Abby Kearns

Jit, a startup that helps developers automate product security by codifying their security plans and workflows as code that can then be managed in a code repository like GitHub, today…

Security-as-code startup Jit comes out of stealth with $38.5M in seed funding

Over the course of the last decade or so, open source changed dramatically. What was once mostly a philosophical discussion about cathedrals, bazaars and the evils of Microsoft — which…

SaaS’ future will be open sourced

TechCrunch Sessions is back! On October 27, we’re taking on the ferociously competitive field of software as a service (SaaS), and we’re thrilled to announce our final packed agenda, overflowing…

Announcing the final agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: SaaS 2021

All good things must come to an end, and this proverb totally applies to our early-bird price on passes to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021. Today’s the final day you can…

Last day for early-bird savings on TC Sessions: SaaS 2021

TechCrunch Sessions is back! On October 27, we’re taking on the ferociously competitive field of software as a service (SaaS), and we’re thrilled to announce our packed agenda, overflowing with…

Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: SaaS

UiPath came seemingly out of nowhere in the last several years, going public last year in a successful IPO during which it raised more than $527 million. It raised $2…

UiPath CEO Daniel Dines is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to talk RPA and automation

If you’re a current student or a recent grad with a burning passion for data, software and artificial intelligence, we want you to join us on October 27 for TC…

Affordable student passes available for TC Sessions: SaaS 2021

As the use of AI has grown and developed over the last several years, companies like Salesforce have tried to tap into it to improve their software and help customers…

Salesforce’s Kathy Baxter is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS to talk AI

In a normal year, the Cloud Foundry project would be hosting its annual European Summit in Dublin this week. But this is 2020, so it’s a virtual event. This year,…

Cloud Foundry coalesces around Kubernetes

The Cloud Foundry Foundation (CFF) just went through a major leadership change, with executive director Abby Kearns stepping down after five years (and becoming a CTO at Puppet) and the…

Cloud Foundry renews its focus on developer experience as it looks beyond the enterprise

Puppet, the Portland-based infrastructure automation company, today announced that it has named former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns as its new CTO. Current Puppet CTO Deepak Giridharagopal will…

Puppet names former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns as CTO

“I’m so tired of talking about Kubernetes. I want to talk about something else,” joked Kubernetes co-founder and VP of R&D at VMware Craig McLuckie during a keynote interview at this…

Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie is as tired of talking about Kubernetes as you are

Sam Ramji, the founding CEO of the open-source platform as a service Cloud Foundry Foundation, is joining Google in a yet-to-be-disclosed executive role. Abby Kearns, the current VP of Industry at the…

Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO Sam Ramji departs for Google