Buoyant

Founded in 2015 by former Twitter infrastructure engineers William Morgan and Oliver Gould, Buoyant is the creator of Linkerd, the fastest, lightest, and most secure service mesh in the industry. Linkerd powers mission-critical infrastructure for organizations worldwide, delivering cutting-edge security, reliability, and performance to modern cloud-native environments.

As pioneers in the service mesh space, Buoyant simplifies Kubernetes networking with innovative solutions like granular Layer 7 authorization, zero-trust security, cross-cluster failover, cost-efficient multicluster routing, and more—all without requiring changes to application code or network configurations. By empowering businesses to build secure, reliable, and scalable networks, Buoyant is transforming the way enterprises thrive in the cloud.