Cynthia Thomas (@_techcet_) is a Technology Evangelist at Covalent. Her background includes working with open source cloud & networking solutions in Data Center, Telecommunications, and Campus deployments for over 10 years. She is an advocate of open source technologies while working with open source Linux networking projects for 4+ years. Since 2015, she has been working on Docker and Kubernetes with CNI plugins, currently through the open source project Cilium (www.cilium.io). She is a frequent speaker at conferences, including ContainerCon, DevOpsDays, DockerCon, Velocity, Kubernetes MeetUps, and OpenStack Summits & MeetUps.