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Lee Calcote

Lee Calcote

Founder and CEO,Layer5

Lee Calcote is an innovative product and technology leader, passionate about empowering engineers and enabling organizations. As Founder of Layer5, he is at the forefront of the cloud native movement. Open source, advanced and emerging technologies have been a consistent focus through Calcote’s time at SolarWinds, Seagate, Cisco and Schneider Electric. An advisor, author, and speaker, Calcote is active in the community as a Docker Captain, Cloud Native Ambassador and GSoC, GSoD, and LFX Mentor.

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Nic Jackson

Nic Jackson

Developer Advocate,Hashicorp

Nic Jackson is a developer advocate at HashiCorp, and the author of “Building Microservices in Go”, a book which examines the best patterns and practices for building microservices with the Go. Nic is also a coauthor of the Service Mesh Patterns book.

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About

Layer5

Layer5 helps organizations expect more from their infrastructure. We are enablers of the engineer and embrace developer-defined infrastructure.

Layer5's cloud native management software empowers developers to change how they write applications, support operators in rethinking how they run modern infrastructure, and enable product owners to regain full-control over their product portfolio.

Our shared commitment to the open source spirit push the Layer5 community and its projects forward. Maker of Meshery, the cloud native management plane. Creator of service mesh standards: Service Mesh Performance Specification and Service Mesh Interface .

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