Jurg van Vliet is CEO and co-founder of Aknostic in Utrecht. He has run workloads on AWS since 2007 and co-wrote three O'Reilly books about it. He founded and ran 30MHz, an agricultural sensor platform. He founded Clouds of Europe, a community of practitioners who document how to run production on European and open-source clouds. He also co-created KEIT, the Kubernetes Emissions Insights Tool. He studied computer science at the University of Amsterdam.