CEO, Upbound
Bassam Tabbara is the founder and CEO of Upbound, the company behind the Rook and Crossplane projects. Prior to Upbound Bassam was the CTO @ Quantum, co-founder and CTO @ Symform (a P2P storage startup acquired by Quantum), and Partner Architect @ Microsoft.
Founding Engineer, Upbound
Jared Watts is a Founding Engineer at Upbound, where he is working on advancing cloud-native computing by enabling anyone to build their own cloud platform. He is also a founder and maintainer for the open source Rook (https://rook.io) and Crossplane (https://crossplane.io) projects...
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DevOps Engineer, Cloudical
Currently Alexander is working for Cloudical Deutschland GmbH as a DevOps Engineer mostly focused on containerization and the Rook project. He is a Rook maintainer and works on several smaller Golang projects, such as the Dell Hardware Exporter for Prometheus (galexrt/dellhw_exporter...
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Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Travis Nielsen is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat where he works on “the future of storage” as part of the Ceph distributed storage system team. Travis is one of the original founders of the Rook project. Prior to Rook, Travis was the storage platform tech lead...
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