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Cloud Native Open Source Crash Courses for Platform Engineers

Tuesday, September 23, 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.

Platinum Sponsors

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Gold Sponsors

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Media Sponsors

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Confirmed Speakers

Rob Koch

Principal, Slalom Build; chair CNCF Deaf & Hard of Hearing WG

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Dima Shevchuk

Staff Software Engineer, Production Engineering; Grammarly

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Lisa Shissler Smith

Director at Women Who Code; Former Engineering Manager at Netflix and Zapier

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Marina Moore

Research Scientist; Edera

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Marino Wijay

CNCF Ambassador, Staff Solutions Architect, Kong

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Chris Khanoyan

Tech Lead, Booz Allen Hamilton; CNCF Deaf & Hard of Hearing WG Member

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Nicol Daňková

Head of SOC (incl. Incident Response & CTI), Henkel

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Julia Furst Morgado

Global Technologist, Product Strategy, Veeam Software

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William Rizzo

CNCF Ambassador, Strategy Lead - CTO Office, Mirantis

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Flynn

Technical Evangelist, Buoyant

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Co-Founders & Hosts

Catherine Paganini

Marketing Director, Buoyant; Co-Chair TAG Contributor Strategy

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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

Iris Dyrmishi

Senior Observability Engineer, Miro, CNCF Ambassador

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Alexa Nicole Griffith

Senior Software Engineer, Bloomberg

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Jake Walden

Technical Product Owner, Capital One

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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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Sabine Wolz

Senior Product Manager, Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation

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Ricardo Torres

Chief Engineer of Open Source & Cloud Native, Boeing

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Christopher Voss

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft (Xbox)

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Kasper Nissen

Lead Platform Architect, Lunar

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Charity Majors

CTO, Honeycomb

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