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Cloud Native Open Source Crash Courses for Platform Engineers

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Platform Engineering the Cloud Native Way!
Platform engineering has rapidly evolved from a buzzword to a key cloud native approach that improves infrastructure management and developer experience while boosting deployment frequency and shortening time to market.

At KubeCrash, open source maintainers and industry experts will share cloud native open source best practices. Whether you want to tackle organizational hurdles or stay updated on the latest platform engineering trends, KubeCrash provides the knowledge you need to level up your team's platform engineering capabilities.

Partners for Good
KubeCrash organizers will team up again to raise money for Deaf Kids Code. Why not do good while learning about cloud native tech?

Platinum Sponsors

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Gold Sponsors

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Silver Sponsors

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Media Sponsors

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Confirmed Speakers

Hans Kristian Flaatten

Lead Platform Engineer, Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration

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Audun Fauchald Strand

Principal Software Engineer, Director of Platforms, NAV

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Adriana Villela

OTel End User SIG Maintainer, Principal Developer Advocate, Dynatrace

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Reese Lee

OTel End User SIG Maintainer, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, New Relic

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Jim Bugwadia

Founder & CEO, Nirmata

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Khallai Taylor

Sr. Observability & Monitoring Engineer, E.ON Digital Technology

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Udi Hofesh

Co-Founder The Platformers Community

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Iris Dyrmishi

Senior Observability Engineer, Miro, CNCF Ambassador

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Michele Mancioppi

Head of Product, Founding Engineer, Dash0

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Alexa Nicole Griffith

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

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Ankita Chaudhari

Senior Technical Product Manager, Bloomberg

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Bart Farrell

Content Creator, LearnK8s, CNCF Ambassador

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Brad Whitfield

Distinguished Engineer, Capital One

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Jake Walden

Technical Product Owner, Capital One

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Anusha Ragunathan

Principal Software Engineer, Intuit

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Sander Rodenhuis

Principal Architect, Akamai Technologies

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Anastasiia Gubska

SRE/DevOps Engineer, BT Group; (First Deaf!) CNCF Ambassador

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Mark Campbell-Vincent

Engineer, Hashicorp; CNCF BIPOC Initiative Member

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DeeLayne Roark McCoy

Rockstar ASL Interpreter (Volunteering her Voice for our Deaf Speaker)

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Katie Lamkin-Fulsher

Senior Product Manager, Platform and Open Source, Intuit

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Michael Crenshaw

Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

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Guy Menahem

Co-Founder of The Platformers Community; CNCF Ambassador

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Hazel Weakly

Infrastructure Witch of Hachyderm

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Stevie Caldwell

Senior Technical Lead, Fairwinds

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Flynn

Technical Evangelist, Buoyant

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Program Co-Chairs and Hosts

Lisa-Marie Namphy

CNCF Ambassador; Director Developer Relations, Intuit

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Danielle Cook

CNCF Ambassador, Co-chair CNCF Cartografos Group

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Past Speaker Highlights

Solomon Hykes

Founder of Docker and Dagger

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Whitney Lee

CNCF Ambassador

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Philipp Hugenroth

Software Engineer, Spotify

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Ahmed Bebars

Principal Engineer, The New York Times

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Christopher Voss

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft (Xbox)

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Ricardo Torres

Chief Engineer of Open Source & Cloud Native, Boeing

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Alex Crane

Enterprise Architect, Chick-fil-A Corporate

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Kasper Nissen

Lead Platform Architect, Lunar

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Sean Schneeweiß

Software Engineer, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation

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Sabine Wolz

Senior Product Manager, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation

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Vincenzo Scamporlino

Senior Software Engineer, Spotify

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Charity Majors

CTO, Honeycomb

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Brian Phillips

Distinguished Software Engineer, Shutterstock

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Manuel Toledo

Senior Engineering Manager, Adobe

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Chad Beaudin

Chief Engineer, Boeing Software Factory; CNCF Technical Advisory Board Member

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