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Conference Talks

I'm an active speaker in the platform engineering and cloud native community, presenting at conferences worldwide on topics including GitOps, Kubernetes adoption, and platform engineering.

Upcoming & Recent Talks​

Civo Navigate North America 2025​

One-Command OSS Platform: Building Your Cloud Native Playground

Demonstrating how to create a complete cloud native development environment with a single command, featuring Kubefirst's approach to instant platform provisioning.

Software is Soccer

A non-technical talk exploring the parallels between software development and team sports, focusing on collaboration, strategy, and continuous improvement.

Civo Navigate Europe 2024 (Berlin)​

GitOps for Hybrid Clouds

Exploring GitOps patterns that work across cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure.

Building a Local OSS Platform Playground in 1 Command

Live demonstration of Kubefirst's local development capabilities using k3d.

PlatformCon 2024​

Building an OSS Playground in 1 Command

Workshop with Jared Edwards

An interactive workshop exploring safe and practical tool exploration for platform building. The workshop covered creating extensible GitOps-enabled workflow setups.

  • Date: June 11, 2024
  • Format: Hands-on workshop
  • Status: Fully booked
  • Video: Available on YouTube (3,000+ views)

Speaker Profile

Cloud Native NoVA 2024​

Platform Engineering from Scratch to Clusterception

Deep dive into building platform engineering practices from the ground up, including multi-cluster Kubernetes management.

Civo Navigate Europe 2023​

Multiple presentations on platform engineering and GitOps patterns.

Denver Startup Week 2022​

How to Start Your Startup Fast on Kubernetes

Sharing lessons learned from bootstrapping Kubefirst, including how startups can leverage Kubernetes without the typical 18-month adoption timeline.

KubeCon NA 2022 (Detroit)​

The dream of having Kubefirst on the KubeCon floor came true. Our newly acquired project and freshly built team at Kubeshop traveled to meet in Detroit for our first KubeCon as a company.

Speaking Topics​

I regularly speak on these topics:

Platform Engineering​

  • Building internal developer platforms
  • Reducing Kubernetes adoption timelines
  • GitOps best practices and patterns

Open Source​

  • Building and maintaining open source projects
  • Community building around open source
  • Sustainable open source business models

Kubernetes & Cloud Native​

  • CNCF landscape navigation
  • Multi-cloud Kubernetes strategies
  • Hybrid cloud architectures

Entrepreneurship​

  • Building startups in the cloud native space
  • From nights-and-weekends project to acquisition
  • Remote-first company building

Booking​

Interested in having me speak at your event?

I'm available for:

  • Conference keynotes and sessions
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Panel discussions
  • Webinars and virtual events