Brandon Philips

Founder

Co-founder and CTO of CoreOS. Former Linux kernel developer at SUSE, working on the operating system that ran many of the world's largest supercomputers. First student developer at Oregon State University's Open Source Lab. Key contributor to etcd, Kubernetes, and the container ecosystem.

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Companies

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CoreOS $48M
Acquired Founder

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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