Joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as general manager has been an amazing journey. When I started as GM last year, my goal was to understand the needs of the community by listening and then build from there. However, as some of you may have heard, CNCF is a foundation of doers which means I’ve done a lot of listening
and a lot of doing in my time here. To kickstart, I engaged in hundreds (maybe thousands) of conversations with end users, project contributors, board members, technology vendors, and other community members. We uncovered areas of improvement and also areas for deeper reflection. In this article, I will share some of those reflections and my philosophy for enabling #teamCloudNative going into 2021.