About

Divya is an open source community strategist, program manager, and advisor based in Mumbai, India. Currently, she is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, driving developer relations and community initiatives for the company's open source projects. In the past, she has also been on the open source advisory board for Avesha Inc.

In the open source ecosystem, currently, Divya is a maintainer of the Kubernetes project. She has been instrumental in creating contributor roles within the documentation special interest group, such as the Issue Wrangler and the New Contributor Ambassador, toward improving sustainability. She also serves on the project's Code of Conduct Committee, helping create and maintain a safe ecosystem for contributors.

Previously, she has also contributed to several cycles of the Kubernetes release team in various capacities and is a prolific contributor to the broader CNCF ecosystem. She has co-created the Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate certification and has been a community reviewer on the newly launched Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate certification. Recently, she served as the program committee chair of the first-ever KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in India, the cloud native community’s flagship conference.

Elsewhere, she leads the efforts to build a global community around the WebAssembly specification under the Bytecode Alliance and the Asian chapter of the CHAOSS project.

She has previously held positions at HSBC and Capgemini (through iGATE Global Solutions Pvt Ltd).