Bio

John T. Forman is a Director and serves as the global Anthos/Kubernetes lead for Accenture Cloud First. Along with being a hands-on practitioner, he serves as a SME for Open Source, DevSecOps, Container/Kubernetes best practices. John has more than 20 years of experiencing designing and delivering complex Technical Architecture for on-premise and multi-cloud environments. John is also extremely humble to announce that he spearheaded and helped author the new Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) exam. John has a passion for Cloud Native technologies and is the North American lead for the Container Technology practice. Passionate about open source and is an accomplished corporate strategist and change agent with a strong sense of urgency. Possess Principled Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and leads with Integrity. Hands-on with a proven record leading large-scale web solutions, mission-critical programs and projects using both traditional and agile methodologies. While working directly with executive leadership on strategic initiatives. Overall IT experience includes: CTO, consulting, director/manager, enterprise architect, technical architect and senior developer. Extensive hands-on experience in a broad range of technologies including Drupal, Microservices, Decoupling design, virtualization and SaaS.