Stephen Rust is a Principal Architect at Akamai, where he leads Cloud Native architecture within the Akamai Linode Cloud. Stephen has over 20 years of experience in operating systems, storage, and working in open source with containers, Kubernetes, and Cloud Native systems. At Akamai, Stephen is helping build Managed Kubernetes Services, Kubernetes Platforms, and Managed Services built with Cloud Native technologies.

Stephen is a Co-Chair of the CNCF TAG-Runtime.