Ed King
Sr. Member Technical Staff at VMware Tanzu
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolEd King is a seasoned systems engineer and Sr. Member Technical Staff at VMware Tanzu with 11 years’ experience building cloud-native infrastructure and control-plane tooling. He specializes in Kubernetes API extensions and higher-level platform features, drawing on deep prior work with container runtimes like runc and containerd as part of the Cloud Foundry Garden team. Comfortable across the stack, he’s shipped platform integrations, runtime components, and operational tooling for large-scale container deployments. Based in Edinburgh, he pairs hands-on engineering with consulting experience in Cloud Foundry and BOSH, giving him practical insights into operator workflows and lifecycle management. He occasionally publishes technical write-ups on Medium, revealing a reflective approach to design trade-offs and debugging at the systems level. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge low-level runtime details and platform-level developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of NottinghamHurstpierpoint College
Github Skills (121)
cloud-computing10
runc10
infrastructure10
specification10
serverless10
cloud-native10
spawning10
podman10
matcher10
multicloud10
cli10
kubernetes10
service-broker10
docker10
seccomp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pivotal-cf/graphite-nozzle
Mar 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
foundryeventscloud-foundrygraphitefirehose
teddyking/thegreatk8sworkshop
Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:16 commits, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 4 months
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