About

Divya is an open source community strategist, program manager, and advisor based in Mumbai, India. She is a Principal Technology Advocate at SUSE, focusing on developer relations and driving community initiatives for the company's open source projects. In the past, she has also been an advisor to Avesha Inc., helping them open source their project, Kubeslice, which is currently in the CNCF Sandbox.

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 has also served on several cycles of the Kubernetes release process and is a prolific contributor to the broader CNCF ecosystem. She is an ex-CNCF Ambassador and an emeritus editor for the CNCF's community newsletter, Kubeweekly. She also 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 in the open source ecosystem, 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).