_{I am primarily a software engineer, though I have held different titles such as Open Source Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, and DevOps engineer, on occasion.}

_{Currently, I’m working at SUSE as a Kubernetes Integration Engineer.
In past, I’ve contributed to VMware’s Tanzu portfolio, both — as a Founding member of the Tanzu Kubernetes LTS (Open Source Engineering) team, and as a Site Reliability Engineer in the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) team.
Prior to that, I was part of the Global Cloud Services SRE team at Red Hat.}

_{Besides my work, I’m actively involved in the upstream Kubernetes community.
I’ve contributed to various parts of the project through SIGs — Release, Testing, ContribEx, and API Machinery.
Currenly, I’m a Technical Lead for the Kubernetes Special Interest Group - Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx), and a GitHub Admin for the Kubernetes Org.
I am a long-time member of the Kubernetes Release Team (v1.23–v1.31), having notably served as the Release Lead for Kubernetes 1.29 (Mandala) and as the Emeritus Advisor for Kubernetes 1.31.}

_{I’ve been awarded the annual CNCF Community award, 2024 (Chop Wood, Carry Water), Kubernetes community award, 2023 (SIG Architecture), Google Open Source Peer Bonus award, 2023 for my work in the Kubernetes project.}

_{I am a past Outreachy intern (Dec’2019 - March’ 2020), under the GNOME Foundation.
I’ve written about my journey here.}

_{I also started to speak at conferences in past years.
I’ve presented talks at KubeCon EU, KubeCon NA, KubeCon IN, openSUSE Conference, Open Source Summit - EU, GNOME Users and Developers European Conference (GUADEC).
I was honored to participate as a keynote speaker at KubeCon India, 2024.
I was also invited to be part of a CNCF Maintainers Panel Discussion at Kubernetes Community Days, Bengaluru 2023.
You can find my complete list of talks, podcasts, media articles here.}

_{I also had the opportunity to co-chair the first ever CNCF Maintainer Summit.}

_{I like to talk about opensource community values, mentoring, on/offline communication guidelines, benefits of writing & documenting.
And I’m very keen to learn about — Hardware, Networking (both computer and people networking 😉 ), and (all things with wires, & circuits & LEDs, & ICs in them).}

_{In past, I’ve also tried my hands at recording podcasts.
(so, I could talk to, and learn from lots of wonderful people around the world)}

_{This blog is a running record of all things about me, & nothing specific in general.🙂
I talk about what things I’m learning currently, my weight loss journey, some random personal journaling from the days, and sometimes (which is really sometimes only), I try to make beautiful book notes.}

_{You could find me at these other places, as well:}

_{Thank you for reading! 🙏}