Kelsey Hightower
Software engineer and speaker known for Kubernetes; at Google Cloud from 2015 to 2023.
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- Kelsey Hightower is an American software engineer and developer advocate best known for his work on Kubernetes.
- Largely self-taught, he went from installing DSL for BellSouth and running his own IT shop to Puppet, then CoreOS in 2014, where he became one of Kubernetes' best-known advocates.
- He worked at Google Cloud from November 2015 to June 2023, finishing as a distinguished engineer, co-founded the KubeCon conference and co-wrote Kubernetes: Up and Running.
- His Kubernetes the Hard Way tutorial teaches the system without scripts.
Key facts
- Born
- 27 February 19811
- Google Cloud
- Engineer and developer advocate from November 2015 to June 2023; distinguished engineer (L9) by October 20221
- Earlier
- BellSouth; his own IT consultancy in Georgia; Puppet (2013); Monsoon Commerce, where he wrote confd; CoreOS (2014)1
- Kubernetes
- Co-founded KubeCon in 2015; co-author of Kubernetes: Up and Running (2017) with Brendan Burns and Joe Beda1
- Kubernetes the Hard Way
- His tutorial for bootstrapping Kubernetes without scripts2
Roles
Before
Part of until Jun 2023
Google (engineer and developer advocate in Google Cloud, 2015–2023; distinguished engineer) source on Google
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