I would like to nominate Steven Borrelli

Current: Founder, Asteris (http://aster.is)

Steven Borrelli is the founder of Asteris (https://aster.is) and is one of the 

architects and core comitters for the Mantl project (http://mantl.io). 

Mantl is a open-source project that spans many of the technology domains in the CNCF: multiple cloud providers, schedulers, network and logging backends, service discovery, and security. As part of this project he has gained tremendous knowledge on interoperability of the various technologies and integrating them to create a cohesive platform. 

In prior roles, Steven was a developer for Savvis Cloud R&D team, where he worked on emerging technologies including containers and distributed systems. 

Previous to Savvis Steven Managed for Unix and Storage Engineering within Citi North America IT.

Steven was also a Sr. Developer for Citi Alpha Analytics, where he built HPC infrastructure and applications to analyze Mortgage portfolios in parallel. He was an SME for security, audit, distributed systems and storage.