About

ClusterForge Academy began as a late-night thread between Seoul platform engineers who wanted rehearsal rooms, not slide marathons. We still optimize for calm narration during incidents, even when the curriculum covers sharp edges like admission hooks or mesh mTLS.

Principles

• Labs first—every cohort touches real failure shapes.
• Language external reviewers can skim without buzzwords.
• Humane pacing: breaks matter as much as exercises.
• Transparent limits: we publish what we will not pretend to cover.

Milestones

1. 2019 — First invite-only operations rehearsal weekend in Gangnam.
2. 2022 — Live online cohorts tuned for APAC evening hours.
3. 2025 — Enterprise enablement sprint template adopted by three national teams.

Team

Haneul Min

Program Director

Coordinates curriculum releases with vendor release notes and stubborn realism about how much a week can hold.

Marcus Webb

Lead Kubernetes Instructor

Builds incident drills that feel petty-real—slow pulls, stubborn endpoints, human pacing.

Rina Cho

Lab Environment Engineer

Automates resets, snapshots happy baselines, and names chaos experiments so teams remember them.

Priya Natarajan

Enterprise Training Consultant

Translates platform goals into workshop scopes that external reviewers can follow without jargon fog.

Jonas Meier

Learner Success Manager

Keeps office hours humane, routes tricky questions to the right mentor, and tracks cohort pacing without gamifying stress.