Joe Beda is a Senior Staff Software Engineer working to help define and develop compute related products for Google's Cloud Platform. Joe is the founding engineer for Google Compute Engine and is currently working on Kubernetes, an open source container management service. Before working on Cloud, Joe provided keyword suggestions to Google Advertisers, helped build plumbing for VoIP/PSTN and was a very early member of Google Talk/Hangouts. Previous to Google, Joe worked at Microsoft working on client UI frameworks (WPF graphics) and Internet Explorer (IE 4 through 6).Joe holds a B.S. from Harvey Mudd College. He lives and works in Seattle with his wife and two kids. He theoretically enjoys photography when life doesn't get in the way.