Congratulations to 45 CNCF Term 2 2024 LFX Program mentees! | CNCF

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Posted on September 27, 2024
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Mentorship blog by Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship & Documentation at CNCF
We are thrilled to share that 45 CNCF mentees with the LFX Program have successfully completed their mentorship.
Numerous CNCF projects across Graduated, Incubating, Sandbox projects, and TAGs (Technical Advisory Groups) got involved, providing our mentees with invaluable experience within the open source and cloud native ecosystem. Projects involved include Harbor, Jaeger, Kubescape, KubeEdge, Kubernetes, Meshery, TAG Network, Vitess, TUF, Thanos, and many more!
Additional details on the CNCF projects, mentors, and students who successfully completed the program can be found below and on GitHub.
KWOK is a Kubernetes sub-project; people often refer to these sub-projects as Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG) projects. It allows developers to simulate large clusters with hundreds of nodes and pods that consume little resources. It uses real Kubernetes components but operates without a Kubelet.
Mentee: Charles Uneze (Personal blog post about mentorship experience)
Mentors: Zhenghao Zhu and Shiming Zhang
“The LFX Mentorship program broadened my understanding of Kubernetes and how other cloud-native projects test the Kubernetes control plane or their custom control plane using a project like KWOK. While studying the CKA topics, I only knew about the Kubernetes control plane. I also understood how to actively collaborate using Git. I encourage others who’d like to break into the cloud-native industry to leverage the LFX mentorship program to get hands-on experience, you won’t regret it.”
Enhancing the Kafka integration within Jaeger V2, a leading distributed tracing platform.
Mentee: Harshith Mente (Personal blog post about mentorship experience)
Mentors: Yuri Shkuro, Jonah Kowall, and Yash Sharma
“My experience with the LFX Mentorship program has been incredibly rewarding and transformative.The opportunity to work on a real-world project with the Jaeger community not only expanded my technical skills but also deepened my understanding of open-source collaboration. The mentorship from industry experts like Yuri Shkuro, Jonah Kowall, and Yash Sharma was invaluable, providing guidance and insights that greatly enhanced my learning journey. This program has given me the confidence to tackle complex challenges and the motivation to continue contributing to the open-source ecosystem. I’m immensely grateful for this experience and look forward to applying what I’ve learned in future endeavors.”
Implementing a unified telemetry container for both V1 and V2 components of Jaeger.
Mentee: Saransh Shankar (Personal blog post about mentorship experience)
Mentors: Yuri Shkuro, Jonah Kowall, and Yash Sharma
“The guidance I received from my mentor Yuri Shkuro and the Jaeger community was invaluable. They were always ready to assist, providing feedback and sharing their extensive knowledge of the field. This collaborative environment not only facilitated my learning but also boosted my confidence as a developer. I gained insights into best practices for coding, debugging, and collaborating in a distributed team setting, all of which are crucial for a successful career in DevOps and open-source development.”
Enhancing Meshery’s design capabilities by implementing support for versioning Meshery designs.
Mentee: Saurabh Kumar Singh (Personal blog post about mentorship experience)
Mentors: Lee Calcote and Uzair Shaikh
“My experience with the LFX Mentorship program was incredibly rewarding, offering me invaluable exposure to the cloud-native ecosystem and tools. Through this mentorship, I was able to develop and enhance a wide range of technical skills that are essential for a career in the software industry. The hands-on experience with real-world projects, such as contributing to Meshery, significantly boosted my confidence and prepared me for future career opportunities. Additionally, the stipend provided by the program was a great support, further motivating me to excel and pursue my career goals with greater determination. Overall, the LFX Mentorship program has been a pivotal experience in my professional development.”
This project aims to support more features of the IDE in the tree-sitter-kcl, adding the entire syntax of KCL so that the parser can pass all the test integrations. The primary motive is the addition of all the syntax present in KCL docs, which will, in turn, help the developers in their productivity and enhance the code quality by implementing extensive test cases and robust error handling.
Mentee: Korada Vishal (Personal blog post about mentorship experience)
Mentors: Zheng Zhang and Zong Zhe
“My mentors and the KCL project are very good. I had wanted to work with projects where I could learn a lot about the new upcoming technologies and I did learn about web3, Rust, and KCL by building small projects related to it. I will continue contributing to KCL-lang after completion.”
Prometheus has a “Remote Write” feature that allows the metrics it collects to be sent to other time series databases. In Remote Write 2.0, the implementation and wire format will significantly change to improve transmission efficiency. My task was to extend Prometheus’ benchmarking tool, Prombench to support the new feature.
Mentee: Moeka Mishima (Personal blog post about mentorship experience)
Mentors: Jesús Vázquez and Callum Styan
“The LFX Mentorship Program was a significant milestone for me. Contributing to Prometheus, a crucial open-source project, and acquiring new skills has been a significant boost to my career. I intend to continue working on this project and leverage what I’ve learned to collaborate with more developers and contribute to the growth of the open-source community.”
Mentee: Dahyeon Kang (Personal blog post about mentorship experience)
Mentors: Vedant Sh