Ruben Hakopian

Founder and CEO of Kubevious, a startup that helps running modern Kubernetes applications without disasters, and costly outages by continuously validating application manifests, cluster state, and configuration. He had been coding for 25 years (started pretty early). 15 years in the SF Bay Area. Focusing on distributed management & control systems. Had a few startup attempts prior to Kubevious (cloud automation project and stock market trading robots). Built an SDN as a part of Insieme Networks (acquired by Cisco, 2013). Worked on network management solutions at Harmonic, Inc and multi-million dollar chip manufacturing tools at Mattson Technology (cool things with vacuum pumps, robot arms, and lots of gas pipes).