Karthik Gaekwad is a veteran engineer who enjoys learning and building software and software products using cloud and container technologies.

He has worked in large enterprises and startups, with his career spanning National Instruments, Mentor Graphics, Signal Sciences, StackEngine, Oracle. He is the head of Cloud Native Engineering at Verica defining and building the next generation tooling for chaos and resiliency engineering for cloud native applications.

Karthik lives in Austin, Texas, with his family. He believes in building communities and runs meetups and conferences in the city. He’s on the organizing committee for several groups, including Devopsdays Austin, CloudAustin, Container Days, and All Day Devops. He is also an accomplished author for LinkedIn Learning.

In his spare time, Karthik enjoys spending time with family, gardening, dabbling in new product ideas, and blogging on theagileadmin.com. You can find Karthik on Twitter @iteration1.