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.