We’re stoked that you’re interested in our SuperFrogs program. First rule of SuperFrogs? Forget all you know about tech advocacy programs. SuperFrogs is different. Our emphasis is on:
not helping a vendor
not hawking products
not loyalty to a brand
not short-term gains
As such, we’re looking for folks with superhero skills and superhero altruism that want to protect and transform the world of DevOps.
Looking for a Superfrog?
Carl Quinn
Portola Valley, USCarl Quinn has been developed software professionally for 38 years, starting with BASIC on an Apple II, slogging through C/C++ on DOS, Windows and embedded, and most recently with JVM and Go on Linux. The one thread through his career was an inexplicable attraction to developer tools, spending time building them at Borland (C++ & Java IDEs), Sun (Java RAD), Google (Java & C++ build system), Netflix (Java build and cloud deployment automation), Riot Games (cluster automation and game development), and most recently at Zoox (developer and data tools).
GEORGE GAAL
Mytishi, RussiaDevOps with strong experience in system and network administration (> 5 years). Former C developer.
Wayne Chatelain
Fort Worth, United StatesWayne Chatelain is a Senior Manager, Software Engineer at Capital One that leads a small DevOps team responsible for delivering and operationally supporting Artifactory and the ecosystem surrounding the product.
Kevin Nilson
Mountain View, United StatesKevin works at Google as the lead of the Nest Technical Solutions Engineer team. Prior to joining Google Kevin was the VP of Engineering at just.me, a mobile social startup funded by Google Ventures. Kevin is a Java Champion and four time JavaOne Rock Star. Kevin has spoken at conferences such as Google I/O, JavaOne, Devoxx, O'Reilly Fluent, NFJS SpringOne, AnDevCon, JAX, Open Web Camp, Silicon Valley Code Camp, HTML5DevConf, AppsWorld, swampUP, On Android and AjaxWorld. Kevin is the co-author of Web 2.0 Fundamentals. In the past, Kevin was an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. Kevin holds a MS and BS in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University. Kevin is the leader of the Silicon Valley Java User Group, Silicon Valley Google Developer Group, Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup and Devoxx4Kids Bay Area.
Cesar Hernandez
Guatemala, GuatemalaSenior Software Engineer at Tomitribe with +10 years of experience in Enterprise Java Applications. Java Champion, Duke's Choice Award winner, Open Source advocate, Eclipse and Apache Commiter, teacher and public speaker. When César is away from a computer, he enjoys spending time with his family, traveling and playing music with the Java Community Band, The Null Pointers. Follow Cesar on https://twitter.com/CesarHgt
Andres Almiray
Riehen, SwitzerlandAndres is a Java/Groovy developer and a Java Champion with more than 20 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application development since the early days of Java. Andres is a true believer in open source and has participated on popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member of the Griffon framework and Hackergarten community event.
Fernando Babadopulos
São Paulo, BrazilFernando Babadopulos is a software architect, entrepreneur, and enthusiast of new technologies; he was responsible for developing some of the most popular web applications in Brazil and abroad. With more than 15 years of experience with the internet, Babadopulos specializes in the creation and design of high-performance systems. He was a pioneer in using Java for Big Data applications and He is a frequent speaker and participant in developer conferences worldwide. He holds a master's degree in information engineering from the Federal University of ABC and a BS in computer science from the University Center of FEI.
Gerald Venzl
San Francisco, United StatesGerald Venzl is a Distinguished Product Manager for Oracle. During his career, Gerald has worked as a Developer, DBA, Performance Tuner, Software Architect, Consultant and Enterprise Architect prior to his current role, while still being active as a developer in his free time and on open source projects. This allowed Gerald to live several different lives in the IT sector, providing him with a solid understanding of the concerns in these individual areas while gaining a holistic view overall. In his current role Gerald is responsible for improving the developer experience of the Oracle Database and the Oracle Cloud. Besides that, Gerald focuses on advocating how to build systems that provide flexibility yet still meet the needs of the users.
Liran Haimovitch
Tel Aviv, IsraelLiran is the Co-Founder and CTO of Rookout. He’s an Observability and Instrumentation expert with a deep understanding of Java, Python, Node, and C++. Liran has broad experience in cybersecurity and compliance from his past roles. When not coding, you can find Liran hosting his podcast, speaking at conferences, writing about his tech adventures, and trying out the local cuisine when traveling.
Danny Bryant
Roswell, USAOracle ACE Director (Alumni), Danny Bryant resides with his family in Atlanta, Ga where he received his BS in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and is currently a Snowpro Certified Sr. Solutions Architect with Snowflake, a startup in San Mateo, Ca. Danny is greatly involved in the Oracle community as he serves on the Board of Directors for both ODTUG, and his local user group, the Georgia Oracle User Group. In additional to being an ODTUG Board member, he also served as the Kscope 2016 and 2017 Conference Chair. He has served on the Board of Directors for Atlanta FreeNet, a nonprofit organization working to provide free wireless Internet access to the City of Atlanta, and is a lifetime member of The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). He was also an Adjunct Instructor with the Oracle Academy, teaching SQL and Data Modeling throughout the US and Europe. In his free time, he SCUBA dives, trains in the martial arts of Jeet Kune Do and Capoeira with his son.
Ayrat KHAYRETDINOV
Montreal, CanadaAyrat is a CNCF Ambassador, GDG and Hybrid Cloud Specialist at Google Cloud, where he spends time creating and developing cloud-native architectures and help customers run workloads on-prem and in multi-cloud environments. As a CNCF Ambassador he has an opportunity to educate people and share knowledge about the benefits of containers, microservices and Cloud Native landscape via CNCF and Kubernetes Meetups, workshops or by helping customers to build modern cloud native applications that can run seamlessly on-prem or any cloud provider. Ayrat is passionate about the community, he is a frequent speaker and lead organizer of Canada-wide CNCF Meetup and GDG Cloud Chapters. He is an organizer of Kubernetes Community Days, Cloud Native Days Canada 2019 and GDG Cloud & AI DevFest 2019 conferences.
Valarie Regas
ATLANTA, United StatesValarie Regas is a DevOps fanatic, full-stack developer, a Georgia Tech coding bootcamp graduate, and a veteran mommy. She holds a BA in Psychology and currently works as a DevOps Engineer. After years being a stay-at-home mom, she decided to change her life by entering tech, and has learned a lot along the way. In addition to DevOps, she enjoys mixed martial arts fighting, table-top role playing games, public speaking, creating tiny humans, and activism of all sorts.
Ant Weiss
Ramat Gan, IsraelI’m Anton Weiss. People also call me Ant.rnI’m an IT Evangelist living in Tel Aviv, Israel - with 20 years of IT experience under my belt.rnI'm fascinated by the intricacies of human collaboration, especially in IT.rnI enjoy working with people, coding, public speaking, writing and playing music.rnI am the CEO and owner of Otomato - the expert DevOps and Software Delivery consultancy.
Natalie Pistunovich
Berlin, GermanyNatalie is a learner, a Google Developer Expert for Go and an OpenAI Developer Ambassador, a public speaker and a sailor. When she’s not working on robust systems with Aerospike, she is organizing the conferences GopherCon Europe, Cloud Nein, HeyAI and BSides Berlin, and the Berlin chapters of the Go and Women Techmakers user groups. Prior to that, she was an Engineering Manager, Software and Hardware Engineer, and a Co-Founder of a mobile start-up. In her free time, she is wondering if there is life on Mars.
Robert Reeves
Austin, USAR2 advocates for Liquibase customers and provides technical architecture leadership. Prior to co-founding Datical (now Liquibase), Robert was a Director at the Austin Technology Incubator. Robert co-founded Phurnace Software in 2005. He invented and created the flagship product, Phurnace Deliver, which provides middleware infrastructure management to multiple Fortune 500 companies.nnRobert lives in South Austin, Texas with his super star wife and rock star son. He listened to entirely too much punk rock and hip hop at a formative age. Robert enjoys speaking about himself in third person non-ironically.
Jake Newton
Cedar Park, USDevOps | Sports | Husband/Father
Rachid Zarouali
GLEIZE, FRRachid Zarouali is a Microsoft MVP and Docker Captain, international speaker and trainernIn his previous roles as head of the infrastructure team for the French registry and C.I.O of a worldwide recognized CRM and E-COMMERCE agency,nhe recognized the need to bring the latest technology at a production level to businesses of all sizes and founded SevenSphere.nThrough SevenSphere, Rachid offers training and consultancy for companies striving to dive into microservices container-based infrastructure.nHusband and father, Rachid spend his spare time, participating in a number of OSS communities, teaching cloud computing architecture at a software engineering school.
Idan Shahar
Tel Aviv,I'm an entrepreneur at stealth mode, building a product company that focuses on Cloud Native, Development and DevOps.nI'm always operating at the forefront of technology, curious about Kubernetes, App Innovations, Cloud Native and OSS technologies.nI enjoy partnering with developers and C-level executives to realize the value of Cloud Native by, public speaking, communities and hackathons.nPrior to entrepreneurship, I worked for Microsoft and helped companies to build and modernize Cloud Native applications and applying best practices.nI'm active in various community activities:n• Hackathon leader • Recognized as SME for Kubernetes at Microsoft MEA • Ran the Microsoft CTO Breakfast Club Community • Keynote Speaker • Active GitHub, Kubernetes and DevOps Advocate • Spoke at Jfrog SwampUp • DevOps Days • Cloud Native Days
Jeff Taylor
Laguna Niguel, USJeff works on our Okta SDKs and Developer Tools. His mission is to make Auth simple for all Developers so they can build and mature great apps. Prior to Okta, Jeff led Microservices product development at CoreLogic where he developed a passion for the developer experience.
Shiri Hochhauser
Tel Aviv, IsraelWorking with global SaaS vendors and small startups to deploy their magic on our cloud platform, constantly looking for the sweet spot where 1st and 3rd party solutions compliment each other.nI have a bachelor’s degree in computers science and Masters in business, from full stack to solution architecture all the way to tech business development- essentially I spent 90% of my career answering “Will this scale??” questions.nIn no particular order, my favorite things include cybersecurity, debate, k8s, poetry, GitHub actions, and high heels.
Tony Loehr
San Francisco, United StatesTony Loehr is the Developer Advocate for Cycode. Their prerogative is to make it easy for developers to use the Cycode platform, and to help protect data through knowledge sharing. They have professional experience with engineering, marketing, and sales and bring a unique perspective on how to implement comprehensive cybersecurity solutions. They value being a lifelong learner and aim to help teach cybersecurity solutions to people with varying degrees of technical knowledge. In their free time, Tony enjoys tending houseplants, freestyle rapping, and working on various side projects.
Or Weis
Tel Aviv, IsraelOr is the CEO and co-founder of Permit.io, and co-maintainer and author of open source OPAL.ac. Or is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about developer tools, previously founding Rookout.com, a leading production debugging solution; and managing “Upwards”, Israel’s largest founders’ PLG community. Before becoming a founder, Or worked as a lead engineer in multiple cybersecurity and big data companies, the intelligence corps, as a consultant for the Ministry of Defense, and as VP R&D at Netline CT cyber division.
Brian Benz
Chris Bensen
Sergio del Amo Caballero
Brett Smith
Software Architect/Engineer/Developer with 20+ years of experience. nnSpecialties:nAutomation, Continuous Integration/Delivery/Testing/Deployment Expertise: Linux,npackaging, and tool design. Currently Engineering and Securing the Supply Chain with Infrastructure as Coden(IaC) event driven CI/CD gitOps Pipeline Architectures that leverage Kafka, Go,nand Python running in Containers on Kubernetes.