About

Sudhanshu Prajapati

Sudhanshu Prajapati

Senior Developer Advocate | AI Leader | Open Source Contributor | CNCG Organizer, Improving

Developer advocate and backend/data engineer focused on cloud-native systems and developer enablement. I create developer education - blogs, notebooks, video tutorials, demos - and build production-alike POCs that reduce time-to-first-success. Strengths: databases, RAG/LLM workflows, model serving (Ray/vLLM), distributed systems, Kubernetes, observability, and docs/tooling for scale. I've built and scaled communities, growing one from zero to 2.5k+ members in just two months.

30+
Blogs Published
15+
Conferences & Talks
10+
OSS Projects
5+
Years Experience

🎤 Talks & Conferences

Speaker
Trust, but Sandbox: Securing AI Agents in Kubernetes · Open Source Summit India, June 16 2026 · with Prateek Mishra, Founda Health 👥 53 of 1,000+ conference attendees showed interest
Speaker
Your Prompt Is a Cross-Border Data Transfer · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026, June 18 2026 (Lightning Talk) 👥 172 of 3,500+ conference attendees showed interest
Speaker
Your Prompt Is a Cross-Border Data Transfer · AI Beyond Apps | Lucknow 2026, Feb 2026 - presented to government and industry leaders
Organizer
CNCF Lucknow April Meetup · Hosted offline event with 3 speakers on n8n, AI, and OSS communities, April 2026
Speaker
Starting the Year with Open Source · CNCF Lucknow (virtual), Jan 2026 - CNCF Updates and AI tools
Speaker
KubeRay - Distributed Parallel Processing · CNCF Gurugram Meetup, May 2024
Co-host
Twitter Space - Cloud-Native Discussion · 2023
Speaker
FOSS United Delhi Meetup · May 2023
Speaker
Kubernetes Bengaluru Meetup · Jan 2023
Attended
KubeCon India 2024 · NVIDIA AI Summit India 2024 · DelhiFOSS India 2024
Attended
GopherCon India 2023 · KCD Bengaluru 2023 · GopherCon 2022 · DevOpsDays India 2022

I regularly attend local meetups - GitTogether, CNCF, and GDG in New Delhi.

🎬 Featured Video

Shot, interviewed, and edited by me at NVIDIA AI Summit India 2024 (Jio Convention Centre, Mumbai).

🛠️ Project Demo - TinkerPilot

TinkerPilot - a local-first, privacy-focused AI tool for developers. Built with local LLMs for search, voice commands, and developer productivity. Runs entirely on your machine.

🌿 Open Source Contributions

Kubernetes Website
Contributed to the official Kubernetes website - resolved a Persian language issue and Docsy theme upgrade (#55928).
CNCF AI Scheduling Challenges Whitepaper
Contributed to the Cloud Native AI Scheduling Challenges Whitepaper - currently in approval phase.
CNCF AI Security Paper
Contributed to the CNCF TAG Runtime AI Security white paper.
MCP Server Auth & Authorization Whitepaper
Currently contributing to the MCP Server Authentication and Authorization Standards whitepaper.
CNCF AI TCG & K8s Agent Sandbox
Active participant in the CNCF AI TAG Community Group and the Agent Sandbox project under the Kubernetes community.
SigNoz
Contributions to the SigNoz OpenTelemetry-native observability platform.
YugabyteDB
Docs, features, and release notes for the distributed SQL database.
BotKube
Kubernetes monitoring and debugging tool.
FluxNinja Aperture
Docs revamp, multi-language SDK documentation (Go, Java, JavaScript, Python), SDK examples, and blog content for load management.
CNCF TAG Runtime Blog
"Kubernetes and AI: 5 Talks You Don't Want to Miss at KubeCon India 2024"
CNCF Lucknow Chapter
Lead Organizer - grew chapter from 40 to 240+ members in 2026.

🔧 Side Projects

TinkerPilot
Local AI-powered CLI tool for search, voice commands, and developer productivity. Docs →
Agentic Memory
Exploration of AI agentic memory techniques and patterns — companion repo to the published blog on Agent Memory Systems.
PySAML2 SP Okta Demo
Auth-based demo for SAML2 service provider integration with Okta.
Milvus RAG Semantic Search
End-to-end RAG pipeline with Milvus vector database for semantic search - featured on Milvus blog.
FluentBit + OTel Pipeline Demo
Observability pipeline demo combining FluentBit with OpenTelemetry for logs and traces.
OTel Logs & Traces
OpenTelemetry demo for correlated logging and distributed tracing.

✍️ Published Articles

Improving Blog Posts
InfraCloud Technical Blogs
FluxNinja Blog Posts
DZone Featured Articles
Calyptia / Chronosphere FluentBit Content

🏆 Highlights

🎙️Speaking at Open Source Summit India and KubeCon India 2026
☸️Contributor to the official Kubernetes website (k8s upstream)
✨Milvus Ambassador - representing the Milvus vector database community
🏛️Presented on AI data sovereignty to government and industry leaders
📝Side project featured on Milvus blog
🌱Grew CNCF Lucknow chapter from 40 to 240+ members in 2026
📰Blog featured on CNCF blogs
🔥FluxNinja blog post trending on HackerNews
⭐Blog and self featured on DZone homepage
📡Post shared by The New Stack
📬Multiple blogs in KubeWeekly and SREWeekly
🤝Published partnered blog with HashiCorp
🚀Community from 0 to 2.5k+ members in two months (at Skillenza)

🧩 Tech Stack

🧠 Vector & ML
Vector Databases Embeddings RAG Workflows Retrieval Reranking Ray vLLM
☸️ Cloud & Containers
Kubernetes Docker OpenShift AWS GCP Azure Oracle Helm
📊 Observability
OpenTelemetry Prometheus Grafana Istio FluentBit Jaeger Loki DataDog
💻 Languages
Python Go JavaScript Java Kotlin SQL Bash Jsonnet
🗄️ Data & Databases
PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis Snowflake BigQuery Cassandra Elasticsearch
🛠️ Frameworks
Django FastAPI Flask Kafka RabbitMQ Celery
🚀 DevOps & GitOps
CI/CD Git Argo CD Argo Rollouts FluxCD Flagger
📖 Documentation
Hugo Docusaurus
📣 Marketing & Content
SEO Google Analytics Ahrefs Canva Photoshop Premiere Pro
🔐 Auth & Identity
OAuth SAML 2.0 OIDC LDAP Keycloak Apache Ranger

📜 Certifications

2026
MCP: Build Rich-Context AI Apps with Anthropic · DeepLearning.ai
2022
Introduction to GitOps (LFS169) · The Linux Foundation
2020
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence · Microsoft
2020
Neural Networks and Deep Learning · Coursera
2020
Intro Deep Learning with PyTorch - Facebook Scholarship · Udacity
2020
Intel® Edge AI Scholarship Foundation Course · Udacity

💼 Experience

Current
Senior Developer Advocate - Improving · May 2025 – Present

Developer-facing content (blogs, tutorials, notebooks, videos) including Agent Memory Systems, hands-on RAG and vector search demos, model-serving POCs (Ray/vLLM), developer programs, and community operations. Milvus Ambassador and CNCF Lucknow chapter co-organizer.

Previous
Developer Advocate - InfraCloud (acquired by Improving) · May 2022 – May 2025

Authored technical blogs, runbooks, and demos to drive developer adoption. Built and contributed to OSS integrations, delivered case studies and POCs for pre-sales, improved documentation UX, and organized meetups and conference talks across cloud-native and observability domains.

Previous
Software Engineer - Atlan · Sep 2020 – April 2022

Designed lineage pipelines for metadata extraction, built large-scale integrations (Looker, DBT), and authored reusable Python packages. Overhauled data extractors for up to 70% faster runtimes at scale. Migrated jobs to Argo Workflows on Kubernetes.

Whether it's a conference talk, OSS collaboration, or just a chat about cloud-native tech - feel free to reach out.