Tom Graupner works as a Principal Consultant 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. He was immediately intrigued by Go's focus on simplicity, and he chose Go as his new favourite technology of choice.