Phil Estes is a Distinguished Engineer in the office of the CTO for the IBM Cloud Platform, guiding IBM’s architecture strategy around containers and Linux.

Phil is a core contributor and maintainer on the Docker engine project where he has contributed key features like user namespace support and multi-platform image capabilities. Phil is also a founding maintainer of the CNCF containerd runtime project, and participates in the Open Container Initiative (OCI) as a member of the Technical Oversight Board (TOB).

Phil enjoys helping others, both internally at IBM and externally with customers and conference participants, to understand and apply container and cloud native concepts. Phil speaks worldwide at industry conferences and meetups, and is a member of the Docker Captains program. He maintains an active blog on container topics at https://integratedcode.us and you can find him on Twitter tweeting away as @estesp.