JJ works as a Developer Advocate representing the IBM Cloud all over the world. He mainly focuses on the IBM Kubernetes Service and OpenShift trying to make companies and users have a successful onboarding to the Cloud Native ecosystem. He’s also been known in the DevOps tooling ecosystem and generalized Linux communities. If he isn’t building automation to make his work streamlined he’s building the groundwork to do just that. He lives and grew up in Austin, Texas. A father and husband, trying to learn to balance his natural nerdiness with family life. He enjoys a good strong dark ale, hoppy IPA, some team building Artemis, and epic Gloomhaven campaigning. He has recently dove headfirst into Fedora since IBM buying Redhat, but still secretly wants FreeBSD everywhere. He’s always trying to become a better web technology developer, though normally just uses bash to get the job done.
Developer Advocate at IBM
Bachelor of Science, Management/Computer Information Systems - 2005
GITEX Global 2023
Open Source Summit 2021
Kube Con & Cloud NativeCon Europe 2021
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
Kube Con & Cloud NativeCon North America 2021
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022
FOSDEM 2023
Scale19x - 2022