Kelsey Hightower

Distinguished Engineer
& Developer Advocate

As a curious and motivated self-learner, Kelsey Hightower gained an interest in computing at a young age and started his IT career by opening a small consulting shop 20 years ago. He is especially known for his work with Kubernetes, open-source software, and cloud computing.

From those beginnings his career progressed quickly, eventually passing through the halls of Google, Puppet Labs, New Relic, and CoreOS. Hightower is a system administrator by trade, a programmer by necessity, but a problem-solver at heart. He hopes to solve the many problems facing IT culture by equipping people with the mental and computational software they need to succeed in the competitive world of technology.

Kelsey

at PlatformCon

Stories
June 10
Real talk: platform engineering with Kelsey Hightower and Kaspar von Grünberg
In this fireside chat, Kelsey Hightower and Kaspar von Grünberg dive deep into the core of platform engineering, they discuss how we got here, the challenges and lessons, and where we might be going.
Kaspar von Grünberg
CEO, Humanitec
Kelsey Hightower
Distinguished Engineer
& Developer Advocate
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Live Sessions
June 10
Platform engineering Q&A with Kelsey Hightower and Kaspar von Grünberg
As a follow up to their fireside chat, in a PlatformCon first, Kelsey Hightower and Kaspar von Grünberg will do a live Q&A on the state of platform engineering, what led us to this new discipline, and what we might expect for the future.
Kaspar von Grünberg
CEO, Humanitec
Kelsey Hightower
Distinguished Engineer
& Developer Advocate

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