About me
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 Software Engineer at @Diagrid, contributing to and driving initiatives for the Dapr OSS project. I also serve as a Steering Committee member for the Knative Project, and I am Co-Leading the Knative Functions initiative.
I am also writing a book titled Platform Engineering on Kubernetes for Manning.
I previously worked at VMware and Red Hat, building tools to help developers be more productive.
As you might have seen, I am trying something new on my blog. If you haven't, check this page: Paid Members. If you are reading this page, you are interested in the same topics that I am. This new approach that I am trying helps me to spend time talking to you all and make connections with like-minded people. I am hoping that this will also generate new collaborations and mentorship opportunities.
I've presented at several small and large conferences worldwide in the last ten years.
I am based in London, UK ️
☕ ️Let's grab a coffee if you are around ☕
Currently:
- OSS Software Engineer at @Diagrid
- Working on @Dapr Project - Creator and Maintainer of Dapr Ambient
- Knative Steering Committee Member 2022 - 2024
- Knative Functions Working Group Co-lead
- Continuous Delivery Foundation Ambassador + SIG Best Practices Chair
- Open UK Ex-Ambassador & OSS Awards Judge
- Manning Author: Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
- Forever Kubernetes Instructor at @learnk8s
- KubeCon Keynote Speaker, KCD & other international conferences speaker
Previously:
- 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
- Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes, Manning 2021
- Mastering JBoss Drools 6 , Packt Publishing
- jBPM 6 Developer Guide, Packt Publishing
- jBPM 5 Developer Guide, Packt Publishing
- jBPM Developer Guide, Packt Publishing
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
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
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.