12 November 2026 →
Speaker. Builder. Engineer. Hacker.
Agentic AI, in production, without getting burned
I talk about what happens when AI meets production infrastructure, and I bring thirty years of running it to the stage: Red Hat, ThoughtWorks, AWS, KodeKloud, and now Accenture LearnVantage, where I lead AI workforce transformation. Next is the keynote at MCP Dev Summit Toronto on governing MCP for a workforce the size of a city, then KubeCon North America and Agentic Engineering Days Zurich. With Whitney Lee I run Unleash an Agent, Watch It Burn, a workshop where the room tries to make an agent break a real cluster, and co-host The AI Inevitable, one falsifiable question about AI per episode.
Keynote, MCP Dev Summit Toronto 2026, 6 October 2026
Governing MCP for a Workforce the Size of a City
The book
Agentic DevOps with Claude Code
Build governed AI platforms on Kubernetes with GitOps, observability, and self-service workflows
A hands-on build of an internal developer platform where AI agents work against real infrastructure without going around its controls. It puts specifications, permissions, tests and approval gates around Claude Code, lays a Kubernetes foundation with Argo CD, adds governed agents, MCP tools and model serving, traces all of it with OpenTelemetry, and ends with a Backstage golden path for agent services.
Published 25 September 2026. ISBN 9781808344190
Talks, labs and courses
MCP Dev Summit Toronto 2026 · October 2026Governing MCP for a Workforce the Size of a CityDeploying the Model Context Protocol across a workforce of about 750,000 people, and what governing that actually requires: a registry, a gateway, an AI gateway, and a rollout that can say no.Read the talk page →
Upcoming talkAgentic Engineering Days Zurich 2026Event page →
Upcoming talkKubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026Event page →- TalkCloud Native University @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026Event page →
TalkIgnite: The Day Claude Code Deleted My Cluster (DevOpsDays Portland 2026)Watch →
TalkDevOpsDays Portland 2026: BurritoBotWatch →
Watch
All recordingsUpcoming
20 November 2026 →
Listen
The AI Inevitable, with Whitney Lee. Evidence-based answers to the questions everyone is asking about AI. One falsifiable question per episode, reviewed against the papers.
Play
KubeQuestLearn Kubernetes as a game. Quests, not chapters.
CNCF BingoA bingo card of CNCF projects, each described by what it actually does.
Git Branch CoursesBranching, merging and rebasing as puzzles you solve in the browser.
D&D Virtual TabletopA 5e virtual tabletop that runs on the rules engine, built for the home table.
AntiphonA Lancer campaign in the world of Sarn, with its chronicle drawn as a graphic novel.
Writing
All 133- Opinion: Make Friends With Your Users, and Get the Agents Off Their Laptops
- Research: The MCP Cost Nobody Invoices: Tool Definitions Resent on Every Call
- Research: The Tool List Costs More Time Than the Gateway
- I Applied to Be an AAIF Ambassador
- Research: The Server Was Fine: Why MCP Health Checks Keep Marking Working Servers Down
- Research: Nothing Pages You: Which Side Moves First When an MCP Fleet Upgrades to 2026-07-28
Agentic Covenants
The framework's own site is agenticcovenants.com.
Hear about new work
New talks, writing and recordings, by email, every other week.