Episode 30 - Meet the New Boss. CNCF GM Priyanka Sharma
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English - August 19, 2020 12:13 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTechnology k8s cncf danpop devops kubecon dan papandrea agiledevelopment developer kubernetes software Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode we talk to GM of the CNCF Priyanka Sharma. We discuss her journey, her plans, why open source founders should work with the CNCF and what projects she is keeping an eye on with all her other stacked responsibilities. Priyanka was a joy to speak to and her enthusiasm is infectious!
Priyanka was previously the director of Cloud Native Alliances at GitLab Inc., where she built the developer evangelism team that participates regularly in the cloud native community.
Priyanka also serves as an advisor at Heavybit Industries, an accelerator for developer products. Priyanka has contributed to several CNCF projects such as Jaeger and Vitess and was a founding team member of the OpenTracing standard. In addition, Priyanka is a leading speaker and subject matter expert on cloud native and observability and has spoken about Kubernetes, Prometheus, Jaeger, OpenTracing, Envoy, Vitess, SPIFFE/SPIRE, and more. She was a startup founder featured at TechCrunch Disrupt and started her career at Google.
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Timeline/Topic:
01:11 - Priyanka's Journey
06:00 - Priyanka's Plan and Mission with the CNCF
07:45 - Why do Open Source projects need the CNCF?
10:47 - Scaling the sandbox process to accept growing demand
13:06 - What exciting projects is Priyanka (Crossplane, SMI Service Mesh Interface, k3s,Falco)
16:45 - How does the CNCF balance offerings to those newer to the community who are more advanced and have been involved for the last few years?
21:58 - why do you think there is widespread adoption of projects like Kubernetes, and Prometheus. and others?
23:38 - What does Community mean to Priyanka?
24:57 - what is Priyanka most proud of?
Episode Links
https://www.cncf.io/
Kubecon EU - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe/register/
Kubecon North America - https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/
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