# Solomon Hykes ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-02-15 Solomon Hykes.jpg|400]] Solomon Hykes is a French-American software engineer and entrepreneur, best known as the creator of [[Docker]]. Born in Paris, he co-founded dotCloud (a Platform-as-a-Service company) in 2010, which pivoted to become Docker, Inc. after the Docker container technology's explosive growth. Docker fundamentally changed how software is developed, shipped, and deployed. After stepping down as Docker's CTO in 2018, Hykes co-founded Dagger in 2022, a CI/CD platform using containers as the building blocks for portable pipelines. His work continues to focus on developer tools and improving software delivery. He remains one of the most influential figures in the containerization and DevOps movements. ## Key Contributions | Project | Year | Description | |---------|------|-------------| | **Docker** | 2013 | Container platform that revolutionized deployment | | **dotCloud** | 2010 | PaaS company that became Docker, Inc. | | **Dagger** | 2022 | Portable CI/CD pipelines using containers | ## Career Timeline - **2010**: Co-founded dotCloud (PaaS startup) - **2013**: Open-sourced Docker at PyCon - **2013-2018**: CTO of Docker, Inc. - **2018**: Stepped down as CTO - **2019**: Left Docker, Inc. entirely - **2022**: Co-founded Dagger - **Present**: CEO of Dagger ## Impact Docker's impact on software development: - Made containers accessible to developers (previously obscure Linux feature) - Standardized application packaging across environments - Enabled microservices architecture at scale - Catalyzed the cloud-native ecosystem (Kubernetes, CNCF) - "It works on my machine" became solvable ## References - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Hykes - https://github.com/shykes - https://dagger.io ## Related - [[Docker]] - [[Containerization]] - [[Kubernetes]] - [[DevOps]] - [[Open Source]] - [[Dagger]]