We talk with Nikhita Raghunath, Nabarun Pal, and Paco Xu. Nikhita, Nabarun, and Paco have each held various leadership positions related to the Kubernetes project. They talk about their journeys, the various leadership roles they’ve been in, and offer advice for new contributors and those who want to move into leadership in the project.
Nikhita is a Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom. She is currently a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) overseeing all technical matters of the CNCF. In the past, she was a member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee, a technical lead for SIG Contributor Experience and has also won the CNCF Top Committer Award. Currently, she is also a co-chair of the KubeCon+CloudNativeCon conference.
Nabarun is a Staff Software Engineer at Broadcom, a maintainer of the Kubernetes project, a member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee and a chair of Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience. In the past, he was the release lead for Kubernetes 1.21 and has served eight release teams. Nabarun also works actively with the Python community by organizing PyCon India and has been recognized in media publications for his work.
Paco is an open source team lead in DaoCloud. He started to work on container/docker in 2016 and later started to participate in the Kubernetes Community in 2018. He is a current member of Kubernetes Steering Committee and works mainly on kubeadm and sig-node. He is Co-chair of KubeCon+CloudNativeCon China 2024.
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News of the week
Blog: 10 Years of Kubernetes
CNCF-Hosted Co-Located Events Overview
CFP for CNCF-hosted Co-located Events
Kubernetes Community Days
Links from the interviews
CNCF Technical Oversight Committee
SIG ContribEx
Google Summer of Code
CNCF Top Committer Award 2021 - Nikhita Raghunath
Blog Post: Google Summer of Code with Kubernetes by Nikhita Raghunath
Kubernetes Docs: Extend the Kubernetes API with CustomResourceDefinitions
SIG API Machinery
SIG Testing
SIG Release
CNCF Chop Wood Carry Water Award 2018 - Nikhita Raghunath
Kubernetes Steering Committee
KubeCon India
KubeCon NA
Kubernetes 1.21: Power to the Community
Pycon India
Kubernetes Python Client on GitHub
Kubernetes Contributor Summit 2019 YouTube Playlist
Kubernetes Release Team
KubeCon NA 2024 Scholarships (applications due by September 1, 2024)
Kubeadm
SIG Node
KubeCon China 2024
Kubelet
Kubernetes Production Readiness Review Process
Kubernetes Release Team CI Signal Lead Runbook
Kubernetes Podcast from Google 
