Hans Kristian Flaatten is an experienced Platform Engineering Team Lead. He has lead multiple engineering teams that builds and operates Cloud Native and Kubernetes-based application platforms for large government institutions, banking and the insurance sector.

He is a Chief Consultant and DevOps Practice Lead at TietoEVRY where he drives the adoption of DevOps, SRE and Cloud Native practices internally and for customers.

Hans Kristian is an Open Source, DevOps, and Cloud Native evangelist. He is a member of the Node.js Foundation where he manage test and release of official Node.js versions and the official Docker Image for Node.js.

He is an organizer of several local meetups most notably Cloud Native Bergen and GDG Bergen and Co-Organiser of the DevOps Days Oslo Conference. He is a regular speaker at various local, and national, user groups and technology conferences on Open Source, Open Data, Cloud Native, and other new and exciting technologies and practices.