CoreOS Fest 2015 First Round of Speakers Announced

Originally published on the CoreOS blog (archived copy) . Re-published with the authors' permission.

As you might already know, we’re launching our first ever CoreOS Fest this May 4th and 5th in San Francisco! We’ve been hard at work making sure that this event is two days filled with all things distributed, and all things awesome.

In addition to many CoreOS project leads taking the stage, we are excited to announce a sneak peek at some of our community speakers. Join us at CoreOS Fest and you’ll hear from some of the most influential people in distributed systems today: Brendan Burns, one of the founders of Kubernetes; Diego Ongaro, the creator of Raft; Gabriel Monroy, the creator of Deis; Spencer Kimball, CEO of Cockroach Labs; Loris Degioanni, CEO of Sysdig; and many more!

We are still accepting submissions for speakers through March 31st, so we encourage you to submit your talk in our Call for Papers portal.

While the schedule will be live in the coming weeks, here’s a high level overview:

We’ll kick off day one at 9 AM PDT (with registration and breakfast beforehand) with a single track of speakers, followed by lunch, then afternoon panels and breakouts. You’ll have lots of opportunities to connect and talk with fellow attendees, especially at an evening reception on the first day. Day two will include breakfast, single-track talks, lunch, panels and more.

Confirmed Speakers

Brendan Burns

Software Engineer at Google and a founder of the Kubernetes project

Brendan works in the Google Cloud Platform, leading engineering efforts to make the Google Cloud Platform the best place to run containers. He also has managed several other cloud teams including the Managed VMs team, and Cloud DNS. Prior to Cloud, he was a lead engineer in Google’s web search infrastructure, building backends that powered social and personal search. Prior to working at Google, he was a professor at Union College in Schenectady, NY. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a BA in Computer Science and Studio Art from Williams College.

Diego Ongaro

Creator of Raft

Diego recently completed his doctorate with John Ousterhout at Stanford. During his doctorate, he worked on RAMCloud (a 5-10 microsecond RTT key-value store), Raft, and LogCabin (a coordination service built with Raft). He’s lately been continuing development on LogCabin as an independent contractor.

Gabriel Monroy

CTO of OpDemand and creator of Deis

Gabriel Monroy is CTO at OpDemand and the creator of Deis, the leading CoreOS-based PaaS. As an early contributor to Docker and CoreOS, Gabriel has deep experience putting containers into production and frequently advises organizations on PaaS, container automation and distributed systems. Gabriel spoke recently at QConSF on cluster scheduling and deploying containers at scale.

Spencer Kimball

CEO of Cockroach Labs

Spencer is CEO of Cockroach Labs. After helping to re-architect and re-implement Square's items catalog service, Spencer was convinced that the industry needed a more capable database software. He began work on the design and implementation of Cockroach as an open source project and moved to work on it full time at Square mid-2014. Spencer managed the acquisition of Viewfinder by Square as CEO and before that, shared the roles of co-CTO and co-founder. Previously, he worked at Google on systems and web application infrastructure, most recently helping to build Colossus, Google’s exascale distributed file system, and on Java infrastructure, including the open-sourced Google Servlet Engine.

Loris Degioanni

CEO of Sysdig

Loris is the creator and CEO of Sysdig, a popular open source troubleshooting tool for Linux environments. He is a pioneer in the field of network analysis through his work on WinPcap and Wireshark: open source tools with millions of users worldwide. Loris was previously a senior director of technology at Riverbed, and co-founder/CTO at CACE Technologies, the company behind Wireshark. Loris holds a PhD in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy.