Hi, I'm

Mike Petersen

Staff Technical Engagement Engineer

@ Crusoe · Vancouver, WA

Available for virtual talks, livestreams & podcasts
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01. About

I'm a Staff Technical Engagement Engineer focused on cloud infrastructure and AI/ML workloads. At Crusoe, I work to help engineers understand and adopt purpose-built cloud compute optimized for AI — bridging the gap between technical teams and platform capabilities.

Previously at loft-sh, I did technical marketing for vCluster — the open-source virtual Kubernetes cluster project — building demos, tutorials, and content for the CNCF ecosystem including Knative, DevPod, and DevSpace.

Based in Vancouver, WA. Active GitHub contributor since 2012.

38+ Public Repos
14+ Years on GitHub
CNCF Ecosystem

02. Experience

Staff Technical Engagement Engineer

Mar 2026 – Present

Crusoe, Hybrid

  • Drive technical engagement and enablement for Crusoe's AI-optimized cloud platform
  • Build demos, tutorials, and technical content for cloud-native and AI/ML audiences
  • Partner with engineering and go-to-market teams to communicate platform capabilities

Technical Marketing Engineer

Feb 2023 – Mar 2026

vCluster Labs, Remote

  • Drove technical marketing for vCluster, the leading open-source virtual Kubernetes cluster solution
  • Created demos, tutorials, blog posts, and video content for cloud-native audiences
  • Contributed to CNCF ecosystem projects including Knative, DevPod, and DevSpace

Technical Marketing Engineer

Apr 2021 – Feb 2023

Platform9, Remote

  • Created content around the Platform9 Kubernetes product including blogs, documentation, webinars, and demos
  • Helped new users get up to speed on the product through hands-on technical content

Developer Advocate

Jul 2017 – Feb 2021

IBM, Remote

  • Managed the IBM Developer Cloud Account and contributed to open source projects including Knative and Tekton
  • Created demos and content to help developers get up to speed on IBM Kubernetes Service and OpenShift

Senior OpenStack Operations Engineer

Apr 2014 – Jul 2017

Mirantis, Remote

  • Helped customers troubleshoot and resolve issues in their OpenStack environments
  • Served as an escalation point for the tier 1 team and helped train the original US-based OpenStack Operations team

03. Videos

Coming Soon

Crusoe Cloud Video

vCluster Auto Nodes - Proxmox
11 min

vCluster Auto Nodes with Proxmox

Automatically scale virtual clusters with Karpenter and Terraform on Proxmox bare metal.

Kubernetes · vCluster · Terraform
Ollama on Kubernetes
6 min

Ollama on Kubernetes

Deploy Ollama with GPU acceleration inside isolated vClusters — multi-tenant LLM workloads.

AI/ML · GPU · vCluster
MetalLB on Kubernetes
6 min

MetalLB — LoadBalancer for Kubernetes

Configure MetalLB, deploy NGINX ingress, and run a virtual cluster on bare metal.

Kubernetes · MetalLB · Networking

04. Projects

Go

vCluster

Virtual Kubernetes clusters — run fully functional k8s clusters inside namespaces of a host cluster.

KubernetesCNCFGo
Go

DevPod

Client-only tool to create reproducible developer environments based on devcontainer.json — works anywhere.

DevContainersGoDev Environments
Docs

Knative

Contributed to Knative docs and CLI — serverless workloads on Kubernetes made accessible.

KnativeServerlessCNCF

05. Skills

Platform & Orchestration

Kubernetes OpenStack vCluster Helm Flux ArgoCD Knative NVIDIA GPU Operator Linux Virtualization Containers Distributed Systems Baremetal Edge On Prem

Developer Tools

DevPod Docker GitHub Actions Terraform

Languages & Frameworks

Go Python Bash YAML HTML/CSS

AI Tools

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Content & Community

CNCF Open Source Technical Writing Developer Relations Webinars Training Video Creation Livestreaming Podcasting

06. Contact

Find me on social — I'm always happy to chat about cloud infrastructure, AI/ML, Kubernetes, or virtual talks and podcast appearances.

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