Rithu Leena John is an active member of the Kubernetes community. She currently works in the infrastructure org at Lyft where Kubernetes is her daily bread and butter. Prior to Lyft, Rithu was at CoreOS where she worked on operators, security and enterprise solutions for Kubernetes. Rithu is also the primary maintainer of Dex, an open source federated identity provider for Kubernetes.

Rithu is passionate about open source, open standards and all things security related. But her true calling is to work towards improving diversity and inclusion in the Tech industry.