Ara Pulido is a Staff Developer Advocate at Datadog. Prior to that she worked as an Engineering Manager at Bitnami and Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. She has more than 10 years of experience working on infrastructure open-source companies. She is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

She lives in Malaga, Spain, where she enjoys three of her favourite free time activities: hiking during spring and autumn; snorkelling, during summer; and going for tapas with friends all year round.