Michael P. [email protected]

Writer. Recovering Cranky Admin. COVID-vulnerable. Three trench coats pretending to be a person.

I like cats, sleep, yeeting billionaires, and obliterating capitalism.

It is our responsibility to be more ethical than our antecedents.

Appeasement never works because bullies need victims to feel whole.

Coffee++.

Toots are nobody's opinion except my own. And my opinions are subject to change with the addition of new evidence.

🦞 buoyant, linkerd, rust, systems

👋🏼 I'm Jonathan LaCour. I live in SoCal (LA / Palm Desert) and work as the CTO of Mission, an AWS cloud services company. Some topics of interest to me:

🌎 IndieWeb
🍎 Apple
🏈 (The U, Georgia Tech, LA Rams)
🏎️ Formula 1 (Essere Ferrari)

Father, Coach • k8s `OG` • grid guy before hipsters • old man yelling at the cloud • Principal SWE (Tanzu) • ex - ( Heptio, Red Hat ) • thoughts are my own

ratvarre sbe uver Networking, Linux, Automation, Canine Agility

cloud / containers / kubernetes / linux things @Azure; formerly cco @ kinvolk, founder @ tigera/calico, gm/corp dev/mktg @ metaswitch; he/him; berlin de, berkeley ca, or somewhere in my 1978 vw westfalia

Keyboardist

Recovering entrepreneur - Runner 🏃 OSS & SDGs 🌱
Currently VP of Corporate Engineering @ air up

Bio

VP Products at D2iQ. I live in (and love) Oakland. Ex-Google, -EMC, -Zuora. Former funding member of Open API Initiative, Istio Steering Committee. One-time tour manager.
Dad of 3. #ally #BLM.
twitter.com/danciruli

i’m @swyx from twitter (see twitter bio location to verify). the mastodon accounts on other instances are NOT me.

PSA that most posts here are auto-crossposted from Twitter, but I *WILL* periodically check mastodon for your replies, because Elon sucks

Architect @ Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Reliability Engineering. The views expressed are my own.

Former Operations/SRE Architect @ Pinterest, Recovering BBS SysOp. Well versed in frustration driven development & automation.