Solomon Hykes

b. 1983, France · Founder of dotCloud and Docker Inc; creator of Docker and Dagger

Also known as: Hykes

Solomon Hykes demonstrated the first public version of Docker at PyCon 2013. Docker packaged existing Linux kernel features (namespaces, cgroups, union filesystems) behind a developer-facing toolchain, and within two years nearly every major cloud provider offered container services built on Linux.

He founded dotCloud in 2010, pivoted it to Docker Inc. in 2013, and open-sourced the engine.