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Vlad Ionescu

Independent
DevOps Consultant
Bucharest, Romania
Websitevladionescu.me
Vlad is a DevOps Consultant helping companies deliver more reliable software faster and safer. With a focus on observability and reliability, his work is predominantly focused on Kubernetes and Serverless. Before rising to the clouds he was a software developer, with a background in finance. He is also very much into wine and whiskey and can debate TV shows for years.

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Sunday, November 17
 

2:00pm PST

Registration + Badge Pick-up at Embassy Suites Main Lobby - Embassy Suites Registration + Badge Pick-up at Hard Rock Hotel Main Lobby - Hard Rock Hotel Registration + Badge Pick-up at Manchester Grand Hyatt Harbor Tower Side - Manchester Grand Hyatt Registration + Badge Pick-up at Marriott Marquis Grand Ballroom, Side Foyer - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel Registration + Badge Pick-up at San Diego Convention Center (Main Conference Venue) Foyer A & B - San Diego Convention Center
 
Monday, November 18
 

8:00am PST

AWS Container Day 2019 San Diego hosted by AWS (Free Additional Registration Required) Pacific Ballroom - Wyndham San Diego Bayside

9:00am PST

Quiet Room Room 13 - San Diego Convention Center
 
Tuesday, November 19
 

7:00am PST

Continental Breakfast (Main Conference Venue) Foyer A & B - San Diego Convention Center Registration + Badge Pick-up at San Diego Convention Center (Main Conference Venue) Foyer A & B - San Diego Convention Center

8:00am PST

Quiet Room Room 13 - San Diego Convention Center

10:22am PST

Chair Massage & Relaxation Stations San Diego Convention Center

10:25am PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center Sponsor Showcase Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:55am PST

Sharing is Caring: How to Begin Speaking at Conferences - Jenny Burcio & Ashlynn Polini, Docker Room 31ABC - San Diego Convention Center Only Slightly Bent: Uber’s Kubernetes Migration Journey for Microservices - Yunpeng Liu, Uber Room 30ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center Intro: Brigade - Matt Butcher & Radu Matei, Microsoft Room 33ABC - San Diego Convention Center Low Latency Multi-cluster Kubernetes Networking in AWS - Paul Fisher, Lyft Room 28ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center Service Mesh: There and Back Again - Hema Lee & Cody Vandermyn, Nordstrom Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center

11:50am PST

Scaling Resilient Systems: A Journey into Slack's Database Service - Rafael Chacon & Guido Iaquinti, Slack Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center Panel: What’s Essential in an OSS Project Launch Playbook? - Betty Junod, Solo.io; Jian He, Alibaba; Karen Chu, Matt Butcher, & Ronan Flynn-Curran, Microsoft Room 7AB - San Diego Convention Center Introduction to Virtual Kubelet – Featuring Titus by Netflix - Ria Bhatia, Microsoft & Sargun Dhillon, Netflix Room 6F - San Diego Convention Center Rethinking the K8s DNS for the Modern Enterprise - Deepa Kalani & Venil Noronha, VMware Room 30ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center

12:25pm PST

Lunch (Provided) Hall C + West Terrace + 20 Foyer - San Diego Convention Center

1:15pm PST

Chair Yoga (RSVP Required) 23A - San Diego Convention Center

2:25pm PST

Mental Health in Tech - Dr. Jennifer Akullian, Growth Coaching Institute Room 6E - San Diego Convention Center Cloud Provider Subproject AWS / User Group AWS - Cheng Pan, Amazon & Justin SB, Google Room 6D - San Diego Convention Center

3:20pm PST

10 Weird Ways to Blow Up Your Kubernetes - Melanie Cebula & Bruce Sherrod, Airbnb Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center CNCF Network SIG Intro & Deep-Dive - Lee Calcote, Layer5 & Matt Klein, Lyft Room 6E - San Diego Convention Center Superpowers for Windows Containers - Deep Debroy & Jean Rouge, Docker Room 7AB - San Diego Convention Center

3:55pm PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center

4:25pm PST

Making an Internal Kubernetes Offering Generally Available - James Wen, Spotify Room 30ABCDE - San Diego Convention Center Scaling Kubernetes to Thousands of Nodes Across Multiple Clusters, Calmly - Ben Hughes, Airbnb Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center Panel: Control Plane vs Data Plane: Untangling the Tenets of Multitenancy - Tasha Drew, VMware; Sanjeev Rampal, Cisco; Ryan Bezdicek, Cray Inc.; Adrian Ludwin, Google; & Fei Guo, Alibaba Room 29ABCD - San Diego Convention Center

6:11pm PST

Keynote: Reflections - Kelsey Hightower, Staff Developer Advocate, Google Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:25pm PST

Keynote: CNCF Maintainer + Ambassador Awards Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

6:40pm PST

Taco Tuesday Welcome Reception + Sponsor Booth Crawl, sponsored by SAIC Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center Puppy Pawlooza / Paw Therapy Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center
 
Wednesday, November 20
 

7:30am PST

Continental Breakfast (Main Conference Venue) Foyer A & B - San Diego Convention Center

8:00am PST

Quiet Room Room 13 - San Diego Convention Center

10:00am PST

Chair Massage & Relaxation Stations San Diego Convention Center

10:25am PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center Sponsor Showcase Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:55am PST

Are You About to Break Prod? Acceptance Testing with Ephemeral Environments - Erin Krengel, Pulumi & Sean Holung, Nordstrom Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center A Series of Fortunate CloudEvents - Ian Coffey, Salesforce Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center A Week in the Life of the Kubernetes Community - Dawn Foster, Pivotal & Jorge Castro, VMware Room 15AB - San Diego Convention Center

11:50am PST

Panel: Beyond Codes of Conduct: Igniting Diversity in Your Community - Jemma Bolland, The Scale Factory; Lara Owen, Github; Shanis Windland, VMware; & Kevin Stewart, Independent Room 6D - San Diego Convention Center Deep Dive into Autoscaling - Marcin Wielgus & Vivek Bagade, Google Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

12:25pm PST

Lunch (Provided) Hall C + West Terrace + 20 Foyer - San Diego Convention Center

12:30pm PST

Diversity Lunch + Hack - sponsored by Google Cloud (RSVP required; see description for details) Ballroom BC - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel

1:40pm PST

Chair Yoga (RSVP Required) 23A - San Diego Convention Center

2:00pm PST

Puppy Pawlooza / Paw Therapy Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center

2:25pm PST

Cloud Native Architecture: Monoliths or Microservices? - Goutham Veeramachaneni & Edward Welch, Grafana Labs Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center Panel: Tech Community Share Out: Maintaining a Healthy Balance with Work - Chris Lentricchia, SUSE; David McAllister, Scalyr; PJ Hagerty, DevRelate.io, OSMIhelp.org; Nanci Lancaster, Linux Foundation; & Amanda Brazzell... Pacific Ballroom, Salon 23-24 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel Panel: Enterprise-grade, On-prem Kubeflow in the Financial Sector - Laura Schornack, JPMorgan Chase; Jeff Fogarty, US Bank; Josh Bottum, Arrikto; & Thea Lamkin, Google Room 14AB - San Diego Convention Center Beyond Getting Started: Using OpenTelemetry to Its Full Potential - Sergey Kanzhelev, Microsoft & Morgan McLean, Google Room 6C - San Diego Convention Center Fidelity’s Move to “Finance Grade” Kubernetes with GitOps - Alexis Richardson, Weaveworks & Rajarajan Pudupatti SJ, Fidelity Investments Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center There's a Bug in My Service Mesh! What Do You Do When the Mesh is At Fault? - Ana Calin, Paybase & Risha Mars, Buoyant Hall D - San Diego Convention Center

3:20pm PST

Panel: Improving and Managing Kubernetes at Scale - Xiang Li, Alibaba; Corin Dwyer, Netflix; Amit Bose, Uber; June Liu & Harry Zhang, Pinterest Room 6C - San Diego Convention Center Panel: GitOps User Stories - Tamao Nakahara, Weaveworks; Javeria Khan, Palo Alto Networks; Hubert Chen, Branch; Stefan Prodan, Weaveworks; & Edward Lee, Intuit Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Deep Dive: Brigade - Matt Butcher & Kent Rancourt, Microsoft Room 7AB - San Diego Convention Center To Infinite Scale and Beyond: Operating Kubernetes Past the Steady State - Austin Lamon, Spotify & Jago Macleod, Google Pacific Ballroom, Salon 20-22 - Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina Hotel OpenFaaS Cloud + Linkerd: A Secure, Multi-Tenant Serverless Platform - Charles Pretzer, Buoyant & Alex Ellis, OpenFaaS, LTD Room 14AB - San Diego Convention Center

3:55pm PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center

4:25pm PST

Deep Dive: Kind - Benjamin Elder, Google & Antonio Ojea Garcia, SUSE Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center Helm 3 Deep Dive - Taylor Thomas, Microsoft Azure & Martin Hickey, IBM Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center Debugging Live Applications the Kubernetes Way: From a Sidecar - Joe Elliott, Grafana Labs Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center Scaling Your Cluster (Both Ways) - Scott Coulton & Patrick Chanezon, Microsoft Room 6F - San Diego Convention Center

5:20pm PST

Are We There Yet? My Experience Leading a Kubernetes Release Team - Claire Laurence, Pivotal Room 16AB - San Diego Convention Center CoreDNS Deep Dive - John Belamaric, Google Hall D - San Diego Convention Center The Great Cardinality Disasters of Our Time - Bryan Boreham, Weaveworks & Chris Marchbanks, Splunk Room 17AB - San Diego Convention Center Serverless Platform for Large Scale Mini-Apps: From Knative to Production - Yitao Dong & Ke Wang, Ant Financial Room 6F - San Diego Convention Center

6:00pm PST

All-Attendee Block Party (Name Badge Required to Attend) Gaslamp Quarter
 
Thursday, November 21
 

7:30am PST

Continental Breakfast (Main Conference Venue) Foyer A & B - San Diego Convention Center

8:00am PST

Quiet Room Room 13 - San Diego Convention Center

10:04am PST

Keynote: Finding the Joy in Chaos Engineering - Ana Medina, Chaos Engineer, Gremlin & Lenny Sharpe, Director of Engineering, Target Exhibit Hall AB - San Diego Convention Center

10:25am PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center Sponsor Showcase Sails Pavilion + Ballroom 6AB - San Diego Convention Center Chair Massage & Relaxation Stations San Diego Convention Center

10:30am PST

Puppy Pawlooza / Paw Therapy Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center

10:55am PST

CloudEvents - Intro, Deep-Dive and More! - Doug Davis, IBM; Clemens Vasters, Microsoft; Klaus Deissner, SAP; & Vladimir Bacvanski, PayPal Room 31ABC - San Diego Convention Center OpenTelemetry: The First Release, What’s Next, and How to Get Involved - Morgan McLean, Google; Tristan Sloughter, Postmates; Sergey Kanzhelev, Microsoft; & Chris Kleinknecht, Google Room 5AB - San Diego Convention Center Deep Linking Metrics and Traces with OpenTelemetry, OpenMetrics and M3 - Rob Skillington, Chronosphere Room 11AB - San Diego Convention Center Handling Risky Business: Cluster Upgrades - Puneet Pruthi, Lyft Ballroom Sec 20CD - San Diego Convention Center KEDA: Event Driven and Serverless Containers in Kubernetes - Jeff Hollan, Microsoft Room 16AB - San Diego Convention Center

12:25pm PST

Lunch (Provided) Hall C + West Terrace + 20 Foyer - San Diego Convention Center

2:25pm PST

Panel: State of the Kubernetes Union - Steering Committee Discussion - Davanum Srinivas, Timothy St. Clair, Jorge Castro, VMware; Paris Pittman, Google; Derek Carr, Christoph Blecker, Red Hat; & Nikhita Raghunath... Room 16AB - San Diego Convention Center The Gotchas of Zero-Downtime Traffic /w Kubernetes - Leigh Capili, Weaveworks Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center Bringing the Envoy Service Mesh to Mobile - Jose Nino & Michael Schore, Lyft Room 33ABC - San Diego Convention Center

3:20pm PST

Kubernetes at Reddit: Tales from Production - Greg Taylor, Reddit, Inc Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center Building and Scaling Cloud Native Nordics; Tips, Tricks, and Lessons Learned - Lucas Käldström, Independent & Kasper Nissen, Lunar Room 33ABC - San Diego Convention Center Evolving the Kubernetes Ingress APIs to GA and Beyond - Christopher M Luciano, IBM & Bowei Du, Google Room 16AB - San Diego Convention Center CoreDNS: Beyond the Basics - Cricket Liu, Infoblox & John Belamaric, Google Room 6C - San Diego Convention Center

3:55pm PST

Coffee Break Sponsor Showcase, Sails Pavillion - San Diego Convention Center

4:25pm PST

CNCF's Serverless WG - Tell Me Where it Hurts - Doug Davis, IBM; Mark Peek, VMware; & Ruben Romero Montes, Red Hat Room 6D - San Diego Convention Center Intro + DeepDive: SIG Scalability - Wojciech Tyczynski & Mateusz Matejczyk, Google Room 7AB - San Diego Convention Center

5:20pm PST

Staying in Tune: Optimize Kubernetes for Stability and Utilization - Randy Johnson & Koushik Radhakrishnan, VMware Room 6F - San Diego Convention Center