Lucas is a Kubernetes and cloud native expert who has been serving the CNCF community in lead positions for 8 years. He was awarded Top CNCF Ambassador 2017 with Sarah Novotny. Lucas was a co-lead for Kubernetes SIG Cluster Lifecycle, co-created kubeadm, ported Kubernetes to ARM and is one of the top 50 most active contributors to Kubernetes. Lucas runs cloud native meetups in Helsinki, Tampere and Turku, co-created Cloud Native Nordics and has spoken at 8 KubeCons. Recently, Lucas wrote his BSc thesis on cloud native principles, and is working on realizing a vision of using Kubernetes API Machinery as a secure, generic control plane framework.