Ihor Dvoretskyi is a Developer Advocate at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), closely working with the open source communities within the Cloud Native ecosystem (including Kubernetes, Helm, and others).
At CNCF, Ihor acts as an advocate for the technology projects from the Cloud Native ecosystem. Besides that, he helps to drive multiple developer relations programs, including the CNCF Meetup and Ambassadors programs, mentorship programs, and many others.
Ihor is a co-founder and an emeritus co-chair of the Kubernetes Product Management Special Interest Group (SIG-PM); also he was actively involved in the release process holding a role of the Features Lead during the multiple Kubernetes release cycles.
With an engineering (DevOps) and PM background, Ihor has been responsible for the projects tightly bound to the cloud computing space, containerized workloads and Linux systems.
His recent speaking appearances include talks at KubeCon/CloudNativeCon’s, Kubernetes Leadership and Contributors Summits, OpenStack Summits NA and APAC, OpenSource Leadership Summit, OpenSource Summits EU and NA, ContainerDays EU, Google DevFests and other industry-leading events worldwide.