Jeremy Rickard is a talented software engineer with a wide range of skills and experience in cloud computing, microservices, and Kubernetes. With a Master's degree from The Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of Maryland, Jeremy has worked at top companies such as Apple, VMware, and Microsoft in various roles as Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, and Staff Engineer. At VMware, he was the Enhancements Subproject Owner for SIG-Architecture, and at Microsoft, he worked on CNAB (https://cnab.io/) and Porter (https://porter.sh/), both game-changing container technologies. Renowned for his expertise in Go, Docker, Java, REST/SOAP Webservices, Groovy, Perl, Python, and JavaScript, Jeremy is a Kubernetes 1.20 Release Lead, demonstrating his exceptional talent and leadership.