Kubernetes Contributions Resume

I've been involved with the Kuberentes and CNCF open source ecosystem for almost 3 years now. This page serves as a running log for all my upstream contributions. This is inspired by Priyanka Saggu's Kubernetes contributions page. If you want to start reading from the beginning, click here.

What I'm working on right now

Writing (mostly editing and publishing at this point) LWKD every week
Working on the containerd implementation for KEP 4960: Container Stop Signals
Running the 2025 Kubernetes Steering Committee elections

Contributions to k/k based on release

v1.29

Joined the release team as an enhancements shadow

v1.30

Improve metric resource name in kubectl print output of HPA (My first PR to k/k)

v1.31

Led the enhancements team

v1.32

PodLifecycleSleepActionAllowZero shipped in alpha
Version skew strategy for InPlacePodVerticalScaling

v1.33

PodLifecycleSleepActionAllowZero to beta
ContainerStopSignals shipped in alpha

v1.34

PodLifecycleSleepActionAllowZero to GA
Improved validation for static pods
Worked on CEL for CRD AdditionalPrinterColumns, but didn't go through because of performance issues

All contributions

2025

January

Joined the Kubernetes v1.33 release team as a Docs shadow
Joined the Cluster API release team as a shadow in the CI Signal team for the v1.10 cycle

February

Got my talk on adding CEL to CRD AdditionalPrinterColumns accepted for the Maintainer Summit happening at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU happening at London in March.
Got my talk on the future of Kubernetes with CEL accepted for Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2025.
Started working on KEP 4960: Container Stop Signals and got the KEP approved and merged. This was one of the most productive discussions I've had over a PR in GitHub and I learnt a lot of things just from the discussion itself. Looking forward to work on and ship this feature in the coming months!
Got KEP 4818: Allow zero value for Sleep Action of PreStop Hook approved for beta graduation in v1.33. So I'll be working on 2 KEPs this cycle!
Helped and introduce two new folks who were interested in contributing to the Kubernetes community.
Got the bug fix for a bug introduced by me in the PodLifecycleSleepActionAllowZero code cherry-picked to the v1.32 branch. I got to learn how the cherry picking process work and how cherry picks are released

March

Worked on graduating PodLifecycleSleepActionAllowZero to beta in v1.33
⭐️ Added Container Stop Signals to the Container spec in the Kubernetes API. I learnt a LOT over the course of working on this PR. I had to request for a code freeze exception for a few days (I was able to experience that process too) and I was able to get it into the release

April

Spoke at Cloud Native Rejekts EU 2025 in London about the future of configurability in Kubernetes with CEL
Spoke at the Maintainer Summit at KubeCon EU in London along with Priyanka about our work on adding CEL to CRD AdditionalPrinterColumns
Attended KubeCon EU 2025 - spoke to a lot of folks with whom I've been working in the past months. Peter, Micheal, Tim, Lucas etc.
Wrote a post for the Kubernetes blog about the updates to container lifecycle in v1.33 (PodLifecycleSleepActionAllowZero, ContainerStopSignals)

May

Started work on adding support for custom stop signals in containerd
Joined the Kubernetes v1.34 release team as a Release Lead shadow
Worked on writing the KEP for CEL for CRD AdditionalPrinterColumns with Priyanka. Did benchmarking for comparing CEL's performance with JSONPath. The KEP later got merged in provisional state for now since the performance of CEL was multiple times slower than that of JSONPath

June

Worked on graduating PodLifecycleSleepActionAllowZero to GA in v1.34
Worked on fixing an issue with the validation of static pods leading to containers running when the corresponding mirror pods fails to get created
Spoke at KubeCon Japan about breaking language barriers in open source communities
Spoke at KCD Bengaluru about how open source opens doors to new career opportunities
Mentored two more folks who joined the LWKD project

July

Spoke at KCD Taipei about working with CRI when developing Kubernetes. This talk was based on my work on the Container Stop Signals KEP
Started working on implementing CRI native metrics in CRI-O
Selected as one of the Election Officers for the 2025 Steering Elections

August

Spoke at KubeCon India about LWKD as part of the SIG Contribex maintainer track
Worked on setting up the steering elections, came up with the schedule and got the whole election started

2024

January

Joined the enhancements subteam for the Kubernetes release team for the second time for the v1.30 release cycle.
Got my first code PR merged into k/kubernetes to print metric names in the HPA table.
Got accepted for the Dan Kohn scholarship for attending KubeCon EU 2024 in Paris.
Joined the Kubernetes Contributor Summit EU 2024 organizing team as a shadow in the content team.
Served as an Issue Wrangler for SIG Docs for two weeks, helping curate issues in the kubernetes/website repo.

February

Gave a talk at KCD Kerala about understanding Kubernetes internals by setting up a cluster from scratch.

March

Attended my first KubeCon, KubeCon EU in Paris! Attended the Kubernetes Contributor Summit and met with a lot of fellow contributors.
Gave a talk at the Kubernetes Contributor Summit about the LWKD newsletter along with Faeka.

April

Became the new contributor ambassador for SIG Docs after helping Arsh and Divya host the New Contributor Meet and Greet call for a couple of times before.

May

Joined the Kubernetes Contributor Summit NA 2024 organizing team as a shadow in the registrations team.
Became the enhancements subteam lead for the Kubernetes v1.31 release team.
Started working with SIG architecture's enhancements subproject to help improve the process around KEPs.

June

Got my talk with Rayan accepted to KubeCon China about Kubernetes Enhancement Proposals.

August

Attended my second KubeCon, KubeCon China in Hong Kong! Gave a talk about KEPs along with Rayan.

September

Joined the Kubernetes v1.32 release team as a release lead shadow.
Started working on my first KEP, adding support for zero sleep duration for the Pod Lifecycle's Sleep Action.

October

Got my talk with Emily on running AI workloads on Kubernetes accepted for KubeCon India.
Got my talk on testing Kubernetes accepted for the Kubernetes Maintainer Summit at KubeCon India.
Became the subproject lead for the Last Week in Kubernetes Development Newsletter project.
Continued working on my PR for the Pod Lifecycle Sleep Action.

November

Got my PR for adding zero sleep duration to Pod Lifecycle's Sleep Action merged.
Got my PR for implementing version skew for InPlacePodVerticalScaling feature's beta graduation merged.
Recieved the Contributor Award at the Kubernetes Contributor Summit NA 2024 held at Salt Lake City, Utah along with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA. (Big thanks to Priyanka, Josh, Kaslin and Chris! This wouldn't have been possible without your support!)

2023

May

Got my second PR merged to kubernetes/website, which I had been working on from March.

June

Served as a SIG Docs PR Wrangler shadow with Nate Waddington.

July

Joined the Last Week in Kubernetes Development newsletter team and started contributing every week.

August

Joined the kubernetes and kubernetes-sigs organizations in GitHub.

September

Made my first PR to kubernetes/kubernetes. Even though this wasn't merged, I was able to learn a lot about building and testing the different components of Kubernetes locally and also about the design decisions behind kubectl from the wonderful folks at SIG CLI.
Joined the Kubernetes release team as a shadow in the enhancements team for the v1.29 release cycle. Big thanks to Nina!

December

Participated in the Knative hackathon and worked on adding quiet mode to the knative client CLI.
Participated in the Kubernetes Security Slam event and added a GitHub action to kubernetes-sigs/karpenter to generate OpenVEX data and improved the security of the project by adding it to CLOMonitor.
Continued working with the release team through the v1.29 release cycle which ended in December.

2022

October

Made my first contribution to the kubernetes documentation.