Abdel Sghiouar is a senior Cloud Developer Advocate at @Google Cloud. A co-host of the Kubernetes Podcast by Google and a CNCF Ambassador. His focused areas are GKE/Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and Serverless. Abdel started his career in data centers and infrastructure in Morocco, where he is originally from, before moving to Google's largest EU data center in Belgium. Then, in Sweden, he joined Google Cloud Professional Services. He spent five years working with Google Cloud customers on architecting and designing large-scale distributed systems before turning to advocacy and community work.