Barry Cooks

Barry Cooks is the Vice President of Kubernetes at Amazon Web Services (AWS).13 He is based in Los Altos, California.13

Experience and Roles::

• Current Role: He currently serves as the VP of Kubernetes at AWS, a position he has held since April 2022.1
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF): He is a governing board member at CNCF since October 2019.1
• DigitalOcean: Prior to his role at AWS, Cooks was the Chief Technology Officer at DigitalOcean from February 2019 to April 2022.1
• VMware: He also served as Vice President R&D Cloud Operations Product Suite at VMware from March 2016 to February 2019.1
• Virtual Instruments: Barry Cooks was the Senior Vice President of Products, Engineering, and Support at Virtual Instruments from March 2009 to March 2016.1
• Earlier Roles: His earlier roles include Senior Director R&D at VMware Inc. and Director of Engineering at Sun Microsystems.1

Education::

• He obtained a Master of Science (MS) degree from the University of Oregon (1995-1997).1
• He holds a BS degree from Purdue University (1992-1995).1

Cooks is responsible for Kubernetes across AWS, including Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and customers running Kubernetes on EC2.2 He is focused on enabling efficient workload management, scaling, and responsiveness to the environment.2 He mentioned that his team is responsible for Amazon EKS, and they are also responsible for customers who are running Kubernetes themselves on EC2, which is how everyone got started with AWS.2