About

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 2026
Speaker
Your Prompt Is a Cross-Border Data Transfer · KubeCon India 2026, June 2026 (Lightning Talk)
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, 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.
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

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), 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.