Shatarupa Nandi is an engineering leader focused on software distribution and lifecycle management problems with a strong emphasis on improving Day 2 operational experiences. Her interest follows naturally from past work building infrastructure management tools and tools for running data services in the cloud, where she experienced first-hand the challenges that operators face keeping databases and applications up-to-date in large scale production deployments. Today, as an R&D director at VMware, Shatarupa leads a team that is collaborating openly to solve these problems with Kubernetes through the open source Carvel project.