Michael Cieplak is a Software Engineer working in the Core Infrastructure team at Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo). He is part of the team which works on modernizing the tech stack through Kubernetes/Istio and works on a variety of products ranging from ingress routing components to container identity workflows. Before working at Verizon Media, Michael completed his computer science B.S. degree at the University of California, San Diego. He was a speaker at Service Mesh Day 2019.