About

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_{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 CLI.}
_{Currenly, I’m a Technical Lead for the Kubernetes Special Interest Group - Contributor Experience (SIG ContribEx).}
_{I was also one of the Release Lead Shadows for Kubernetes v1.27 & v1.26 release cycles, Enhancement Lead for v1.25 release cycle and have been on the Release Team since v1.23.}

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

_{I like to talk about — opensource community values, mentoring, on/offline communication guidelines, benefits of writing & documenting things, and more..*}
_{And I’m very keen to learn about — Hardware, Networking (both computer and people networking 😉 ), and (all things having wires, & circuits & LEDs, & ICs in them. Well, I don’t know much in this space, and I want to learn more).}

_{I also started to speak at conferences in past years.}
_{I’ve presented talks at KubeCon EU - 2023, openSUSE Conference - 2023, Open Source Summit - EU - 2022, GNOME Users and Developers European Conference 2020.}
_{I was also invited to be part of a CNCF Maintainers Panel Discussion at Kubernetes Community Days, Bengaluru 2023.}

_{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! 🙏}

I speak here {^_^}