Ville Aikas Candidate Profile

Company Affiliation:

VMware

Contributions to Knative (list):

I am one of the founders of Knative.
I have been leading the Eventing WG since its inception.
Until recently I was on the Technical Oversight Committee, but stepped down to make room for our newly elected members (and eliminate vendor majority).
Various presentations (Google Cloud Next, Kubecon, Serverless Practitioners Summit), training sessions with customers, and partners.
Long history of technical contributions to K8s as well as being part of the larger community, such as:

First non-founder to work on the k8s before it was k8s
Sig-service catalog
Helm
Open Service Broker API

I’ve been doing my very best to make new folks joining the community feel welcomed and included as well as helped onboarding them.

Why You’re Running for SC (max 300 words)

I have spent most of my career trying to build tools that make folks’ lives easier, faster, stronger and better. Knative was one attempt at that, there have been others. I have a strong desire to make Knative be a healthy, fun and thriving community, where we can have fun, grow together and learn from each other.

In addition to having a healthy, vibrant community, I want to make the project be successful by solving real world computing needs. We’re very early in the journey, I care very deeply about this project and I would love to be able to continue contributing to shaping the vision, as well as keep on chopping water and carrying wood on the technical side.