VII · Modern builders
Joe Beda · Brendan Burns · Craig McLuckie
2014–
Co-creators of Kubernetes at Google · Heptio · VMware · Microsoft
Gave us
Kubernetes (2014). Took everything Google had learned about Borg over a decade, redesigned it to be open-source, declarative, and CRD-extensible, and gave it away. Re-shaped what "infrastructure" means at most engineering orgs.
The story
Three engineers at Google in 2013, an internal pitch deck called "Project 7" (after Star Trek's Seven of Nine — the friendliest Borg), and a bet that the industry would eventually want this. Open-sourced 1.0 in 2015. By 2020 it was the second-largest open-source project on Earth.
One more thing
The codename was a Star Trek reference. It still is.