Jay Schmidt is a senior technical leader passionate about empowering teams through containerization, observability, and thoughtful infrastructure design.At Oxide Computer Company, Jay focuses on customer enablement, supportability, documentation, and tooling—helping users unlock the full potential of Oxide’s integrated rack-scale systems.

Before joining Oxide, Jay worked at Docker, where he led customer workshops (including with the DoD), created and delivered onboarding programs, and authored a widely-read blog series breaking down the fundamentals of container technology. Prior to that, he was the primary maintainer of the Modern Applications Reference Architecture (MARA) at NGINX, which focused on building an example production-grade Kubernetes stack and writing extensively about NGINX, observability, and open-source best practices.

Jay holds a Master’s in Organizational Leadership and regularly speaks at conferences including NGINX Sprint, OpenTelemetry Day, and Gluecon. He writes at jayschmidt.us about leadership, infrastructure, and the human side of systems engineering.

Website: https://jayschmidt.us