Vladimir Mikhalev

Vladimir Mikhalev is a Docker Captain, IBM Champion, AWS Community Builder, and Platform Engineering Ambassador with over 20 years of enterprise infrastructure experience across Amazon, IBM, and Thales. He currently serves as sole technology leader for North American operations at a Series D enterprise serving Fortune 500 clients, where he built a custom AI augmented ITSM platform consolidating 6 legacy systems for 400+ personnel. Vladimir is the Technical Editor of "Docker and Kubernetes Security" (2025) and a regular contributor to Docker's official blog. He publishes production frameworks on container orchestration, zero trust governance, and Internal Developer Platforms - including his Platform Engineering blog post "Golden Cage Syndrome: Why 80% of Internal Developer Platforms Fail." He maintains 50+ open-source Docker Compose blueprints on GitHub with 500,000+ Docker Hub pulls