Madhav Jivrajani

Madhav Jivrajani is currently a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, having commenced in August 2024. Madhav has extensive experience with the Kubernetes community, serving as a Kubernetes Maintainer and SIG Contributor Experience TL at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation since January 2021, where notable contributions include optimizing the Watch Cache component of the Kubernetes API Server. Prior to this role, Madhav worked as a Member of Technical Staff at VMware from August 2021 to July 2024 and gained additional experience through various internships, including Akamai Technologies and a research position at the Center for Cloud Computing and Big Data at PES University. Academically, Madhav holds a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from PES University and is pursuing a Master of Science in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.