Speaking & Workshops

I share my knowledge about containers, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure at conferences and workshops around the world.

Below you can find a selection of presentations and workshops I have given in the past, as well as testimonials of some attendees.
For most talks, slides and recordings are linked as well.

Feel free to explore what I have been up to!

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Conferences
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Countries

Talks & Workshops

Real-Time Threat Detection with Falco

Talk

Introduction to Falco and how we use it in our environment to gain real-time anomaly and threat detection.

KubernetesSecurityFalco

Presented at:

stackconf 2026SLAC 2026

Don't Debug, Reset: Managing Kubernetes the Declarative Way with Talos Linux

Workshop

Introduction to Talos Linux as a declarative, minimal OS for running Kubernetes.

KubernetesTalos

Presented at:

Cloud Native Summit Munich 2026

From Zero Observability to Zero-Code Observability with OpenTelemetry

Workshop

A half-day, hands-on workshop on zero-code instrumentation of containerized applications with OpenTelemetry.

OTelMonitoringGrafana

Presented at:

Open Source Monitoring Conference 2025SLAC 2026

[DE] Who Watches the Watchmen? Echtzeit-Threat-Detection auf Hypervisoren mit Falco

Talk

Introduction to Falco and how we use it in our environment to gain real-time anomaly and threat detection.

KubernetesSecurityFalco

Presented at:

S2N 2025

Building a Better Tomorrow: Tips and Tricks for Docker Builds

Workshop

Hands-on workshop exploring useful tips and practices for building slim and secure container images.

ContainersCI/CDDocker

Presented at:

KCD Czech & Slovak 2025DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2025Code Europe 2025We Are Developers World Congress Berlin 2026

Ahoy Alloy! How Grafana Alloy Can Transform Your OpenTelemetry Journey

Talk

Introduction to Grafana Alloy, Grafana's OpenTelemetry Collector Distribution.

OTelAlloy

Presented at:

KCD Czech & Slovak 2025OpenTechDay Grafana Edition 2025

"Best Do It At a Bit of a Run If You're Nervous!"

Lightning Talk

A short talk about my personal experiences of doing 'a bit of a run' in different situations that were tough during my (short) career in tech.

Personal Learnings

Presented at:

DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2024

Observing and Securing Kubernetes Workloads With Cilium, Hubble, and Tetragon

Workshop

A full-day, hands-on workshop on securing Kubernetes environments with Cilium, Tetragon, and Hubble leveraging eBPF.

KuberneteseBPFCilium

Presented at:

Open Source Monitoring Conference 2024

Towards Standardized Platforms: How the CNOE Project Can Help

Talk

A talk highlighting the chances and problems of Platform Engineering, and how the CNOE project might be able to help.

KubernetesPlatform Engineering

Presented at:

OpenInfra Day Berlin 2024KCD Munich 2024stackconf 2024

ArgoCD Odyssey: Navigating from Basics to Brilliance

Workshop

Hands-on workshop on ArgoCD, a GitOps engine for Kubernetes.

GitOpsKubernetesArgoCD

Presented at:

DevOpsDays Zurich 2024DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2024

From Automated to Automatic - Event-Driven Infrastructure Management with Ansible

Talk

Broad overview of Ansible and its recently added feature event-driven Ansible (EDA) for automatic config managent.

Config ManagementAnsible

Presented at:

90DaysOfDevOps - 2024 Community Edition

Metrics, Margins, Mutiny - How to Make Your SREs (not) Run Away

Lightning Talk

A quick introduction on SRE Best Practices and how to treat your SRE teams.

Site Reliability Engineering

Presented at:

Open Source Monitoring Conference 2023

SOS, Please Someone Help Me!

Lightning Talk

A short talk about Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS) and how you can use it to your advantage.

Personal Learnings

Presented at:

DevOpsDays Amsterdam 2023

The Times They Are A'Changing: Icinga2 on Kubernetes

Talk

Presenting a proof-of-concept Helmchart for deploying Icinga2 on Kubernetes, along with the challenges I faced.

KubernetesHelmMonitoringIcinga2

Presented at:

IcingaCamp Berlin 2023

From Dev to Prod with Acorn - Simplifying Kubernetes Deployments

Workshop

Hands-on introduction to Acorn, a Docker Compose-like deployment framework for Kuberentes.

Kubernetes

Presented at:

Civo Navigate Tampa 2023

That's nuts! A Proof of Concept of Icinga2 on Kubernetes Using Acorn.

Lightning Talk

A proof of concept on how to run the monitoring software Icinga2 on Kubernetes.

MonitoringKubernetesIcinga2

Presented at:

Open Source Monitoring Conference 2022

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