Hi!

I'm Sreeram Venkitesh, a software engineer from Kerala, India.

I'm an active contributor in the Kuberentes and the CNCF open source community. I've been part of the Kubernetes release team from v1.29, and I was the Enhancements subteam lead for v1.31 and a release lead shadow for the v1.32 cycle. I've been helping to write and publish the Last Week in Kubernetes Development newsletter for over a year now. I also host a meeting on the first Tuesday of every month to help new folks make their first contribution to the Kubernetes documentation. I'm also starting to contribute code to the Kubernetes project! In v1.32, I shipped a feature to enable zero duration for the Pod lifecycle hooks' sleep action. See all of my contributions to Kubernetes here.

Currently I'm working at DigitalOcean as part of the storage team. Previously I worked at BigBinary where I helped build NeetoDeploy, a cloud deployment Platform as a Service on top of Kubernetes. I've been working at BigBinary since 2021 after I finished university and did various infrastructure and ops related work for three and a half years there.

I love giving technical talks at conferences. I find the entire process of researching and preparing a talk one of the best ways to learn about a topic in detail. I enjoy writing blogs about the things I'm learning as well. You can read more about my work and my blogs in my personal website.