Yaron Schneider

Co-founder and CTO | Speaker Bio

Yaron Schneider

  • Co-founder, maintainer and steering committee member of Dapr
  • Co-founder, emeritus maintainer of KEDA
  • Previously led engineering architecture for Azure Container Apps and Azure CTO Incubations team at Microsoft

Key discussion topics:
Distributed application development | Agentic frameworks and systems | Scaling container based systems | Open source project leadership | Leading open source engineering teams.

Yaron's Speaker Bio

Yaron Schneider is the CTO and co-founder of Diagrid, where he leads innovation in cloud-native application development and distributed systems. He is the original creator of KEDA (Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling) and Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime), two open-source projects widely adopted by the developer community for building scalable, event-driven, and cloud-native applications. Yaron is passionate about empowering developers with modern tools to simplify complex distributed architectures, and he continues to shape the future of cloud computing through his work at Diagrid and in the open-source ecosystem.

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Publications:
Along with Haishi Bai, Yaron authored "Learning Dapr: Building Distributed Cloud Native Applications", the authoritative guide to Dapr, published by O'Reilly.
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