Tom Graupner works as the Business Unit Lead of Cloud & Platform Engineering at SQUER and is part of the leadership team in Munich. He is passionate about cloud-native computing, platform engineering, and DevOps culture. After graduating from university, he started his career in classic Java backend engineering. Over the years, he moved into the cloud-native space and became more involved with Kubernetes, DevOps, and developer productivity. In 2022, he began to explore the Go programming language. Previously, he co-founded Unit 214, where he focused on software architecture, IT consulting, and cloud-native solutions.