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The One Where We Geek Out on Kubernetes Contribution with Kat Cosgrove
Description
Key takeaways:
- Coping with ADHD and leveraging it as a superpower
- The importance of effective communication (and how that got her working on Kubernetes)
- New contributors can and should call out more senior contributors when they are wrong
- Increase in the student contributions in open source, specifically Kubernetes
- The importance of making tech connections with more senior folks, and how that helped Kat transition into cybersecurity
- Path to tech included being paid to watch horror movies
About our guest:
Kat Cosgrove (she/they) is the Head of Developer Advocacy at Minimus, focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. In particular, her specialties are approachable 101-level content and deep dives on the history of technology, with a focus on DevOps and cloud native.
She was the Kubernetes Release Lead for 1.30 Uwubernetes, and currently serves as both the Release Team subproject owner and SIG Docs tech lead.
Find our guest on:
Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
Show notes:
- Google Fi Wireless
- Microsoft Zune
- Wine (Windows emulator on Linux)
- Kubernetes release team
- Kubernetes Community Groups
- k3s
- dockershim
- containerd
- Dockershim Announcement (Kat's article on the Kubernetes blog)
- Uwubernetes
- OpenTelemetry End User SIG
- Minimus
- UK House of Lords
- OpenUK Annual Awards 2025
- Blockbuster video
- Black Lodge Video
- Code Fellows Bootcamp
Transcript:
ADRIANA:
Hey everyone, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast, in which we dive into the career journeys of some of the amazing humans in tech, and geek out on topics like software development, DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host, Adriana Villela, coming to you from Toronto, Canada. And geeking out with me today, I have Kat Cosgrove. Welcome, Kat.
KAT:
Howdy.
ADRIANA:
And where are you calling from?
KAT:
Edinburgh, Scotland.
ADRIANA:
Ooh, exciting. Okay. Are you ready to dive into our icebreaker questions?
KAT:
Yeah, let's hit it.
ADRIANA:
All right, so first question. Are you a lefty or a righty?