Catherine Paganini

At-a-Glance

Director of Marketing and Community at Buoyant, creators of Linkerd.
Co-Founder of Merge Forward and KubeCrash.
Helped launch the CNCF Glossary and Landscape Guide.
Facilitates diversity and inclusion initiatives for BIPOC, blind/visually impaired, LGBTQ+, and stuttering/speech communities within cloud native.

Biography

Catherine Paganini serves as the Director of Marketing and Community at Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd. In this role, she advocates for Linkerd's emphasis on operational simplicity. She is also the Director of Brand and Community at Buoyant.

Paganini is a co-founder of Merge Forward and KubeCrash. Her contributions to the cloud native community include helping to launch essential resources for newcomers, such as the CNCF Glossary and Landscape Guide.