Jakub Pavlik is a co-founder, former CTO, and chief architect of TCP Cloud (acquired by Mirantis in 2016). Jakub and his team worked for several years on the IaaS cloud platform based on the OpenStack-Salt, Kubernetes, and Open Contrail projects, which they deployed and operated for global service providers. Leveraging his skills in architecture, implementation, and operation, his TCP Cloud team was acquired by #1 pure play OpenStack company Mirantis. Currently a director of engineering, together with other skilled professionals, Jakub builds and operates a new generation of edge-computing platforms at Volterra Inc. He is also an enthusiast of Linux OS, ice hockey (with Pepa), and films, and loves his wife, Hanulka.