Craig Box leads developer relations for Istio at Google Cloud,  having done the same for Kubernetes in the past. He is a product manager for the open source Istio project and is a member of the Istio steering committee. Craig has worked with cloud native customers and communities since the launch of Kubernetes in 2014, and has delivered talks on 6 continents, including a keynote at KubeCon EU. He is the co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast from Google.

Craig started his career in systems administration, and has over 15 years of experience in development, deployment, DevOps, consulting, advisory and management roles around the world.