Joe Beda
Joe Beda is the co-founder and CTO at Stacklok. He previously founded Heptio, which was acquired, and has held senior engineering roles at Google and Microsoft. His expertise includes AI agent infrastructure, cloud computing, and workload identity.
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
See all 9
Education
-
Harvey Mudd College Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science · 1993–1997
-
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy High School · 1990–1993
