10 November 2026 →
Cloud Native University @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 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.
Latest recording
Ignite Talk - The Day Claude Code Deleted My Cluster - A Cautionary Tale About AI Guardrails
15 May 2026
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.
Packt, 25 September 2026. ISBN 9781808344190
Talks, labs and courses
GitHub · Unleash_an_Agent_Watch_It_BurnUnleash an Agent, Watch It BurnAn AI-native internal developer platform, thirty-plus components, built so an agent can be turned loose on it.Open the repo →
GitHub · agentic-covenantsAgentic CovenantsA practitioner framework for autonomous-agent governance.Open the site →
GitHub · mcp-k8s-observability-argocd-serverArgoCD MCP ServerGive an AI agent real operational control of a production GitOps cluster without giving it the ability to quietly delete it.Open the repo →
GitHub · cloud-native-ai-labCloud Native AI LabSeven hands-on labs for running AI workloads on Kubernetes, including GPU scheduling.Open the repo →- GitHub · burritobotBurritoBotA reusable Kubernetes platform for live AI-guardrails demos.Open the repo →
GitHub · claude-dotfilesClaude DotfilesThe configuration layer I actually use: 70 skills, 15 agents, 21 rules.Open the repo →
Watch
All recordings
Ignite Talk - The Day Claude Code Deleted My Cluster - A Cautionary Tale About AI GuardrailsSpeaking · 2026
The Day an AI Agent Deleted My Cluster (SREday Austin 2026)Speaking · 2026
Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: AI + Kubernetes: What Beginners Need to Know in 2026Speaking · 2026
Cloud Native Theater | Cloud Native University: How Kubernetes Actually Ships - An Educator's Guide to Core Releases, SIGs, and Staying CurrentSpeaking · 2026
Upcoming
12 November 2026 →
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, a few times a year.