Graziano Casto 👋🏻

I engaged the global cloud-native community for Mia-Platform by speaking at 10+ international conferences annually and publishing articles on platforms like CNCF and TheNewStack. I built and managed a training program certifying 150+ professionals yearly and cultivated a community of 50+ external experts. Internally, I empowered the pre-sales team by creating technical demos, PoCs, and maintaining all public-facing product documentation.

As Product Manager reporting directly to the C-suite, I owned the strategy and roadmap for HUKO's entire product portfolio. I managed the end-to-end customer lifecycle, from gathering requirements to driving adoption and upselling opportunities. I also spearheaded the company's successful transition to SCRUM, establishing an agile framework that fundamentally improved our product development process.

As a software engineer at HUKO, I engineered the migration of our flagship product to a cloud-native architecture using Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS. I also designed and implemented the company's end-to-end testing strategy, creating the core procedures and automated test suites. To improve team productivity, I evaluated new development tools via PoCs and built supporting SDKs, which significantly enhanced our developer experience.

As the Technical Lead for the CNCF's Developer Experience TAG, I provide decisive technical leadership and set the strategic direction for projects impacting the cloud-native developer community. I architect solutions to complex, cross-project technical challenges and define project roadmaps to ensure alignment with our core mission. By mentoring project leads and driving key technical decisions, I steer the community's efforts and ensure the successful delivery of high-quality, impactful open-source initiatives.

Led the Kubernetes v1.35 release Comms Subteam collaborating with SIGs and contributors to curate highlights and blog content, joining team meetings, helping draft and review release blogs, coordinating publication schedules, and ensuring smooth communication and progress tracking across the release and documentation teams.

Supported the Kubernetes v1.34 release by collaborating with SIGs and contributors to curate highlights and blog content, joining team meetings, helping draft and review release blogs, coordinating publication schedules, and ensuring smooth communication and progress tracking across the release and documentation teams.

As a SIG Docs Approver and Blog Owner for the Kubernetes project, I hold a position of trust within the community, responsible for upholding the quality and integrity of one of the world's most visited open-source documentation sites. My role involves rigorously reviewing and approving pull requests for both core documentation and the official Kubernetes Blog. I am accountable for merging content, ensuring technical accuracy, and adherence to community style guides. Additionally, I mentor new contributors and help manage the blog's publication process from submission to final release.