Ian Coldwater
Ian Coldwater is an American computer security specialist and speaker specializing in Kubernetes and cloud native security. They are a security architect at Twilio, and they co-chair the Kubernetes special interest group, Kubernetes SIG Security. Career. Coldwater started working in tech in their thirties, originally starting in DevOps before focusing on security. They began specializing in hacking and hardening Kubernetes containers, working as an independent penetration tester before joining Heroku as a lead platform security engineer. As of 2021, they work as a security architect at Twilio. Along with Tabitha Sable, they co-chair the Kubernetes special  interest group, Kubernetes SIG Security. They are also on the governing board of the Open Source Security Foundation. Coldwater has spoken at conferences including DEF CON, Black Hat, KubeCon and CloudNativeCon, RSA Conference, Velocity, and devopsdays. In 2020, they received the "Top Ambassador" award from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation for spreading interest in the area. In 2021, Coldwater, with expertise from Chad Rikansrud, became the first person in history to escape a container on a mainframe. Personal life. Coldwater lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.