Daniel Krook recently joined the CNCF to better serve maintainers and contributors in the community of 150+ hosted projects. He has been involved in the use, creation, and advocacy of open source technology for over 20 years. He partnered with the LF to establish the Call for Code with The Linux Foundation umbrella and has guided 16 projects through the process of joining the LF and using LFX tools.
He has built software end-to-end for a wide array of industries and earned certifications in cloud architecture, application development, and system operations along the way. Most recently, he worked at IBM as a principal engineer developing first-of-a-kind solutions that integrate open source technologies with commercial products and services.
Daniel has spoken at many open source conferences (including main-stage presentations at the first CloudNativeDay and the inaugural KubeCon), hosted dozens of meetups (primarily OpenWhisk, Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, and PHP), and has contributed to many technical blogs, videos, podcasts, articles, and books.