John McBride

CTO, Paper Compute Co.

John McBride is CTO of Paper Compute Co. He was previously Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI at OpenSauced. He has an extensive background working with backend technologies including Linux Technologies at AWS, Kubernetes at VMware, and Cloud Foundry...

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AI Observability

Continuous validation and production monitoring for AI systems. Covers the unique challenges of observing non-deterministic outputs, bridging technical and business metrics, and connecting observability data to code and user experience. Drawn from practitioners at Deepchecks, PlayerZero, and others.

Shir Chorev, Animesh Koratana, Hamel Husain, Phillip Carter, Liz Fong-Jones, Kent Beck, Dr. Cat Hicks, Brooke Hopkins, Adam Hevenor, Dani Grant, Ivan Burazin, Raza Habib, Jessica Kerr, Janaki Vivrekar, Ken Rimple, Ray Myers, Michael Stonebraker, Chris Karani, Mikyo King, Brian Douglas, John McBride

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Software Supply Chain Security

Securing the software supply chain from code signing to distribution. Covers provenance, dependency tracking, container image hardening, open source risk management, and the gap between corporate security tooling and open source ecosystems. Drawn from practitioners at Chainguard, Snyk, and others.

Dan Lorenc, Justin Cappos, Grant Miller, Marc Campbell, Rami Sass, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Kyle Quest, John Amaral, Jeff McAffer, Simon Bennett, Alex Gaynor, Dante Lex, Brian Behlendorf, Graham Christensen, John McBride

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Kubernetes & Cloud Native

Kubernetes and cloud-native architecture, platforms, and operations. Covers GitOps, service mesh, observability, security, chaos engineering, developer experience, and scaling patterns. Drawn from practitioners at Google, AWS, Red Hat, CNCF, Honeycomb, and others.