Valentina Rodriguez is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat, focusing on the developer journeys in containers and OpenShift. She specializes in building solutions and stories around developers on everything OpenShift. Before this role, she worked with high-profile customers, helping them adopt new technologies, and worked closely with developers and platform engineers. Her background is in software engineering. She built software for 15 years, working in diverse roles from Developer to Tech Lead and Architect, from retail, healthcare, financial, e-commerce, telco, and many other industries. Valentina's very passionate about technology and has been pursuing several certifications in this space, from frameworks to Kubernetes and project management. She possesses a Master's in Computer Science and is currently pursuing an MBA. She loves contributing to the community and the industry and has spoken at conferences such as O'Reilly, KubeCon, Red Hat DevNation Day, and others. Valentina has lived in LATAM and NA between four cities and three countries. She's now in NYC and has no plans on moving any time soon.