Chris Hein is a highly accomplished Kubernetes application engineer, technical leader, and CNCF ambassador with extensive experience in IoT, web & mobile applications & architecture, OAuth, security, user experience, mentoring, building communities, marketing, and developer advocacy. With a passion for building standards-based APIs and user experience focused tools for developers deploying applications on Kubernetes, Chris is an expert in Kubernetes controllers/operators, containers, and open-source.

Chris' impressive work history includes senior software engineer roles at Apple and Amazon Web Services, where he served as Sr. Developer Advocate - Kubernetes/EKS and Partner Solutions Architect. Chris has also held key positions at Bindle Chat Inc., Mattel, Inc., Sproutling, GoPro, Inc., Blitzly, General Things Inc, and the Academy of Art University, where he taught Advanced Web Design (Night Classes).

Chris holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media from the Academy of Art University and is certified as a CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator, CNCF Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, and AWS Certified Developer - Associate.