Kris Nóva is a computer scientist, alpinist, public speaker and transgender advocate best known for her work on Linux and Kubernetes.
She specializes in Linux kernel security, distributed systems, infrastructure management, and open source software engineering.
In 2022 she authored Hacking Capitalism an independently published book about modeling the tech industry as a system. In 2017 she co-authored Cloud Native Infrastructure published by O’Reilly Media.
Nóva is well known for her open source contributions including projects like Linux, Kubernetes, and The Go Programming Language.