Kubernetes 1.36, with Ryota Sawada

May 27, 2026

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.

 

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