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Principal Engineer for @AWS, #CNCF Ambassador, @containerd OSS maintainer, @OCI_ORG TOB, ex-@IBMCloud, father, husband, worship leader/guitarist, cyclist

Charlottesville, VA, USA
Joined June 2009
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A "who's who of open source" - the leaders joining the State of Open Con 26 Advisory Board reflect the breadth of our global community, from students to community and business leaders, as well as technical wizards. SOOCon 26 will take place on 3 and 4 February 2026 in London. Explore our website to meet the stupendous team for '26 stateofopencon.com/ State of Open Con is well established as one of the world's best open source conferences, thanks to the great community contributions, not least of which is that of its Advisory Board, which shapes the conference direction. @FerrettiAgata Alex Williams @Anita_ihuman @birthmarkbart @OpenMedFuture @bdougieYO @CaterinaRindi @chadwhitacre @choult @TechTalkingMom @DC_Corbin3 @DanScarbrough @aronchick @Divya_Mohan02 @BunjakuErblina @ianmiell @salisbury_joe @jonobacon Kris Bondi, Leena Mooneeram @LoriLorusso @LouisaSeers @LowenaHull @_MarkoB @guzzoguzzoguzzo Megan Knight @nynymike @jiangbonadia Natali Vlatko @nicovibert Paula Paul, Peter Farkas @estesp @rginn206 @ghumare64 @ronefroni @IkegahRuth Samuel Kummary @Samson_Goddy @sarahnovotny @SkippersWif @HowDevelop @sjmaple @swardley @sourishsharma17 @stephenaugustus and last but not least, Tobias Augspurger #opensource #stateofopencon #soocon26 #openuk #community
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Phil Estes retweeted
This is Kiro - the AI IDE that actually works on your messy, real-world projects. Other AI tools lose context when projects get complex. Kiro gives you spec-driven development that scales beyond prototypes. Free preview available now spr.ly/6016429H8 #KiroDotDev
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I’m so excited to talk about what I’ve been working on the last 2 months! Today we’re open sourcing Cedar access controls for Kubernetes! Cedar is an open source policy language created by AWS, and this project enables writing expressive K8s permissions 🧵 github.com/awslabs/cedar-acc…
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Phil Estes retweeted
CNCF Sandbox Project を作りました。
🎂The low-level container runtime of the CNCF project has just been born. Voting was completed and passed. Thank you to all those who supported us. [Sandbox] Youki github.com/cncf/sandbox/issu…
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In the latest episode of the #Developer Impact Series, @estesp joins to discuss @containerd’s pilot project launched by Ampere, Equinix, and the CNCF to use Actuated for its Arm64 builds. Watch now to hear the results.

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It has been a great journey from preparing @OpenSearchProj for broader community engagement and now where it is as a new foundation ready to scale and grow its community and impact on search and analytics. @Carl_F_Meadows #OSSummit
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Phil Estes retweeted
Nandini Ramani from AWS announces the new OpenSearch Software Foundation at #OSSUMMIT #opensource
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"Container Images & Security 101: 5 Need to Know Facts - Phil Estes, AWS" - should be a great #CloudNativeSecurityCon talk today for anybody looking for the container image and security fundamentals. Don't miss the opportunity to ask @estesp questions in person! sched.co/1dCVI #CNSCon
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Such a great night at the @isovalent Hivemind!! Thank you all for coming out and being a part of it.
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Phil Estes retweeted
📺 Our next Arm TV episode is just around the corner! Join @estesp, Principal Engineer at @AWS and @CloudNativeFdn Ambassador to discover how you can skillfully navigate the evolution of open-source and cloud-native technology. Join live on 5 June 🗓️: events.devhubtv.arm.com/phil…

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Really appreciate the help from the ContainerD SOCI snapshotter team at AWS troubleshooting the bugs I encountered and unlocking the magic combination of flags to get detailed fuse FS logging
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🥳 Join @estesp, Principal Engineer for @awscloud, as they dive into "Five things you need to know about your container runtime" on May 22nd! 🎟️ Tickets are selling out fast! kcdnewyork.com #KCDNewYork #Kubernetes #CNCF #Containerd #OpenContainers #RunC #Docker
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. @espn @CollegeGameDay @SportsCenter Curious to know who is leading your group bracket challenges? That would be my 11-year-old cousin Josie, who filled out her bracket this year based on cuteness of the mascots. And is now tied for 2nd place overall out of ~26.8 million picks.
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Great to meet @CNCFAmbassadors family from all over the world at #KubeconParis.
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Replying to @estesp @IWillTry42
ok, now this one might make you smile even more 😇 Windows KinD with the Finch provider AND Windows KinD with the nerdctl provider (thanks to Rancher Desktop) When we work all together, we all win! More tests to be performed later 👍
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Join @normalfaults and me as we welcome back @estesp who will introduce us to the open source project, Finch, which bundles the best open source tools for building and running containers locally, and which now runs on macOS and Windows WSL2. buff.ly/3SJWqKM
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