Jerry Hency

Jerry Hency has a diverse work experience spanning several years. Jerry currently holds the position of Principal Solutions Engineer at Isovalent since March 2023. Prior to this, they worked as a Staff Solutions Engineer at Kong Inc. from May 2022 to February 2023.

Before joining Kong Inc., Jerry worked at VMware for several years. Jerry held the position of Staff Solution Engineer, Kubernetes/Tanzu from November 2020 to May 2022. Prior to that, they served as Staff NSX Systems Engineer, Global Accounts from January 2016 to November 2020.

Jerry's extensive experience also includes their tenure at Cisco, where they worked from September 1998 to December 2015. During their time at Cisco, they held various roles including Technical Leader in the OpenStack Engineering team, Solution Architect/TME, and Consulting Systems Engineer.

In their roles at Cisco, Jerry focused on areas such as platform architecture, networking, data center design, and virtualization. Jerry gained expertise in validating reference designs, developing network architecture best practices, and delivering technical presentations.

Overall, Jerry Hency's work experience reflects a strong background in solutions engineering and technical leadership roles in the field of networking and virtualization.

Jerry Hency obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Management Information Systems from Oakland University. In addition, they have obtained several certifications including Cilium LoadBalancer IPAM and BGP Service Advertisement, Cilium Service Mesh, Cilium Zero Trust Visibility, Fundamentals for Istio Ambient Mesh by Solo.io, Kong Mesh Demo Certification, CCIE Lifetime Emeritus - Enterprise Infrastructure, and CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator.