This work is supported by the eBPF Foundation’s Community & Advocacy Fellowship Program, written by eBPF Fellow Teodor Janez Podobnik.
In October 2025, I was honored to receive the Inaugural Community & Advocacy Fellowship from the eBPF Foundation in recognition of my ongoing contributions to the eBPF community.
As part of this work, I hosted three podcast conversations focused on different aspects of eBPF:
- Avi Lumelsky, AI Security Researcher at Oligo Security, discussed the intersection of eBPF and AI, including application-aware runtime security and approaches to correlating published CVEs with runtime detection signals.
- Rafael David Tinoco, Senior Software Engineer at Garnet, covered CI/CD runtime security using eBPF, the trade-offs of perf events and ring buffer mechanisms, and considerations in designing eBPF-based stacks.
- Henrik Rexed, CNCF Ambassador and Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace, reflected on where eBPF is an appropriate (and inappropriate) choice, and discussed the practical question of whether runtime security systems should block or alert on detected behavior.
I also released several hands-on eBPF Coding Labs on the Iximiuz Labs platform, enabling developers to learn and experiment with eBPF directly in the browser through practical, interactive exercises:
- eBPF Beginner Skill Path
- eBPF CO-RE Skill Path
- eBPF/XDP Network Skill Path
- Building a Minimal Service Mesh with eBPF and Envoy
In addition, I developed and presented my personal eBPF project, Kayrndor: GitHub Action Runtime Security Agent, at the Backend Meetup in Slovenia.
The fellowship’s financial support also made it possible for me to organize the first-ever eBPF Meetup in Slovenia, where engineers from across the industry gathered to explore both beginner and advanced eBPF topics, exchange experiences, and strengthen the local community.
Overall, during this first part of the fellowship period, the fellowship’s financial support has enabled me to dedicate significantly more time to eBPF-related initiatives and community efforts.