Meet the speakers

Adam Hegedus, a tech professional with math background, currently works at Zocks as the Engineering Manager of the Platform team. His expertise spans diverse companies, previously worked in a similar role at Colossyan, and earlier contributing to various open-source softwares like Koperator (operator for Apache Kafka) along with some other Kubernetes-related projects at Banzaicloud (acquired by Cisco).

Watching the Internet evolve for decades, while designing, building, breaking, fixing, and trying to understand the systems that make it work.

Founding Engineer of Axoflow, leading the dataplane team, specializing in scalable log ingestion and processing pipelines for enterprise and cloud-native environments.

Longtime syslog-ng and AxoSyslog developer with a strong passion for open source and community-driven innovation. Focused on building reliable, high-performance log management and observability systems that address real-world operational challenges.

Passionate Software Engineer who loves building reliable systems and actively engages with the cloud-native community to advance Kubernetes security and observability. Maintainer of multiple CNCF sandbox projects, including Bank-Vaults, which is a project dedicated to simplifying the complex world of secret management. The Logging operator, which solves logging-related problems in Kubernetes environments.

Currently, working on the Logging operator and the new Telemetry controller at Axoflow.

Dmytro is a software engineer with experience in scalable applications and enhancing user experiences. With a strong foundation in backend development, cloud systems, etc. Currently working at VictoriaMetrics, focusing on cloud solutions and datasources for VictoriaMetrics and VictoriaLogs. Proficient in languages such as Go, Javascript, TypeScript, he is passionate about leveraging technology to solve real-world problems and improve efficiency.

Platform engineer specializing in cloud-native and distributed systems, with hands-on ownership of globally distributed platforms on AWS. Active CNCF community contributor, conference speaker, and program committee member. Experienced in incident leadership, observability at scale, and building internal platforms that enable hundreds of engineers.

Gergely Daroczi, PhD, is a passionate R user and package developer for two decades. With over 15 years in the industry, he has expertise in data science, engineering, cloud infrastructure, and data operations across SaaS, fintech, adtech, and healthtech startups in California and Hungary, focusing on building scalable data platforms. Gergely maintains a dozen open-source R and Python projects and organizes a tech meetup with 1,800 members in Hungary – along with other open-source and data conferences.

Gergo spent a decade in the telecommunications industry where he worked on developing carrier grade cloud infrastructures, including Kubernetes. With that he joined IBM to work on IBM Kubernetes Service networking, and now on Openshift Virtualization Service. Gergo had a bunch of talks on Hungarian meetups about both corporate and open-source projects. Once he contributed one character to the Linux kernel. :-)

Mate Hajnal is a Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer at Aumovio, following the spin-off of Continental’s automotive branch. With a background in DevOps and Platform Engineering at Red Hat and Nokia, he brings deep expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable ML systems. Mate is an active contributor to the CNCF ecosystem and enjoys building bridges between data science, artificial intelligence and modern operational practices.

Janos is a seasoned leader with over 15 years of experience in multinational environments, adept at managing global teams and projects. He has collaborated with professionals from more than 50 nationalities and brings deep expertise in developing enterprise software and CI/CD pipelines across various cloud platforms. Holding a PhD in Bioinformatics, Janos balances his technical prowess with a passion for Brazilian jiu-jitsu and quality time with his daughters.

László Kollár is a technology manager with 35+ years of experience in IT transformation, cloud computing, engineering and financial services. He has held senior leadership positions at Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Cloudera, OTP Bank and SMP Solutions.

Most recently, he built OTP Bank's Cloud Centre of Excellence and led its Azure transformation, before moving to SMP Solutions to develop a standardized cloud platform serving OTP Group.

Throughout his career, László has focused on the intersection of technology, business and organizational change—from building and transforming large engineering and IT service organizations to helping enterprises adopt cloud and emerging technologies. He regularly writes about cloud, AI, technology strategy and their broader economic and organizational consequences on his blog, The Floorshrink Diaries.

Márton Enyedi is a Budapest-based DevOps and Platform Engineer working on Kubernetes, automation, and cloud-native infrastructure.

Nandor Kracser is Co-founder and CISO of Riptides, where he builds kernel-level workload identity and runtime machine IAM infrastructure using SPIFFE, kTLS, and mTLS. Before Riptides, he was part of Cisco's Emerging Technologies group following Cisco's acquisition of Banzai Cloud, the Budapest-based cloud-native startup where he created Bank-Vaults, the open source project for managing HashiCorp Vault and secrets on Kubernetes. Earlier in his career he worked at IBM and Ustream. His work centers on Linux kernel engineering, eBPF, TLS 1.3, and post-quantum cryptography. He is based in Hungary.

Paul is a software engineer based in Waterford, Ireland. He is currently working on the Q-Fence EU Horizon project, and emerging technologies with OCTO at Red Hat.

Piotr is a Senior DevOps Manager in the casino industry, championing North Star thinking, Continuous Improvement, and Measurable Outcomes - to transform troubled software and processes into modern standards. He's specialty is combining hard technical skills and soft leadership pragmatism with high agency & Over the past 13 years, he's led $1M+ digital transformations, scaled platform engineering across hundreds of developers and thousands of microservices on AWS/GCP at a time across Air Defense, Gaming, Banking, Logistics, Fuel, Mars Rovers and Gambling & Industry 4.0.

He achieved that with Second Brain of almost 7000 hand-gardened notes bringing unconventional outside-in perspective like his maverick mantras: "Culture Eats Strategy," "Velocity Wins," and "Automation Is Oxygen".

Off-duty, find him in Hawaiian shirts, Game Mastering RPGs, tinkering in his rapid prototyping workshop, or optimizing board game tactics with probability.

Trusted as Code Europe Program Committee member, Ex-GDG Organizer, and speaker, he happily mentors younger experts sharing battle-tested insights.

Richard is a Chief Technology Officer at HariKube with many years of DevOps background. His main focuses are Go micro-service, Kubernetes engineering and automation. Richard is passionate about technology and innovation. His constant curiosity drives him to learn, gain knowledge and be an expert in this area. He also loves getting involved with open-source communities. He is also a frequent speaker at local conferences and community events.

Simon is a Site Reliability Engineer living in the UK, working remotely for Giant Swarm. He’s into keeping infrastructure tidy, running Kubernetes clusters without drama, and helping dev teams ship things reliably.

He spends most of his time thinking about observability, automation, and making sure systems behave when things go sideways. Simon has a strong interest in open source and likes to tinker with new tools in his spare time.

At GitLab, I led the development of application delivery features, with a focus on infrastructure as code and Kubernetes integration. My journey in tech started on the engineering side, where I managed production infrastructure across multiple startups before transitioning to product management. This hands-on background gives me a deep appreciation for the challenges DevOps teams face daily and drives my passion for creating tools that make cloud-native development more accessible and efficient.

I work as a Solutions Architect at Giant Swarm, currently working on the managed Kubernetes product in hybrid environments and smart factories. My main focus is around cluster lifecycle and customer implementations.

Zsolt Varga is the CTO of Riptides, a cybersecurity startup focused on workload identity and secure service-to-service communication for AI and cloud-native environments. He has more than 25 years of experience in software development and infrastructure engineering, with a particular focus on cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes and network security. Previously, he was a Senior Software Engineering Leader at Cisco Outshift, joining Cisco through its acquisition of Banzai Cloud.