Welcome to Robert Guske’s blog

Contact
- Robert Guske
- @vmw_rguske
- rguske
- vExpert: #3288
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Professional Information
Robert Guske is an accomplished, hands-on, & well informed IT professional with 15+ years of experience in providing strategic guidance regarding IT technology and infrastructural enhancements. He’s a tech enthusiast who’s actively engaged in shaping the future of cloud-native tech through his commitment and passion for the principles of collaboration and innovation that drive the community forward.
In his current role as a Lead Tanzu Emergings Solution Engineer within VMware’s Modern Applications & Management Business Group (MAMBG), he’s supporting clients and organizations adopting new technologies to accomplish business goals and IT objectives, which are mainly oriented towards application modernization as well as on the platforms to run such modern applications (Microservices).
Robert is also part of VMware’s Office of the CTO Ambassador program and helps to ensure an active collaboration between VMware’s R&D and field organizations as well as customers across Europe.
Open-Source Contributions
He’s very keen on cloud native technologies and an active team-member and contributor of the open source project VMware Event Broker Appliance (https://vmweventbroker.io). This project has the intention to reveal the hidden potential of events in VMware’s SDDC by providing event-driven interactions with VMware solutions like e.g. vSphere.

- Homepage: https://vmweventbroker.io
- Repository: https://github.com/vmware-samples/vcenter-event-broker-appliance/
- VEBA @ vBrownBag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOjp5_qn-Fg&feature=youtu.be
- VEBA related articles written by Robert: https://rguske.github.io/tags/veba/
- VEBA related articles written by William Lam: https://williamlam.com/?s=veba
Achievements
Details via Robert’s Linked profile.
Certifications






VMware vExpert Program

Status: Active 2019 - 2022
vExpert Directory: #3288
Acknowledgement by sharing passion and gained experience with the community.

vExpert Subprograms




Public Events - Speaking, Demoing, Staff and Initiatives
2023
VMware Explore Europe 2023
Breakout | Title | Link |
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MAPB1264BCN | Get Started with Containers, Kubernetes and VMware Tanzu. | Explore Video Library |
ContainerDays 2023
Title | Link |
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Enabling event-driven automation using Knative | LINK |
After a rough start AV wise the demo gods are with @vmw_rguske! Amazing live coding session going on at stage K4🤘 #CDS23 #kubernetes #k8s #knative pic.twitter.com/vSbzhFbVta
— David de Hoop ☁️🚀🧑💻 (@DavidShadoow) September 11, 2023
2022
VMware Explore Europe 2022
Breakout | Title | Link |
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OSB2534EUR | Unlocking the Hidden Potential of Event-Driven Automation for VMware Partners. | Explore Video Library |
KUBT2977EUR | Get Started with Containers, Kubernetes, and Tanzu. | Explore Video Library |
VMware UserCon 2022
Breakout | Title | Link |
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Breakout | VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations - A DevSecOps roleplay. | Link to the Agenda |
Now on stage at #DEVMUG @Alec1823 & @vmw_rguske talking about all things #k8s #DevSecOps by leveraging @VMwareTanzu for #Kubernetes Operations👏🏻 pic.twitter.com/lEWw5bVKHd
— Raiko Mesterheide (@raimes) May 5, 2022
2021
VMworld 2021
Breakout | Title | Link |
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CODE2762 | DIY Deployment of Event-Driven Automation in vSphere Environments | VMworld Video Library |
VMware UserCon 2021
Breakout | Title | Link |
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Breakout | NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) - Load Balancer für Next Gen und traditionelle Apps | LINK |
2020
Breakout | Title | Link |
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Breakout | Event-Diven Automation with the VMware Event Broker Appliance - Reloaded | Link to the Agenda |
VMware Usergroup Conference 2020: Gleich startet der nächste Session-Block: https://t.co/XN4DJ3XZBG @vmw_rguske @embano1 @raimes @LarsFiechtner @microlytix #dachvmug #vmug #vmware pic.twitter.com/ilP6acuElv
— Jochen Ramm (@virtMark) December 15, 2020
2019
Breakout | Title | Link |
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Breakout | Event-Driven interactions with vSphere using Functions as a Service | Link to the Agenda |
Here comes my amazing friend and colleague @vmw_rguske presenting the next #DEVMUG breakout session on "Event-driven interactions with vSphere using Functions as a Service" + highlighting the @VMwareTAM program #RunAllTheThings pic.twitter.com/qgDeCoEthh
— Bjoern Brundert (inactive) (@bbrundert) May 22, 2019
Activity @ | Duty | Evidence |
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Container Days Hamburg 2019 | STAFF - at the VMware booth to present the Modern Apps strategy and vision. | Tweet below |
2018
Activity @ | Duty | Evidence |
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VMworld 2018, Barcelona | STAFF - at the VMware Cloud Foundation booth - VMworld Expo Area. | Tweet below |
Activity @ | Duty | Evidence |
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VMworld 2018, Barcelona | STAFF - Representing the VMware TAM program at the VMworld TAM Customer Central area. | Tweet below |
This is a great #VMwareAd, the company that brought you VMs, will be the leader in enterprise Containers in due course. #VMworld https://t.co/H7LsSCCq6t
— Sanjay Poonen (@spoonen) November 5, 2018
Activity @ | Duty | Evidence |
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VMware TAM Customer Roundtable 2018, Hamburg | HOST & SPEAKER - An exclusive event for VMware TAM customers. Robert organized and hosted the event as well as presented on it. | Tweet below |
2017
Activity @ | Duty | Evidence |
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VMworld 2017, Barcelona | STAFF - VMworld Hands-on Labs team-member. | Tweet below |

Providing conference attendees a unique Hands-on Labs experience was part of his role and he took it seriously 😊 .

2016
Activity @ | Outcome | Evidence |
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Bechtle IT Forum Nord, Hamburg | SPEAKER - The IT Forum Nord is a customer facing event hosted by the Bechtle IT Systemhaus Hamburg GmbH. Employed as a Datacenter Consultant at this time, he presented on the topic Hyperconverged Solutions by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. | Link to the customer invitation |
