Kris Nóva

Kris Nóva (she/her) is an author, investor, and principal engineer best known for her work on Linux and Kubernetes.

She specializes in Linux kernel security, distributed systems, infrastructure management, and open source software engineering.

In 2022 she authored Hacking Capitalism an independently published book about modeling the tech industry as a system. In 2017 she co-authored Cloud Native Infrastructure published by O’Reilly Media.

Nóva is well known for her open source contributions including projects like Linux, Kubernetes, and The Go Programming Language. A popular public speaker, she is best known for her Kubernetes clusterfuck talks. She co-founded the cluster API project, created Kubicorn, and created naml for managing Kubernetes resources with pure Go.

Today she works as an angel investor, and engineer focusing on enterprise distributed platform systems.