2022 Keptn Bootstrap Governance Committee Candidates

List of candidates

In alphabetical order:

Alex Jones

Description of candidate

Alex works as both a contributor and end-user of cloud-native technology. When not working as Kubernetes Engineering Director at Canonical; he contributes to CNCF TAG App Delivery as Tech Lead and to the Open Feature project on the governing board. He also maintains several other popular community projects.

Alois Reitbauer

Alois Reitbauer

Description of candidate

Alois works as Chief Technology Strategist at Dynatrace, where he leads all open source and research efforts. He is also co-chair of TAG App Delivery in the CNCF and contributor and maintainer to several other open source projects like OpenFeature and OpenTelemetry. Alois is the initial creator of the Keptn project and was driving most of the conceptual over the last couple of years. He is also a co-creator of the application lifecycle toolkit for Keptn.

Ana Margarita Medina

Ana Margarita Medina

Description of candidate

Ana Margarita is a Staff Developer Advocate at Lightstep and focuses on helping companies be more reliable by leveraging Observability and Incident Response practices. She is also on the Kubernetes Release Team (v1.25 - v1.26) and has been advising CNCF’s Keptn project since 2019. Before Lightstep, she was a Senior Chaos Engineer at Gremlin and helped companies avoid outages by running proactive chaos engineering experiments. She has also worked at various-sized companies including Google, Uber, SFEFCU, and Miami-based startups. Ana is an internationally recognized speaker and has presented at: AWS re:Invent, KubeCon, DockerCon, DevOpDays, AllDayDevOps, Write/Speak/Code, and many others. Catch her tweeting at @Ana_M_Medina about traveling, diversity in tech, and mental health.

Andreas Grabner

Andreas Grabner

Description of candidate

Andreas is a DevOps activist at Dynatrace. He has over 20 years of experience as a software developer, tester and architect, and is an advocate for high-performing cloud operations. As a champion of DevOps initiatives, Andreas is dedicated to helping developers, testers and operations teams become more efficient in their jobs with Dynatrace’s software intelligence platform

Brad McCoy

Brad McCoy

Description of candidate

Brad is a CNCF Ambassador and contributes to projects and programs in the CNCF and the CDF. He spends a lot of his time mentoring engineers in the community. He started his journey with Keptn by seeing the value of the project so adopted it, and started contributing to it and advocating it. He works as Head of Plaform Engineering by day.

Diego Braga

Diego Braga

Description of candidate

Diego Braga is Product Manager at Krateo PlatformOps. Diego has spent last 10 years building open source architectures for customers, from embedded devices to large scale distributed systems. Most recently he has been focused on the open cloud infrastructure space, and in emerging patterns for cloud native applications.

Suraj Banakar

Suraj Banakar

Description of candidate

When not working on maintaining Acquia’s internal Kubernetes as a Service platform, I contribute to Keptn and other open source projects. I believe in open communication, transparency, fact-based decision making and try-fail-learn loop. As someone who has made contributions to both Keptn code and community, here are some of the things I can offer:

  1. Strive for what is best for Keptn i.e., do whatever it takes to help get the project to that next level
  2. Ask (often difficult) questions
  3. Act as a neutral party (my company has no vested interests in Keptn)

I try to be honest about what I don’t know and I am always open to feedback.