Brendan Burns Author

Brendan Burns is a co-founder of the Kubernetes open source container management platform. He is currently a distinguished engineer at Microsoft running the Azure Resource Manager and Azure Container Service teams. Before Microsoft he was a senior staff engineer on the Google Cloud Platform. Prior to working in Cloud he developed web search backends that helped power Google search. Prior to that he was a Professor of Computer Science at Union College in Schenectady, NY. Brendan received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA from Williams College. For the last 20 years Craig Tracey has helped build the infrastructure that powers the Internet. In this time he has had the opportunity to develop everything from kernel device drivers, to massive-scale cloud storage services, and even a few distributed compute platforms. Now as a Software Engineer turned Field Engineer at Heptio, he helps organizations accelerate their adoption of Kubernetes by teaching the principles of cloud native architectures through code. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, in his free time, Craig loves playing hockey and exploring Europe. Craig holds a BS in Computer Science from Providence College.