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Who's Rom 👋

Rom Adams (né Romuald Vandepoel) is an open-source strategy and C-Suite advisor with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He is a cloud-native expert who helps customer and partner organizations modernize and transform their data center strategies with enterprise open-source solutions. He is also a facilitator, advocate, and contributor to open-source projects, advising companies and lawmakers on their open-source and sustainability strategies.

Previously, he was a Principal Architect at Ondat, a cloud-native storage company acquired by Akamai, where he designed products and implemented hybrid cloud solutions for enterprise customers. He also held various roles at Tyco, NetApp, and Red Hat, gaining certifications and becoming a subject matter expert in storage and hybrid cloud infrastructure. He has participated as a moderator and speaker for several events and publications, sharing his insights and best practices on culture, process, and technology adoption. Rom is passionate about driving transformation and innovation with open-source and cloud-native technologies.

Contribution Stats 🔭

Portfolio of contributions, articles and webinars

Contributions

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Title Published on Date
Digital Wallonia, a proposal for a digital plan (in French) Belgian Walloon Regional Government 09/2015
The Intrepid Squirrel is Out! Ondat.io 12/2021
3 key takeaways from KubeCon NA 2021 Ondat.io 11/2021
Stateful Application in Kubernetes: it pays to plan ahead TheNewStack.io 10/2021
On-premises vs cloud native storage TheNewStack.io 08/2021
The biggest gap in Kubernetes storage architecture TheNewStack.io 07/2021
How to solve kubernetes persistent storage challenges TheNewStack.io 06/2021
Deploying cloud native persistent storage in the age of containers TheNewStack.io 05/2021
Can Kubernetes help solve automation challneges? opensource.com 10/2022

Live Presentations

Title Venue Date Location
Open Source to Enterprise Open Source Open 22 03/2022 Antwerpen
Innovation with Open Source Red Hat Academy at Henallux 03/2022 Namur
Master of Ceremony Red Hat Ansible Automates 05/2022 Brussels
Refactoring your application at your own pace Open for Gov 06/2022 Brussels
A Kubernetes Zero-Trust Security Model using a KMS provider plugin HashiConf Europe Recording 06/2022 Amsterdam
Solving the Kubernetes Secret conundrum Hashicorp User Group at Natilik 06/2022 London
State of Kubernetes Secret Management Red Hat EMEA Tech Exchange 01/2023 Dublin
How regulating software for the European market could impact FOSS FSODEM 2023 02/2023 Brussels
The State of Open Source from a Community PoV solving Diabetes Open 23 03/2023 Mechelen

Webinars

Title Venue Date
Trousseau - the Kubernetes Key Management Service provider Fosdem 02/2022
How to keep a Kubernetes secret a secret the universal way CNCF on-demand webinar 12/2021
Cloud Field Day 12 Tech Field Day 11/2021
Solving Data Protection the DevOps way DevOps.com 09/2021
How to solve Kubernetes Persistent Storage at scale and speed the GitOps way DeveloperWeek Global Cloud 07/2021
Accelerating Kubernetes Onboarding and Application Transformation StorageOS 08/2021
Database-as-a-Service with PostgreSQL and persistent storage StorageOS 05/2021
We have been hacked! Red Hat Tech Month 02/2021
Secrets or not, but don't clear text Fosdem 02/2021
From remote with love Red Hat EMEA Forum 11/2020

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  1. ondat/trousseau ondat/trousseau Public

    Store and access your secrets the Kubernetes native way with any external KMS.

    Go 177 11

  2. ondat/discoblocks ondat/discoblocks Public

    Open Source declarative disk configuration system for Kubernetes

    Go 37 3

  3. beezy-dev/kleidi beezy-dev/kleidi Public

    Kubernetes KMS Provider Plugin

    Shell 2 3