Microsoft Reactor

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, Lachlan Evenson, Principal Program Manager, and Sean McKenna, Principal Program Manager, and moderated by Bridget Kromhout, Principal Program Manager.

Brendan and team will share their thoughts on the latest developments in Kubernetes and cloud native on Azure, and answer your questions about containers, Kubernetes, and the future of Cloud Native application development. This AMA session is open to all. We look forward to connecting with you!

Speakers:
Brendan Burns
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.

Lachlan Evenson
Lachlan is a Principal Program Manager on the open source team at Azure. He spends his days building and contributing to projects that address many of the challenges in the cloud native ecosystem. Lachlan is a cloud native ambassador, emeritus Kubernetes steering and release lead, Helm charts maintainer, and has deep operational knowledge of many Cloud Native projects. @LachlanEvenson

Sean McKenna
Sean leads the Azure Kubernetes Service product team at Microsoft. In addition to driving the AKS strategy and roadmap, he is responsible for ensuring that Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies permeate the full breadth of Azure services. Sean has spent most of his career at
Microsoft building developer platforms and has a passion for making complex technologies approachable for everyone.

Bridget Kromhout (moderator)
Bridget Kromhout is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft Azure, focusing on the open source cloud native ecosystem. Her CS degree emphasis was in theory, but she now deals with the concrete (if 'cloud' can be considered tangible). After years on call for production (from enterprise to research to startups) and a couple of customer-facing adventures, she now herds cats and wrangles docs on the product side of engineering. In the wider tech community, she has done much conference speaking and organizing, and advises the global devopsdays organization after leading it for over five years. Living in Minneapolis, she enjoys snowshoeing in the winter and bicycling in the summer (with winter cycling as a stretch goal).