About Jan-Otto Kröpke

I’m Jan-Otto Kröpke, a Principal Cloud Architect focused on Kubernetes, cloud-native infrastructure, observability, platform engineering, and open source.

I use this blog to share technical notes, experiments, lessons learned, and first-hand experience from the systems and projects I work with.

FAQ

Who is Joe?

Joe comes from Jan-Otto. I took the J from Jan and the O from Otto, and eventually canonicalized it to Joe.

It is the short name I commonly use online and in everyday communication.

You can find my open-source work on GitHub and my professional profile on LinkedIn.