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Stephen Augustus is an active leader in cloud native OSS communities.
He currently serves the Kubernetes community as a Chair for SIG Release, a Release Manager, a Lead for WG Naming, and an owner of Enhancements subproject.

Additionally, he is one of the Chairs for CNCF SIG Contributor Strategy, a member of the Inclusive Naming project, and a Dex maintainer.

At VMware, Stephen is a Senior OSS Engineer, working on the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Core team.
He drives meaningful interactions between internal teams and open source communities, advocates the use of cloud native solutions, and hacks on tools that make life easier for developers and operations folx alike.

He has previously held SRE/Production Engineering/DevOps-ey roles, as well as customer-facing infrastructure delivery roles at cloud native leaders, including CoreOS and Red Hat.