In this episode of the Kubernetes for Humans podcast, tech veteran Dave Aronchick shares his incredible journey from leading the Kubernetes and GKE projects at Google to co-founding Kubeflow and his current venture, Expanso.

Dave takes us back to the foundational days of Kubernetes, revealing how Google navigated the open-source landscape to establish it as an industry standard without relying on proprietary lock-ins. He then dives into his current mission of "shifting left," explaining why the massive explosion of data and physical network constraints necessitate running compute jobs directly at the edge—whether on remote solar panels or in active mines, to filter and process information before it ever moves.