Jay Vyas

Jay Vyas, PhD, is currently a staff engineer at VMware and has worked on several commercial and open source Kubernetes distributions and platforms, including OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, Black Duck’s internal multipronged Kubernetes installation platforms, and bespoke Kubernetes installations for clients of his consulting company, Rocket Rudolf, LLC. For several years, he acted as a PMC (project management committee) member at the Apache Software Foundation, working across several projects in the BigData space. He’s been involved with Kubernetes in various capacities since its inception and currently spends most of his time in the SIG-Windows and SIG-network communities. He got his start in distributed systems while finishing his PhD around bioinformatics data marts (which federated databases into mining platforms for the human and viral proteomes). This led him into the world of BigData and scaling out data processing systems, and, eventually, to Kubernetes.

You can contact Jay at @jayunit100 on Twitter if you’re interested in collaborating on . . . anything. His daily workout is a one-mile sprint and pull-ups until failure. He also owns several synthesizers including the Prophet-6, which sounds like a spaceship.