Serial founder, investor, and open source leader with a deep passion for distributed systems, security, and platform engineering.
I’ve spent my career building companies and open source communities that reshape how enterprises operate — from network monitoring to cloud-native security to the next generation of WebAssembly-based platforms.

• 🌌 Cosmonic — Founder & CEO, building platform engineering tools for WebAssembly
• 🧩 CNCF wasmCloud — Co-creator of the wasmCloud project (now a CNCF Incubating project)
• 🛡 Horizon3.ai — seed investor
• 🔍 OSQuery — Led the seed investment in Kolide with @mephux, aka Dustin Webber, (acquired by 1Password)
• ☁️ Cloud Custodian — Drove donation into CNCF while at Capital One; later Investor, Stacklet
• ☸️ Kubernetes — Founder, Critical Stack (first Kubernetes-focused company, acquired by Capital One)
• 🛰 Bro / Zeek — Early contributor / dev rel / training; Founder & CEO, Broala (now Corelight)
• ♻️ Commodities Brokerage - Managed a team of folks building a B2B commodities brokerage; doing around 120M a year on the internet in ~2,000; acquired by IDSA.
• 🔗 Network Engineer, Xavier University - You'd maybe call it devops today, but I wrote utilities for managing large fleets of workstations (~6,000) while working on my CS degree

• 🏆 WasmCon — Founder & Chair, created CNCF’s flagship WebAssembly conference
• 🎤 CNCF Wasm Day — Founder & Chair, launched the first CNCF event dedicated to WebAssembly
• 🌐 CNCF Ambassador — Served as a recognized community leader and advocate for open source cloud-native technologies
• 🚀 Project Stewardship — Played a key role in guiding three unique CNCF projects from early adoption toward incubation and growth

Leading Cosmonic — reinventing platform engineering for the age of WebAssembly.
Working closely with Bailey Hayes (Cosmonic CTO & CNCF wasmCloud co-creator) to make WebAssembly Components a first-class tool for enterprise software teams.

After hands-on experience in large-scale network monitoring and distributed security, I’ve moved upstream to focus on software architecture — solving the root cause of operational complexity.
I care deeply about open source, community, standards, and security and invest in the people and companies shaping the future of enterprise software.

• 💼 LinkedIn — linkedin.com/in/liamrandall
• 🐦 Twitter / X — @Hectaman
• 🌐 Bluesky — liamrandall.bsky.social
• 💻 GitHub — github.com/liamrandall

I speak regularly on platform engineering, WebAssembly, and the future of cloud computing:

• Golden Template: The Original Sin of Platform Engineering — KubeCon EU 2025 (Preview)
• Keynote: Bringing WebAssembly to Platform Engineering — CNCF wasmCon
• WebAssembly & the Next Epoch of Software Architecture

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