Aaron is a developer advocate at Microsoft Azure and a core maintainer of the Athens Project. He is an emeritus core maintainer and chair of the Kubernetes SIG-Service-Catalog and a contributor to various other projects in the Kubernetes community. He enjoys distilling his wide ranging Kubernetes and Go (Golang) related experiences into talks, and has spoken at KubeCon, GopherCon, and other large conferences around the world.

He has almost 15 years of software engineering experience and discovered Kubernetes in early 2015. He’s been hooked on cloud native technologies ever since. He lives in San Mateo, CA where he and his wife love to run up and down mountains together.