Buoyant is a Cloud service that automates, maintains, and monitors your open source Linkerd deployment, right on your very own clusters. Buoyant created Linkerd in 2015 and have been the primary maintainers and contributors ever since. They have been investing in the open source Linkerd project and the community around it since the beginning of the project, and are committed to a healthy and engaged open source community and project.
Buoyant coined the term "service mesh" when it contributed Linkerd to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2016, as the fifth-ever project accepted by the foundation. Since then, Linkerd has been a pillar of the CNCF ecosystem. In 2019, Linkerd became is a graduated project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a reflection of its maturity and broad impact across the entire cloud native ecosystem.

I joined the team in 2021 as a design consultant and I have been working with the company since then.