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Meet your Cloud Native Ambassadors (CNAs)!
Ambassadors are an extension of CNCF, furthering the mission of “making cloud native ubiquitous” through community leadership and mentorship. They exemplify CNCF’s values and its culture of inclusion, kindness, and respect.
Interested in becoming an Ambassador?
I have spent the last seven years honing my expertise in the cloud-native ecosystem, with a particular focus on maintaining various communities like Kubernetes, CoreDNS, KNative, and Containerd. While my experience in these areas has been invaluable, my current focus lies in the Cloud OS System. As a seasoned professional, I regularly share my knowledge and insights on cloud-native technologies through my blog, which can be found at ustack.io. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned pro, my blog posts offer practical tips and in-depth analysis that can help you stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving field. So whether you are looking to dive deeper into Kubernetes or explore the latest trends in cloud-native ecosystem, be sure to check out my blog.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: being an CNCF ambassador provides me with the opportunity to share my knowledge and expertise in cloud-native technologies with a wider audience, and allows me to stay up-to-date with the latest developments and trends in cloud-native technologies
Xie Ziyi is an active Kubernetes community contributor focusing on documentation and storage.
She is an organizer of the Cloud Native Community Japan, and serves as an instructor for new contributors at Kubernetes Upstream Training Japan.
She has spoken at the Kubernetes Contributor Summit, KubeDay Japan, and KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan.
Cloud-native community leader, Co-Organizer Azure Tech Group Bangladesh and AWS Cloud Club Captain at BRAC University, passionate about empowering students through open source and cloud technologies. As Bangladesh’s first AWS Cloud Club to reach 1,238+ members, Zaynul has hosted global events featuring AWS leadership, trained 15+ tech professionals in cloud certifications in his study group, and organized KCD Chattogram 2024 with 2,000+ participants. Active contributor on dev.to AWS and Microsoft tag moderation, AWS Builder Center technical blogs, and recognized in AWS PartyRock Hackathon. Driven by democratizing cloud-native education across South Asia, he bridges students with global ecosystems while promoting inclusive tech communities.
Yuanpeng is a kubernetes & cloudnative enthusiast, also is a contributor of kubernetes and karmada, enjoys understanding and using the projects of cncf and enjoy technology advocacy.
I am married to Adi, father of three, and OpenTelemetry Group Leader at Cisco. My group and I are promoting OpenTelemetry adoption via contributions to the project, publishing blog posts on OpenTelemetry Blog (https://opentelemetry.io/blog/) & Cisco Tech Blog (https://techblog.cisco.com/tags/opentelemetry), and running OpenTelemetry talks & workshops at public events.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I want to promote OpenTelemetry and enable more people to use and contribute to it. I aim to improve the development processes in OpenTelemetry and to make the OpenTelemetry community more welcoming and supportive of new developers. I want to continue advocating for OpenTelemetry by promoting it at global events and helping others do so.
Yoshiyuki Tabata is a Senior OSS Consultant at Hitachi, Ltd. As an expert in Identity and Access Management (IAM) and APIs, he has provided numerous consultations over the past decade, including designing API and Authentication/Authorization platforms. He has actively contributed to CNCF TAG Security by facilitating APAC region community calls and leading the IAM white paper project, and he has added significant functionalities to OSS projects such as Keycloak. As a CNCF Ambassador, he has delivered talks at events like KubeCon, Apidays, and Open Source Summit focusing on secure solutions for the CNCF ecosystem. Additionally, as a Cloud Native Community Japan organizer and a Cloud Native Security Japan founder, he has organized several CNCF meetups in Japan.
Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I aim to improve the adoption and security of CNCF technologies in Japan by sharing my expertise from numerous projects. As a CNCF ambassador, I want to disseminate solutions and best practices for a more secure CNCF ecosystem.
Yash is a passionate advocate for cloud-native technologies and community building. As a pre-final year student pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in India, Yash is deeply involved in the CNCF ecosystem. Serving as a co-organizer of the Cloud-native Thane community, Yash regularly hosts meetups and workshops to foster learning and growth within the community. With active contributions to the Keptn organization, Yash is dedicated to advancing the CNCF mission through leadership, advocacy, and technical expertise.
Open source lover with 20+ years in tech, including 7 years in ISPs, 14 years as a startup founder, and 6 years at Red Hat. Working at the intersection of API governance with Microcks, a CNCF project for API mocking and testing, and AI integration with reShapr.
Senior cloud native architect and evangelist at Flomesh. I am a seasoned programmer, LF APAC open source evangelist, CNCF Ambassador, member of the cloud native community committee(China local) and Microsoft Azure MVP. With many years of microservice and infrastructure practice experience, mainly involving microservices, containers, Kubernetes, DevOps, etc. In the past there years, I organize two meetups in Guangzhou and Service Mesh Conference in Shanghai together with community members. In the coming April 15, I will organize KCD in Dalian with other community members. I own a Chinese blog https://atbug.com and start writing on Medium https://addozhang.medium.com.
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