Enterprise DevOps Champion of the Year
For an individual who has built community, mentored practitioners, or advocated for DevOps practice in ways that go beyond promoting a commercial product or employer. Nominations should point to specific community-building activities during the eligibility year — organizing meetups, mentoring newcomers, running forums or discussion groups, or otherwise strengthening the broader DevOps community. Vendor employees are eligible only where the nominated activity is genuinely community-serving rather than a vehicle for product marketing.
4 finalists
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Benoît Ebner
Keyes/NRB GroupBenoît Ebner bridges generations of mainframe DevOps talent, sharing practical experience with the broader community while teaching, supporting internships, and helping students engage with the platform.
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Brian Teller
Teller's Tech (Ship It Weekly, On Call Brief)Brian Teller hosts Ship It Weekly and Kube Signals and publishes the free On Call Brief newsletter, giving on-call engineers practical, vendor-neutral context on the week's DevOps and SRE news.
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Brian Fox, CTO and Co-founder of Sonatype and Steward of Maven Central
SonatypeBrian Fox, CTO and co-founder of Sonatype, is a Governing Board Member for the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), a Governing Board Member for the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Cyber and Technology Resilience Experts (CTREX) Panel, a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former Chair of the Apache Maven project.
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Reddysagar Akkaru Chenchu
Broadridge Financial SolutionsQA/SDET Lead and Independent Creator and Maintainer of the DesktopAutomationHelper Open-Source Project, Reddysagar Akkaru Chenchu, is a software quality engineering leader who created an open-source, session-isolated desktop automation driver to improve concurrent testing and continuous delivery in shared Citrix environments.