About the reviewer

Karthik Gaekwad is a veteran engineer who enjoys building software products from scratch, using cloud and container technologies. He has worked in both large enterprises and startups with his career spanning from National Instruments to Mentor Graphics. He was also the first hired engineer at Signal Sciences, an early engineer at StackEngine (which was acquired by Oracle). Currently, Karthik works at Oracle as a principal engineer to build products in the cloud native space.

Karthik has programmed in many languages, including Java, C, C#, Python, and Ruby. He first learned Golang in 2012, and it has been his language of choice ever since. He has written many production-level applications using Go and appreciates its simplicity and flexibility.

Karthik graduated from the University of Arizona in 2007 with an MS in Computer Engineering and currently lives in Austin, Texas with his family. Karthik organizes several conferences, including devopsdays and Container Days, and he has chaired the DevOps tracks for the Agile Conference and All Day DevOps. He is also an accomplished author for LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com. In his free time, Karthik enjoys to spend time with family, keep up with the latest trends in software, and dabble in new product ideas.