Billy Thompson is a Solutions Engineering Manager on Akamai, Linode Compute helping customers design portable architectures, and deploy them at scale for technical and business teams. Billy holds a degree in information security, and has a special interest in IaC, Kubernetes, Big Data engineering, Python and Rust programming languages. He is longtime Arch Linux user and Vegan, and never knows which to tell people first. Outside of work he studies Jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai, and Boxing. He also volunteers his home for fostering and acclimating rescue dogs.