CfgMgmtCamp 2026 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.

As a long time Puppet user, with more Op than Dev competencies, Alessandro has learnt more about programming in few weeks of AI driven development, than ever before.

Willing to mix operations experience with the tool of his dreams, he has finally managed to do it by "himself", with the invaluable support of the machines.

A Linux sysadmin with a bunch of programming experience.

Coming from a system administration background, Alexis switched to software engineering. He is currently lead developer on the systems side of Rudder, including networking, configuration management agents and security.
He is also part of the Rust language Secure Code working group, which promotes tooling to help writing secure code in Rust and manages the Rust ecosystem vulnerability database.

tbd

Building Open Cloud Security at Prowler.

I started as a sysadmin, was a Site Reliability Engineer until a few years ago when I moved to the dark side... Security. I've been hooked to CTFs and anything with a scoreboard for a long time.

Starting the unicrons.cloud project to share knowledge about cloud security with the community.

Andreas Zdziarstek is a Systems Engineer and Project Lead at emlix GmbH. He is working with customers in industrial, medical and automotive fields to develop hardened and minimized embedded Linux devices.

Incidentally, he is also maintainer of the crinit init daemon for embedded systems (https://github.com/Elektrobit/crinit).

Andrew Clay Shafer has been building, breaking, and fixing systems for over two decades. He cut his teeth on Linux in the 90s and then helped shape modern infrastructure through his work with Puppet, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes. He helps organizations of all shapes and sizes design and operate systems from embedded systems to multi-cloud platforms, with a focus on making things work in the real world. He also made a few slides and told some jokes along the way. He’s nice, people like him. Come and see.

Owner of Cirrax GmbH, specialized in Puppet, OpenVox, Hiera, and OpenStack. Author of several Puppet modules.

Community lead, developer advocate, and founder; I get to build neat things -and- talk to people! \o/ I've been in the tech industry in one way or another since the late 90's doing everything from devops before devops was a thing at a tiny security startup, to forensics investigations, to maintaining a compute cluster for a computational anthropology department at an American university and teaching the grad students how to write distributed Java code to run on it.

I run marathons in those funny finger shoes and my social engagement is primarily at https://hachyderm.io/@binford2k. You may have heard of that thing I'm building -- https://overlookinfratech.com.

Benjamin is a Software Engineer at Datadog, a leading observability and security SaaS platform. He simplifies development and deployment workflows for developers working on the Alerting product, simplifying their tasks and the management of their services. Prior to this, he worked at Ubisoft, utilizing technologies like Ansible to facilitate the deployment of OpenStack and other infrastructure technologies.

Bernd Erk is CEO at NETWAYS and co-founder of Icinga.
He’s been working with open source for most of his career, somewhere between infrastructure, automation, and community.
In the early days of the DevOps movement, he was involved in the first DevOpsDays and helped spread the ideas that shaped today’s open infrastructure culture.
Over the years, he’s given more talks than he can count, always around the same theme: how people, not tools, make technology work.

Bernhard Suttner is head of software development at ATIX AG in Garching near Munich and an active open source developer at Foreman.

Bo Maryniuk is a UNIX veteran who’s been poking at systems since the SunOS 3.x days. He works as a Principal Engineer in the Automotive world, focused on data analysis, telemetry, and making sure complex software behaves correctly in real cars — including, quite possibly, the one you’re driving.

Carol Chen is a Community Architect at Red Hat, supporting and promoting various upstream communities such as Docling, 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.

Associate Engineering Manager, Ansible Networking. Lead and manage the Ansible networking content engineering team at Red Hat.

Christian Adell is a Staff Network Developer at CoreWeave, where he designs and builds large-scale network automation systems that power high-performance infrastructure. Passionate about open-source technologies and technical leadership, he focuses on creating reliable, observable, and self-service network platforms.

With a strong background in network engineering and automation, Christian enjoys mentoring others, driving cross-functional collaboration, and sharing knowledge with the broader community. Based in Barcelona, he works remotely with distributed teams worldwide. He is also a published co-author of several books on network automation and observability.

Chris is a network engineer at the Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange.

I speak a lot at conferences, internal events, and meetings here and there for work. Most the talks I give are listed on my sessionize profile page, but you can always ask for something new. You can see a selection of recordings of my past talks here. Some of the slides are available if you like to collect such stuff. Usually, I’m talking on the topic of doing better software at large organizations. Many of these talks are based on and draw from my books. More: cote.io

Daniel is a serial conference and meetup organiser. He's a Cloud Native Consultant at Splitbrain, a Hybrid and Cloud Native-focused consultancy, and a Microsoft Azure MVP. He helps companies succeed with Cloud Native technologies and DevOps practices. When not working with tech you can find him out in the woods or fishing at a lake.

I tinker with infrastructure and development from the kernel to the browser, having spend past couple years trying to run towards the lower levels of the stack. I've worked across multiple different industries. Most of my professional time I spent across media and financial landscapes.

I largely credit Ansible with pushing me towards the more interesting problems - I discovered it 9 years ago, as a first year high school student trying to troublemake across all computers in the Linux classroom.

I was 16 at the time and it has been the "gateway drug" for anything from Linux itself, C++ and other learning choices. I could say it has saved me from a lifetime of JavaScript!

Last year, I've gotten a chance to work alongside Juno Innovations as a consultant and architect their deployment workflow - of course powered by Ansible. The bootstrapping approach is rather novel, so I thought it'd be great to share it with the community at large.

• 25+ years of experience in software development, mainly in Tooling & Backend & DevOps
• Member of the CDEvents WG (lead of rust SDK) since 2024
• Currently involved in CDviz, a stack using CDEvents to Observe CI/CD and make them more events-driven

David is an open source enthusiast and contributor to projects like OpenStack, Ansible, Fedora and CentOS.

iWeb, Ubisoft and RedHat alumni doing bare metal and clouds, Dev/Ops, SRE, CI/CD and everything in between at OVHcloud.

He likes simplicity and makes things work.

I am a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. I have been working on Pulp since 2014. In 2023, I joined a new team that operates Pulp as a service on console.redhat.com. I spend a lot of time helping teams at Red Hat integrate their CI/CD pipelines with Pulp running on console.redhat.com.

With over 20 years of experience as a developer, I'm deeply passionate about open source technologies. I've worked with startups and enterprises alike, using open source solutions to tackle real-world problems. Currently, my focus is on edge computing and Kubernetes. I'm excited to share my knowledge with other people.

Dmytro Kozlov is a skilled software engineer with extensive experience in various roles within the technology and banking sectors. Currently serving as a Golang engineer at VictoriaMetrics since February 2022, Dmytro previously worked as a Full Stack Engineer at BrightLocal, focusing on building microservices in Golang. Prior to this, Dmytro gained expertise as a Front-end Developer at Luxoft and BrightLocal.com, utilizing technologies such as React and vanilla JavaScript. Dmytro's career also includes significant banking roles, with experience in sales management and key account management across several banks, where responsibilities included developing sales strategies and enhancing customer engagement. Dmytro holds a Specialist degree in Economics and Management from Dneprodzerzhinsk State Technical University.

I'm Don.

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!

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

I’m passionate about building open, innovative solutions that empower businesses and communities. For over two decades, I’ve helped organizations architect, automate, and secure the technologies they rely on. As a Principal Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat, I specialize in automation technologies like Ansible, which empower teams to move faster and more confidently.

Long-time Ansible user and contributor

Frank Louwers is a tech entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience building and breaking infrastructure. He co-founded Krane Labs, where he does cloud-native strategy and managed Kubernetes for organizations ditching legacy hosting. Before that, he built Openminds — a managed hosting company with its own datacenter rooms, fiber, and lots of heavy metal 🤘

When he's not running clusters or explaining DNS to people who didn't ask, he works as a fractional CTO for startups and advises VCs on technical due diligence. He has strong opinions about European digital sovereignty, which explains why he's on this panel.

He blogs occasionally at https://frank.be and is based in Ghent.

15+ years in the IT, about 20 years as a Linux user. Experiences in Application Support, DevOps, Automation, Container - and the everyday hurdles around those topics.

Greg Sutcliffe has been participating in open source communities for almost two decades, and is currently a Senior Sysadmin for Fedora. Before that, he was Community Architect and Data Scientist for Ansible, and Community Architect for Foreman.

In addition to the technical side of communities, he's also interested in the structure of communities, how people interact, and how communities achieve their aims. He's also interested in community data, and how we can use that to understand communities through a different view. He also wishes people wouldn't take averages of things they shouldn't.

He also plays far more automation games than he should.

I'm an engineer for Red Hat who has worked on Katello for the past 7 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.

James Freeman is a published author and Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS, bringing over 25 years of technology expertise. 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.

As Head of OpenSource at Spacelift and a full-time Maintainer for OpenTofu, I specialize in integrating infrastructure as code tools and improving people's workflows.

With expertise across a wide assortment of tools, I've played a pivotal role in forking OpenTofu and developing its registry. I am extremely passionate about enhancing developer experiences.

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.
This automation work led to him founding a company called m9rx.

He studied Physiology at university and sometimes likes to talk about cardiology.

Jan is an advocate for openness and collaboration. He is running the company Open By Default where he helps other organizations on their journey to becoming more open. He has a history of working with open source at the Foundation for Public Code, open knowledge at and with Wikimedia and open data at Creative Commons.

DevOps Engineer at Dev Specialists GmbH

Jeroen Baten is an open-source developer and IT coach with 25+ years of experience in Linux, CI/CD, and web application development. He contributes to the LibrePlan project, where he recently migrated all GitHub-based workflows to Forgejo Actions. He helps organizations adopt open-source tooling and build digitally autonomous development infrastructures.

I am a software engineer on the Pulp team at Red Hat. I started as an intern in 2018 and worked on the Portfolio Lifecycle Management and Product Security teams before joining Pulp in 2025.

Joe Brockmeier has been working with, and writing about, Linux and open source for more than 25 years. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and has contributed to a number of open source projects, including Apache Cloudstack, Fedora, openSUSE, and others. Brockmeier is currently an editor with LWN.net.

Freelance DevOps Engineer, Python developer and open source enthusiast. Currently working on Basisbeveiliging.nl/Internet Cleanup Foundation and Internet.nl.

Developing monitoring solutions using fiber optic cables at Fluves and Marlinks during the day and FOSDEM staff member at night.

I've been supporting the Ansible Community for the past 9 years

Jordan is a software engineer with focus in IoT systems and remote sensing applications. The last 6 years he has been in AgTech startups that help growers optimize their resources and yield. Currently he is working for the TreeScout project at Aurea Imaging, a device that gives farmers tree-level data about their orchards using sensors, AI and cloud-native tools.

I have entered the Ansible world through managing edge devices and have co-authored several Ansible collections. At XLAB Steampunk, I now lead the development of Spotter checks and advise clients on upgrading to newer Ansible versions. Whether it’s navigating complex upgrades or optimizing automation strategies, I work side by side with enterprise clients to help them build scalable automation workflows.

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

Koen de Jonge is a long time Open Source advocate and works in IT
Infrastructure since 1995. He is one of the founders and still the
director of ProcoliX, a hosting and IT infrastructure provider in the
Netherlands. Recent events have lead ProcoliX, which is a stewardship
company since 2024, to grow very fast due to it's independence from Big
Tech and USA owned multinationals. By march 2026 ProcoliX will no longer
use any non European suppliers, thus making it fully "EU Sovereign".
Koen likes, debian, ansible, nixos, proxmox, icinga, zfs and linstor and
1000's of other open source software packages. Koen is also very fond of
hackerspaces, -camps and lives by the slogan "be excellent to each
other". You can find him on the Fediverse: @koen@procolix.social

He works at Kubermatic as a Kubernetes Consultant and trainer, helping companies with their cloud-native journey. Before that, he worked for startup and enterprise companies in the advertising, banking, and telecom industries as a SysAdmin, Application Admin, DevOps Engineer, and SRE for over 20 years. He is a CNCF Ambassador and Kubestronaut. He organizes the KCD Istanbul and DevOpsDays Istanbul events, as well as other local meetups.

I work at Abacus Umantis as Site Reliability Engineer, our company works on HR/Salary software in DACH region Switzerland, Germany and Austria, as a part of Abacus Research, developers of ERP SW.

Previously I worked mostly telecommunications (primarily in Ericsson) and later in various IT companies, where as a DevOps/SRE engineer I dealt with design, operations of infrastructure and application SW.

I have been using Ansible for around ~9 years (to a various degrees in different companies).

Kris Buytaert is a long time Devops and Open Source Expert and Engineering Leader. He's one of instigators of the devops movement, working for Inuits.eu / o11y.eu

He started more than one conference series and lost count on how many times he spoke at other events. He spends most of his time working on bridging the gap between developers and operations , while warning people not to make the mistakes he made. He builds infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, or a datacenter fire, while actively promoting the devops idea !

He hasn't blogged for a while but people still point out the title of his blog. Titled "Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem" ,it can be found at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/

Open Source consultant working at Inuits focusing on infrastructure automation and observability.

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

Software developer at Atix AG, Germany

Working as a System Engineer in Infrastructure Automation at System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH

Ansible, Terraform, Git, GitLab CI/CD, and the synergy of it all
Learning, always learning
CALMAS-Mindset

Hobbies (currently)

Pen and Paper (Dungeon Master)
Birding (started and it's fun!)
Watching Arte (there is always a perl to find!)

Quotes

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. - A. Einstein (1952)
Nihili est vir qui mundum non reddat meliorem. (R. Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven")
It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. - Gandalf (P. Jackson's "The Hobbit")

Marcel Kornegoor obtained his Master of Arts degree in Sound and Music Technology back in 2008 and has been a (huge) nerd for most of his life, but will probably deny it when confronted. Nowadays, he works as director of training at the Dutch open source and Linux specialist AT Computing. Being a technology-addict for around 20 years, Marcel provides training courses, talks and writes about cloud technology, DevOps, and other IT and open source related subjects that concern him. Most recently, he started to explore the world of yak shaving.

Marcel van Lohuizen is the CEO and co-founder of CUE Labs. CUE is the result of Marcel's 20 years of experience in configuration management at Google and before. At Google Marcel was, among other things, a member of the founding Borg team (the inspiration for Kubernetes) and a long-time member of the Go team. As part of the Borg project, Marcel created the core tooling as well as the Borg Configuration Language (BCL) which later was generalized to GCL.

Some random puppet guy working at betadots.de

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, steers company’s technical direction and helps customers to build and scale their platforms in AWS Cloud. Being passionate about community diversity, equality, automation, Cloud Native and Open Source, you can also find him speaking and participating at DevOps, Cloud Native/Kubernetes and HashiCorp events. He’s an open source maintainer/contributor, problem solver, HashiCorp Ambassador, OpenUK Ambassador, AWS Community Builder and enthusiastic about emerging technologies. In his free time Marko enjoys hiking and travelling.

After studying physics, I worked some years at the theoretical physics department of a university writing computer simulations. Spending more and more time operating the departments' computers instead of working on my science projects, I decided to work full-time in IT at some point. So, about 8 years ago, and joined noris network AG, a German IT service provider offering a wide range of services based on their own high security data centers.
As a Senior IT Systems Engineer Linux, I work on individual solutions for our customers, with strong focus on automation, configuration management and security.

Martin works on automation in IT since early 2000.
He is a member of the OpenVox/Puppet Open Source Community and helps companies building their own on-premise cloud.

I'm a Cloud Engineer at PostNL (an AWS-centric logistics company in the Netherlands) with a decade of experience in the IT field. My expertise covers various technologies and programming languages, but currently, I'm focused on TypeScript.

As an AWS Community Builder in the Serverless category, I'm passionate about Amazon Web Services and have over 8 years of experience building solutions in the AWS cloud. I also hold 7 AWS certifications, which demonstrate my passion and expertise.

I like to experiment with different problem-solving methods and AWS solutions. Currently, I am focused on Serverless alongside DevOps.

I love sharing knowledge and own a blog where I post AWS guides: awsbythebook.com.

On his 11th year of slinging playbooks, Matt Davis (aka nitzmahone) is an architect for the Ansible Core team at Red Hat. Based near Portland, Oregon USA, he spends most days under Ansible's hood working on new ways for our amazing community to automate all the things.

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

Mauro Morales is a Guatemalan software developer and speaker. He’s currently a Staff Engineer at Spectro Cloud, where he’s part of the team building Kairos — an open-source Linux distribution for running Kubernetes at the edge. Mauro regularly speaks at conferences like KubeCon, FOSDEM, and the Open Source Summit, and co-hosts the Cloud Native Community Belgium.

Michael Stahnke is an engineering executive, having spent the last 15 years working in the development and operational tooling space where also did research and was an author on Puppet’s State of DevOps Reports.

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, Security, and Automation events since 2007. He founded the package repository Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) and wrote a book on OpenSSH in 2005.

From doing IT tech support with mac and windows, through AWS cloud video processing with PHP (sic!), cfengine/puppet/ansible stories, across Kubernetes toolset hell, down to the 400 multi-cloud kubernetes clusters doing platform. Now back to the roots of what devops means for me and small team of people I care at work most.

Some people know me from doing weird integrations with Prusa Mini :)

Michelangelo Markus is a Senior Consultant in Cloud Engineering at superluminar in Germany.
He works as both an architect and engineer on AWS projects, helping customers design, build, and operate cloud environments.
Before joining superluminar, he was a Solutions Architect at AWS in the US, supporting a wide range of customer projects particularly in the NPO Research sector.
His work covers most areas of AWS, including architecture, automation, migrations, AI and ML, and data engineering.

Formerly one of the developper of Rudder, Nicolas is now helping customers and users in their deployments and uses of Rudder, both from an organisational and technical point of view.

In his spare time, Nicolas is a father of 3 young kids, and loves Eurovision and Salsa

Niklas Werker is Technical Lead and Solution Architect 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.

Works for Northern.tech, the company behind CFEngine, Mender, and Alvaldi. Passionate about open source, information security, privacy, automation, and monitoring.

Dr. Ottavia Balducci is an IT consultant at ATIX AG in Garching bei München. As an expert in Ansible, AWX, and Ansible Automation Platform, she supports customers in automating configuration management. She regularly offers workshops, training courses, and webinars on these topics.

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.

I’m an SRE focused on Developer Productivity and Platform Engineering, with over 8 years of experience building tools that help developers work smarter. I pride myself on being highly pragmatic, always prioritizing solutions that balance efficiency and impact.
Oh, and fun fact: my right thumb is actually my toe. Yes, it’s as weird as it sounds, but I like to think I can give "Super Likes".

Patrick is a freelance IT consultant and software developer in the field of DevOps. He was a co-founder and Head of Engineering at Nooxit helping companies optimize their financial processes using machine learning. At Menlo79 he contributed meaningfully in building a stable, scalable, smart and user-friendly dispatching solution in the rail sector. At both Nooxit and Menlo79 he managed the cloud infrastructure and automated the development lifecycle to increase release velocity.

Patrick likes automating and streamlining processes and generally making life easier through software.

Just a person trying to build something cool

Former VisualFX and HPC specialist. Squeezed half a megawatt into a compute rack for CERN — and discovered that the real black hole is a system management.

Now founder at Foliage.dev, where I learn to build digital twins for messy, large, very real IT.

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

Trying to find the magic formula between Open Source & Cloud Security & Compliance at Prowler.

I love trail running, climbing and flying drones.

Peter Souter is a Senior Sales Engineer at Datadog, working with customers to help them with their observability needs.

He's previously worked at HashiCorp and Puppet, been in the IaC and DevOps space for over a decade, and has attended and spoken in the Config Management track at FOSDEM and at Cfgmgmtcamp several times, many moons ago... (2016, 2017, 2018)

NB: This will be his 7th Cfgmgmtcamp (first was 2014), time flies!

Pieter is a Senior Developer at PowerDNS, where he returned after 3 years of doing operations in the enterprise world. He's been interested in and involved with DNS for over 15 years. He can tell you that "it's always DNS" is a lie and DNS is innocent.

More on https://not-a-number.io/about

Richard Fontana is a lawyer who has specialized in open source and free software-related legal issues for a surprisingly long amount of time. He currently works at Red Hat.

Richard Bown has worked in the software industry since the mid-90s, witnessing the boom and bust of telecoms, the dot-com bubble, Y2K, the iPhone revolution, Internet of Things, Big Data and now, of course, the spectre of AI, come to take all our jobs. He’s contributed to the world of Open-Source Software for the last thirty years and also worked as a technology journalist for Linux and music tech magazines. Professionally, he's been a developer, administrator, and after flirting with management, is now safely back in the land of DevOps and YAML. Human Software is his debut novel.

Systems Administrator, Automator and Systems Architect of global scale distributed systems.

Author of Hiera, MCollective and Choria

Robert Riemann studied physics and informatics. Since 2017, he works for the EU in Brussels on technology policy and digital transformation. Witnessing the discussions on digital sovereignty from inside EU and member state administrations, he decided end of 2024 to develop in his personal capacity a vision of a common Linux-based OS for the public sector and other corporate use cases.

https://github.com/rwaffen/rwaffen/blob/main/Vita.md

Principal Engineer, Ansible Networking. Works on networking content engineering, Ansible Automation Platform collections, and AI enablement in network automation.

github.com/romanblanco

Roman spent the last decade working in the software engineering industry, implementing and designing systems that include web, mobile, cloud, and IoT components. Nowadays, he works on the PC games distribution and game streaming solutions at Ubisoft combining technical and managerial aspects of the job.

Sebastian Rakel is a Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer at ServiceERP, where he’s been driving scalable infrastructure solutions since 2020. Previously, he worked as a Cloud Engineer for zvoove Software. As a passionate advocate for open source, he has been a PMC member since 2022 and actively contributes to community-driven projects. Known online as Spritzgebaeck (IRC), sebastianrakel (GitHub), and derkellernerd (Twitch).

Sebastian Stadil is a cofounder of OpenTofu, program chair for OpenTofu Day at Kubecon, and cofounder of Scalr, a drop-in replacement for Terraform Cloud.

Software Engineer at RedHat.

Hacking Foreman for the past 10 years.
Currently working as a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat.

SRE at Sematext.

I'm a trainer and consultant at AT Computing. A problem solver by nature, loves to help others and a proponent of free open source software. Outside of work my time goes to taking care of my family, being an active volunteer technician and tour guide at the HomeComputerMuseum and enjoying good coffee, food and the occasional special brew.

Steven Pritchard is head of engineering at Sicura, where he is a contributor to various open source projects including SIMP and Vox Pupuli.

Stoned Elipot has held various positions as system and network administrator for the past 3 decades.
Internal developer platform design, deployment and operation had been his main focus since the late 2010.

Usman is a Staff Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs from Nuremberg, Germany. He works with the Open Source community on the community forum, GitHub and Slack.

He has over 15 years of experience in the Tech Industry where he served multiple customers all over Europe, US, Japan, etc.

He is an active international public speaker participating in multiple conferences and events. Also, he is the owner of the FreeLinuxTutorials YouTube channel where he shares educational content around Linux and Open Source Tools.

In his free time, Usman likes to spend time with his family, go out on occasional traveling and play games or read comics.

Nach dem Fall der Mauer, Anfang der 90er im Osten kompiliert.
Compilied in the early 90s, shortly after the wall came down, in eastern Germany.
Today I work in the IT of a company for mobility by steel on steel, to spend it for metalic music and traveling in the far north. Suomi on kaunis maa. :D

Thomas Brinker is a Senior Systems Engineer and Project Manager at emlix
GmbH. He is an architect for secured embedded Linux systems in the automo-
tive, medical, industrial, and consumer device fields, performing requirements
engineering and design throughout the entire product life cycle.

Thorben is a software engineer on the orcharhino team at ATIX AG near Munich.

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.

Ulf Månsson is working with infrastructure at Defa with EV charging solutions. Spending most of his working hours to avoid to edit yaml files and get disturbed to fix broken stuff. He has worked with automation and configuration management since 2010.
Previously at DEFA, he worked among other companies at Volvo Cars and Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company, where he was one of the co-founders
When he’s not working, you can occasionally find Ulf driving his tractor.

Senior Engineering Manager at SUSE, working on Kubernetes’s related projects such as Rancher, Kubewarden, or Harvester. Builder of Updatecli, and Former Infrastructure officer of the Jenkins project. Olivier has extensive experience in building OSS tooling around infrastructure automation.

Working in IT for more than 20 years. Works as Software Engineer at SUSE in the team developing the Uyuni Project, SUSE Multi-Linux Manager and Salt.

Principal Software Engineer working on Red Hat Lightspeed

With more than 15 years of experience in open-source & Linux, I’ve worked with a wide range of tools to standardise IT infrastructure and enable team collaboration.
As a key enabler, automation has helped me to standardise processes, enhance team collaboration and maintain stable infrastructures over time.

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.

Working at IHEP,CAS

Yair Etziony is an Engineering Manager at AMBOSS with over 30 years of experience in systems administration, DevOps, and cloud technologies. He holds a BA in modern history and philosophy, organizes the Berlin DevOps meetup, and has spoken at DevOpsCon and DevOps Days Berlin. His career spans from VAX/VMS systems in the 1990s to modern cloud infrastructure, providing a unique historical perspective on technology evolution.

Software engineer working for Pulumi, focusing on building better developer tooling for Infrastructure-as-Code and cloud native applications.