Ben Hale is the Technical Lead for the Tanzu Application Platform at VMware. Ben has long worked in open source communities including being a long-time member of the Spring team and founding the Cloud Native Buildpacks (CNB, Cloud Native Computing Foundation), Service Binding for Kubernetes Specification, and Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC, Reactive Foundation) projects. In what little spare time he has left, Ben loves riding his bike, especially in the high mountains of the Italian Dolomites.
