#CSCollab2026 Speakers
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Wido den Hollander
CTO, Your.Online
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Wido den Hollander
CTO, Your.Online
Wido is the CTO at Your.Online, and is a PMC member and Committer to the CloudStack project. Wido has been a part of the CloudStack community since 2012. Ever since he has contributed various parts of code, including Ceph/RBD, IPv6, KVM and many other parts.
Peter Grayson
Chief Technology Officer, Sendense
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Peter Grayson
Chief Technology Officer, Sendense
Peter Grayson is Chief Technology Officer at Sendense, where he leads product and technical strategy for the company's backup, recovery, disaster recovery, replication and workload mobility platform across Apache CloudStack and mixed virtual infrastructure.
Ivet Petrova
CRO, ShapeBlue
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Ivet Petrova
CRO, ShapeBlue
Ivet Petrova is a technology marketing leader with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure and open-source ecosystems. As Chief Revenue Officer at ShapeBlue, she drives the company’s global market strategy, brand positioning, demand generation, partnerships and sales.
Over the past 13+ years, Ivet has worked extensively with cloud providers, hosting companies, storage vendors, SaaS platforms, and software development organizations. She specializes in translating technically sophisticated solutions into clear market narratives that resonate with executive and technical buyers alike.
A strong advocate for open-source cloud technologies, Ivet actively contributes to expanding the global awareness and commercial adoption of Apache CloudStack and is a PMC member of the project.
Boyan Ivanov
CEO, StorPool Storage
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Boyan Ivanov
CEO, StorPool Storage
Boyan Ivanov is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at StorPool since November 2011. Boyan started programming at the age of 10. At the same age, Boyan started his first venture, and the latter stuck. Boyan has versatile experience in the enterprise and SMB worlds and has also been part of several startups in the IT space. Now he is focused to help companies implement a best-of-breed storage solution and achieve performance and efficiency for their clouds. Boyan is also a member of the Forbes Technology Council.
Dr. Khachatur Nazaretyan
CTO, ShapeBlue
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Dr. Khachatur Nazaretyan
CTO, ShapeBlue
Dr. Khachatur Nazaretyan has worked across the whole infrastructure stack for nearly two decades, starting in full-stack development in 2007 and moving through systems and network administration, senior cloud architecture and technical consulting. He has designed and run CloudStack-based private cloud platforms for enterprise and service provider workloads. Today he leads globally distributed engineering teams and sets technical strategy.
Ingo Jochim
Head of Cloud Architecture, ShapeBlue
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Ingo Jochim
Head of Cloud Architecture, ShapeBlue
Ingo is Head of Architecture at ShapeBlue, with a background spanning roles from Cloud Systems Engineer to Head of Datacenter. He brings deep experience across on-premise, private, and public cloud infrastructures, with a strong focus on CloudStack and open-source technologies. Outside of work, he enjoys ultra-distance running, motocross, and hands-on projects like home automation and DIY crafting.
Robert Kloosterhuis
Lead Platforms Architect, Statistics Netherlands (CBS)
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Robert Kloosterhuis
Lead Platforms Architect, Statistics Netherlands (CBS)
Swen Brüseke
CEO, proIO
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Swen Brüseke
CEO, proIO
Swen is the Founder and CEO of proIO, a Managed Hosting Provider and Public/Private Cloud Provider based in Frankfurt. He has extensive experience with various cloud environments, including public, private, and hybrid clouds. Swen's in-depth knowledge of CloudStack and commitment to sharing his expertise have made him a valued member of the community.
Taylor Greiner
Director of Innovation, US Signal
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Taylor Greiner
Director of Innovation, US Signal
As Director of Innovation at US Signal, Taylor leads initiatives that bridge emerging technologies with real-world customer outcomes. With a decade of experience in cloud architecture, software development, and IT strategy, Taylor is focused on driving innovation across connectivity, data center, and cloud services.
Daman Arora
Senior Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
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Daman Arora
Senior Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
Daman Arora is a senior software engineer at ShapeBlue, where he develops Apache CloudStack and supports enterprise customers alongside the open-source community. Over the past decade he's built front-end applications at Ciena, automated Kubernetes infrastructure at Nokia, and delivered custom cloud solutions at IBM. He's contributed to open source through Google Summer of Code (a CloudStack Terraform provider in Go), an AWS Open Source Engineering Fellowship, and an RBC-sponsored fellowship. He holds a master's in Technology Innovation Management from Carleton University.
Jürgen Weiss
STRATEGIC ADVISOR, SYSTAVO
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Jürgen Weiss
STRATEGIC ADVISOR, SYSTAVO
Jürgen is a seasoned IT veteran with extensive expertise in datacenter infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud management. He looks back on a successful career spanning more than 25 years with industry leaders such as Sun Microsystems, EMC Corporation, and VMware. As a strategic advisor to SYSTAVO, he contributes his experience to the long-term direction of the company.
Suresh Kumar Anaparti
Senior Software Architect, ShapeBlue
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Suresh Kumar Anaparti
Senior Software Architect, ShapeBlue
Suresh is a seasoned technology professional with extensive experience in end-to-end product development, specializing in Cloud Infrastructure and a wide array of other related technologies. He is a Committer and PMC member for the Apache CloudStack project, where he has been a long-standing and active contributor.
Matthias Dhellin
CRM Software Consultant, DIMSI
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Matthias Dhellin
CRM Software Consultant, DIMSI
Matthias is a CRM Software Consultant at DIMSI. He focuses on integrating AI into CRM software to leverage its capabilities while ensuring existing business process remain unaffected. He also works on Apache CloudStack related projects from time to time.
Max Bozhenko
CTO & Co-Founder of Hystax
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Max Bozhenko
CTO & Co-Founder of Hystax
Max Bozhenko is the CTO and Founder of Hystax. Max studied mathematics and is a serial entrepreneur, Hystax is his 3rd company that he founded. All 3 companies were focused on Cloud, Replication and Recovery. He co-founded Hystax in 2016. He is married and has 2 daughters; his hobbies are Mountain Biking and BJJ (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu).
Abhishek Kumar
Software Developer, Yotta
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Abhishek Kumar
Software Developer, Yotta
Platform engineer and cloud-native enthusiast focused on CloudStack, Kubernetes, and intelligent XaaS platforms. Passionate about simplifying infrastructure through automation, workflow orchestration, and AI.
Gaurav Sekhri
Full Stack Developer, Yotta
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Gaurav Sekhri
Full Stack Developer, Yotta
Building intelligent cloud platforms with CloudStack, Kubernetes, and automation. Passionate about DBaaS, XaaS, distributed systems, and AI-driven infrastructure.
Stephan Bienek
Head of Hosting, weSystems
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Stephan Bienek
Head of Hosting, weSystems
Stephan Bienek is the Head of Hosting at weSystems and a long time CloudStack evangelist.
His strong technical background in the datacenter and hosting area is combined in being an active CloudStack community member since years.
With lots of creativity and understanding of the details, he is designing and building solid and future-proof solutions,
while always enjoying to share knowledge.
Alex Dietrich
Director of IP & Transport Engineering, US Signal
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Alex Dietrich
Director of IP & Transport Engineering, US Signal
Alex Dietrich is Director of IP & Transport Engineering at US Signal, where he’s spent five years leading work across cloud and network infrastructure. Alex was one of the lead builders of US Signal’s CloudStack deployment and its OpenCloud product, taking the project from evaluating VMware alternatives through architecture, build, and deployment automation of CloudStack. In production since late 2024 across five data centers, with more on the way, the platform is designed to scale effectively at the network layer and to make the on-ramp easier for engineers new to CloudStack.
Stoil Stoilov
Senior DevOps Engineer, StorPool
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Stoil Stoilov
Senior DevOps Engineer, StorPool
Stoil Stoilov is a Senior DevOps Engineer with over 15 years of experience across software development, system administration, and cloud infrastructure. He has designed and built cloud platforms, focusing on infrastructure as code, automation, and scalable distributed systems. His work centers on reliability, observability, and efficient operations in complex environments. He currently works in the enterprise storage domain, contributing to high-performance, resilient infrastructure at scale.
Simon Weller
CTO, UDT
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Simon Weller
CTO, UDT
Simon has been involved in the Apache CloudStack community for many years and has previously served as the Vice President of Apache CloudStack. He has a passion for open source and serves as the CTO of the Service Provider division of UDT, a Technology Services Provider based in the United States.
Abhishek Kumar
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
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Abhishek Kumar
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
Abhishek Kumar is a long-time Apache CloudStack contributor, committer, and PMC member, focused on cloud infrastructure and virtualization.
Paul Bardinet
AI & Automation Consultant, DIMSI
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Paul Bardinet
AI & Automation Consultant, DIMSI
Paul Bardinet is an AI & Automation Consultant at DIMSI. He works with organisations deploying private AI solutions open-source models running on infrastructure they control where data sovereignty is a hard requirement rather than a preference. His focus is on what happens around the deployment: identifying the use cases where this type of solution actually makes sense, presenting it to business teams, and supporting them through integration into their existing applications and day-to-day work.
Christian Helmus
Product Manager Cloud Services, GTT
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Christian Helmus
Product Manager Cloud Services, GTT
Abhisar Sinha
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
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Abhisar Sinha
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
Software Engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in storage, cloud technologies, and distributed systems.
Gavin Young
CEO, Sendense
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Gavin Young
CEO, Sendense
Andrija Panic
Independent Cloud Architect
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Andrija Panic
Independent Cloud Architect
Andrija Panic is a cloud architect, Apache CloudStack PMC member and long-standing contributor to the CloudStack community. He has extensive hands-on experience designing, operating and troubleshooting production cloud environments based on Apache CloudStack, KVM, VMware and a range of storage technologies.
Over the course of his career, Andrija has advised and supported organisations around the world, helping them design, improve and operate complex cloud infrastructure. His recent technical work has focused on VMware-to-KVM migration, VMware VDDK, changed-block tracking, low-downtime migration strategies and efficient data transfer to qcow2, Ceph RBD and other storage backends.
He is known for a deeply practical approach, technical curiosity and a willingness to investigate infrastructure problems below the abstraction layers.
Saurabh Rapatwar
Founder and CEO, Stack Console
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Saurabh Rapatwar
Founder and CEO, Stack Console
Saurabh Rapatwar is the Founder and CEO of Stack Console, a cloud management platform empowering cloud service providers to build, operate, and scale their own cloud businesses. With over 14 years of experience in the cloud industry, he has led the development of a platform that serves providers across more than 25 countries, helping them turn cloud infrastructure into customer-facing, revenue-generating services. His work focuses on bridging the gap between cloud infrastructure and commercial cloud delivery through self-service portals, automation, billing, and customer management, with Apache CloudStack playing a key role in this ecosystem.
Alex Tatham
CRO, Sendense
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Alex Tatham
CRO, Sendense
Alex Tatham is Chief Revenue Officer at Sendense, where he leads the company's commercial strategy and its work with cloud providers and MSPs building backup, disaster recovery and migration services on Apache CloudStack and mixed virtual infrastructure
Martin Bruenn
CEO, ADVANCED Systemhaus GmbH
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Martin Bruenn
CEO, ADVANCED Systemhaus GmbH
Martin Bruenn is a long-standing cybersecurity and Zero Trust specialist.
For decades, he has advised mid-sized companies on IT security strategies and helped implement modern, holistic protection concepts. His approach places strong emphasis on efficiency, sustainability, and practical implementation - always with the goal of preserving business continuity and significantly reducing the operational security burden on IT teams.
As a Managed Security Service Provider and Iaas Provider we have maintained a strong and collaborative partnership with Security und Infrastructure Vendors and Companies.
Andrey Stadler
Global Technologist, Veeam
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Andrey Stadler
Global Technologist, Veeam
Andrey Stadler, currently working as a Global Technologist at Veeam, helps businesses level up data resilience with Veeam. From cloud to security to AI, he bridges tech and strategy - demoing, designing, and delivering impact from boardrooms to big stages.
Kiran Chalava
QA Engineer, ShapeBlue
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Kiran Chalava
QA Engineer, ShapeBlue
Kiran is a software test engineer by profession. Kiran has experience in providing technical support on various issues related to CloudStack. His personal interests and hobbies are trying out various open-source and cncf projects and watching a ton of TV shows and films.
Jithin Raju
Cloud Architect, ShapeBlue
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Jithin Raju
Cloud Architect, ShapeBlue
Jithin is a Cloud Architect by profession. He has helped organisations around the globe use commercial distributions of Apache CloudStack over the past 10 years. These organisations include private, public, and government cloud service providers. Outside his work, he likes to spend time with his family.
Nicolas Vazquez
Lead Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
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Nicolas Vazquez
Lead Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
Nicolas Vazquez is a Lead Software Engineer at ShapeBlue, a PMC member of the Apache CloudStack project and is the VP of the project FY 2025. He spends his time designing and implementing features in Apache CloudStack and can be seen acting as a release manager. Nicolas is based in Uruguay and is a father of a young girl. He is a fan of sports, enjoys playing tennis and football. In his free time, he also enjoys reading and listening to economic and political materials.
Venko Moyankov
Solutions Architect, StorPool Storage
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Venko Moyankov
Solutions Architect, StorPool Storage
Venko is the Solutions Lead at StorPool Storage, a fully managed data storage solution that transforms commodity hardware into a shared, powerful, highly available, and reliable storage system. He has experience with managing large virtualizations, working in telcos, designing and supporting the infrastructure of large enterprises.
Grégoire Lamodière
Founder, DIMSI
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Grégoire Lamodière
Founder, DIMSI
Grégoire is the Founder of DIMSI and a Software Architect who spends most of his time designing infrastructure applications and CRM systems, on-premise or multi-cloud based. He’s been using Apache CloudStack for many years, and likes to keep knowledge and data outside black-boxes.
Alex Mattioli
Independent Advisor
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Alex Mattioli
Independent Advisor
Alexandre Mattioli is an AI expert who has lately rejoined the field of advanced AI research. He's also an seasoned Cloud Architect, committer and PMC member, who has been working with Development and IT infrastructure for over 25 years and with Apache CloudStack for the past 14. He has designed, built and operated one of the geographically largest ACS deployments worldwide, spanning from California to Singapore via Europe. In his career, Alexandre helped many diverse companies to build advanced cloud solutions on top of the ACS platform, migrate from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, and has also led the design and development of several new ACS features through the years. Now he's focusing on bringing his AI knowledge to the domain of open source infrastructure, specially ACS.
Philipp Reisner
CEO, LINBIT
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Philipp Reisner
CEO, LINBIT
Philipp is one of the founders and CEO of LINBIT in Vienna, Austria. His professional career has been dominated by developing DRBD, a storage replication software for Linux. While in the early years (2001) this was writing kernel code, today he leads a company of 40 employees with locations in Austria and the USA.
Joffrey Luangsaysana
Cloud Network Systems Engineer, DIMSI
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Joffrey Luangsaysana
Cloud Network Systems Engineer, DIMSI
Joffrey works as a Cloud Network Systems Engineer at DIMSI and contributes to the maintenance and evolution of its cloud services, managing both server hardware and software. He works daily with KVM and CloudStack. When he is not at his computer, Joffrey enjoys playing board games and exploring beautiful landscapes.
Vishesh Jindal
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
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Vishesh Jindal
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
Vishesh Jindal is a Software Engineer at ShapeBlue and has experience in developing and managing cloud infrastructure. He has a particular interest in databases and has worked extensively on them. When Vishesh is not working, he enjoys watching anime, playing DOTA, or working on an open-source project.
Pearl Dsilva
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
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Pearl Dsilva
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
Pearl is a quality and technology driven software engineer, who works at ShapeBlue - the largest independent integrator of CloudStack technologies. Pearl is also a PMC Member and Committer to the CloudStack project.
Wei Zhou
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
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Wei Zhou
Software Engineer, ShapeBlue
Rene Peinthor
Software Engineer, LINBIT
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Rene Peinthor
Software Engineer, LINBIT
Rene is a LINSTOR developer. Rene was one of the first developers to oversee a DRBD resource deployed by LINSTOR, and has been a Software Developer at LINBIT since 2017.
