Craig McLuckie
Craig McLuckie is Founder and CEO at Stacklok and serves as Executive Officer and Director at Stacklok, Inc. He previously founded Heptio, which he has since left, and is recognized for expertise in founding and leading technology startups, cloud computing, and enterprise systems.
The Best Infrastructure Moment Since Cloud
Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie co-created Kubernetes, the infrastructure standard that became the default for cloud native computing. Now running Stacklok, they're watching enterprises hit the same identity, permissions, and security problems with AI agents that took the container ecosystem years to resolve, and they're building tools to compress that timeline. In this episode of Founded & Funded, Madrona's Tim Porter sits down with Joe and Craig to talk through what AI adoption actually requires: why MCP is the Docker moment for AI-native applications, how the LLM gateway is becoming a strategic chokepoint for cost, safety, and model flexibility, and…
Organizations
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Stacklok Executive Officer, Director 2023–present, Founder and CEO 2023–present · current
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Accel Entrepreneur In Residence 2022–2023 · past
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VMware Vice President R&D 2018–2022 · past
Education
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University of Cape Town Masters of Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering · 1991–1999
