After getting hooked on open source software as a hobby through the GNOME project, Chris turned his passion into a career and has since co-founded Kinvolk in Berlin, which focuses exclusively on foundational Linux technologies such as the Linux kernel, systemd, rkt, Kubernetes, etc. He’s a rkt contributor and an active member of the Berlin open source community. He helps organize the various Cloud Native and Linux meetups in Berlin, and is one of the founding organizers of All Systems Go!, the annual foundation Linux technologies conference in Berlin.