About Martin Linxfeld (The Cook)
Martin Linxfeld (known online as Luke Martin Feldman, The Cook) is a Cloud Evangelist, Terraform Instructor, and Multicloud Architect with 20+ years of IT experience. He currently works at Oracle as a Senior Principal Product Manager, where he helps global customers design and automate complex cloud architectures. Through his platform FoggyKitchen.com, Martin shares hands-on knowledge about OCI, Azure, and multicloud deployments — using Terraform and OpenTofu.
👨💻 Professional Journey
Martin’s professional journey blends deep technical expertise with strategic advocacy for cloud adoption.
Before taking on his current role as a Senior Principal Product Manager at Oracle, Martin worked for years as a Cloud Solution Architect on the Oracle A-Team, helping enterprise customers around the world lift and shift their on-prem environments to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Throughout this time, he became a strong advocate of the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) approach, guiding organizations in moving from manual deployments to automated solutions based on Terraform and Ansible.
Today, Martin focuses on designing reference architectures, creating Terraform QuickStarts, and supporting customers in building secure, scalable multicloud solutions with OCI and Azure. He also contributes to the OCI Architecture Center, where his work is featured as best-practice examples for global cloud teams.
🏃 Personal Life
Outside of the cloud world, Martin is a happy husband and father of three teenagers, which keeps life both busy and meaningful. He’s a passionate board game enthusiast — the more strategic and competitive, the better.
He also loves to run through the nearby forest, which he often describes as “the best temple for clearing the mind”. Regular long walks and weekend runs are part of his routine, helping him recharge between intense periods of content creation and teaching.
Photography is another quiet passion of his — Martin often brings his camera along on runs, capturing moments in nature that balance his fast-paced professional life.
🏅 Certifications
Martin’s professional credibility is backed by a rich portfolio of cloud and infrastructure certifications, earned over two decades of hands-on work in the IT industry.
In the multicloud and automation space, he currently holds the latest Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2024 Certified Architect Professional and Multicloud Architect Associate credentials, along with previous OCI Architect Professional and Associate certifications. He has also earned the HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate certification, reflecting his deep practical experience in Infrastructure-as-Code.
To complement his Oracle expertise, Martin has achieved the Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals certification, positioning him strongly in OCI–Azure multicloud architectures.
Beyond cloud architecture, Martin holds DevOps, operations, and legacy database certifications, including the OCI Developer 2020, OCI Cloud Operations 2019, and numerous Oracle Exadata and Database Specialist credentials dating back to the early 2000s — showcasing a continuous learning journey that spans both traditional and modern cloud technologies.
🍳 FoggyKitchen Mission
FoggyKitchen is Martin’s personal mission to share real, hands-on cloud knowledge with engineers around the world. This mission is deeply rooted in the FoggyKitchen Manifesto, a blog post written back in 2018 that laid out the core philosophy behind this platform.
In the manifesto, Martin draws an analogy between cooking and building cloud infrastructure — emphasizing the importance of well-chosen ingredients, reusable patterns, and repeatable processes. Just like a good recipe, cloud environments should be designed to be automated, consistent, and shareable.
This philosophy is reflected across everything Martin creates on FoggyKitchen:
Step-by-step Terraform courses that guide learners from basic building blocks to complex multicloud architectures.
Blog posts and diagrams that cut through hype and buzzwords, focusing instead on proven engineering practices.
Practical experiments and real-world scenarios, showing that FoggyKitchen content is not theoretical — it’s production-grade.
Ultimately, Martin’s mission is to help engineers move from clicking in consoles to writing infrastructure as code, bringing clarity, discipline, and repeatability to their cloud work.
👉 If the FoggyKitchen Manifesto resonates with you, explore FoggyKitchen Courses and let’s cook the cloud together.
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