Martin Hickey
IBM, Senior Technical Staff Member
Bio
Martin Hickey is an IBM Senior Technical Staff Member and an open source strategic leader who drives the development of open source software leveraged by IBM. Currently, Martin is primarily focused on developing AI and cloud applications. He has been contributing to various Open Source projects, most notably, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenTelemetry, OpenStack, and the Elastic community. Martin is an emeritus core maintainer of the Helm project and an emeritus TOC member of the Helm organization. He has been a speaker at various conferences like the Open Source Summit, KubeCon, Helm Summit and Elasticon, CNCF events and workshops, and local Open Source Meetups. He founded the Cork Open Technology Meetup to help support Open Source locally. Martin has many years’ experience in the creation of enterprise software for different industries, from Telcos to Cloud.
martin.hickey@ie.ibm.com