Justin Davies
Staff Product Manager at Kong Inc.
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJustin Davies is a Staff Product Manager and seasoned cloud-native leader with nine years in product roles and two decades of hands-on technical experience across fintech, open source, and cloud platforms. He has led enterprise adoption and product strategy for Azure Kubernetes Service at Microsoft, driving features like long-term support, node auto-provisioning, Windows support, upgrades, and AI on Kubernetes. Now at Kong, he focuses on Kubernetes and service mesh productization while also co-founding a startup (Pin Drop) that keeps him close to code and real-world engineering trade-offs. His background spans technical architecture roles at Credit Suisse, IBM, and Bloomberg through to developer advocacy and go-to-market leadership, giving him rare fluency across engineering, product, and sales. Known for turning complex distributed systems problems into pragmatic customer value, he blends operator empathy with product rigor. Based in Stevenage, he pairs enterprise-scale product leadership with a founder’s appetite for shipping and iterating on tools that make Kubernetes more accessible.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
computer science Computer Science, computer science Computer Science at University of Derby
Github Skills (123)
microsoft-azure10
azure10
azure-kubernetes-service10
android10
frontend10
react10
javascript9
d3-force9
azure-cli9
google-maps9
react-native9
microsoft9
ios9
dcos9
expo9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
justindavies/AKS
Sep 2021 - Jul 2023
Azure Kubernetes Service
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 10 months
kubernetes-serviceazure-kubernetesazure-kubernetes-servicekubernetesazure
justindavies/smi-demo
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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