Chris is co-founder and CEO at Kinvolk. He started his open source journey over 15 years ago, becoming a maintainer in the GNOME project. Since founding Kinvolk, he's worked as an engineer on projects like rkt, initiated Flatcar Linux, Kinvolk's container-oriented OS, and Lokomotive, its Kubernetes distribution. He also founded and organizes the Cloud Native Rejects and All Systems Go! conferences. Chris has a singular focus to establish Kinvolk as the most trusted open source participant in the Cloud Native community.