Introducing Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta is a principal technologist at Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is responsible for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) strategy within AWS, and actively participates at CNCF Board and technical meetings. Arun has built and led developer communities, has spoken in 45+ countries on a myriad of topics, and also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the U.S. He is the author of several books, a globe trotter, a Docker Captain, a Java Champion, and a Java User Group (JUG) leader. Find Arun on Twitter: @arungupta.

Geertjan Wielenga: Could you start by explaining what you do?

Arun Gupta: I help service teams at Amazon to engage with open-source communities, help to define our open-source messaging and positioning, and share that outside of AWS.

I've been working in developer relations for over 13 years now at a wide variety of companies. I started at Sun Microsystems, then Oracle, then Red Hat, and then Couchbase. I've been an individual...