Blog: Meet Our Contributors - APAC (Aus-NZ region)

Authors & Interviewers: Anubhav Vardhan , Atharva Shinde , Avinesh Tripathi , Brad McCoy , Debabrata Panigrahi , Jayesh Srivastava , Kunal Verma , Pranshu Srivastava , Priyanka Saggu , Purneswar Prasad , Vedant Kakde Good day, everyone 👋 Welcome back to the second episode of the “Meet Our Contributors” blog post series for APAC. This post will feature four outstanding contributors from the Australia and New Zealand regions, who have played diverse leadership and community roles in the Upstream Kubernetes project. So, without further ado, let’s get straight to the article. Caleb Woodbine is currently a member of the ii. nz organisation. He began contributing to the Kubernetes project in 2018 as a member of the Kubernetes Conformance working group. His experience was positive, and he benefited from early guidance from Hippie Hacker , a fellow contributor from New Zealand. He has made major contributions to Kubernetes project since then through SIG k8s-infra and k8s-conformance working group. Caleb is also a co-organizer of the CloudNative NZ community events, which aim to expand the reach of Kubernetes project throughout New Zealand in order to encourage technical education and improved employment opportunities. There need to be more outreach in APAC and the educators and universities must pick up Kubernetes, as they are very slow and about 8+ years out of date. NZ tends to rather pay overseas than educate locals on the latest cloud tech Locally. Dylan Graham is a cloud engineer from Adeliade, Australia.