Hi!

I'm Sreeram Venkitesh, a software engineer from Kerala, India.

I'm an active contributor in the Kuberentes and the CNCF open source community. I started contributing to Kubernetes in 2022 and I've been part of the community across several areas now. Most recently, I'm leading the Kubernetes v1.38 Release Team. I have also contributed several features to Kubernetes mainly around pod and container lifecycle. I've also been helping to write and publish the Last Week in Kubernetes Development newsletter for over three years now. See all of my contributions to Kubernetes here.

Currently I'm working at DigitalOcean as part of the managed Kubernetes team (DOKS). Previously I worked at BigBinary where I helped build NeetoDeploy, a cloud deployment Platform as a Service on top of Kubernetes. Since I left, NeetoDeploy has been made private for BigBinary's internal use only. I've been working at BigBinary since 2021 after I finished university and did various infrastructure and ops related work for three and a half years there.

I love giving technical talks at conferences. I find the entire process of researching and preparing a talk one of the best ways to learn about a topic in detail. So far I've given more than 20 talks in across 6 countries. Feel free to reach out to me if you have a talk idea you'd like us to present together!

I also enjoy blogging about the things I'm learning. You can read more about my work and my blogs in my personal website.

Last updated: October 6th, 2026