Author • Speaker • Instructor

Dean Lewis

Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Dean Lewis is a Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Isovalent - the company behind the open-source cloud native solution Cilium. Dean had a varied background working in the technology fields, from support to operations to architectural design and delivery at IT Solutions Providers based in the UK, before moving to VMware and focusing on cloud management and cloud native, which remains as his primary focus. You can find Dean in the past and present speaking at various Technology User Groups and Industry Conferences, as well as his personal blog.

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A refreshed Network Policy Editor website and two new VS Code extensions

Meet the refreshed Network Policy Editor and two new VS Code plugins.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

PHP2Shell: Limiting the impact of PHP exploits with Tetragon

Limit PHP2Shell’s impact with Tetragon’s eBPF runtime enforcement.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

From VIPs to Multi-Cluster Backends: Isovalent Load Balancer Workshop

See how Isovalent Load Balancer delivers traffic across Kubernetes environments, and put it to work in the lab. You’ll configure application delivery from L3/L4 VIPs to HTTP, TLS, BGP, and multi-cluster backends, with a brief product update covering the latest capabilities in Load Balancer 1.19.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes 1.19: BGP Route Import, Policy Tiers, and Timescape enhancements

Learn about the latest Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes 1.19 release

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Isovalent Enterprise Platform 26.05: Bringing Kubernetes, VMs, and Load Balancing Into One Operating Model

Learn all about Isovalent Enterprise Platform 26.05

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Splunk and Isovalent Runtime Security: Protecting the Platform Behind Splunk

Splunk uses Isovalent Runtime Security, built on Tetragon, to protect its customer facing platform.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Isovalent eBee Quest London

Our Isovalent eBee Quest is coming to London! Join us for a hands-on lab experience guided by our experts. Enjoy some good food, great conversations & level up your cloud-native expertise!

  • Liz Rice, Chief Open Source Officer

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Multi AZ by Default, Local by Design: Cut Cross Zone Traffic Costs with Cilium

Learn how to run resilient multi AZ Kubernetes clusters while keeping traffic local, reducing cross zone costs and improving performance with Cilium.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

OpenAI Uses Isovalent for a Common Networking for AI Infrastructure

OpenAI uses Isovalent Networking for Kubernetes, built on Cilium, for consistent networking, policy, and troubleshooting across AI infrastructure.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

From Tickets to Pull Requests: Running Cilium in a GitOps Platform

Run Cilium as a GitOps platform: use Argo CD, Kyverno, and isopolicy CI.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

Being Successful Moving from Legacy Hypervisors to Cloud Native Platforms

Learn how Kubernetes, KubeVirt, and Isovalent Network Bridge make VM migrations easier by preserving network identity and connectivity. See practical strategies and live demos to reduce downtime and operational friction.

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer

  • Dan Finneran, Principal Community Advocate

Isovalent Networking for Virtualization: migrate VMs without breaking the network

Isovalent Networking for Virtualization removes the pain of VM migration!

  • Dean Lewis, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer