolith and microservices and prefers to run his workload on the Azure Cloud and/or Kubernetes.
Besides the work he does for the customers of Xebia, he has a passion for sharing knowledge. He is one of the authors of 'Azure Infrastructure as Code' (https://www.manning.com/books/azure-infrastructure-as-code), occasionally writes a blog, and is an international speaker at conferences.

Debian Developer, Red Hat Engineer, ♥ automation

Ewoud has been around in the Foreman community for a long time with his first patch merged in 2012. After spending 5 years in the community, he joined Red Hat in 2017 where he's part of the platform team. You can find his contributions all over the ecosystem.

Fabio Alessandro “Fale” Locati is an EMEA Principal Specialist Solutions Architect at Red Hat, public speaker, author, and Open Source contributor. His primary areas of expertise are Linux, automation, security, and cloud technologies. Fale started working in IT in 2004, giving him many years of experience, with many of them spent consulting for many companies, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of the books Practical Ansible, Practical Ansible 2, Learning Ansible 2, Learning Ansible 2.7, and OpenStack Cloud Security. In his spare time, he helps in the Ansible, Fedora, Kubernetes, and OpenStreetMap communities, as well as in many smaller projects on GitHub and similar platforms.

Felix is a software engineer at Plexim GmbH and long-time Ansible user and contributor with some server management experience.

Feu is the Community Manager for Icinga – taking care of the community forum, organising events, holding trainings, and sharing insights on stage.
They have been with the project since 2016 now, first as a developer, designer and now as the community medium, speaker and also a git trainer. With a passion for teaching, inclusivity, accessibility and anything new they’re always happy to stop for a chat!

Florian lives south of Vienna, has been using free and open source software for more than 20 years, has not worked from an office in more than 10, and is active in the OpenStack, Ceph, Python, and Open edX communities. His day job is to run the education and documentation team at Cleura, a Swedish public cloud provider. He writes and talks about distributed work and asynchronous collaboration.

Ganesh works for RedHat in the Ansible Engineering team. In his role within the Ansible Engineering Ganesh provides technical leadership and guidance, particularly in enhancing the Ansible Content ecosystem and the Ansible Developer experience.

Garrett Honeycutt has been working with open source software and spreading its merits for over twenty five years. He is recognized by the community as a Puppet Champion and is passionate about automating systems and teaching others. Regularly sharing his experiences, he has had the opportunity to speak at conferences across the globe and organizes several conferences.

Gavin Didrichsen is a seasoned automation expert and advocate for simplifying complex processes through Puppet’s suite of tools. With over a decade of experience in infrastructure automation, Gavin has been a passionate Puppet user since 2014. His introduction to Puppet came while automating a cumbersome test environment setup for BT set-top boxes, transforming a manual week-long process into a streamlined, shareable workflow that completed in minutes.

Currently a Principal Software Engineer at Puppet by Perforce, Gavin focuses on leveraging tools like PDK and Bolt to drive best practices, solve complex customer challenges, and document domain knowledge through automation. He enjoys helping others embrace automation to solve real-world problems.

Gavin’s passion for simplifying workflows extends beyond his professional role. Outside of work, Gavin is deeply curious about technology and enjoys exploring how it can make life easier and help us be more "human".

With 9 years of experience as a Puppet developer, I currently serve as the Technical Lead for Puppet integrations, focusing on connecting Puppet with key enterprise tools such as ServiceNow and Splunk. My role involves designing and implementing seamless integrations that enhance automation and visibility across diverse IT ecosystems.

Hazel spends her days working on building out teams of humans as well as the infrastructure, systems, automation, and tooling to make life better for others. She’s worked at a variety of companies, across a wide range of tech, and knows that the hardest problems to solve are the social ones. Hazel currently serves as a Director on the board of the Haskell Foundation, as a Fellow of the Nivenly Foundation, and is fondly known as the Infrastructure Witch of Hachyderm (a popular Mastodon instance). She also created the first official Haskell “setup” Github Action and helped turn it into an active community-maintained project. She enjoys traveling to speak at conferences, appearing on podcasts, mentoring others, and sharing what she’s learned with the world.

One of her favorite things is watching someone light up when they understand something for the first time, and a life goal of hers is to help as many people as possible experience that joy. She also loves shooting pool and going swing dancing, both as a leader and a follower.

Developer advocate at Chef

Helen is a Senior Software Engineer on the Ansible Cloud Content Team at Red Hat where she develops and maintains Ansible content collections, contributes to AWX and the Unified UI, and daydreams about a future where all data is well formed and all code is well documented. She was previously a Senior Data Engineer at MIT Libraries developing automated ETL pipelines for library collections data. In her spare time she plays banjo and attempts to train her two rescue pups.

Passionate about free software and the interconnection of technologies since his first FOSDEM in 2004, Hugo never stopped hacking around the possibilities offered by Linux and Python and sharing his passion.

He founded OKESO in 2016 as a company focused on providing expert advice, training and implementation on Software Engineering and Data Science, with a focus on Free and Open-Source technologies, Digital Sovereignty and Privacy.

I'm a passionate engineer for Red Hat who has worked on Katello for the past 6 years. I enjoy solving problems and working in the realm of open source. Outside of work, I'm also interested in music, biking, and photography.

Silvan (aka infinisil) is an active member of the Nix community, focusing on high-impact improvements to the ecosystem, automation and NixOS modules.

James Freeman is a published author and Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS, bringing over 25 years of technology expertise to the table. With more than a decade of hands-on experience, James has tackled complex enterprise challenges in real-world production environments using Ansible, often introducing this powerful automation tool to CTOs and organizations for the first time. As the author of five authoritative books on Ansible, James is a recognized thought leader in IT automation. His expertise extends to facilitating tailored Ansible workshops and training sessions, and he is a sought-after speaker, having presented at international conferences and community meetups. James's passion for empowering others through automation continues to inspire engineers and businesses to unlock new possibilities in IT.

James is a DevOps/Config mgmt. hacker and physiologist from Montreal, Canada.
He often goes by @purpleidea on the internet, and writes "The Technical Blog of James".
He works on a Next Generation Config Management project that he started called mgmt.
He studied Physiology at university and sometimes likes to talk about cardiology.

Jan works is Senior orcharhino QA Engineer at ATIX - the Linux & Open Source Company.
He is specialized on infrastructure automation and has several years of experience setting up orcharhino in customer environments.

Jan is currently living in Munich - a city most famous for its beer.
Although he is originally from there and was raised with the Munich Helles, he got to know a lot of other beer styles while travelling around the world.
So he started brewing his own beer - of course supperted by a lot of automation.

Linux software engineer with a love for open source.

Jasper Wiegratz is a Solution Architect at SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH with a background in network security and a strong focus on automation.
With experience developing OpenWRT-based security appliances in academia, Jasper has been working with containers since 2015 and specializing in OpenShift since 2018. Passionate about simplifying complex systems, Jasper is dedicated to advancing network automation and firewall management in Linux environments.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wiegratz/

JJ works as a Developer Advocate representing IBM worldwide. He engages in the IBM’s watsonx service, the Open Source AI ecosystem, and Kubernetes ecosystem with a focus on Red Hat’s OpenShift. He attempts to teach enterprises and users succesful skills to onboard to the AI and Cloud Native ecosystem though he learned his trade in the DevOps ecosystem. If he isn’t building high level automation to streamline his work, he’s building the groundwork to prepare for that need. He’s been an avid homelaber and self-hoster of open source software for years and gives back to that community as much as possible.

He lives and grew up in Austin, Texas. A father and husband, trying to learn to balance his natural nerdiness with family life. He enjoys a good strong dark ale, hoppy IPA, some team building Artemis, and epic Gloomhaven campaigning.

He has dove headfirst into Fedora since IBM buying Redhat, but still secretly wants FreeBSD everywhere. He’s always trying to become a better web technology developer, though normally just uses bash and python to get the job done.

I've been supporting the Ansible Community for the past 8 years

Botchaglupe, known online through their distinctive handle across platforms like Twitter and Gmail, is a spirited and resourceful digital presence who engages with the world through humor, insight, and originality. They have cultivated a reputation for sharp commentary, creative storytelling, and a unique perspective that resonates with their followers. Whether sharing thought-provoking insights or lighthearted musings, Botchaglupe's online interactions reflect a blend of authenticity and wit. Always ready to connect, share, and engage, Botchaglupe is a digital native who thrives in the ever-evolving landscape of online discourse.

(Bio obviously generated by ChatGPT)

Beyond the tech world, I’m an avid traveler who loves exploring new cultures and meeting interesting people. When I’m not on the road or deep in code, I enjoy spending time with my dog and embracing the journey of life.

I manage config management at Cloudflare.

I enjoy working on global scale, hybrid cloud workload challenges. With nearly 30 years of experience in the connected operations space spanning from small to medium to some of the largest enterprise infrastructure in the world, a strong believer in automation and a long time supporter of the config management, IaaS mindset.

I spent 5 years as an NSA DevOps Engineer where I focused on automating OS hardening to federal compliance standards. Following NSA, I spent 8 years as a certified Puppet consultant primarily focusing on large, highly regulated industries. Now as CTO of Sicura, I focus on automating secure infrastructure so that engineers can continue to be efficient at building security into their environments at scale.

Kief Morris (he/him) is the author of the O’Reilly book Infrastructure as Code, and is the Global Community of Practice Lead for Infrastructure Engineering at Thoughtworks. He works with clients and project teams around the world to explore, shape, and share better ways of working with cloud and infrastructure architecture.

Kief started out as a developer and systems administrator in the dot-com boom days, then worked with a series of digital scaleups applying infrastructure automation before it was a thing. He joined Thoughtworks in 2010 as the wider industry was discovering Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, and Cloud, which gave him the opportunity to bring what he had learned in the previous fifteen years to enterprise clients in many industries and many countries.
He wrote the book Infrastructure as Code (third edition underway) to share these ideas with a wider audience, which has given him a platform to meet and learn from an ever-growing variety of people and organizations.

Kirill Satarin works as principal software engineer at Red Hat with focus on SAP automation with Ansible.

39 y.o.
Transitioned from QA engineer to head of department, then moved to software development and cloud infrastructure.
Experienced in both large corporations and small startups, offering a wide range of perspectives in the tech industry.
Skilled at building infrastructure from scratch and transforming on-premises solutions into SaaS.
Terraform guru, Kubernetes ideologist.
Passionate about creating, problem-solving, and bringing new concepts to life, preferring hands-on work over simply managing others.
Strong advocate for end-to-end project ownership, from design and prototyping to full implementation.
Enjoys decision-making freedom and thrives in roles that allow for innovation and initiative.
Deeply invested in work, with a holistic approach to product development.
Graduated Information Security specialist with Master's degree in Cryptography.

Lars is an associate professor at Lund University. His main research interest is software configuration management and how it can be used to support various software development processes and different contexts – and he teaches an academic course on software configuration management.

Laura has been a software engineer and Site Reliability Engineer for over two decades. She has worked at both small startups and large organisations such as Slack and Google. Laura has contributed to several books on SRE, such as the Site Reliability Engineering book, Seeking SRE, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know, and is currently is completing her MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety at Lund University. She lives in rural Ireland in a small village full of medieval ruins.

Leon Krass works as a System Engineer at SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH. In his role, he consults clients from both the private and public sectors on various infrastructural and architectural topics. His favorite solutions to archive infrastructure automation and standardization include HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes and Ansible.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonkrass/

Red Hat developer, working on Foreman (Satellite), leading a team responsible for provisioning, host registration, Ansible, and compute resources.

Luca Berton is a seasoned Ansible Automation expert with over 18 years of experience in IT, focusing on DevOps, Cloud Engineering, and System Administration.

Luca authored several best-selling books, including Ansible for VMware by Examples and Ansible for Kubernetes by Example, and is the creator of the Ansible Pilot project. Luca has contributed significantly to the open-source community, particularly in enhancing Ansible’s functionality. He has also been recognized for his active participation in conferences and his contributions to the Ansible community through various events and publications.

Maik van der Gaag is the CTO of 3fifty, an experienced consultancy company with a strong focus on the Microsoft Cloud. He has over 15 years of experience providing architecture, development, training, and design expertise. During this, he has worked in various projects ranging from Cloud Transformations to DevOps implementations.

He loves to share knowledge, is a public speaker, writes blogs, and organizes events. Microsoft has recognized him as Microsoft Azure MVP.

If you want to learn more about him or his expertise, check out his blog (https://msftplayground.com).

Marcel van Lohuizen created the open source CUE project building on 20 years of experience in the natural language processing and cloud configuration space. At Google he was, among other things, a member of the founding Borg team (the inspiration for Kubernetes), where he created the core tooling as well as the Borg Configuration Language (BCL), and a long-time member of the Go team. He is now the CEO of CUE Labs.

Marco Marongiu works as Site Reliability Engineer for RiksTV, a small TV distributor, in Oslo, Norway. He started with infrastructure automation with CFEngine 2 and hasn’t stopped since, going through the early versions of Puppet, CFEngine 3, and now terraform/terragrunt.

Sysadmin for Linux
Puppet Practitioner since 2018

A 25+yr *nix sysadmin Mark Bolwell is the Principal Automation Engineer at MindPoint Group and owner of consulting company Krameff solutions. He is one of the core maintainers of the opensource ansible-lockdown project.

Marko is a Principal Consultant at The Scale Factory, based in the UK. He has worked in the IT industry for more than two decades and engaged with many different technologies. He currently leads innovation, strategic projects and help customers to build and scale their SaaS platforms in AWS Cloud. Marko is also responsible steering our technical direction based on the current industry trends. Being passionate about community diversity, equality, automation, Cloud Native and Open Source, you can also find Marko speaking and participating at DevOps, Cloud Native/Kubernetes and HashiCorp events. He’s an open source contributor, problem solver, HashiCorp/OpenUK Ambassador, and enthusiastic about emerging technologies. In his free time Marko enjoys hiking and travelling.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marko-bevc/

Markus is a Software Engineer at ATIX AG located near Munich, Germany.
He is mainly working on orcharhino, THE solution for orchestrating data centers!
While doing so he is also an active contributor to the Foreman ecosystem, specialized in improving deb content-management for the Katello plugin.

Software Engineer at ATIX AG.
Loves Open Source.

Martin has been supporting customers for more than 10 years in planning, implementation, setup, development and operation of IT automation with a focus on Puppet and GIT as a consultant. As a trainer Martin likes to share his knowledge about Puppet, Bolt and Git and GitLab. His work environment consists of diverse clients in the telecommunications, health care, government and automotive sectors.

Prior to self-employment, Martin worked in the start-up, finance and online services environment. As an active member of the Puppet open source community, Martin helps with user questions and Puppet code development.

Matthias Dellweg works as a software engineer on the Pulp team. His theoretical physics background often brings a unique perspective to some discussions.

Guatemalan software developer with over 17 years of experience. I've shared my insights at leading industry events like FOSDEM, LinuxCon, and KubeCon. Currently, I am an Open-Source Developer Specialist at Spectro Cloud, where I contribute to Kairos, an innovative operating system designed for edge computing.

Max works as a Managing Consultant (think Staff Engineer) at Babiel GmbH. He likes to describe his job as “teaching computers to take care of themselves”.

He has worked with Puppet since 2009, and with Kubernetes since 2018.

Michael is VP of Engineering at Flox. He was previously in senior engineering leadership at CircleCI and Puppet. Where he grew engineering teams by 5x or more. He spent time building high performing teams, organizations and researching engineering effectiveness. He’s been speaking at DevOps and Automation events since 2007. He founded the package repository Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) and wrote a book on OpenSSH in 2005.

Nick is an engineer working in both software and hardware over his 20 year career. He most recently was a Principal Engineer at Puppet.

Niklas Werker is Technical Lead Ansible at SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH in Germany.

Having a background in automotive engineering, Niklas shifted his focus to DevOps Engineering. His passion lies in automation, IaC, Linux, Hybrid Clouds, CI/CD and open-source software.

Senior Software Engineer on the Foreman team at Red Hat.

Since 2016, Pablo works as Senior Software Engineer at SUSE, actively involved in the Uyuni Project, SUSE Multi-Linux Manager and Salt.

Pablo holds a BEng in Computer System Engineering from the University of La Laguna, in Tenerife, Spain.

Supporting local communities around Free Software, Arduino, Raspberry-Pi, FLOSS and Linux. Pablo develops Free Software from Tenerife, Canary Islands.

Just a person who builds stuff :shrug:

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Quirin Pamp is a software engineer with ATIX AG. In this capacity he contributes to open-source projects in and around the Foreman/Katello ecosystem and is the principal maintainer of the pulp_deb plugin. Unrelated interests include logic and cycling.

I am a physicist turned developer who started his career as a Java developer, and now spends his days (and often evenings) using declarative IaC tools to manage infrastructure and build pipelines.
I enjoy discovering new open source tools that can help improve the state of computing as an industry, and squashing bugs along the way.

Raphaël has worked in IT for more than 25 years, and has experience in system administration, database management and web development. He is a staunch Free and Open Source Software supporter, and is attentive to security and privacy matters.

Robert Hensing started his career as a functional programmer, has used Nix since 2016, and he's a maintainer for some of the core components of the Nix ecosystem, such as Nix itself, and the declarative configuration eDSL, the Module System.

In 2018 he founded Hercules CI, a bootstrapped CI/CD dashboard/scheduling SaaS, as he does not like what venture capital tends to do to nice open source communities.

Doing Puppet since 2011. Doing Linux since 1997. Gaming on Linux since 2020. Also know about Ansible.

Job: Agile Enterprise DevOps, also a software archaeologist.

Rohit Thakur is a Principal Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in network automation and software development. He specializes in designing scalable solutions with a focus on impactful automation using Ansible and other cutting-edge tools.

Rok is an Engineer at Flox.

Wherever he worked, he put users first, either as a Release Engineer at Mozilla or as a consultant at Tweag. UX/DX became the language to "talk" to the users. Knowing that communicating the ideas is as important as having the technical skill is what makes Rok stand out. Understanding users and knowing how to talk to them is what brings a smile to Rok's face every day.

Ronny Orot is a Senior Software Engineer at env0 and an OpenTofu Core Developer team member. She has created various TACoS solutions for different companies over the past four years and is passionate about DevOps and IaC.

Sebastian Stadil is one of many creators of the OpenTofu project, and currently the CEO of Scalr which makes commercial tooling for OpenTofu.

Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat.
Working on Foreman for the last 10 years.

Soham Chakraborty is a senior devops engineer at Sematext. He has worked with Kubernetes for several years and is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator. He has deep experience on Linux, infrastructure tooling, performance analysis.

Principal Software Engineer @ Red Hat
Ansible DevTools Team Lead

Steven Pritchard is Vice President, Infrastructure and Security at Sicura, where he is a contributor to various open source projects including SIMP and Vox Pupuli.

Timothy Appnel is a Senior Product Manager on the Ansible team at Red Hat. Tim is an old-timer in the Ansible community with over 12 years of experience with Ansible as a contributor, customer, consultant, evangelist, and “jack of all trades.” The synchronize module in Ansible is all his fault.

Tim „bastelfreak“ Meusel became a Senior Automation IT Consultant in July 2021.
Previously, he worked as a DevOps Engineer for GoDaddy EMEA in Cologne, Germany, where he developed and maintained a big public cloud platform.
Tim is the driving force behind various open source projects.
He is a very active Vox Pupuli Maintainer and Project Management Committee founding member.
Tim has been doing work in the DevOps area since 2009 and began persuing Puppet solutions in 2012.

Tobias worked as a Cloud Architect in finance and advertising companies. He successfully built and operated Crossplane architectures driven by GitOps principles at scale, managing thousands of cloud resources in production environments. He’s a former Software Engineer and an active contributor to the Crossplane ecosystem.

Toshaan Bharvani is a IT consultant, currently self-employed at VanTosh, with a interest in Open Source Software and IT Hardware. He started his IT interest at a very early age, when his father gave him his first own PC components. Ever since he has been interested in IT hardware and software. In business, he tends to combine higher level applications with lower level systems. Toshaan has been involved for some time now in some open source projects and communities.

Working in IT for more than 20 years. Last few yars actively improving Salt for specific use cases.

My interests have varied over the years, but tech has always been a constant. During my electrical engineering studies, I initially gravitated toward electronics. However, along the way, I discovered the joy of programming and have been immersed in it ever since.

Currently, I am interested in Nix, virtual reality, and open-source software and hardware. I’m always eager to learn new and interesting programming languages, tools, frameworks, and architectures, such as RISC-V. The only thing that limits me in this pursuit is time.

An active contributor to the Kubernetes and Crossplane ecosystems, Yury has worked with leading firms in Linux distribution, big data, video streaming, consulting, and finance. Yury joined Upbound to spearhead the control plane revolution in cloud-native infrastructure.