Ahmet Alp Balkan is a Software Engineer at Google, working on developer experiences for open source technologies like Kubernetes and Knative. He is the maintainer of developer tooling like kubectx.dev and krew.dev, which is a Kubernetes SIG CLI sub-project. At Google, he works on GKE and Cloud Run.

Prior to Google, he has worked at Microsoft Azure on the Linux team on porting Docker to Windows, creating the first container image for ASP.NET Core, and starting the Azure Container Registry service. You can find him as @ahmetb on Twitter and GitHub.