Randy has been in computers for >30 years and is a Partner at RX-M LLC, a cloud native and AI consulting/training firm. The author of several books, Randy is an active participant in the CNCF, a serial KubeCon speaker/track chair/host/program committee participant and general Cloud Native evangelist. Randy was on the teams that created the CKA, CKAD, CKS and KCNA exams and has held various CTO roles creating institutional trading platforms processing billions of dollars in transactions daily. He is a firm believer in IDL based interfaces, microservices, Jeeps, sailing and old Sci-Fi movies.