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Ryota Sawada discusses his role as the release lead for Kubernetes 1.36 and shares insights from his experience in the finance industry and Cloud Native technologies.

Ryota Sawada is software engineer at Numtide and the release lead of Kubernetes 1.36 code name Haru. He has over a decade of experience mainly in the finance industry including working on Cloud Native technologies, and outside of Cloud Native, he's been tinkering with Emacs and Nix. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: - web: kubernetespodcast.com - mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com - twitter: @kubernetespod - bluesky: @kubernetespodcast.com News of the week Etcd version 3.7.0 is out Merge Forward Community Truepositive Links from the interview Kubernetes 1.35 codename Haru Release theme and logo Logo designer User Namespaces Workload API Workload Aware Scheduling (WAS) DRA features graduating to Stable GKE 10 years and SIG Networking, With Antonio Ojea

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