Kelsey Hightower is a strong open source advocate focused on building simple tools that make people smile.
As a curious and motivated self-learner, Hightower dropped out of College and taught himself the skills required to start his career as an independent contractor for BellSouth – a telecoms company in Atlanta helping the community to get online. From there, Hightower set up his own business – an electronics store before becoming involved in the open source world, working at New Relic, CoreOS, Puppet Labs, and most recently at Google.
Hightower has worn every hat possible throughout his career in tech and enjoys leadership roles focused on making things happen and shipping software.