Craig Johnson currently holds the positions of CTO and partner in Deasil Cognitive, Inc. and Chief Architect at Deasil Works, Inc and has been developing software for over 25 years. Craig’s expertise revolves around microservices, artificial intelligence, algorithms, machine learning and blockchain technologies.

Craig has helped lead his team to significantly improved productivity and return on investment across many client projects; leveraging Kubernetes, Docker, Golang, Cassandra, Kafka and Elastic to name a few. The team and he are developing more productive, stable, clean and faster applications than ever in the past, and the results are beautiful and innovative IoT management systems, IoT implementations, mobile applications, business intelligence, data management and machine learning platforms.

As the former Director of R&D at Napster and later a hand full of Universal and Sony subsidiaries, Craig has been fortunate to spend many of my early days on the bleeding edge, in the open green fields of new media and disruptive technology.

Craig is successfully operating multiple commercial Kubernetes platforms utilizing nearly all the technology and concepts proposed in Platform Development with Kubernetes. Over the next 8-12 months he will be developing the next iteration of these concepts for a number of clients. Platform Development with Kubernetes will be based on successful real-world systems currently in development and production.