VMware Tanzu Developer Advocates are respected experts in the IT community. They speak frequently, create relevant content, and offer feedback to our customers and the community on the topics of developers, operators, open source and digital transformation.
And we can do all of this virtually or in person, whether it be about VMware Tanzu or open source. Interested? Please email Tasha Isenberg with your event date, location, topic, and type of interaction (e.g. workshop, exec briefing, internal customer event).
Expertise: Spring, Kubernetes, Architecture, Microservices
Cora Iberkleid is a Developer Advocate for modern applications, helping developers and enterprises navigate modern practices and technologies, focusing on cloud native architecture, modern CI/CD, Spring and Kubernetes. Prior to joining VMware, Cora was an Advisory Solutions Engineer at Pivotal. She also spent nearly a decade at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, helping customers design and build enterprise integration applications. Through this experience, she developed an understanding and an empathy for complex organizational challenges, and she strives to incorporate this empathy into her everyday work.
Expertise: Spring, Java, GraphQL, Cloud, Microservices, Serverless, Full Stack
Dan Vega is a Spring Developer Advocate. He has been developing software for the web for over 20 years and his superpower is problem-solving. Dan is a blogger, YouTuber, course creator and speaker. He is a lifelong learner and his passion is sharing his knowledge with the developer community. Dan lives near Cleveland with his beautiful wife and 2 daughters. When he isn’t writing code or teaching, he enjoys spending time with his family, lifting weights, running, or reading a good book.
Expertise: Architecture, Domain-Driven Design, Unit testing, Refactoring, Spring
Jakub Pilimon is a Staff Technologist, blogger, programmer and trainer. His main duty is to tackle complex enterprise problems with Domain-Driven Design and to propose a model and architecture that solves them. Sometimes he is involved in refactoring projects. When he isn’t coding, you can find him riding his bike, reading or practicing kitesurfing. Jakub’s pet projects can be found at https://github.com/ddd-by-examples.
Expertise: Spring, Microservices, Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, EAI, Cloud Computing, YAML, Spring, Java, Architecture, Cloud, Full Stack
Josh (@starbuxman) became the first Spring Developer Advocate in 2010 and hasn’t looked back! He contributes (bugs, mostly..) to numerous open source projects, including Spring Boot and Spring Cloud.
Expertise: .NET, Microservices, Solution Architecture, TDD, JavaScript, Unity3D, Azure Functions
Layla (@LaylaCodesIt) is a Developer Advocate serving the .NET community. She is a Live Coder on Twitch, a Microsoft MVP, a GitHub Star, former director of the board of The .NET Foundation, and the founder of the #WomenOfDotNet Initiative. Layla loves sharing knowledge whilst having fun. No question is stupid and beginners are always welcome. Layla is comfortable giving talks both in person and virtually.
Expertise: Kubernetes, GitOps, Continous Delivery, Developer Experience
Leigh is an empathetic speaker and developer with niches in cloud native systems and security. Leigh comes from a background of building software to managing infrastructure. He contributes to Kubernetes and Flux and is frequently working on his next software demo.
Expertise: Spring, Kotlin, TDD, Security, Services, functional, Kubernetes
Mario is a principal technologist with more than 20 years of experience in software development and software architecture. He is co-author of Pro Spring Integration (Apress, 2011). He’s helped organizations large and small build service-based architectures in a number of different runtimes and platforms over the decades, but adopting Spring in 2004 and using it whenever possible since was a no-brainer that culminated in joining the Spring team in 2017. As a Spring developer advocate, Mario loves to engage and inspire developers and businesses.
Expertise: Digital Transformation, DevOps
Michael Coté studies how large organizations get better at building software to run better and grow their business. His books Changing Mindsets, Monolithic Transformation, and The Business Bottleneck cover these topics. He’s been an industry analyst at RedMonk and 451 Research, done corporate strategy and M&A, and was a programmer. He also co-hosts several podcasts, including Software Defined Talk.
Expertise: Kubernetes, CNCF Ecosystem
Whitney is a lovable goofball who enjoys understanding and using tools in the cloud native landscape. Creative and driven, Whitney recently pivoted from an art-related career to one in tech. She is a CNCF Ambassador and is active in the open source community. You can catch her lightboard streaming show ⚡️ Enlightning on Tanzu.TV. And not only does she rock at tech—she literally has toured playing in the band Mutual Benefit on keyboards and vocals.