Ep 42 .tech - Building and maintaining External Secrets Operator

<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/moritz-johner/">Moritz Johner</a> is a Senior Software Engineer at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/form3-financial-cloud">Form3</a>. He has roughly 10 years experience in the tech industry. He comes from a non-conventional background, having studied Media Technology in University. He has worked in a variety of industries, including web agencies, startups and consulting. He is also a <a href="https://training.linuxfoundation.org/?s=kubernetes">Linux Foundation trainer for Kubernetes</a>. He joined Form3 a year ago and works on providing cloud agnostic Kubernetes experience for product teams. </p><p>Moritz's journey into open-source began in 2018 when he was working in consulting and had to build a Kubernetes platform that would work across AWS accounts. Most projects did not support assuming a role in another AWS account, so Moritz contributed this functionality to the various OSS projects he was using. Eventually, Moritz provided this same feature to <a href="https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets">kubernetes-external-secrets</a> which was the de-facto secrets synching solution at the time. He then gradually became more involved in this project and helped take on the work of merging multiple secrets solutions together.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-alves-knela/">Lucas Severo Alves</a> is a Software Engineer at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/red-hat/">RedHat</a>, focusing on open-source. He has a background in DevOps, SRE and system administration. His introduction to open-source was also on the <a href="https://github.com/external-secrets/kubernetes-external-secrets">kubernetes-external-secrets</a> project that Moritz was working on. He was excited to focus on a single solution for managing secrets across platforms, which is something that he was focused on as part of his role.</p><p>Our  .tech series invites guests inside and outside of Form3, discussing current trends in the engineering world alongside shedd