Who's Rom 👋
Rom Adams (né Romuald Vandepoel) is an open-source strategy and C-Suite advisor with two decades of experience in the IT industry. He is a cloud-native expert dedicated to helping customer and partner organizations modernize and transform their data center strategies through enterprise open-source solutions.
Rom, a former AppDev Solutions Specialist at Red Hat, designed and implemented hybrid cloud solutions. With previously held roles at NetApp and Ondat (acquired by Akamai), he became a certified expert in storage and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Rom is a frequent speaker and writer on culture, process, and technology. He is passionate about transformation and innovation with open-source and cloud-native technologies, actively contributing to open-source projects and advising on open-source and sustainability strategies.
Currently, Rom serves as a Principal Software Engineer in the NetApp Office of the CTO, within the Innovation and Solutions group. In this role, he prototypes new solutions for sovereign AI workloads, leveraging containerization and cloud technologies to drive innovation.
Contribution Stats ðŸ”
Portfolio of books, articles, and webinars
Book contributor and author
| Title | Published on | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes Secrets Handbook | packt | 01/2024 |
| Kubernetes – An Enterprise Guide | packt | 08/2024 |
| The Kubernetes Bible | packt | 11/2024 |
Articles contributor and author
| 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 challenges? | 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 |
Experience
- Principal Software Engineer at the Office of the CTO, NetApp - current
- Application Development Solutions Specialist, EU Public Sector, Red Hat - 202201-202410
- Open Source Strategy and C-Suite Advisor, Ondat (Acquired by Akamaï) - 202201-202304
- Principal Architect at the Office of the CRO, Ondat (Acquired by Akamaï) - 202104-202112
- Platform and Cloud Architect, EMEA, Red Hat - 2019009-202103
- Self-Employed as Architect, EU Public Sector - 201508-201909
- Escalation Engineer, EMEA, NetApp - 201312-201507
- Manager, NetApp Customer Services, France, NetApp - 201209-201312
- Field Escalation Manager, Benelux, NetApp - 201101-201209
- Field Escalation Engineer, EMEA, NetApp - 200908-201101
- Sr Technical Support Engineer, EMEA, NetApp - 200706-200908
Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/romdalf/details/experience/