Kat Cosgrove

Co-Founder

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States18 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Leader in Kubernetes open source community.
  • Expert in technical writing and community outreach.
  • Advocate for inclusive leadership in tech.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Kubernetes-focused open source advocate with strong leadership in developer relations.

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Skills

Core Skills

KubernetesEngineering LeadershipTechnical WritingProject ManagementPublic SpeakingTechnical Support

Other Skills

GitOpen-Source SoftwareRemoving Kubernetes FeaturesCommunicationThought LeadershipCommunity OutreachManagementCat earsContinuous Delivery (CD)Cloud Native TechnologiesInclusive LeadershipCloud-Native ApplicationsDevOpsDeveloper RelationsWeb Development

About

Kat is an open source advocate focused on the growth and nurturing of open source through authentic contribution. She has been involved in the Kubernetes project for years, in particular the Kubernetes Release Team. She was the release lead for v1.30 Uwubernetes, and currently serves as a member of the Steering Committee, the Release Team subproject lead and SIG Docs tech lead. When she's not doing open source or at a conference, she spends her time playing video games, watching horror movies, and reading science fiction. She lives in Scotland with her cat, Espresso, who is the real brains behind the operation and actually ghostwriting all of her posts. If you have not worked together directly, please send a note with your connection request or it will just be ignored.

Experience

Kubernetes

Steering Committee Member

Nov 2025Present · 5 mos · Remote

Minimus

Head of Developer Advocacy

Apr 2025Present · 1 yr · Remote

Kubernetes

3 roles

Release Team Subproject Lead

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs · Remote

KubernetesPublic SpeakingGitOpen-Source SoftwareEngineering LeadershipRemoving Kubernetes Features+6

SIG Docs Tech Lead

Apr 2024Present · 2 yrs · Remote

KubernetesGitOpen-Source SoftwareEngineering LeadershipTechnical WritingCommunication+4

Kubernetes Release Team

Aug 2021Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Remote

  • v1.25 Comms Subteam Lead
  • v1.29 Docs Subteam Lead
  • v1.30 Release Lead
KubernetesPublic SpeakingGitOpen-Source SoftwareEngineering LeadershipRemoving Kubernetes Features+6

Dell technologies

Lead Open Source Advocate

Oct 2022Oct 2024 · 2 yrs · Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom · Remote

  • Define and manage corporate strategy for open source software, both upstream contributions and the open sourcing of internal tools, including ownership of relevant GitHub orgs. Liaise with legal and engineering teams to ensure safety and compliance.
  • Build and record training materials on the topics of DevOps, cloud native, and open source software solutions for internal sales, pre-sales, and customer support teams.
  • Positively represent Dell at a variety of conferences as a speaker and thought leader, and within the Kubernetes project as a maintainer and community member.
KubernetesPublic SpeakingGitOpen-Source SoftwareEngineering LeadershipTechnical Writing+4

Pulumi corporation

Staff Developer Advocate

Jun 2021Oct 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Build and launch interactive, live and self-directed workshops showcasing Pulumi for a variety of use-cases, programming languages, and cloud vendors.
  • Design, build, and launch series of self-contained tutorial-based marketing campaigns, consistently generating new sign ups passively.
  • Engage with the existing community online and at in-person events to solicit product feedback and provide user support.
  • Represent Pulumi at conferences and meetups as both a speaker and an attendee, delivering technical talks about Pulumi and related DevOps concepts.
KubernetesPublic SpeakingGitOpen-Source SoftwareTechnical WritingCommunication+4

Jfrog

2 roles

Developer Advocate

Promoted

Oct 2019May 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Build and deliver technical educational content for a variety of skill levels in the form of blog articles, workshops, and conference talks, both specific to JFrog products and broader DevOps concepts.
  • Design materials and content for branded, JFrog-specific workshop content to be re-used by the rest of the company.
  • Represent JFrog at conferences and meetups, both as a speaker and an attendee, gathering actionable product feedback and community insight from other attendees.
  • Co-host the DevOps Speakeasy podcast both online and as a live event at major conferences.
KubernetesPublic SpeakingGitOpen-Source SoftwareTechnical WritingCommunication+2

IoT Software Engineer

Oct 2018Oct 2019 · 1 yr

KubernetesPublic SpeakingGitOpen-Source SoftwareTechnical Support

Code fellows

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2018Sep 2018 · 2 mos

  • Automation and Business App Integration
Git

Lead Teaching Assistant

Nov 2017Sep 2018 · 10 mos

  • Assist instructional team in teaching Python, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, and CSS to students from a wide range of backgrounds. Debug student code and provide one-on-one support as needed.
Git

Token forum

Program Manager

Jul 2018Aug 2018 · 1 mo · Seattle, WA

Online holdings, llc

2 roles

Technical Support Coordinator

Sep 2011Nov 2016 · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Act as liaison between the customer and the support/development teams. Take responsibility for tier one support during heavy load times.
  • Produced setup guides for configuring RBackup to handle automated software updates for end-users, Exchange database and mailbox backup, as well as conversion of storage database from Access to SQL.
  • Wrote and implemented multiple macros and self-help flows, decreasing time to resolve a ticket by 30% and overall number of tickets opened by 10%.

Business Development

Jan 2011Oct 2011 · 9 mos

Sandwire

Technical Support

Jul 2009Oct 2009 · 3 mos

Black lodge video

Manager

Jul 2007Feb 2011 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Memphis, TN

  • Maintain film database and in-house server. Manage offsite data backups. Make film recommendations when asked, and be prepared to discuss films from assigned genre at length.
  • Built new primary server and handled migration of critical rental database and software from old Windows 98SE machine to Windows Server machine.
  • Planned and managed various ultra-focused miniature film festival events catering to specific tastes in an effort to introduce new ideas or genres to existing customers and draw new customers in.

Remote backup systems, inc

Business Development

Jun 2006Jan 2011 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Memphis, TN

Education

Code Fellows

Advanced Software Development in Python — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2017Jan 2018

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