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This time I sat down with Henrik Rexed , CNCF Ambassador and Staff Engineer at Dynatrace . Henrik is also the voice behind the popular blog Is It Observable and brings deep expertise from a career spent largely in performance engineering. Here’s what we covered: * What does a CNCF Ambassador actually do? It turns out the role is less about status and more about survival for open-source projects. T...

This time I sat down with Rafael David Tinoco , Engineer at Garnet , where he’s developing Jibril — a runtime security engine. Rafael’s story spans from mainframes and operating system internals to maintaining Tracee at Aqua Security, and now, pushing eBPF to its architectural limits at Garnet. Here’s what we covered: * From CI/CD runtime security to Kubernetes Jibril started as a project focused...

This time I sat down with Avi Lumelsky , AI Security Researcher at Oligo Security , where he works at the intersection of AI and runtime protection. Avi’s story is a perfect example of how curiosity leads to innovation. Here are some of the topics we covered: * From inference to insight Before Oligo, Avi worked at Deci AI, optimizing model inference speed. There, he realized something crucial — pe...

In this talk, I demonstrate how eBPF can bring runtime security into GitHub Actions — giving CI/CD pipelines the same level of network visibility and protection we expect from production systems. It’s a deep dive into how we can trace and enforce network policies to run workflows securely and in real time — all without slowing developers down. If you’re into eBPF or love pushing observability and...

This time I sat down with Karim Traiaia , the Co-founder of Kerno , a company that helps troubleshoot cloud applications. Here are some of the topics we discussed: * The spark Every startup starts with a pain point—how did Karim come up with Kerno, and what problem was he trying to solve at the beginning? * First customers Landing those early paying users is always tough. Did Kerno rely on free tr...

This time I sat down with Nikolay Sivko , the Founder and CEO at Coroot , and here are some of the topics we discussed: * The spark Every product begins with a pain point—what was the “aha moment” that made Coroot necessary? * The landscape When looking at the broad observability market, what’s the biggest advantage Coroot brings compared to existing solutions? * The profiling edge Metrics, logs,...

It’s been a while since I first had this idea, but I’ve been thinking hard about how to extend eBPFChirp newsletter and inject more real eBPF energy into the community. Alongside developing eBPF online coding exercises (still in progress), I want to add interviews that deliver a personal touch and real industry insight—what’s happening inside the minds of exceptional people at companies like Cisco...