Max is Founder and Cloud Native Advocate at Liquid Reply. He is Co-Chair of the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group, CNCF Ambassador, Linux Foundation Europe Advisory Board inaugural member and served 3 years at the Kubernetes release team. In his work he supports and advice enterprises on Open Source matters, how to build an open source strategy and how to contribute to projects. He focuses on designing and building cloud-native solutions on/with Kubernetes anywhere and platform engineering to simplify the current challenges of complex systems. Besides, Max organizes Kubernetes Community Days in Munich & Ukraine, and Kubernetes/Cloud Native Meetups in Munich.