Stephen Augustus is an active leader in the Kubernetes community. He currently serves as a Special Interest Group Chair (Release, PM), a Release Manager, and a subproject owner for Azure.Stephen leads the Cloud Native Developer Strategy team at VMware, driving meaningful interactions between internal teams and the Open Source community, advocating the use of Cloud Native solutions, and hacking on tools that make life easier for developers and operations folx.He has previously held SRE/Production Engineering/DevOps-ey roles, as well as customer-facing infrastructure delivery roles at Cloud Native leaders, including CoreOS and Red Hat.