Written By Todd Ekenstam Principal Engineer

Todd Ekenstam is a Principal Engineer at Intuit, where his job is making infrastructure disappear for the people building on it. He architects IKS AIR, a declarative runtime that hides cluster complexity from product teams, and is currently focused on AI-native platform engineering with agentic tooling on MCP. He co-authored "GitOps and Kubernetes" (Manning) and served as co-chair of the CNCF Developer Experience/End-User SIG.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tekenstam/

The Developer Experience Problem with Kubernetes at Scale