Profile of Google Cloud's Kelsey Hightower, a respected figure in cloud computing and one of the few prominent Black men in enterprise infrastructure tech
Peter Idah had met Kelsey Hightower before. But this time, he brought his son. — It was March 2016, and the Kubernetes jamboree … Tweets: @kelseyhightower , @jbeda , @apbhatnagar , @marktechson , @vicnastea , @cyberomin , @jeffdean , @tomkrazit , @kstewart , and @mamund Tweets: Kelsey Hightower / @kelseyhightower : I never fully understood how far I've come until I read someone else tell my story. “From McDonald's to Google: How Kelsey Hightower became one of the most respected people in cloud computing” by @tomkrazit https://www.protocol.com/... Joe Beda / @jbeda : My previous tweet wasn't strong enough. Trying again. Kelsey is awesome. He was *fundamental* to defining the k8s and cloud native ecosystem. He has had huge impact on many many of us. Besides that, he is just an awesome person. https://twitter.com/... Aparna Sinha / @apbhatnagar : @kelseyhightower thank you for launching me at Kubecon2017 and for inspiring our work on Diversity & Inclusion @GCPcloud. Especially love your quote “There's just no way you're going to produce the best of everything without a little bit of everyone” https://twitter.com/... @marktechson : I've been sent this article multiple times today but I read it when it first got shared by Kelsey. This is a remarkable story & what's even more remarkable is how kind he is in real life. They say never meet your heroes, but I met him & it was awesome. Thank you for being you! https://twitter.com/... Vic Iglesias / @vicnastea : Thank you @kelseyhightower for all the wisdom over the years. You are the 🐐no doubt but it's not just your skills. It's that you showed us how important it is to keep it real. https://twitter.com/... Uncle Celestine / @cyberomin : The man who brings the human touch to Google Cloud - https://www.protocol.com/.... Beautiful story of @kelseyhightower Jeff Dean / @jeffdean : Great profile and story about my Google colleague @kelseyhightower! (Turns out both of us moved to Atlanta in our early years of high school, which I did not know we had in common) https://twitter.com/... Tom Krazit / @tomkrazit : There aren't a ton of things that everyone in cloud agrees on, but one of those things is that @kelseyhightower is a special person. Proud to tell his story here: https://www.protocol.com/... Kevin Stewart / @kstewart : It seems that everyone has a @kelseyhightower story so I might as well chime in with mine. I first saw Kelsey when he hosted the first @GopherCon which would become one of my favorite tech conferences. I remember thinking how funny and smart he was. https://www.protocol.com/... Mike Amundsen / @mamund : From McDonald's to Google: How Kelsey Hightower became one of the most respected people in cloud computing https://www.protocol.com/... “I want to be remembered as this person who helped other people find out how to be better than they currently are.” — @kelseyhightower https://twitter.com/...