Hippie Hacker's unique approach to storytelling includes practical application of technology with a focus on humanity as a whole. He has a lifelong interest in the creation of vehicles of viral generosity that everyone can ride.

His travels starting in an avocado green Volkswagen took him around the world a few times, but hes now put down roots in the form of a food forest near the beach in New Zealand.

He has spoken at ChefConf, DevOps Days, and KubeCon a few times. He supports our community by kickstarting projects like cross-cloud cncf.ci, APISnoop, and Human Readable Conformance Testing.