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Delivering the latest updates on VMware's open source technology, best practices, and tutorials.
Suzanne Ambiel
Suzanne is the Open Source Director of Marketing and Strategy at VMware. She's been with VMware since 2011 traversing the company landscape: from VMware View to vSAN and now, to…
Lisa Mae DeMasi
Lisa is a content writer and social media specialist who thrives on writing about all things open source. She lives near Boston, where she bikes, hikes, and rides horses.
Malini Bhandaru
As a former VMware employee, Malini led the open source IoT efforts at VMware, actively contributing to EdgeX Foundry and serving as co-chair of its Security Work Group, first working…
Dawn Foster
Dawn is Director of Open Source Community Strategy within VMware’s Open Source Program Office. She is involved in several Linux Foundation projects as Governing Board member / maintainer for CHAOSS,…
John Hawley
John 'Warthog9' Hawley was recognized as a Python Fellow by the Python Software Foundation (PSF) in Q1 of 2022 for helping to bring new contributors to the Python ecosystem and…
Dirk Hohndel
As VMware’s former Chief Open Source Officer, Dirk led the company’s Open Source Program Office, directing the efforts and strategy around use of and contribution to open source projects and…
Joshua Lock
As a former VMware employee, Joshua worked as a Staff 2 Engineer Alumni for the company’s Open Source Technology Center, with a focus on software supply chain security standards and…
Steven Rostedt
As a former VMware employee, Steven had worked on the Linux kernel, an endeavor he initiated in 1998 while earning his masters and in a professional capacity, since 2001. Steven…
Anna Jung
Anna Jung is a Senior ML Open Source Engineer at VMware, contributing to various open source projects related to Machine Learning. She believes in the importance of giving back to…
Nikolay Nikolaev
Former lead of VMware's Open Source Technology Center's Networking team. Mostly focused on cloud-native aspects of networking, network virtualization and its telco applications.
Nisha Kumar
As a former VMware employee, Nisha Kumar co-maintained Tern, an open source tool that help users make better decisions for their container supply chain. She has been an open source…
Velichka Atanasova
Velichka is an Open Source Engineering Manager in VMware’s Open Source Program Office where she thrives exploring the innovation capabilities and collaborative power of open source. Before joining VMware in…
Rhonda Edwards
Rhonda is a technology marketer focused on Security, Compliance, Open Source and Privacy Engineering with a passion for innovative technologies contributing to the fourth industrial revolution. She is an electrical…
Rose Judge
Rose Judge is an Open Source Engineer at VMware where she co-maintains Tern, an open source tool that helps users make better decisions for their container supply chain. She previously…
Ivana Atanasova
Ivana Atanasova is an Open Source Engineer in VMware's Open Source Program Office, where she has contributed to a variety of projects, including Python-TUF, Tern, CHAOSS' Augur, Network Service Mesh,…
Tim Pepper
Pepper is a Principal Engineer in VMware’s Open Source Technology Center, specializing in Linux and open source systems development. He is the team lead for open orchestration and containers and…
Bebe Landau
As a Northeastern University Marketing Co-op, studying Interaction Design and Marketing, Bebe formally worked on VMware’s Open Source Marketing Team and Brand Team. She authored Open Source blogs and strategically…
Darren Hart
As a former VMware employee in the position of Senior Director of the Open Source Technology Center, Darren led the engineering team in their efforts to contribute to open-source projects…
Diana Atanasova
Diana Atanasova is ML Open Source Engineer in VMWare’s Open Source Technology Center. She is contributing to Kubeflow – ML workflow framework and has interests in AI security. Diana holds…
Eric Brown
Eric is an Engineering Manager at VMware where he has been solidly contributing to open source since 2014. The bulk of his experience has been with security, protocols, configuration and…
Matt Helsley
Matt has more than 20 years of experience learning about and using free and open source software, especially around the Linux kernel. His foray into open source began at UCLA,…
Radoslav Dimitrov
Radoslav Dimitrov is a software engineer in VMware's Open Source Program Office. As part of the Software Supply Chain team, he helps to secure software update systems and works on…
Stefka Dimitrova
Stefka Dimitrova is a Senior Program Manager within VMware’s Open Source Strategy team, where she fosters community development and works on guidelines and tools to improve the health of open…
Alex Courouble
Open Source Software Engineer
Andrian Mallayev
Andrian is a Program Manager for the Open Source Program Office at VMware responsible for the Open Source Compliance tools development coordination, as well as providing open source compliance guidance…
Lauren Weintraub Britton
Lauren is a senior program manager for the Office of the CTO, Open Source Program Office, at VMware.
Martin Vrachev
Martin is an Open Source Engineer contributing to multiple Open Source security projects which solve a variety of problems. His latest work is focused on secure software supply chain and…
Venil Noronha
Venil Noronha is an engineer in VMware’s Open Source Technology Center. He primarily contributes upstream to open source projects in the service mesh domain, like Istio and Envoy proxy. In…
Aida Rivas
Aida Rivas is a Senior Program Manager in the Open Source Program Office at VMware, leading open source compliance automation across the company. She is passionate about building collaborative environments…
John Manferdelli
John Manferdelli leads confidential computing incubation in VMware’s Office of the CTO. He is a member of the Defense Science Board, chair of the National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience,…
Kairo Francisco de Araujo
Kairo Francisco de Araujo is an Open Source Software Engineer and a staff member of VMware’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO), working on the Security Supply Chain team. He is…
Soumil Shekdar
Soumil was an Open Source Machine Learning Intern at VMware and primarily worked to develop machine learning solutions for nurturing constructiveness and inclusivity in open source communication. He is currently…
Teodora Sechkova
Teodora is an open source software engineer at VMware Open Source Technology Center. She is currently an active contributor to The Update Framework (TUF) - a framework for securing software…
Antonin Bas
Antonin is a Staff Engineer at VMware and a maintainer for Project Antrea, a Kubernetes Network Plugin, which he tries to make as simple as possible to deploy and troubleshoot.…
Daniel Lopez
Daniel Lopez is a Sr. Director of R&D at VMware’s Office of the CTO where he leads WebAssembly initiatives. Daniel joined VMware after the acquisition of Bitnami, the company he…
Enyinna Ochulor
Enyinna Ochular is an Open Source Engineer working in the Open Source Technology Center at VMware. He is currently helping to drive Cloud Native technologies with a focus on Kubernetes.…
Jianjun Shen
Jianjun is a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a maintainer for Project Antrea. Jianjun has been focusing on network virtualization for 10+ years, and has been working on container…
Jonas Rosland
Jonas joined VMware in 2018 after being the open source community manager for The {code} Team, representing open source efforts at Dell Technology and Dell EMC. He is a community…
June Knauth
June Knauth formerly worked as an intern at VMware while majoring in Computer Science at Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
Jussi Kukkonen
As a former VMware employee, Jussi Kukkonen worked as an Open Source Engineer and maintainer and co-author of the Python-TUF Project, an open source framework that helps developers maintain security…
Quan Tian
Quan is a Staff Engineer at VMware and a maintainer for Project Antrea. Quan is experienced in container technology and networking, and has been working on VMware container networking projects.…
Radoslava Zheleva
Radoslava Zheleva (“Radi” to friends and family) is an Open Source Compliance Program Manager in VMware’s Open Source Program Office, where she oversees license compliance and mitigates potential legal risks…
Salvatore Orlando
Salvatore is a maintainer of the Antrea project and has been involved for over 10 years with networking for virtualized and containerized infrastructures, focusing on Kubernetes in the past few…
Yordan Karadzhov
Yordan Karadzhov has more than 12 years of experience as an experimental physicist and also has a Ph.D. in particle physics. During this period Yordan worked in some of the…
Soumyadeep (Deep)
Soumyadeep (Deep) has contributed to features/stabilization of the Greenplum analytics database engine covering numerous areas such as storage, catalog, query executor, distributed transaction manager and utilities. While working on Greenplum,…
Julius von Kohout
Julius von Kohout is an independent author and long-term Kubeflow contributor, holding a master's degree in theoretical computer science.
Alex Conway
Alex is a researcher at VMware Research. His research bridges storage systems and external memory theory, and he leads the SplinterDB project.
Andrew Harding
Andrew Harding is at heart a software engineer who enjoys building software that solves practical problems. He has spent a large chunk of his career in software infrastructure and distributed…
Andrew Stone
Andrew has a long history of quickly learning new technologies when they suit his needs and applying them to solve the problems at hand. His interests include distributed systems, storage…
Anjali Telang
Senior Product Manager
Anjali Telang is a Senior Product Manager for Tanzu at VMWare. She is a security and cloud enthusiast with over 15 years of experience in cloud, security and networking. Prior…
Antoni Ivanov
Antoni Ivanov is Staff Engineer specializing in scalable big data systems and data analytics infrastructure. Antoni has been the technical lead of Versatile Data Kit for the past two years.…
Carlos Garcia-Alvarado
Carlos Garcia is currently a leader of modern data platform projects at VMware. Before, he was the Director of Engineering of Data Management at Autonomic LLC (a subsidiary of Ford…
Chad Sakac
Chad Sakac is one of the leaders within VMware driving the Tanzu Modern Application efforts across the industry. Chad has been working on Kubernetes, Spring and Cloud Native applications for…
Chip Childers
Chip Childers is the Vice President & Chief Open Source Officer for VMware, where he leads the company's open source compliance, strategy and innovation efforts. Chip brings more than 20…
Daniel Hiltgen
Daniel is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Security Business Unit at VMware. With over 20 years of industry experience in software development and technical leadership, Daniel has broad experience…
Daniel Machlab
Daniel Machlab is a Software Engineer at VMware, improving the workflow for identifying and tracking Open Source Software. Previously, he interned twice on VMware's build team where he focused on…
Evan Gilman
Evan Gilman is an engineer with a background in computer networks. With roots in academia, and currently working on the SPIFFE project, he has been building and operating systems in…
Evan Anderson
Evan Anderson is a software engineer at VMware working on Tanzu Application Platform. He holds several roles in the Knative project, and has done so since its inception at Google.…
Gary Grossi
Gary Grossi is a Product Manager for VMware’s Emerging Technologies Team. He merges the needs of VMware employees with interesting new trends in technology to help drive the creation of…
Haining "Henry" Zhang
Haining "Henry" Zhang is the Chief Architect of R&D, VMware China. His primary role is to lead the development and incubation of projects on emerging technology, including containers, blockchain and…
Ian Coffey
Ian Coffey has been in the platform and infrastructure business for ~ 16 years and currently works on open source machine learning in VMwares Open Source Technology Office (OSTC). Away…
Jimmy Chunga
Open Source Community Manager, Salt Project & Idem Project
Jimmy Chunga or “Chunga” as his friends and family call him, is the Open Source Community Manager for both Salt Project and Idem Project. He’s a veteran media personality, radio…
Kit Colbert
Kit Colbert is VMware's Chief Technology Officer, driving technical strategy, innovation, evangelism, and SaaS transformation across VMware's engineering organization. Previously, he was VMware Cloud CTO, GM of Cloud-Native Apps, CTO…
Lubomir I. Ivanov
Lubomir started working for VMware’s Open Source Technology Center in 2017 with a primary focus on the Kubernetes project. Currently, he co-chairs the Kubernetes SIG Cluster Lifecycle that hosts a…
Lukas Pühringer
Lukas Pühringer is a research scholar and developer at NYU's Center for Cyber Security (CCS), where he leads the development of in-toto and has been co-maintaining several of Prof. Justin…
Madhukar Krishnarao
Madhukar Krishnarao is a Sr. Technical Product Manager at VMware’s Network and Security Business Unit. He currently focuses on Automation and Containers for VMware’s NSX Data Center platform which includes…
Masae Shida
Masae is a Senior Program Manager at VMware, where she leads the effort to keep third-party ecosystem contributions aligned with the company’s business strategies. Previously, she led numerous programs from…
Nicholas Hughes
Nicholas Hughes is a founding partner and CEO of EITR Technologies LLC., a firm which helps businesses integrate cloud and cybersecurity automation into their IT lifecycle processes. He is also…
Nick Young
Contour Maintainer and Staff Engineer, VMware
Nick is a Staff Engineer at VMware and Contour Tech Lead. He is an experienced developer, sysadmin and integrator, skilled in all levels of hardware and software from the top…
Nikko He
Nikko He is a Senior Program Manager at VMware, where she has been continuously contributing to the proliferation of the China market. Her current focus lies in Project vSphere…
Rehana Tabassum
Rehana works as a Senior Software Engineer in VMware RDOSS(R&D Open Source and Security) team. Her primary focus is to design, build and support services, tools, and automation for VMware…
Rick Battle
Rick Battle is the Head of the R&D AI Lab (RAIL) within OCTO, specializing in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models. He’s the creator of AVA: VMware’s Automated Virtual…
Rob Johnson
Rob Johnson is a Senior Staff Researcher in the VMware Research group, working on theoretical work with an impact on the real world. He’s developing VeriBetrFS, a verified high-performance file…
Teja Gollapudi
Teja Gollapudi is a Machine Learning Engineer at VMware’s R&D AI Lab (RAIL) and OCTO. His interests and skillset lie in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. He…
Thomas Hatch
Tom is the Co-Founder SaltStack and the creator of Salt, an open source digital automation platform, used by millions of people around the world. He's a widely respected authority in…
Tzvetomir Stoyanov
Tzvetomir Stoyanov is an Open Source Engineer at VMware, contributing to a variety of open source projects, including Linux kernel and user space tracing, Edge and IoT, and Machine Learning.…
Vladimir Vivien
Vladimir Vivien (@VladimirVivien) is an engineer at VMware working as a lead for Tanzu open source projects Sonobuoy and Crashd. He has also worked as a contributor in the cloud-native…
Yujing Chen
As a former VMware employee, Yujing worked as a Machine Learning Engineer with VMware’s xLabs, an office within the Advanced Technology Group in VMware’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer…