Ed 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 Nottingham
Contributions:16 commits, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 4 months
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Ed King - Sr. Member Technical Staff at VMware Tanzu