DevOps Advocate of the Year

Agentic AppSec Best practices in the AI-DLC

Hackathon Community Champion, led strategic community engagements

Jenkins release officer, core maintainer, and key contributor

Darin hosts the DevOps Paradox podcast and the What's New in Jenkins webinars

Mihir Vora is a Senior Distinguished Engineer and two-term CDF Ambassador advancing DevOps through industry talks, published technical insights, open standards discussions, peer collaboration, and mentorship focused on safer, more effective software delivery.

Mohammad-Ali A'râbi is a Docker Captain, author, international speaker, and community organizer advocating for accessible DevOps and software supply-chain security worldwide.

Author of the Book "DevOps Mindset in Software Development: From Apprentice to Journeyman"

Southwest Airlines Technical leader in cloud and devops who organizes DevOpsDays Dallas and the Global Security Tour, serves on the cdCon Program Committee, and has mentored and trained more than 150 students in DevOps and cloud.

Crossplane maintainer (provider-civo) and founding engineer building production AI agents, with ~295 merged PRs across 45+ open-source repositories.

Georgii Kashintsev is the creator and long-term maintainer of Alligator, an independent open-source Prometheus monitoring agent in production on more than 3,000 servers since 2019.

Harish Shenoy — Maintainer of lakebase-cicd, an open-source Jenkins CI/CD project that brings Git-style database branching to Databricks Lakebase, giving every pull request its own isolated Postgres database via copy-on-write branching.

Karmendra Pandey contributes production-grade open-source work to the Strands Agents SDK and authored an MIT-licensed reference architecture (agentic-ai-aws-reference) for cost-governed AI agents on AWS.