From Student to SRE - Navigating CNCF Projects and Kubernetes

Discover the inspiring journey of a student's transformation into a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who embraces CNCF technologies in this 24-minute conference talk. Follow Jacob Valdemar Andreasen's path from a software technology student to a Certified Kubernetes Administrator at Lunar. Learn how he navigated the CNCF ecosystem, contributed to open-source projects, and gained expertise in Kubernetes, Linkerd, Flux, Fluent Bit, Prometheus, and Backstage. Explore the opportunities and challenges faced by aspiring platform engineers, including internship experiences, documentation contributions, and networking within the CNCF community. Gain insights on effective learning strategies, joining tech communities, studying courses, and presenting at events. Use this talk as a roadmap to kickstart your own career in cloud-native technologies and platform engineering.

Introduction
Student to SRE
Internship at Lunar
First contribution to CNCF
How to reach the CNCF community
Documentation contributions
Learning
Networking
Join a Community
Study Courses
Presenting
Summary