Sonali Srivastava — CEO

My expertise in software development allows me to perform POCs and craft engaging demos, tutorials, and videos that showcase the power of cloud-native solutions. Over the past five years, I’ve worn many hats: monitoring Linux servers as a system administrator, developing a cloud-native solution for a Linux-based training platform, and contributing to the open-source project systemd during my Outreachy internship. Currently, I am passionate about advocating for open-source tools and technologies through blogs, videos, webinars, and talks at meetups and conferences. Having returned to work after a break, I strongly advocate for creating supportive and nurturing environments for women in tech. Giving back to the community drives me, which inspired my contributions to the documentation of Testkube and Kyverno. I am an active member of the CNCF Application Development Working Group, where we focus on bridging the gap between developers and CNCF projects. I also created LFS255: Mastering Kubernetes Security with Kyverno, a course hosted by The Linux Foundation. My blogs have been featured in the CNCF blog and the Kubeweekly newsletter. Additionally, I’ve had the privilege of speaking at SOSS Community Day India 2024 and delivering a project lightning talk at KubeCon India 2024. **Where was I a speaker?** 1. FOSS United January Meetup: https://lnkd.in/gTV4uvPW 2. Chennai FOSS United 2.0: https://lnkd.in/gyWwrTBU 3. FOSS United July 2024 Meetup: https://lnkd.in/gb_Bz-Uu 4. CNCF Thane August 2024 Meetup: https://lnkd.in/g4HJDFDx 5. Women in Cloud Native Navratri Event: https://lnkd.in/gj3gmzMv 6. SOSS Community Day: https://lnkd.in/ggCEWUmz 7. KubeCon India: https://lnkd.in/gB3fpgRp **Other milestones?** 1. Joined CNCF App Dev WG 2. POC for Testkube with Tekton: https://lnkd.in/gM7_qHCY 3. Developed Mastering Kubernetes Security with Kyverno (LFS255): https://lnkd.in/gMBRfwcU 4. Made my first contribution to Kyverno documentation. 5. FOSS ( Free and Open Source Software ) Contribution at systemd. Checkout my contribution at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pulls?q=is%3Amerged+is%3Apr+author%3Acerebro1 Feel free to reach me if you are a student or caregiver and looking to (RE)Start your career in the industry. Happy to connect, learn something from you, and also share my experience.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud-Native Developer Advocate with strong open-source contributions.

Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 8 yrs 9 mos

Skills

Technology Evangelism
Kubernetes
Product Evangelism
Open Source
Community Management
Cloud-native Applications
Devops
Software Development
Entrepreneurship

Career Highlights

Advocate for women in tech and open-source.
Created a Kubernetes security course for The Linux Foundation.
Active contributor to CNCF and open-source projects.

Work Experience

Improving

Senior Developer Advocate (6 mos)

Technology Evangelist (11 mos)

Kyverno

Kyverno Contributor (1 yr)

Women in Cloud Native

Organizer (1 yr 2 mos)

InfraCloud Technologies

Technology Evangelist (2 yrs 4 mos)

systemd

Open Source Developer (1 yr 7 mos)

Outreachy

Software Engineer (3 mos)

Open Source Software

Open Source Developer (2 mos)

Career Break

Full-time parenting (2 yrs)

Data Dewins

Co-Founder and Program Manager (2 yrs)

One.com

Product Owner and System Administrator (10 mos)

Quality Assurance Quality Control (2 yrs 6 mos)

Associate System Administrator (2 yrs 2 mos)

Trainee (3 mos)

Fulfil.IO - Next Generation ERP (500 Startups B15)

Python Developer (3 mos)

Education

Bachelor's degree at Krishna Institute of Engineering & Technology

Intermediate at City Montessori School

High School at City Montessori School

Sonali Srivastava

CEO

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India8 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Advocate for women in tech and open-source.
Created a Kubernetes security course for The Linux Foundation.
Active contributor to CNCF and open-source projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud-Native Developer Advocate with strong open-source contributions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technology EvangelismKubernetesProduct EvangelismOpen SourceCommunity ManagementCloud-native ApplicationsDevopsSoftware DevelopmentEntrepreneurship

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAnsibleApacheAsanaBloggingBusiness DevelopmentC (Programming Language)Cloud ComputingCommunity BuildingCommunity EngagementCommunity NetworkingComputer ScienceCoordinating ActivitiesDeveloper Relations

About

Experience

Improving

2 roles

Senior Developer Advocate

Sep 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Technology EvangelismProof of ConceptKubernetesDevrel

Technology Evangelist

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

InfraCloud is now Improving! As of April 2025, we’re now a part of the Improving brand. I am:
Leading technology evangelist for a client and helping with blogs, tutorials, videos, and documentation.
Delivering talks and attending conferences around technology in the cloud native ecosystem
Focussing on improving developer experience via TAG App Delivery CNCF WG
Creating POCs around Security, Observability, Testing, Storage and OSS tools like Istio Service Mesh, and Kuma Service Mesh.
Creating & reviewing content for blogs aimed at developers.
Interacting with community members via conferences and online channels like Slack, Twitter, and LinkedIn to name a few.

Product EvangelismBloggingKubernetesDeveloper RelationsTechnical Documentation

Kyverno

Kyverno Contributor

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr · Remote

Writing and advocating about Kyverno

Open sourceDocumentationPolicy

Women in cloud native

Organizer

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Advocate about:
Women in Tech
Deliver talks and attend events
Host webinars
Drive social media
And everything around cloud native ecosystem

Community ManagementCommunity NetworkingCommunity BuildingCoordinating Activities

Infracloud technologies

Technology Evangelist

Dec 2022 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos · India · Remote

Leading technology evangelist for a client and helping with blogs, tutorials, videos, and documentation.
Delivering talks and attending conferences around technology in the cloud native ecosystem
Focussing on improving developer experience via TAG App Delivery CNCF WG
Creating POCs around Security, Observability, Testing, Storage and OSS tools like Istio Service Mesh, and Kuma Service Mesh.
Creating & reviewing content for blogs aimed at developers.
Interacting with community members via conferences and online channels like Slack, Twitter, and LinkedIn to name a few.

Cloud-Native ApplicationsDevOpsTechnical Course DevelopmentGNU/LinuxKubernetesWriting+14

Systemd

Open Source Developer

Sep 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Add –new option to systemctl to create new unit using a pre-defined template(WIP).
Technical demos and documentation of upcoming releases of open source products. ( cerebro1.github.io)

Software DevelopmentLinuxC (Programming Language)Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)Infrastructure

Outreachy

Software Engineer

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos

Outreachy'22 - Summer
Project : Improve hibernation and suspend
FOSS community : systemd
Details :
Estimate battery consumption and set up timed wakeup to assess again
Handle when to wake up for the first check (no previous data to do an estimation)
Record estimates/consumption on machine-specific (keyed by /etc/machine-id) storage location for reuse on future reboots
Add support for ACPI _BTP so that the bios/hw will trigger a wakeup when battery is low
Freeze/thaw user.slice on suspend/resume

Software DevelopmentGNU DebuggerGitLinuxC (Programming Language)Open-Source Software+2

Open source software

Open Source Developer

Mar 2022 – May 2022 · 2 mos

Software Development

Career break

Full-time parenting

Dec 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs

Talk about day shift or night, priorities or communicating to new born, i have a few tricks up my sleeve

Data dewins

Co-Founder and Program Manager

Dec 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs

Built a comprehensive development strategy and drive execution.
Track progress of measurable goals of company.
Regular improvement of infrastructure by identifying risk and recommending solutions.
Worked on projects across Operations, Marketing and Business functions.
Setup Debian based infrastructure over AWS with custom VPC, SG [rules], NACL [rules] with user and packages managed via Ansible and infrastructure managed via Terraform.
Make architecture decisions to ensure strong, stable and scalable product.
Develop and collaborate on technical workshops, product roadshow and open discussions.
Technical advisor to customer and business leaders.
Perform R&D by engaging with working professionals and attending webinars to keep up with current IT industry requirements/changes.
Work on improving professionals skills of team as well as personal through training and mentorship.

Software DevelopmentEntrepreneurshipAnsibleProject ManagementAmazon Web Services (AWS)Asana+7

One.com

4 roles

Product Owner and System Administrator

Dec 2018 – Oct 2019 · 10 mos

Monitoring of infrastructure using tools like shinken, nagios, icinga, grafana
Developing monitoring checks and automation tools using scripting languages Bash, Perl and Python
Debugging and managing of linux based server
Handling third level escalation for Systems Infrastructure & Operation team supporting 24X7
Configuration and performance tuning of web services : Apache, Nginx, Mysql and PSQL
Employee entry/exit management including access grant/revocation of VPN,SSH,Gitlab,etc. and user creation across infrastructure.
Maintenance of mail infrastructure using tools like Halon, Postfix, Dovecot, Gobalancer.
Mail & Abuse handling and monitoring
Performing migrations on need basis
Stress testing of ongoing setup for various services across stateless servers
CI/CD using Gitlab
Create induction plan for new joinees
Setup testing environment for various products at one.com.
Configuring network architecture
Establishing connections across servers on specified IP & ports via gateways
Configurations of applications deployed via CHEF on servers
Enable monitoring of test nodes.
Ensure GDPR compliance of product
Setup of system to perform log analysis and generate stats of product. Push data to UI for devs
regular check
Document SOP for product
Creating debian packages of in-house products

Software Development

Quality Assurance Quality Control

Promoted

Apr 2017 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Weekly the product's quality assurance is done. This is a manual check for all the features to be working.

Associate System Administrator

Oct 2016 – Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Working with open source applications such as Apache, Postfix, Dovecot, Chef etc on Unix platform
Systems Administration and IT-Security and Network projects
Programming and maintaining code in Bash, Python and Golang
Third-level support

Trainee

Jun 2016 – Sep 2016 · 3 mos

Fulfil.io - next generation erp (500 startups b15)

Python Developer

Mar 2016 – Jun 2016 · 3 mos · Remote

Fulfil.IO is the next generation SaaS ERP for SMBs. Fulfil.IO helps companies manage operations with a single, fully integrated system covering inventory, financials, e-commerce and more.
The Fulfil.IO smart assistant allows users to interact with the ERP as if it were a person. This drives adoption and reduces the tedious effort of learning to navigate business software. The simple and beautiful UX is fully customizable and can be accessed on any device from anywhere. The open APIs let developers build powerful applications over the Fulfil.IO platform.