In today's episode of the We Chat Tech Podcast, Vytas Jelinskas and Ben Whitmarsh chat with Steve Wade about all things cloud-native, Kubernetes, his journey, work-life balance, contracting, and more.

Steve Wade was one of the founding engineers at KSOC, a Kubernetes security startup. Before this, Steve held Platform leadership roles at UnderWrite Me and Mettle. During these roles, he leveraged the concept of GitOps to provide self-service platforms to developers. He has also provided Kubernetes consultancy and training worldwide as a Consultant at Apprenda. Steve has held leadership roles in many verticals, including real estate, gaming, and the UK parliament. Steve has a BSc in Computer Science and is passionate about cloud-native software development and distributed computing. Please follow our podcast for more episodes weekly on Mondays!

Steve's socials can be found on the links below - https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevendavidwade https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-cloud-native-club https://x.com/cloudnativeclub https://www.youtube.com/@thecloudnativeclub

Vytas' socials - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vytasdevops/

Ben's socials - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benwhitmarsh/

DevOps Society LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-society/