Darien Ford is a Senior Director of Engineering and a force behind Capital One’s Kubernetes initiatives. He served as accountable executive for container orchestration and drove the adoption of a company wide managed container platform at Capital One. He now leads product management for an open source and commercial software innovation group. Darien started his technology career 20 years ago. He has worked as an engineering leader across multiple industries--including live video streaming, ad technology, and cell phone gaming--and is passionate about fostering an excellent developer experience at enterprise scale. Darien is a frequent speaker at Capital One-sponsored meetups and was the Master of Ceremonies and spoke to the Executive Summit at Serverlessconf in New York in October 2019.