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Sourish Sharma Software Engineer Terra API Bio Sourish is 19 and dropped out of university to go build cool projects. He first went to State of Open Con 2024, and loved it so much that he came back to volunteer at SOOCon 25! He also covered the conference over 9 podcasts recorded with speakers and […]

Simon Maple Founding Head of Developer Relations Tessl Bio Simon Maple is the Founding Head of Developer Relations at Tessl and former VP of Developer Relations at Snyk, ZeroTurnaround, and IBM; a Java Champion since 2014, JavaOne Rockstar speaker, Duke’s Choice award winner, Virtual JUG founder, and London Java Community co-leader.

Shivay Lamba Senior Developer Experience Engineer Couchbase Bio Shivay Lamba is a software engineer and open source contributor passionate about AI and edge computing. With experience across startups and enterprise tech, he focuses on simplifying complex technologies for developers. Shivay actively speaks at global conferences, organizes community events, and contributes to projects in cloud-native ecosystems,

Samson Goddy Co-founder Open Source Community Africa Bio Samson Goddy is a seasoned open source leader, community strategist, and developer advocate. With over a decade of experience, he has championed inclusive tech communities across Africa and beyond. He serves on the boards of Sugar Labs and the Open Source Collective, and is a recognized GitHub

Samuel Kummary Technical Director Mojaloop Foundation Bio Samuel Kummary is the Technical Director at the Mojaloop Foundation, a nonprofit focused on advancing financial inclusion through open-source software for interoperable payment systems. With a career in software development since 2005, Sam has extensive experience in financial inclusion projects, holding technical leadership roles. A long-time member of the

Ruth Ikegah Program Manager  Open Source Community Africa Bio Ruth Ikegah is a program manager working at the intersection of open source, public infrastructure, and stakeholder engagement. With years of experience in capacity building and digital community development, she helps bridge the gap between grassroots contributors and the institutions—governments, funders, and tech companies—that can support

Phil Estes​ Principal Engineer AWS Bio Phil is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on open source leadership and strategy in cloud native container technologies that power AWS services like Fargate, EKS, and ECS. Phil is a maintainer for the CNCF containerd runtime project, and participates in the Open Container Initiative (OCI)

Paula Paul​ Principal Engineering Manager Istari Digital  Bio Paula has served as a trusted technical advisor, distinguished engineer, and fractional CIO. She enjoys working with organizations on strategic, secure digital modernization efforts leveraging open source. Paula championed API, Identity, and platform strategies as part of the Digital Platform Strategy team at ThoughtWorks and led platform

Nicolas Vibert Chief DEI Officer, OpenUK Senior Staff Technical Marketing Engineer, Isovalent at Cisco Bio Nico Vibert is Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent – the company behind the open-source cloud native solution Cilium. Nico has worked in many different roles – operations and support, design and architecture, technical pre-sales – at companies such as

Nadia Jiang COO SegmentFault Bio Nadia Jiang is an entrepreneur, open-source enthusiast, and DevRel expert. Currently serving as the COO of SegmentFault, China’s largest developer Q&A community, and co-founder of Answer, an open-source Q&A platform software. In addition to her professional accomplishments, Nadia is a dedicated contributor to open-source organizations, including the China Computer Federation