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Paris Pittman has spent the last 20 years helping communities grow and flourish — from building hometown Baltimore tech communities to driving belonging and sustainability in massive open source ecosystems like Kubernetes. Paris has contributed to Kubernetes for 6 years and serves in leadership roles in the project as well as the CNCF ecosystem at large. These roles include: Kubernetes Rep on CNCF Governing Board, two term Kubernetes Steering Committee Member, emeritus Kubernetes sig-contributor-experience Chair, bootstrap member of the first Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee, and bootstrap emeritus CNCF TAG Contributor Strategy. Paris remains committed to advocating for all contributors and maintainers.