Mission

Hedgehog is an open source software company dedicated to giving Cloud Native application owners the ability to deploy workloads on edge compute and distributed cloud infrastructure with the same procurement power and automated operations that power the public cloud.

Founders

Marc Austin

CEO

Marc is a serial entrepreneur. He previously founded mobile application platform GoCanvas, and a mobile ride-sharing business 7 years ahead of its time called Mobiquity. Marc has also built successful businesses as an executive at Jasper (acquired by Cisco), Amazon (Whispercast), Infoseek (acquired by Disney) and Internet Shopping Network (acquired by IAC).

Mike Dvorkin

CTO

Distinguished Engineer at Cisco.  Father of Intent-Based Networking. Software defined datacenter pioneer. Co-founder at Insieme (acqd by Cisco in 2013) Cisco’s automated data center fabric products (ACI – Application Centric Infrastructure).

Sergei Lukianov

Founding Engineer

Director of Engineering and Architect at Mirantis. Creator and product owner for Mirantis Container Cloud (infrastructure agnostic full stack Kubernetes-as-a-Service). 15+ yrs engineering and distributed systems design experience (GoLang, Java, Python, Rust). OSS enthusiast, contributed to Kubernetes, NixOS, Kotlin, and OpenStack.

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