Name: A Day in the Life of a Kubernetes Engineer - Rajas Kakodkar & Nikhita Raghunath, Broadcom; Amine Hilaly, AWS; Shane Lawrence, Shopify; Kasper Borg Nissen, Dash0
Start: 2025-04-03T16:00:00+0100
End: 2025-04-03T16:30:00+0100

In-person
1-4 April 2025
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Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST

Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

In the cloud native universe, Kubernetes engineers are the unsung heroes--who wrangle YAML, tame logs and brave production crises. While AI steals the spotlight, challenges of managing Kubernetes remain in the shadows. Platform engineers, often grappling with relentless war room calls rarely get the stage they deserve.
For the first time, we’ll dive into the untold stories of platform engineers: triumphs and the grit it takes to navigate the complexities of Kubernetes. This is a celebration of the human side of cloud native, told through anecdotes, technical insights and lessons learned from the trenches.

Join industry experts as they explore:
- Critical skills for resolving production issues
- Successes & failures that define their journeys
- Balancing ecosystem health
- Secure practices for AI workloads
- Reducing Kubernetes complexity

Join us for unfiltered insights, empowering stories and actionable takeaways to inspire your Kubernetes journey—you, too, deserve to be heard.

Speakers

Kasper Borg Nissen

Developer Relations Engineer, Dash0

Kasper is a Developer Relations Engineer at Dash0, where he is thrilled to step into the observability space. He looks forward to promoting open standards with OpenTelemetry and Perses, helping teams gain deeper insights into their systems. Previously, Kasper served as a Staff Platform... Read More →

Shane Lawrence

Sr Staff Engineer, Shopify

Shane is a Senior Staff Infrastructure Security Engineer at Shopify, where he's working on a multi-tenant platform that allows developers to securely build scalable apps and services for crafters, entrepreneurs, and businesses of all sizes.

Nikhita Raghunath

Principal Engineer, Broadcom

Nikhita is a Principal Engineer at Broadcom, past co-chair of KubeCon and a maintainer of the Kubernetes project. She is the vice chair of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee and has won the CNCF Top Committer Award in 2021 for her technical contributions. She was also a member... Read More →

Amine Hilaly

Software Engineer, AWS

Amine is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services working on the Kubernetes and Open source related projects for about three years. Amine is a Go, open-source, and Kubernetes fanatic.

Rajas Kakodkar

Senior Member of Technical Staff | Tech Lead TAG Runtime CNCF, Broadcom

Rajas is a senior member of technical staff at Broadcom and a tech lead of the CNCF Technical Advisory Group, Runtime. He is actively involved in the AI working group in the CNCF. He is a Kubernetes contributor and has been a maintainer of the Kube Proxy Next Gen Project. He has also... Read More →

Thursday April 3, 2025 16:00 - 16:30 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 1

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Any

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Kasper Borg Nissen

Shane Lawrence

Nikhita Raghunath

Amine Hilaly

Rajas Kakodkar

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