Javier has a PhD in computer engineering and has worked for several years in both researching and teaching the application of cloud-native technologies to high-performance computing. He currently works as an engineer at Bitnami, now VMware, where he packages applications ready to be deployed on a wide variety of platforms: bare metal servers, virtual machines, cloud instances, containers and Kubernetes clusters. One of his latest contributions is Kubernetes Sandbox, an all-in-one single VM cluster available in cloud providers like Google Cloud, AWS and Oracle Cloud.