Rafa Brito has over 30 years of industry experience, primarily designing and building systems involving distributed computing, Kubernetes, Cloud, grid/HPC, and high-frequency trading infrastructure (HFT). Rafa is a principal engineer at StormForge by CloudBolt, obsessed with providing Kubernetes optimization and scalability to customers. Before joining StormForge, Rafa worked at VMware as the inventor of a Kubernetes migrator, which moved stateful workloads across different Kubernetes distributions and cloud providers. Before joining VMware, he was the Senior Vice President and Global Engineer Lead for Containers and Grid Computing at Citigroup. Rafa co-organizes the KCD Texas and CNCF Austin Community Group, and he serves as co-chair of CNCF TAG Operational Resilience (as of 2025-2026) and a CNCF Ambassador. Rafa is the co-author of the best-selling book acingthecka.com. When not working with Kubernetes, you'll find Rafa training for marathons on the Lady Bird Trail in Austin, TX, and rooting for his soccer teams: Flamengo, Austin FC, and FC Porto.