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Sreeram Venkitesh

Kubernetes Contributions

I've been involved with the Kuberentes and CNCF open source ecosystem for over 2 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

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.

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

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

2022

October