Kit Merker is a seasoned technology executive with over two decades of experience in software development. He presently serves as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Nobl9, a fast-growing cloud-native service reliability startup. Kit has worked in several positions ranging from coding to engineering, product management, and evangelism across both startups and large corporations. Before assuming his current position, he was an advisor at Slim.AI and RevDeBug, founded Beyond Seattle SRE Meetup, and previously served in various executive positions at Nobl9, JFrog, and Google Cloud. He also worked for ten years at Microsoft, where he contributed to several products, including Windows, Azure, Office 365, and Bing. Kit studied Business Administration, Management, and Business Administration and Management at Bellevue College. He is an official member of the Forbes Business Development Council and a Governing Board Member Emeritus at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.