Guests of DevOps Paradox

Alan Barr

Alan Barr is a platform product owner at Veterans United Home Loans.

Alan is passionate about using Kubernetes to build powerful platforms that enable software development teams to focus on their craft. Building systems that ease the cognitive load developers must contend with to do their jobs.

He writes about his experiences with technology, platforms, and cloud-native cultural changes on his blog.

Alex Olivier

Alex Olivier is the CPO and Co-founder at Cerbos. He has designed enterprise solutions from the ground up as an engineer, consultant, tech lead and product manager, always with an eye on the developer experience. At Microsoft, Qubit, and a myriad of startups he designed platforms which helped teams move faster at scale, with a focus on core components like authorization, data management and security. Alex has spoken on data and infrastructure topics at CollisionConf, Google Cloud NEXT, CogX, AI Congress amongst many others.

Alon Jackson

Alon Jackson is the CEO and Co-Founder of Astrix Security, the first access management solution for third-party integrations. Prior to founding Astrix, Jackson served for over 11 years in strategic roles in the Cyber Security Division of the Israeli Military Intelligence Unit 8200, where he led the cloud security division as well as held the position of Head of the Cyber Security R&D Department. He also previously served as Head of R&D Group at automotive cyber security company Argus (acquired by Continental AG). Jackson received an MSc in Computer Science with honors, specializing in cryptography.

Anaïs Urlichs

Anaïs is a Site Reliability Engineer at Civo, a cloud computing company based on Kubernetes. When she is not advocating DevOps best practices, she runs her own YouTube Channel centered around cloud native technologies. Before transitioning to the cloud native ecosystem, Anaïs helped blockchain projects scale and find adoption. As CNCF ambassador, her passion lies in making tools and platforms more accessible to developers and community members.

Andi Grabner

Andreas Grabner has 20+ years of experience as a software developer, tester, and architect and is an advocate for high-performing cloud scale applications. He is a regular contributor to the DevOps community, a frequent speaker at technology conferences, and regularly publishes articles on https://www.dynatrace.com/news/blog/. He is also a DevRel for the CNCF Sandbox project Keptn ( https://keptn.sh/stable/ ). In his spare time, you can most likely find him on one of the salsa dance floors of the world!

Andy Pavlo

Andy is an Associate Professor of Databaseology in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interest is in database management systems, specifically main memory systems, self-driving / autonomous architectures, transaction processing systems, and large-scale data analytics. At CMU, he is a member of the Database Group and the Parallel Data Laboratory. He is also the co-founder and CEO of OtterTune.

Ankit Bhati

Ankit Jain

Ant Weiss

Ant(on) Weiss is the founder and CEO at Otomato.io - the effective software delivery consultancy. He’s been building and delivering software for the last 20 years. Frequent speaker at technology events, cloud native tech advocate and the host of the DevOps Shorts podcast - Ant believes he knows how to make our industry better and has loads of thought-provoking stories to prove his point.