Serial founder, investor, and open source leader with a deep passion for distributed systems, security, and platform engineering.
I’ve spent my career building companies and open source communities that reshape how enterprises operate — from network monitoring to cloud-native security to the next generation of WebAssembly-based platforms.
- 🛰 Bro / Zeek — Early contributor / dev rel / training; Founder & CEO, Broala (now Corelight)
- ☸️ Kubernetes — Founder, Critical Stack (first Kubernetes-focused company, acquired by Capital One)
- ☁️ Cloud Custodian — Drove donation into CNCF while at Capital One; later Investor, Stacklet
- 🔍 OSQuery — Led the seed investment in Kolide with @mephux, aka Dustin Webber, (acquired by 1Password)
- 🛡 Horizon3.ai — seed investor
- 🧩 CNCF wasmCloud — Co-creator of the wasmCloud project (now a CNCF Incubating project)
- 🌌 Cosmonic — Founder & CEO, building platform engineering tools for WebAssembly
- 🏆 WasmCon — Founder & Chair, created CNCF’s flagship WebAssembly conference
- 🎤 CNCF Wasm Day — Founder & Chair, launched the first CNCF event dedicated to WebAssembly
- 🌐 CNCF Ambassador — Served as a recognized community leader and advocate for open source cloud-native technologies
- 🚀 Project Stewardship — Played a key role in guiding three unique CNCF projects from early adoption toward incubation and growth
Leading Cosmonic — reinventing platform engineering for the age of WebAssembly.
Working closely with Bailey Hayes (Cosmonic CTO & CNCF wasmCloud co-creator) to make WebAssembly Components a first-class tool for enterprise software teams.
After hands-on experience in large-scale network monitoring and distributed security, I’ve moved upstream to focus on software architecture — solving the root cause of operational complexity.
I care deeply about open source, community, standards, and security and invest in the people and companies shaping the future of enterprise software.
- 💼 LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/liamrandall
- 🐦 Twitter / X — @Hectaman
- 🌐 Bluesky — liamrandall.bsky.social
- 💻 GitHub — github.com/liamrandall
I speak regularly on platform engineering, WebAssembly, and the future of cloud computing:
- Golden Template: The Original Sin of Platform Engineering — KubeCon EU 2025 (Preview)
- Keynote: Bringing WebAssembly to Platform Engineering — CNCF wasmCon
- WebAssembly & the Next Epoch of Software Architecture
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