Projects

• Dan leadsLinux Foundation Public Health, a new initiative to use open source software to help public health authorities combat COVID-19 and serves as VP, Strategic Programs for theCloud Native Computing Foundation.

• He consults for companies and advises startups focused on cloud, security, open source, and enterprise software development.

• Want to talk? Please book a time on mycalendar or create a free account onslack.lfph.io and ping me there.

• Some recent interviews:

  • Barron’s, “‘Kubernetes’ Is the Future of Computing. An Insider Explains Why“,Dec 2019

  • Vice, on the 25th anniversary of the first secure commercial transaction on the web,Aug 2019

  • A short piece in Wired (at the bottom) about my hearing disability,May 2019

  • Kubernetes Podcast,Jan 2019

  • Software Engineering Daily,Jan 2019

  • Changelog podcast interviews:Sep 2018,Nov 2017

  • IBM Industries Blog on my history and present,Sep 2018

• Some of my recent projects:

  • COVID-19 Response InteractiveLandscape

  • Cloud Native InteractiveLandscape

  • CNFConformance

  • The Cloud NativeTrail Map

  • Presentation:Hiding in the Dark

  • Presentation:Stitching Things Together

  • Presentation: Telecom User Group (TUG)Kickoff

  • Presentation: HowGood Is Our Code?

  • Presentation:Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes

  • Presentation: A BriefHistory of the Cloud

  • The 30 highestvelocity open source projects

  • Why Irecommend the Apache Software License

  • DevStats, analysis of CNCF contributions

  • The CII Best PracticesBadge

• I'm a Recurse Center alumnus:

“Kohn had been at the helm of the CNCF since 2016 and guided the project from its early days to becoming one of the most successful open-source foundations of all time.”

—Techcrunch, June 2020

Bio

Dan leadsLinux Foundation Public Health, a new initiative to use open source software to help public health authorities combat COVID-19 and serves as VP, Strategic Programs for theCloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus. He also helped create theLinux Foundation'sCore Infrastructure Initiative as an industry-wide response to the security vulnerabilities demonstrated by Heartbleed.

He previously served as CTO of several startups, including Spreemo, a healthcare marketplace, and Shopbeam, a shoppable ads company. Earlier, he was a general partner at Skymoon Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm that created startups in semiconductors and telecom infrastructure.

Dan helped manage a number of telecoms firms controlled by Craig McCaw and started his career as founder and CEO of NetMarket, one of the first Internet companies. In 1994, he led the development of the first music store on the web,conducting the first secure commercial transaction after building the first web shopping cart. When nottraveling, Dan lives in Manhattan with hiswife and two sons.

He can be reached atdan@dankohn.com.

Events

Recent Talks

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, San Diego, 11/19/2019

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China, Shanghai, 06/25/2019

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Barcelona, 5/21/2019

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China, Shanghai, 11/14/2018

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Copenhagen, 5/2/2018

• Cloud Unfiltered, Video Podcast, 3/15/2018

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, Austin, 12/6-8/2017

• Google Cloud Webinar, 11/15/2017

• Alibaba Cloud Conference, Hangzhou, 10/11-15/2017

• Open Source Summit Japan, Tokyo, 6/1-2/2017

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Berlin, 3/29-30/2017

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, Seattle, 11/8-9/2016

• LinuxCon + ContainerCon EU, Berlin, 10/4-6/2016

“As the head of CNCF, Kohn is changing the way companies do business on the Internet yet again. And he’s doing it by advocating for the same spirit of technological collaboration that powered his history-making achievement in 1994.”

—IBM Industries, September 2018

Recent Tweets

“CNCF executive director Dan Kohn said the broader story is that Kubernetes and containers are rapidly displacing virtualization as the go-to software deployment model”

—Fortune Magazine, August 2017

Watch this 4 minutevideo (with sound) about my startup conducting the first secure purchase on the web in 1994
(November 2015)