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Stephen is a Black engineering director and leader in open source communities. He is Cisco’s first Head of Open Source, within the Emerging Technologies & Incubation division. For Kubernetes, he has co-founded transformational elements of the project, including the KEP (Kubernetes Enhancements Proposal) process, the Release Engineering subproject, and Working Group Naming. Stephen has also previously served as a chair for both SIG PM and SIG Azure. He continues his work in Kubernetes as a Chair for SIG Release, a Lead for WG Naming, and an owner of Enhancements subproject. Across the wider CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) ecosystem, Stephen has the pleasure of being one of the Program Chairs for KubeCon / CloudNativeCon, the cloud native community’s flagship conference, a SIG Contributor Strategy Chair, and a maintainer for the Dex project. He is a prolific contributor to CNCF projects, amongst the top 25 (as of writing) code/content committers, all-time. In 2020, Stephen
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- • 26 investors at Cisco are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the Head of Open Source role in VCSift. Stephen Augustus is one of them.
- • 10,621 investors are based in New York, New York, United States.
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