Joel Kruger is a Cloud Architect and DevOps Coach with 10 years of experience designing CI/CD pipelines in the commercial and federal sectors. He is also an expert in employing container orchestration systems for automating computer application deployments at scale. Joel is a proponent of building CI/CD pipeline configurations as downloadable and self-serve software factories. In his current role, Joel is working as a consultant at dynamicVSM and partners with Maven Wave, a Google Cloud Partner specializing in digital delivery skills and cloud-powered applications.

Joel is a very hands-on and customer service oriented person who loves to solve a challenge. Technology excites him, from computer servers, to embedded Raspberry Pi projects. He loves being creative with tech and is not afraid to get some hot solder in his shoe laces.

In his spare time, Joel likes to play the Saxophone, Texas hold em', Magic the Gathering and Chess.