Bob Killen
Senior Technical Program Manager at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Shakopee, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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RockstarBob Killen is a Senior Technical Program Manager with 11 years of experience specializing in cloud-native ecosystems, now shaping projects at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after four years managing programs at Google. He combines deep operational experience from a long tenure at the University of Michigan — spanning research cloud administration and healthcare systems development — with advocacy for Kubernetes and open-source software. Known as a CNCF "cat wrangler" on GitHub, Bob bridges developer communities and governance, helping translate technical roadmaps into cross-organizational delivery. Based in Shakopee, Minnesota, he brings a pragmatic mix of hands-on systems knowledge and program leadership that keeps large, distributed initiatives moving.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
libgit210
testing10
scheduling10
svg10
kubespray10
serverless10
k8s10
mesos10
ecosystem10
kubernetes-monitoring10
bare-metal10
hashicorp-vault10
docker-compose10
populate10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
mrbobbytables/mesos-master
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 3 months
containersmasterdockermesosubuntu
mrbobbytables/test-infra
Aug 2018 - Jul 2023
Test infrastructure for the Kubernetes project.
Contributions:17 pushes, 11 branches in 5 years
testingkubernetesinfrastructuretest-infrastructure
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