Adriana Villela

Adriana Villela is a Sr. Staff Developer Advocate, helping companies achieve reliability greatness through Observability, SRE, & ​DevOps practices. Before her current role, she managed a Platform Engineering team & an Observability Practices team at ​Tucows. Adriana has worked at various large-scale enterprises, as an individual contributor and leader, including Bank of ​Montreal, Ceridian, and Accenture. Adriana is a blogger, host of the Geeking Out Podcast, CNCF Ambassador, and HashiCorp ​Ambassador.

Tim Banks

Tim’s tech career spans over 25 years through various sectors. Tim’s initial journey into tech started in avionics in the US ​Marine Corps and then into various government contracting roles. After moving to the private sector, Tim worked both in ​large corporate environments and in small startups, honing his skills in systems administration, automation, architecture, ​and operations for large cloud-based datastores.

Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with the ​open source and cloud computing communities in his current role. Tim is also a competitive Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioner. ​He is the 2-time American National and is the 5-time Pan American Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champion in his division.

Marino Wijay

Marino Wijay is a Canadian, Traveller, International Speaker, Open Source Advocate for Service Mesh, Kubernetes, and Networking. He is an Ambassador @ Civo Cloud, and Lead Organizer for KubeHuddle Toronto. He is passionate about technology and modern distributed systems. He will always fall back to the patterns of Networking and the ways of the OSI. Community building is his driving force; A modern Jedi Academy.

Lian Li

Lian always wanted to save the world.

After dropping out of law school, she decided to work with computers instead. While in Web Dev, she started attending and speaking at tech events, and soon fell in love with the tech community.

In her roles as Developer, Consultant and Developer Advocate, Lian combined technical knowledge with an understanding of the human condition.

Currently, Lian lives in Amsterdam, where she serves as Tech Lead for the CNCF TAG app-delivery. She can also be seen on stage at various English-speaking musical theatre productions, doing standup comedy and improv theatre.

Diana Pham

With a high spirit and a low sense of mortality, Diana completed her master’s in CS regardless of never having coded prior to ​grad school. Through her passion of learning and teaching tech, she found her calling in advocacy where she exercises her ​creativity through conference talks and content creation. She loves thinking her plugged-in science plant is a farm in Colorado, ​trying new food, and eating oysters.