Kelsey Hightower

And so at CoreOS, we reached this peak.

I felt like I've done everything I've ever wanted to do

In the tech industry from 1999 to being unsure of myself, to seeing myself on the side of museum buildings, full landscape view, because people are coming to see what I think about where technology is actually going.

And so it comes full circle.

You get a bit of taste of the fame.

You can look at GitHub and you meet people.

We use your libraries.

We've used your command line tools.

I started my career, like some people were not even born when I graduated high school and they started their careers from those books.

And so I felt at the time that I had come full circle and I was starting to think about the exit.

Part of that journey, I remember spending time with Jet Propulsion Labs, JPL, part of NASA.

And I remember being there and I was so excited because the movie The Martian had just wrapped up filming there.

And they gave me a tour of the facility, like the Mars rover, the new one before they launched it to Mars.

They were QA and it was just going in a circle around the track.

And I'm like, I had a little laser on there so I can split rocks.

And they were showing me how they improved the wheels over time.

I went to another lab and there were a bunch of scientists working in there.

And it looked like a fish tank.

And I described it that way.

It's like, yeah, we determined that if you want to replicate parts of Mars' surface, and I might be getting this wrong, that the rocks that you find in a fish tank, we can replicate some of this stuff.