Randy Abernethy has been in the computer industry for 30 years and is currently a managing partner at RX-M LLC, a cloud native consulting and training firm. Randy has held various CTO roles and has created institutional trading platforms processing billions of dollars in transactions daily. In 2015 Randy ensured RX-M joined the inaugural class of CNCF members and has been a tireless supporter of the CNCF. He is a Cloud Native Ambassador, attends CNCF TOC meetings for RX-M and has been involved in the development of the CNCF CKA v1, v2, CKAD, CKS and KCNA certifications. Randy is a Committer/PMC member of the Apache Thrift project and has authored several books and courses on distributed computing. Randy is happiest coding after a day sailing, diving or out on the trail in his Jeep.