Dr. Malini Bhandaru is a Cloud Architect focused on confidential compute, cloud2edge security, and ML. Over the last decade she has been involved with open source on projects such as Confidential Containers, EdgeX Foundry, KubeFlow, and OpenStack. She has worked on a variety of applications such as autonomous driving, health care, telecommunications. Her Intel career began as a Xeon server power and performance architect. Malini is a frequent conference speaker, has served on KubeCon and OSS program committees. Malini has a Ph.D. in Machine Learning and over 20 patents. She is a STEM coach and a gardener in sunny California.