Michael Elder

Michael Elder is the Senior Distinguished Engineer for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. His technical focus is enabling enterprises to deploy a common application programming model and operational model based on Kubernetes in hybrid architectures deployed across multicloud infrastructures.

Elder has delivered talks from KubeCon to EclipseCon, among others, on topics ranging from his open source contributions to the Eclipse project to hybrid cloud deployment strategies and proof points. He holds numerous patents and has been honored with an IBM Corporate Award for technical achievement, has3 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards, and is a co-author of Kubernetes in the Enterprise published by O’Reilly.