Projects
Dan leads Linux 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 the Cloud 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 my calendar or create a free account on slack.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
IBM Industries Blog on my history and present, Sep 2018
Some of my recent projects:
COVID-19 Response Interactive Landscape
Cloud Native Interactive Landscape
CNF Conformance
The Cloud Native Trail Map
Presentation: Hiding in the Dark
Presentation: Stitching Things Together
Presentation: Telecom User Group (TUG) Kickoff
Presentation: How Good Is Our Code?
Presentation: Migrating Legacy Monoliths to Cloud Native Microservices Architectures on Kubernetes
Presentation: A Brief History of the Cloud
The 30 highest velocity open source projects
Why I recommend the Apache Software License
DevStats, analysis of CNCF contributions
The CII Best Practices Badge
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 Kohn headshot (click for larger size)
Dan leads Linux 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 the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus. He also helped create the Linux Foundation's Core 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 not traveling, Dan lives in Manhattan with his wife and two sons.
He can be reached at dan@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
“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 minute video (with sound) about my startup conducting the first secure purchase on the web in 1994
(November 2015)