AMA with Brendan Burns, Kubernetes Co-Founder

We invite you to an Ask Me Anything (AMA) virtual session with Brendan Burns, Kubernetes Co-Founder and Corporate VP of Azure OSS Cloud Native at Microsoft. Get all your questions about containers, Kubernetes, and the future of Cloud Native application development answered from Brendan. This AMA session is open to all. We look forward to connecting with you!

Watch the live stream here: https://aka.ms/KubeCon-AMA

Speaker: Brendan Burns, Corporate Vice President, Azure Control Plane, Open Source and Cloud Native Compute

Microsoft Responsibilities – Responsible for the management APIs for Azure and Azure management at scale including policy, access control and continuous deployment. Responsible for cloud native compute on Azure including Linux on Azure, Kubernetes on Azure and Service Fabric. Responsible for open source compute on Azure including Kubernetes and Linux. Responsible for SAP on Azure.

Pre-Microsoft Work Experience – Prior to Microsoft Brendan worked on the Google Cloud Platform for 4 years where he was a co-founder of the Kubernetes open source project, as well as the Google Container Engine, Google Cloud DNS and Google Config Manager projects. Prior to working on Google Cloud, Brendan worked on Google’s web search infrastructure for four years. Before that Brendan was a professor of Computer Science at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Education – Brendan has a BA in Computer Science and Studio Art from Williams College. He also received a PhD in Computer Science with a specialty in Robotics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.