Jared Watts is a founding engineer at Upbound, where he is working on advancing cloud native computing by enabling anyone to build their own cloud platform. He is also a creator and maintainer for the open source Rook (https://rook.io) and Crossplane (https://crossplane.io) projects. Prior to Upbound, Jared worked on P2P storage distributed across the public internet at Symform, a startup later acquired by Quantum. Jared began his career at Microsoft working on applications for Windows Server setup and management.