Cloud Native Ambassadors (CNAs) are credible advocates for the cloud native ecosystem, driven by their passion for CNCF technologies and projects, as well as furthering the mission of open source. I have been selected as a CNCF Ambassador for two consecutive terms now.You can read more about the program here: https://www.cncf.io/people/ambassadors/

Employee Number: 13Led technical content and evangelism efforts for Marketing, was the voice of developers within the company for Product, and supported Sales with compelling assets to close deals.- Launched a newsletter from scratch tailored for our ICP audience, filling a critical gap in the marketing lifecycle and laying the foundation for community building.- Strategized, owned, and executed video content and webinars showcasing product features and tutorials, which significantly accelerated product evaluation cycles.- Wrote high-performing, SEO-optimized technical blog posts to drive inbound traffic and generate leads. One of my Kubernetes tutorials ranks on the first page of Google Search!- Created technical demos and built partnerships with prominent projects in the cloud ecosystem, including Argo CD, Terraform, and Dagger.- Spoke at 8 international conferences and multiple meetups, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Valencia, KubeDay Israel, and Kubernetes Community Days Munich.Read more about my role here: https://arshsharma.com/posts/2024-02-12-wtf-devx/I've also linked some things I worked on below!

The Kubernetes Release Team is responsible for the day-to-day work required to successfully release the next version of Kubernetes. I had been a part of the release team since Kubernetes 1.23 and went on to lead the CI Signal Team in the 1.25 Release.

- Created the infrastructure for testing cert-manager on multiple cloud providers in Terraform.- Extended the existing e2e tests to make them compatible with the created infrastructure.- Setup a CI system to run these tests periodically on the cloud providers.All my work was open source and can be found on GitHub.

- Identified ways to evaluate dependency updates to Kubernetes. - Created "depstat" which is a command-line tool to analyze dependencies of any Go modules enabled project. - Integrated depstat with the k8s repository by setting up new prow jobs. - Contributed to other areas in upstream Kubernetes.All my work was open source and can be found on GitHub.I also gave a talk about my work at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2021: https://youtu.be/DzzQswjHTN8

Worked in the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid team, mainly focusing on VMware's upstream Kubernetes contributions.- Actively contributed to various Special Interest Groups in the Kubernetes project including Release, Testing, Docs, and Architecture.- Simplified the process of deploying Prow which is a Kubernetes-based CI/CD system.- Worked on a KEP (Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal) to move kubectl out of the Kubernetes repository.- Conducted workshops for folks on how to get started with contributing to Kubernetes.I also gave a talk about the work I did on Prow at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022: https://youtu.be/sdU-3cqiJmg

- Worked on Kyverno, an open source CNCF project created by Nirmata, which is a policy engine designed for Kubernetes.- Worked closely with the Kyverno lead maintainers, and the community, on avariety of features and bug fixes.- Published blogs and did code walkthroughs to help new community members and end-users.- Prototyped a command-line tool for creating k8s resources based on CRDs provided by the Policy Working Group.All my work was open source and can be found on GitHub.

- Added features to the education portal of UnBunked.- Improved the quality of the codebase and added app-wide error handling.- Migrated to a single CSS framework for the entire application.