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Ronald Petty is a consultant at RX-M, a global cloud native advisory and artificial intelligence training firm in the founding classes of Kubernetes Certified Service Providers (KCSP) and Kubernetes Training Providers (KTP). He has consulted, developed, and trained across many domains including academic research, government, high-tech, finance, and energy. Ronald has also worked as CTO/advisor. In addition, he authors and edits technical material around programming languages and software development techniques. He participated in the creation of CKA and CKAD certification exams. He is chair of the SF Bay Area Internet Society and volunteer member of the SF Bay Area ACM and IEEE.