Author • Speaker • Instructor

Christian Hernandez

Technical Marketing Engineer

Christian is a Technical Marketing Engineer and Tech Lead at Isovalent, now part of Cisco. He is a well rounded technologist with experience in infrastructure engineering, systems administration, enterprise architecture, tech support, advocacy, and product management. Passionate about OpenSource and containerizing the world one application at a time. He is currently a maintainer of the Argo Project and OpenGitOps. He focuses on GitOps practices, DevOps, Kubernetes, Network Security, and Containers. On his free time, he plays guitar, travels, and you can catch him touring wineries in California.

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Debugging Kubernetes HTTP Drops with Isopcap | Technical Demo

In this demo, Christian Hernandez goes through how to use Isopcap to investigate an app team’s report that the shop service is dropping HTTP requests and seeing latency spikes.

Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

What Is Cilium?

Learn what Cilium is, how it uses eBPF to power Kubernetes networking, security, and observability, and why organizations choose it for modern cloud-native infrastructure.

Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

Security Summer School: Session 1

AI is moving fast, is your IT keeping up? Level up your defenses and join our Summer School, a three-part interactive series designed to take you step-by-step through securing your IT: lock down your hosts, neutralize advanced malware, and keep your AI agents on a tight leash.

Raphaël Pinson, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Nico Vibert, Principal Technical Marketing Engineer
Jeremy Colvin, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

Simplifying Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Networking with Isovalent Enterprise

Build resilient multi-cluster Kubernetes environments without overhead. Learn how Isovalent Enterprise simplifies cross-cluster networking with seamless service discovery, high availability, and consistent policy enforcement.

Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

Hubble Timescape Authentication using OpenShift | Technical Demo

In this video, Christian Hernandez walk through how to integrate Hubble Timescape with OpenShift authentication using Dex.

Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

Secure Multitenancy with OpenShift and Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes

OpenShift has long treated multitenancy as a core platform concern and in this blog we explore how Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes fits perfectly in this model!

Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

5 Things you didn’t know about Cilium Network Polices

Not all CNIs are created equal, and many assume that CiliumNetworkPolicies are the same as standard Kubernetes NetworkPolicies. At first glance, they can look similar. In this blog, we'll go over the top 5 things you may not know about Cilium Network Policies.

Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

The Networking Deep Dive Finale: Outplay the Experts in eBPF & Cilium

Attend all 3 for a chance to win an Isovalent Swag Box 🎁

Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer

KubeCon Europe 2026 Wrap-Up

KubeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam felt less like a conference focused on Kubernetes and more like a glimpse into where the cloud native ecosystem is heading next. The conversations have shifted, and Kubernetes itself is no longer the main attraction. Instead, the focus has moved to the workloads running on top of it. In this wrap-up blog, we'll take you through all the great things that happened!

Christian Hernandez, Technical Marketing Engineer
Donia Chaiehloudj, Software Engineer and Community
Mahé Tardy
Duffie Cooley, Field CTO Isovalent & CNCF Ambassador
Katie Meinders, Community Builder

From Static Rules to Dynamic Intent: Network Policy with Cilium matchExpressions

Are Kubernetes NetworkPolicies enough? NetworkPolicies are the built-in mechanism in Kubernetes for controlling traffic but only operate at Layer 3 and Layer 4. In this blog we'll go over how Cilium gives you networking control to Layer 7 and beyond!