Docker Captains
Meet the Docker experts sharing their knowledge online and offline around the world!
Docker Captain Program
Docker Captain is a distinction that Docker awards select members of the community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others. Captains are Docker ambassadors (not employees) and their commitment to sharing their expertise has a huge impact on the Docker community – whether they are blogging, writing books, speaking, running workshops, creating tutorials and classes, offering support in forums, or organizing and contributing to local events – they help make Docker’s mission of democratizing technology possible.
Docker Captains are eager to bring their technical expertise to new audiences both offline and online around the world – don’t hesitate to reach out to them via the social links below!
If you’re interested in becoming a Docker Captain, please send an email to [email protected]
Docker Captains
Adrien Blind
"Adrien is a former consultant from Octo Technology, a French IT consulting firm. He recently joined Societe Generale as a DevOps coach and Infrastructure as Code product owner, driving the developers new needs toward infrastructure and helping them to leverage on...
Adrian Mouat
Adrian has been involved with containers from the early days of Docker and authored the O’Reilly book “Using Docker”. He works at Chainguard (chainguard.dev) whose mission is to make the software lifecycle secure by default. His current project is developing secure...
Alex Iankoulski
Alex Iankoulski is a DockerCon alumni. He was inspired when he attended DockerCon for the first time in San Francisco in 2015 and since then has been a Docker evangelist among his colleagues and in the community. Alex has attended DockerCon every year, initially as a...
Antonis Kalipetis
Antonis Kalipetis CTO, SourceLair, Athens, Greece Antonis is a Senior Software Engineer at e-food.gr — the leading online food delivery service in Greece. He is a Python lover and developer who helps teams embrace containers and improve their development workflow. He...
Arun Gupta
Arun Gupta Vice President and General Manager, Open Ecosystem, Intel, Santa Clara, CA United States of America Arun Gupta is vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation. He is an open source strategist, advocate, and...
Aurélie Vache
DevRel at OVHcloud in Toulouse, France. She is GDE (Google Developer Expert) for Cloud technologies, Docker captain, CNCF ambassador & Kubernetes for Developers certified. She has been working as a Developer and Ops for over 15 years. Cloud enthusiast and...
Brandon Mitchell
Brandon Mitchell has been a Docker fan since 2015. He is a Solutions Architect for BoxBoat an IBM company, Docker Captain, and creator of the regclient project. He focuses on software supply chain security with the CNCF TAG Security and defining specs with the OCI. He...
Bret Fisher
For 25 years Bret has built and operated distributed systems as a sysadmin and helped over 300,000 people learn dev and ops topics. He is a Docker Captain, the author of the wildly popular Docker Mastery series on Udemy, and also provides DevOps-style consulting and...
Brian Christner
Brian Christner is a Docker Captain, Open Source contributor/advocate, Observability specialist, and teacher. Brian is located in Switzerland and is passionate about teaching/sharing, Docker, Cloud Native, Web3, and various tech/startup communities in Switzerland....
Don Bauer
Don Bauer started his career in 2007 as a metrics analyst and systems engineer with Charter Communications. Since then, he has held roles in development, infrastructure, architecture and operations for both enterprise corporations and startups. He immediately...
Elton Stoneman
Elton spent most of his career as a consultant, designing and building large enterprise applications. Then he discovered the container revolution, joined Docker and worked with the team for three fast and furious years. Now he helps people break up those old...
Francesco Ciulla
Hello, I'm Francesco, from Rome (Italy). I worked as a full-stack Engineer at Copernicus Project (European Space Agency) and am currently Developer Advocate for daily.dev. I am very active on Social Media (especially Twitter and YouTube in this period) I have...
Gianluca Arbezzano
I am a developer currently focused on databases and Rust. I consume, contribute and maintain many opensource projects like Kubernetes, TestContainers, Docker. I jump back and forth between operations and development. I write about my journey on my blog. Website:...
Javier Ramírez
Docker Captain, Kubernetes Certified Admin and Security Specialist working on containers and infrastructure security on EU Agencies. Website: https://www.codegazers.org
Jeff Nickoloff
Seasoned engineering leader, consultant, engineer, entrepreneur, and Kellogg EMBA candidate. I'm passionate about building and scaling teams through effective communication, innovative technology, and product development and positioning. Website:...
Julie Lerman
Julie Lerman is a Microsoft Regional director and a long-time Microsoft MVP who now counts her years as a coder in decades. She makes her living as a mentor and consultant to software teams around the world. You can find Julie presenting on Docker, Domain-Driven...
Laura Tacho
Laura Tacho is a technology leader with a successful track record leading engineering and product development teams at companies like CloudBees, Aula Education, and Nova Credit. As a VP of Engineering and now as engineering leadership coach, she’s on a mission to...
Lee Calcote
Lee Calcote is an innovative product and technology leader, passionate about empowering engineers and enabling organizations. As Founder and CEO of Layer5, Lee Calcote is at the forefront of the cloud native movement. Previously, Calcote stewarded technology...
Lucas Santos
Lucas works as Software Engineer at Klarna. Technology lover and, since 2011, works with cloud-native applications. Loves to teach and learn, writer of "Kubernetes: Everything you need to know about container orchestration". Granted the title of Google Developer...
Łukasz Lach
Łukasz Lach is a Docker Captain from Poland, Docker Certified Associate and Docker Community Leader in Warsaw. At the University of Warsaw, he conducts classes with students of the 2nd and 3rd year on the subject of efficient and scalable Internet applications based...
Manuel Morejón
He is interested in topics like Cloud Native Architectures, CI/CD, and Microservices. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and interacting with communities. He is the author of the books "Érase una vez Kubernetes" and "Érase una vez Docker". Website:...
Marcos Lilljedahl
Long time Docker fan. Coder, OSS enthusiast and co-creator of play-with-docker.com.
Melissa McKay
Melissa is a long-time developer/software engineer turned international speaker and is currently a Developer Advocate for JFrog, Inc., sharing in the mission to improve the developer experience with DevOps methodologies. Her background and experience as a software...
Nana Janashia
Nana Janashia is a DevOps engineer and trainer. She started the Techworld with Nana channel to share her expertise about various DevOps topics and to help DevOps enthusiasts get into the field easier and with more motivation. Through her channel and different courses,...
Nicholas Dille
Nicholas is concerned with automation and containerization. He is a Senior DevOps Engineer at Haufe Group, a digital media group based in Freiburg, Germany where he supports the development teams in the DevOps process. In his community blog, Nicholas writes articles...
Nick Janetakis
Nick Janetakis is a full stack developer, SRE and tutorial creator who spends his time doing contract work and creating online courses. He is the creator of the Dive Into Docker course which is a comprehensive video course to learn how to use Docker and Docker...
Nigel Poulton
Living it large in the world of enterprise IT. Technical training videos at pluralsight.com, and co-host of the In Tech We Trust Podcast. Website: http://nigelpoulton.com
Nils De Moor
Nils is an open source aficionado. After a brief passage through the academic world where he researched simulation of distributed systems, he decided to try his luck as an entrepreneur and cofounded Woorank as the CTO. By grabbing millions of data points every day, he...
Nirmal Mehta
Nirmal has been using Docker since 2014 in support of various public sector customers. He is an emerging technology enthusiast, devops community leader and strong believer in empathy driven leadership. He is a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect @ Amazon Web...
Nuno Do Carmo
Nuno is a Tech Writer at SUSE Rancher. He’s also a CNCF Ambassador, Microsoft MVP and passionate for Cloud Native technologies. He is specially invested on bringing the Cloud Native technologies to Windows and more specifically Windows Subsystem for Linux. He is...
Rachid Zarouali
Rachid Zarouali is a Docker Captain, Community Leader, international speaker and trainer In 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, he recognized the need to bring the...
Rafael Gomes
I'm DevOps Engineer, technical writer and speaker. It has been a long time since I felt in love with Linux and, while that I had the opportunity to work as a developer infrastructure using Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker. One of the benefits of working as a DevOps...
Rob Richardson
Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, React and Vue. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software...
Scott Coulton
Scott Coulton is a Developer Advocate and Docker captain with 15 years of experience as a software engineer in the managed services and hosting space. He has extensive experience in architecture and rolling out distributed compute systems and network solutions for...
Simon Aronsson
Simme is the lead maintainer of the popular open-source container update automation tool Watchtower. Other than being a long-time docker user, he’s heavily into site reliability engineering in general, observability in particular, as well as everything cloud-native....
Sujay Pillai
Sujay is a certified Microsoft Azure Architect and currently works as a Cloud Advisory Manager at ACCENTURE. He oversees the Azure/AWS platform and helps customers with the designand deployment of solutions in cloud using infrastructure-as-code methodologies, building...
Sune Keller
I'm a developer turned architect at Alm. Brand, a financial corporation (insurance, banking, pension/life insurance, car leasing) located in Copenhagen, Denmark. My buddy from university pushed Docker to me for a while until I picked it up and started playing with it....
Eric Smalling
Eric has about 30 years of professional experience in enterprise software development and architecture, including build, test, and deployment automation. He has been practicing DevOps concepts since long before the term was coined. On practically every project...
Sebastián Ramírez
Hey! 👋 I'm Sebastián Ramírez (tiangolo), the creator of FastAPI, Typer, SQLModel, Asyncer, and other open source tools. I've been a Docker fan for a long time. Some of my first successful open source projects were Docker images! 🎉 I'm currently a...
Martin Terp
Martin has always described himself as a guy with Docker blood running in his veins, ever since he started working with Docker in 2016, he found it natural to share his knowledge, and started contributing to the Docker community, where he have been a familiar name...
Thorsten Hans
Thorsten works as a consultant at Thinktecture in Germany. He drives the architecting and implementing of cloud-native applications leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, PaaS, and serverless technologies. He teaches and coaches developer teams to adopt new technology trends...
Julien Maitrehenry
Julien is a senior software developer, specialize in DevOps, Agile practices and Cloud development. He has over 15 years of experiences in application, architecture, development and deployment. He is a high quality coder who enjoys sharing his passion with his teams ,...
Damian Naprawa
Software Architect, containers enthusiast, trainer and evangelist. Helps Developers’ Teams understand containers and migrate their apps from monoliths to microservices – including migration to the cloud and Kubernetes. Shares his knowledge on his blog/podcast –...
Darragh Grealish
Based in Switzerland working both hands-on and consulting with various international clients, Darragh is the Co-Founder of 56K.Cloud, as start-up focused on the developer tooling and cloud-native enablement of network and telecoms technologies, a former employee of...
James Spurin
For over 25 years, James Spurin has been passionate about Technology and has worn many different hats throughout his career - building and hosting Internet Services, Unix Administration, Disaster Recovery Simulation, Enterprise Storage, Software Development,...
Sébastien Flochlay
Sebastien is a Senior Cloud Developer and Co-Founder of Stack Labs. Passionate about the Go, Flutter with Dart, Docker and Software Craftsmanship principles, he likes to share his knowledge and best practices during Meetups, Conferences, Workshops or Training....
Mama Samba Braima Nelson Djalo
Hello World. I am Mama Samba Braima AKA Nelson! I am a passionate Software Engineer and YouTuber teaching and helping thousands of people around the world how to code or how to become professional software engineers through my YouTube channel and online courses. My...
Tobias Fenster
Tobias Fenster started as a developer in the 1990s. Holding different positions including Head of Technical Consulting, Head of Development and CTO for multiple Microsoft partners during his career, he is now a Managing Partner at 4PS Germany. He is also a Microsoft...
Vinicius Apolinario
Vinicius has been working with IT for 20+ years. He has a passion for helping ITPros/Ops and whenever possible, you'll see him on conferences engaging with customers and community. Vinicius holds many Microsoft certifications, has 2 books published (Learning Hyper-V,...
Edith Erika Puclla Pareja
Edi is a Tech Evangelist at Percona Corporation, an open source contributor, and a student at Code in Place and 42 Silicon Valley School in California in 2020. Part of the Outreachy Internship in 2021. Docker Captain, with more than 5 years of DevOps experience. She...
Max Proske
Max Proske is a Docker Captain from Vancouver, Canada, who is passionate about advancing the container space and promoting the use of Docker for React frameworks. At SIX12 Creative, Max directs the development of gamification and loyalty projects for retail and...
Batuhan Apaydın
Batuhan Apaydın a.k.a. developer-guy has been very active in Software Supply Chain Security space. He is eager to learn more about it in all aspects because he know this topic will become one of the upmost critical topics that everybody has to be concerned and create...
Camilla Martins
Non-binary. Docker Community Leader. Docker Captain. I'm a Senior Site Reliability Engineer and I'm currently working at Storyblok, with a postgraduate degree in Computational Forensics and doing a Master's degree in Advanced Networks at the Federal University of the...
Timo Stark
Timo Stark's fascination with the web started at the young age of 12 when he began exploring computers. By the age of 14, he was already programming and became deeply involved in anything related to computer networks and web infrastructure. He started his career as a...
Mohammad-Ali A’râbi
Mohammad-Ali "the Dockerizer" A'râbi is a backend software engineer, content creator, and mathematician, Dockerizing since 2015. By day he implements features for Jodel, writes Helm charts, and maintains Node.js services running on a EKS. By night, he plays Mortal...
Julian König
Julian König is an open-minded developer, techie and open source enthusiast. His current technical focus is on backend development with Go and TypeScript and frontend development with Dart and Flutter. He's also involved in DevOps and CI/CD. He lives in the city of...
Harsh Manvar
Harsh Manvar has been a Docker fan since 2017. He is a Senior Software Engineer, Docker Captain, and avid contributor at Stack Overflow. Deeply passionate about creating scalable and highly available infrastructure architecture. He enjoys speaking on subjects like...
Ulises Gascon
Ulises Gascon has more than 10 years of experience as a software engineer, having worked for companies such as Google, IBM, consultancy firms, and startups. He is a core team member and top contributor to several open source organizations and projects, including...
Vladimir Mikhalev
Vladimir Mikhalev, who is widely known as Valdemar, is a seasoned IT professional, bringing over 20 years of experience to the table and having honed his skills at tech giants including IBM, Thales, and Amazon. As a DevOps Consultant and Team Lead, Valdemar's...
Lukasz Dynowski
Lukasz is Copenhagen based independent consultant who has been acquainted with Docker since 2015. He handshaked and laughed with Solomon Hykes at DockerCon 2017. Since that moment, Lukasz is recognized by his polyfilm hand that creates weird noise while typing. By...
Raeveen Pasupathy
Raeveen is a professionally certified AWS Solutions Architect and currently works as a Platform Engineer at ServiceRocket. He is a self-taught programmer, with a wealth of programming experience accumulated since the age of 12. He has also been using Docker...
Hamida Rebai
Hamida Rebai is a senior Cloud Solution Architect at Revenu Quebec, has been working in the computing domain for over 13 years. She started her professional career in Tunisia as a software developer, then as a .NET consultant when she moved to Canada, she focuses on...
Rossana Suarez
Rossana Suarez @RoxsRoss is a systems engineer in Argentina with more than 10 years of experience designing, implementing and managing the development of software applications, DevOps and Mentor, experience with Docker, container life cycle and kubernetes in cloud...
Çiğdem Kadakoğlu
Çiğdem Kadakoğlu is a Senior Cloud and DevOps engineer, consultant, and instructor on Udemy. She began her career as a software engineer and then switched to DevOps. She focuses primarily on cloud, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, Docker, and Kubernetes. She has some...
Prakhar Srivastav
Prakhar is a senior software engineer at Google where he works on Firebase. He is passionate about building developer tools that make it easy for developers to build their apps. Prakhar first discovered Docker in school and has been an avid user and fan ever since....