About me
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 @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 serving as a co-chair of the TAG AppDelivery Application Development working group for the CNCF.
I also wrote 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.
If you are reading this page, you are interested in the same topics that I am. I am hoping that 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 are around ☕, if not, drop me a message and let's collaborate on something.
Currently:
- OSS Software & Ecosystem Engineer at @Diagrid
- Co-Chair of TAG App Delivery Application Development Working Group for the CNCF
- @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
- 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
- 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 contain links to all my presentations all over the world.
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
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.