Leigh is an empathetic speaker and developer with niches in cloud-native systems and security. He has a background in building software to manage infrastructure.

Leigh authored kubeadm’s etcd mTLS implementation and Flux 2’s multi-tenant security model. He also co-maintains Ignite, the microVM manager with Docker UX. (https://ignite.rtfd.io/)

Leigh works with the VMware Tanzu Advocacy team and previously built Developer Experience and Platform with Weaveworks, Beatport, AT&T, and DIRECTV.

Leigh and his wife enjoy snowboarding and have a 60lb dog named Pepsi.