Name: Jon Olson
Email: jonolson@google.com
Background:
I am a staff software engineer at Google working on the core virtualization and I/O layer backing Google Compute Engine. My work is focused on resource footprint minimization as well as performance optimization and stability. Part of this work is improving our support for containerized workloads and ensuring it is aligned with the needs of our customer community (e.g., Kata users).
My involvement with the Kata community has included being a regular attendee at the weekly Kata Arch Council meetings. To these meetings I’ve brought context from my work building and maintaining a hypervisor that supports long-lived workloads at scale, as well as the occasional PR for getting Kata running in GCE. I believe whole workload containment via virtualization is a key component to addressing the broad problem of container security. Having a strong, open solution to that problem is critical to ensuring all workloads can run securely, regardless of where they are deployed.
I enjoy working with the Kata community to build such a solution, and look forward to many more core-hours of security contained workloads.
Jon