John Kjell
Principal Cloud Native Consultant
Eagan, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Kjell is a Principal Cloud Native Consultant with eight years of experience building secure, enterprise-grade cloud native platforms and developer workflows from code to cluster. He has led engineering teams at VMware Tanzu to deliver secure software supply chain features and recently served as Director of Open Source at TestifySec before joining ControlPlane, bringing deep practical experience in signing, scanning, and storing container images for DevSecOps. As Co-Chair of the CNCF Security TAG, he blends technical leadership with ecosystem stewardship, helping shape security best practices across Kubernetes and container registries. Based in Eagan, Minnesota, he pairs product-focused delivery with research-driven prototyping rooted in a Computer Science degree from UW–Madison, and is known for translating complex security requirements into pragmatic developer-facing solutions.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonAAS Liberal Arts, AAS Liberal Arts at University of Wisconsin - Rock County
Github Skills (90)
container-management10
devsecops10
pluggable10
digital-signature10
cosign10
security10
harbor10
rego10
attestation10
cloud-native10
listings10
chain10
signing10
artifacts10
populate10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
in-toto/go-witness
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Go implementation of witness
Contributions:2 releases, 303 reviews, 282 PRs in 1 year 8 months
golangwitness
in-toto/archivista
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
Archivista is a graph and storage service for in-toto attestations. Archivista enables the discovery and retrieval of attestations for software artifacts.
Contributions:245 reviews, 236 PRs, 338 pushes in 1 year 8 months
archivistattestationstotodiscoveryartifacts
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