I'm a solutions architect for Mesosphere and a regular participant in the Helm and SIG-Apps communities. Prior to Mesosphere, I worked at Capital One, CoreOS and Red Hat (among others), providing practical solutions and training in and for Kubernetes and other cloud environments. I was a speaker at KubeCon NA 2017 and frequently present at the DC-area NoVa Kubernetes meetup. My experience in IT operations and engineering stretches from present-day cloud and virtualization back to before you could Google error messages to find out what the problem was, and my blood type is caffeine-positive.