Speaker - Jacob Taylor

Jake is a senior network engineer at Canva with over eight years of experience in the field. He currently yells at Bazel a lot and occasionally builds network infrastructure. He's also an avid developer, having contributed to open-source projects such as Envoy. Having worked at organisations such as NTT, AWS, and Atlassian, he has been exposed to a variety of different networks and codebases. His areas of expertise include routing, application delivery, and edge computing. He also has experience in the compute space, with a background in traditional system administration and more recent experience with container technologies and Kubernetes. When he’s not looking at a computer, you can find him shooting arrows, cooking, walking, playing video games, and making soap.