Alex Polvi

Founder & CEO

Co-founder and CEO of CoreOS. Previously founded Cloudkick, a cloud server monitoring company acquired by Rackspace. Grew up in Amity, Oregon, and studied computer science at Oregon State University, where he was the first student system administrator at the Open Source Lab. Founding member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and the Open Container Initiative.

Overview

Companies
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Founder & CEO

Companies

1 company
CoreOS $48M
Acquired Founder & CEO

CoreOS developed Container Linux, a lightweight Linux-based operating system designed for massive server deployments, along with key container infrastructure tools including etcd, rkt, and the Tectonic Kubernetes platform. Founded through Y Combinator (S13), the company built open source infrastructure to enable Google-scale operations for any organization. CoreOS was a founding member of both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Acquired by Red Hat in January 2018 for $250 million.

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