Nikhita is a staff software engineer at VMware and a maintainer of the Kubernetes project. She is a CNCF Ambassador and has won the CNCF Top Committer Award in 2021 for her technical contributions. She is currently the technical lead for k8s SIG Contributor Experience and was also a member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee. Nikhita has been featured in Business Insider as one the ‘top 21 developers transforming Silicon Valley’.