Joe Beda
CTO at Stacklok
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Beda is a veteran software engineer and technology leader with over 17 years building large-scale cloud and systems software, currently serving as CTO at Stacklok after senior engineering leadership at VMware. He co-founded Heptio and was a co-creator and technical lead of Kubernetes, and earlier founded Google Compute Engine—work that blends deep systems design with developer-facing product strategy. Joe’s career spans foundational platform engineering at Google and Microsoft, from ad-serving and VoIP infrastructure to core rendering and graphics subsystems in Internet Explorer and WPF. He’s equally comfortable shaping enterprise product portfolios (Tanzu) and diving into hands-on open-source work, with notable contributions to Kubernetes demo apps and DevOps tooling. Based in Seattle, he pairs entrepreneurial experience—raising and exiting a startup—with a penchant for landscape photography, where his attention to composition echoes the architectural clarity he brings to software systems.
17 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Harvey Mudd CollegeHigh School, High School at Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Stackoverflow
2,751reputation
266kreached
42answers
1question
directory-structure
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Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
css10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
react10
back-end-development9
javascript9
dockers9
gcp9
docker9
yaml9
directory-structure9
front-end-development9
backend9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-up-and-running/kuard
Jan 2017 - Apr 2021
Demo app for Kubernetes Up and Running book
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 8 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to the development of a demo application for the "Kubernetes Up and Running" book. Their commits include setting up the project scaffolding, implementing a basic server with a React frontend. They added flags and a debug mode. They implemented features such as rendering templates, showing request details, and showing environment details on the frontend and added a simple DNS resolver.
kubernetesgolangreact
vmware-archive/tgik
Jun 2018 - Jan 2022
Official repository for TGI Kubernetes (TGIK)!
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 121 commits, 117 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Joe's contributions primarily involve configuring and adapting existing Kubernetes-related files for a TGI Kubernetes project. They updated CSS for the OBS configuration, added and modified configuration files, and merged branches, indicating active participation in the project's evolution and maintenance. The user also added episode configurations, showing a focus on updating the project's educational content. They are demonstrated to have skills in Kubernetes, Cloud, and DevOps, related to the repository's content.
kubernetes
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