Joe Beda

Joe Beda

Co-founder and CTO at Stacklok
Seattle, Washington, United States

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.

  • Stacklok logo
    Stacklok Co-founder and CTO 2026–present · current
  • VMware Principal Engineer 2018–2022 · past
  • Heptio logo
    Heptio Executive Officer, Director, Promoter 2016–2018, Founder and CTO 2016–2018 · past
  • Shippable Advisor 2016–2018 · past
  • Split Software Advisor 2016–2020 · past
  • Accel Partners Entrepreneur in Residence 2015–2016 · past
  • CoreOS Advisor 2015–2016 · past
  • Google Senior Staff Software Engineer 2004–2015 · past
  • Microsoft Software Engineer Lead 1997–2004 · past

Education

  • Harvey Mudd College Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science · 1993–1997
  • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy High School · 1990–1993

Organizations

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  • Stacklok logo
    Stacklok Co-founder and CTO 2026–present · current
  • VMware Principal Engineer 2018–2022 · past
  • Heptio logo
    Heptio Executive Officer, Director, Promoter 2016–2018, Founder and CTO 2016–2018 · past

Education

  • Harvey Mudd College Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science · 1993–1997
  • Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy High School · 1990–1993

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