Despite his name, Mr. Squidler is actually an octopus. An early conflict with a fiendish distributed systems villain gave him his unfortunate name, which now causes no end of confusion with everyone he meets. His ultimate goal is to track down the dastardly miscreant who bestowed the sobriquet and exact revenge, but in the meantime he helps people save money on their Kubernetes infra by running experiments and simulations of their environment.

Mr. Squidler was designed by Mariana Mejia, who also helped with the design for both this site and Applied Computing.