About me

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Hi, I am Mauricio Salatino, also known as @salaboy, and I am passionate about Open Source, Kubernetes, and Cloud-Native software. I still consider myself a developer at heart. Hence, if you want to code and collaborate on something together, get in touch!

I am an Open Source & Ecosystem Software Engineer at @Dash0. I also serve as a co-chair of the TAG Developer Experience for the CNCF. I previously worked for VMware and Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer, building tools to help developers be more productive. I worked for LearnKube as a Kubernetes Instructor delivering training all over the world.

I also wrote a book titled Platform Engineering on Kubernetes for Manning. I am currently writing a book titled Developer Experience on Kubernetes with my friend Thomas Vitale.

If you are reading this page, you are interested in the same topics that I am. I hope this will also generate new collaborations and mentorship opportunities.

I am based in London, UK ️🇬🇧, but I am originally from Argentina 🇦🇷.

☕ Let's grab a coffee if you're around ☕. If not, drop me a message and let's collaborate on something.

Currently:

• Ecosystem Engineer / OSS @ Dash0
• Co-Chair of CNCF TAG Developer Experience
• Manning Author: Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
• Forever Kubernetes Instructor at LearnKube (previously @learnk8s)
• KubeCon Keynote Speaker, KCD & other international conferences speaker

Previously:

• @Dapr Project Maintainer - Creator and Maintainer of Dapr Shared
• Knative Steering Committee Member 2022 - 2024
• Knative Functions Working Group Co-lead
• Continuous Delivery Foundation Ambassador + SIG Best Practices Chair

• OSS Software & Ecosystem Engineer at @Diagrid
• Staff Engineer @VMware for the @KnativeProject (2021 - 2022)
• Principal Software Engineer @Camunda @ZeebeHQ (2019 - 2021)
• Principal Software Engineer @ Alfresco / Activiti Cloud Tech Lead (2017 - 2019)
• Senior Software Engineer @ Red Hat / JBoss (2012 - 2017)
• CTO @ PlugTree - Consulting & Training OSS (2010 - 2012)

Other

• Informatics/Software Engineer (Mendoza University - Argentina)
• Github account: https://github.com/salaboy
• Twitter: @salaboy

Author of

• Developer Experience on Kubernetes, Manning 2025 - In progress

• Platform Engineering on Kubernetes, Manning 2023
• Mastering JBoss Drools 6 , Packt Publishing
• jBPM 6 Developer Guide, Packt Publishing
• jBPM 5 Developer Guide, Packt Publishing
• jBPM Developer Guide, Packt Publishing

I've presented at several small and large conferences worldwide in the last ten years. The following list contains links to all my presentations worldwide.

2026

• KCD Italy 2026
• Spring I/O 2026 Workshop
• DevOpsDays Buenos Aires Keynote
• Dapr Workflows and Java Webinar
• KubeCon EU 2026 (March 2026)
  • Agentics Day: MCP + Agents - Co-located event
  • KubeAuto 2026

2025

• Cloud Native Denmark - Aarhus, Denmark (October 2025)
• DevBCN 2025 Speaker - Barcelona, Spain (July 2025)
• KubeCon Japan Keynote - Tokyo, Japan
• KCD Rio Keynote - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• KubeCon Asia Speaker - Hong Kong, China
• JNation Speaker - Coimbra, Portugal
• Spring I/O Speaker - Barcelona, Spain
• KubeCon EU Speaker - London, UK

2024

• KCD Munich 2024 - Munich, Germany
• DevBCN 2024 - Barcelona, Spain (10 years in a row)
• Spring I/O 2024 - Barcelona, Spain
• KubeCon EU & AppDeveloperCon 2024 - Paris, France
• KCD Brazil - Sao Paulo, Brazil

2023

• StateofOpenCon 2023 - London, UK
• Wazero 1.0 Release Party Lightning Talk: Dapr + Wazero - Barcelona, Spain
• Cloud Native Rejekts EU - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• KubeCon EU - Amsterdam, Netherlands
• WTFisSRE - London, UK
• Devoxx UK - London, UK
• Spring I/O - Barcelona, Spain
• GOTO Aarhus - Aarhus, Denmark
• DevBCN - Barcelona, Spain
• KubeCon Asia - Shanghai, China
• KubeCon NA - Chicago, USA

2022

• VMware TV Enlighting Session about Knative Eventing with @wiggitywhitney
• KnativeCon - May 22 - KubeCon EU Sevilla, Spain
• CDEventsCon - May 22 - KubeCon EU Sevilla, Spain
• KubeCon Knative Maintainers Track - May 22 - KubeCon EU Sevilla, Spain
• KubeCon NA Keynote - Detroit, USA
• CDCon 2022 - June 22 - Texas, USA

2021

• Author MEAP: Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes, Manning 2021
• DevOps Toolkit: Kubernetes for Developers AMA
• Kubernetes Community Day Guatemala 2021
• KubeCon 2021 NA - Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes Book announcement
• Cloud Native Islamabad (CNCF): Closer to Continuous Delivery with Knative - September 2021
• TFIR Linode Interview
• Jump Conference Argentina: Intro to Knative (Spanish)
• Keptn User Group Meetup: Building an Interoperable CI/CD Ecosystem
• JBCNConf 2021 (Spanish) - MultiCloud (Crossplane, Knative, Tekton, Helm)
• Kubernetes Community Day Spain 2021 - Crossplane

2020

• Process Automation Trends for 2021 Webinar (On Demand)
• QCon HUB (Brazil Private Session)
• QCon Plus Workshop (2 hs workshop 27 attendees - Private Session for QCon SF)
• Linode KNative, Kafka, Cloud Events & Zeebe
• London Meetup Webinar: Microservices Orchestration
• CDCon Panel on Jenkins X and CD
• Knative Meetup: Orchestrating Cloud Events (Blog post under review by Knative community)
• Spring One 2020 Virtual
• KubeCon 2020 EU Virtual
• Linode LKE and Jenkins X Webinar
• SouJava Webinar on Open Source
• TDC Sao Paulo 2020 (Private recording for attendees)
• JNation Portugal

Some other initiatives:

• https://github.com/salaboy/opensource
• https://github.com/salaboy/orchestrating-cloud-events/
• https://github.com/salaboy/from-monolith-to-k8s
• https://github.com/learnk8s/free-kubernetes

2019

• MadridJUG, Spain, Dec 19
• CoimbraJUG, Portugal, Dec 19
• Jenkins World Lisbon, Portugal, Dec 19
• Jenkins X Webinar 19 (Online), Nov 19
• KubeCon US San Diego 19 / CD Foundation Summit, USA, Nov 19
• SouJava Webinar 19 (Online), Nov 19
• GeeCon Prague 19, Prague Czech Republic, Oct 19
• London Java Community Meetup 19, London, UK, Sept 19
• Jenkins World San Francisco, USA, Aug 19
• JHipster Conf Paris, France - June 19
• JBCNConf, Barcelona, Spain - May 19
• La plata University Meetup, Mar del Plata, Argentina - March 19
• Healthcare in Gov Meetup, Buenos Aires, Argentina - March 19
• London DevOps Meetup, London, UK - March 19
• Alfresco DevCon, Dublin, Ireland, Jan 19

2018

• Alfresco DevCon (Portugal) Jan ’18
• Alfresco Meetup (London) Feb ’18
• uServices Meetup(London) March ’18
• GeeCon Poland (Krakow) May ’18
• JJUG CCC (Japan, Tokyo) May ’18
• JDK.IO Denmark (Copenhagen) May ’18
• JBCN Conf (Spain, Barcelona) June ’18 (2hs Workshop)
• London Java Community (London) July ’18
• SpringOne Platform (USA, Washington) Sept ‘18
• GeeCon Prague (Czech Republic) Oct ’18
• uServices London Meetup (London) Nov ’18

2017

• Webinar @ Alfresco Online July 17
• JBCNConf, Barcelona Spain, May 17

2016

• Speaker @ JUG Gothenburg - Gothenburg, Sweden
• Speaker @ IT & Health Care Symposium - Hospital Italiano - Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Speaker & Closing Key Note @ JBCNConf 2016 - Barcelona, Spain, closing Key Note
• Speaker @ JBUG Denmark - Copenhagen, Denmark
• Speaker @ JUG Cork - Cork, Ireland

2015

• Speaker @ GWT Create EU : Building Cloud IDE with Uberfire.
• JBCNConf Speaker - Barcelona, Spain

2014

• I was quiet on my blog mostly because I was working non stop building the Red Hat BPM Suite (BRMS/BPMS)
• JBCNConf Speaker - Barcelona, Spain

2013

• Speaker at JudCon Brazil 2013 - Two Sessions about jBPM and the jBPM Console NG
• Working on the Drools and jBPM project, my main task this year is to work on the development of the jBPM Console NG.
• JBCNConf Speaker - Barcelona, Spain

2012

• I joined Red Hat to work on the Drools & jBPM Projects as a Senior Software Engineer (UK)

2011

• CTO @ Plug Tree
• jBPM Community contributor/commiter
• Drools 5.0, 5.1 and 5.2 contributor/commiter since 2008 (Drools Flow, Drools Expert and now Drools VSM/GRID)
• Speaker & Comittee @ JBoss in Bossa Brazil 2011
• Speaker @ Rules Fest 2011
• Speaker @ Jazoon 2011 Speaker
• Jboss Community Award Winner (New Features - Bug Fixes)
• Speaker @ JUDCon 2011, Boston: Drools and jBPM5 in real life
• Speaker @ Drools and jBPM5 Bootcamp in NY and Washington DC, May 2011
• Speaker/Organizer @ JUG Argentina

2010

• Member of the Business Rules Expert Group (http://brexperts.ning.com/)
• Speaker at Java One Brazil 2010 (December - Sao Paulo, Brazil)
• Speaker at JBoss In Bossa (May - Sao Paulo, Brazil)
• Speaker and contributor at Drools Health Care Meeting, San Diego, USA.
• JBoss Consultant at OSDE (Argentinian Health Care Company).

2009

• Author of the book jBPM Developer Guide for Packt Pub
• Co-founder at JBug Argentina (JBoss User Group Argentina: www.jbug.com.ar)
• Red Hat Official Trainer for JBoss jBPM courses, Buenos Aires.
• Attendee at Java One 2009, San Francisco, USA.
• Attendee at October Rules Fest, Dallas, USA.
• Attendee and contributor to Drools Boot Camp, San Francisco, USA.
• Drools Training Session (Drools 5.x), Las Vegas, USA.
• JBoss Consultant at OSDE (Argentinian Health Care Company).

2008

• Red Hat Official Trainer for JBoss jBPM courses, Buenos Aires.
• JBoss SSO contributor/committer.
• JBoss Consultant for a Red Hat Partner in Argentina.