Jorge O. Castro currently works at Unusual where he helps to support and advance the needs of startup founders working in Open Source.

Jorge graduated with a degree in Telecommunications from Michigan State University and rode with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment for four years. He first entered the technology field at SAIC and then moved to system administration at the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Jorge then joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu for about 10 years before moving to Heptio to work on Kubernetes. Heptio was then acquired by VMware in December 2018.

He now resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his lovely wife Jill, their son Rafael, and their beagle Oscar.

Hobbies and interests include heavy metal, paleontology, gaming, helping run the Orchestructure meetup, technology, and scouting out the best beers in the world.

This bio written in the third person so I can reuse it for talks and publications, I don't actually talk like this, though it would be awesome if I did.

Past Speaking Events

I love to talk and interact with different communities! I have presented at the following conferences:

Other Stuff

I've been fortunate enough to work with many incredible open source people over the years:

Heptiles

Ubunteros

Jujufolk

.. and the Horsemen