Civo Ambassadors

Our ambassadors are the driving force behind our community.


They share their expertise with fellow Civo users, contribute to our growing library of educational resources, cover new features and announcements, and host talks and workshops that advance the cloud native ecosystem.

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keith hubner

Keith Hubner

Integration Engineer (EMEA), Bitwarden

Over 20 years' experience in IT in both internal and customer facing roles across multiple sectors. When not rebooting stuff, Keith enjoys playing golf and the guitar.

milind chawre

Milind Chawre

Expert DevOps Engineer, TomTom

Milind is a DevOps geek who is passionate about cloud native technologies and anything related to docker & Kubernetes. He enjoys building systems from scratch.

steve miller

Steve Miller

Engineering Manager, Tuition.io

Steve is a Devops practitioner who enjoys creating robust architectures. His hobbies include working on his tractor, as well as various electronics projects.

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Nuno do Carmo

Product Marketing Manager, Suse

Nuno is a Tech Writer at SUSE Rancher. He's also a Microsoft MVP and passionate about Cloud Native technologies. He is especially invested in bringing Cloud Native technologies to Windows and more specifically the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

shawn garrett

Shawn Garrett

Ai/ML Cloud Engineer, McKesson

Infrastructure background with an interest in life-long learning. Building hybrid clouds and always playing with raspberry pi's.

philippe charriere

Philippe Charriere

Principal Solutions Architect, Docker

Philippe Charrière is a Principal Solutions Architect at Docker, based in France. With a background spanning GitHub, GitLab, and Clever Cloud, he brings over a decade of experience in cloud-native technologies, DevSecOps, and WebAssembly.

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Marcus Noble

Platform Engineer, Monzo

Marcus Noble is a Platform Engineer at Monzo and a CNCF Ambassador, based in the Oxford area. A dedicated member of the cloud native community, he is a KubeCon speaker, Cloud Native Rejekts steering committee member, and regular contributor to open source projects including Kubernetes and cluster-api. He's passionate about platform engineering, Kubernetes, and making cloud native technology more accessible.

christian lempa

Christian Lempa

Technical Account Manager, Sophos

Since 2020, Christian has been running the YouTube channel, The Digital Life, where they share detailed tech videos about their Home lab and tech projects with the aim of inspiring and educating people in tech.

cortney nickerson

Cortney Nickerson

Head of Community, Nirmata

Cortney Nickerson is Head of Community at Nirmata and a CNCF Ambassador, leading global strategy for the Kyverno project.Cortney Nickerson is Head of Community at Nirmata and a CNCF Ambassador, leading global strategy for the Kyverno project. A regular KubeCon speaker, she is passionate about policy-as-code, AI governance, and open source community building.

julia furst morgado

Julia Furst Morgado

Principal Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0

Julia Furst Morgado is a Principal Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0 and a CNCF Ambassador, based in New York. A polyglot speaker presenting at conferences worldwide in four languages, she is passionate about OpenTelemetry, observability, and cloud native community building and co-organises Kubernetes Community Day New York.

Marino Wijay

Marino Wijay

Solutions Engineer, Isovalent

Marino Wijay is a Solutions Engineer at Isovalent and co-organiser of KCD Toronto, based in Ontario, Canada. A passionate advocate for cloud native networking and security, he specialises in Kubernetes, eBPF, and API architecture, and is a dedicated community builder who believes in making tech events accessible to everyone.

Matteo Bianchi

Matteo Bianchi

Solutions Engineer, GitHub

Matteo has been a self-taught coder since the age of 15. Started with websites he became a backend and fullstack engineer. He later embraced DevOps and Cloud. After a few years as dev he ventured into freelancing as Cloud Native Consultant, while digital nomading across Europe.

Shivay Lamba

Shivay Lamba

Senior Developer Experience Engineering - AI, Couchbase

Shivay Lamba is a software engineer specializing in Web Development, Machine Learning, and DevOps. He is also a Developer Relations Consultant helping various startups improve their developer experience. He is also an open-source contributor, maintainer, and mentor.

Eddie Jaoude

Eddie Jaoude

Developer Advocate, PayPal

Open Source fullstack developer focusing on Javascript, Typescript and DevOps. Community builder, Content Creator, Public Speaker and GitHub Star.

Jintao Zhang

Jintao Zhang

Senior Software Engineer, Kong Inc.

Jintao is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience. He is the maintainer of Kubernetes Ingress-NGINX | Microsoft MVP | CNCF Ambassador.

Gerardo López Falcón

Gerardo López Falcón

Google Developer Expert

Gerardo is a Google Developer Expert, Docker Captain,Kubestronaut, and cloud enthusiast with a strong background in DevOps, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies.

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Becoming a Civo Ambassador

How to become a Civo Ambassador?


Whilst we may accept applications in the future, for now our ambassador program operates on an invite-only basis.


If you're keen to become an ambassador, the best place to start is joining us at Civo and becoming active in our community - we're always keen to recognise and reward contributors.


Find out more on how you can actively participate in the Civo community.

Ambassador benefits

Ambassador perks

Not only will you get the recognition you deserve for being a figurehead in the Civo community, you'll also benefit from...

Early access
Exclusive swag
Open-source sponsorship
Private Ambassador Slack
Free credits
Free Civo Navigate tickets

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FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Got questions? We’ve got answers.

What happens after 12 months?

We'll review your application for next year based on your contributions to Civo during the prior 12 months.