Chris Kühl
Founder & CEO at Amutable
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Kühl is a founder and technical leader with 16 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native and Linux-based systems from bootstrapped startups to Microsoft. He founded and led Kinvolk—creating products like Flatcar Container Linux, Headlamp, and Inspektor Gadget—and later guided their integration into Microsoft while continuing to shape CNCF projects. Now based in Berlin, he runs Amutable and manages open-source events through Assembled Parts, blending product vision with community stewardship. A hands-on engineer by background, Chris contributed to notable projects such as the rkt container engine and has deep expertise in Go and low-level Linux tooling. He combines CEO-level strategy with ongoing technical delivery, and his career shows a rare mix of shipping core infrastructure and nurturing the ecosystems that rely on it.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at San Diego City CollegeCommunication Arts, Communication Arts at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityBS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at San Diego State University
German, English
Github Skills (12)
go10
containerization10
testing10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
debug8
automated-tests8
debugging8
pods7
git7
occi7
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
rkt/rkt
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
[Project ended] rkt is a pod-native container engine for Linux. It is composable, secure, and built on standards.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:92 commits, 46 PRs, 182 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the `rkt` container engine. They fixed bugs related to running prepared pods when the metadata service is missing and improved the readability of the image list output. Additionally, the user introduced functionality such as the `cat-manifest` command for pods and refactored testing code to make it more reusable. These changes suggest a focus on improving the core functionality and usability of the rkt project.
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headlamp-k8s/headlamp-website
Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
Headlamp's website + docs.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
reactnextjsheadlamp
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