Giovanni Fontana is a solution architect working for large companies in the US Northeast region from different industries such as finance and the health sector. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect, owning many certificates covering RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible, and others. In the cloud and DevOps domain, he has been working with activities such as process assessment and design; pre-sales, architecture design, and implementation of container-based platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, hybrid/multi cloud management tools; automation design and implementation using Ansible, and others. Before his current position, he was a principal consultant with much hands-on experience, providing services for many large companies and also acting as a technical leader for a talented team of consultants at Red Hat in Brazil. Now as an OpenShift specialist solution architect, he helps customers to solve pain points and reach their targets by adopting Red Hat's open source technologies. At Red Hat, Giovanni has been recognized with important awards such as Red Hat President's Club, Top Gun, and Champions awards.

Rafael Pecora started his first journey with technology at the age of 15 and since then, he has been dedicating himself to technology. He has more than 23 years dedicated to IT, a profession that is always evolving and shaping itself on cutting-edge innovation. Passionate about IT, he has focused his entire career on IT infrastructure, from traditional data centers to current cloud technologies. Currently, he develops his professional activity as a cloud solution architect in container technology and public clouds, with the aim of bringing his knowledge and improvement to clients that work in the financial, health and insurance, mid-market, and public sector, and helping them adopt hybrid cloud infrastructure with better resiliency for their customers. At Red Hat, Rafael has achieved more than 40 projects as an OpenShift consultant, acting on many industry projects, and has been recognized by customers and also recognized with Service Star and Champions awards.