name: Kunal Das
location: Bengaluru, India ๐ฎ๐ณ
role: Developer Advocate (APAC) @ CAST AI
focus: Kubernetes Cost Optimization & FinOps
certification: KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate)
education: MSc, Liverpool John Moores University ๐ฌ๐ง
communities:
- Founder: Cloud Native Kolkata
- Co-Founder: Cloud Native Mumbai
- Organizer: HashiCorp User Group Bangalore
- Organizer: KSUG.AI India
currently:
- Speaking at global cloud-native conferences
- Building developer communities across APAC
- Evangelizing Kubernetes cost optimization
- Contributing to CNCF ecosystem
hobbies: ["๐ธ Photography (Sony A6700)", "๐ธ Badminton", "โ Specialty Coffee", "โ๏ธ Travel"]| ๐๏ธ Event | ๐ Location | ๐ฏ Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Observability Summit 2026 | Minneapolis, USA | Observing the Unobservable: LLM Telemetry on K8s |
| ArgoCon Europe @ KubeCon | Amsterdam, NL | GitOps Your Costs: Automated FinOps via Argo |
| FOSSASIA Summit 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand | FinOps in Cloud Native |
| CLOUDxAI Conference | Bengaluru, India | Organizer & Host |


