# KCD Around the World: San Francisco Bay Area

DevFeed: [KCD Around the World: San Francisco Bay Area](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/kcd-around-the-world-san-francisco-bay-area-17603.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.kubernetes.dev/blog/2026/08/19/kcd-around-the-world-san-francisco/>)

Author: The Kubernetes Authors

Published: 2026-08-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Kubernetes Contributors Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/kubernetes-contributors-blog.md>)

Topics: [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [Cloud Native Ecosystem](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud-native-ecosystem.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [cloud-native](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud-native.md>), [cncf](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cncf.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [contributors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/contributors.md>), [developer-relations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-relations.md>), [google-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-cloud.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>)

## AI overview

An interview with organizers of the second KCD San Francisco Bay Area, scheduled for September 1, 2026, explores the event's origins, the local Kubernetes community, and the organizers' backgrounds in Kubernetes and cloud-native technology.

## Source excerpt

Welcome back to KCD Around the World, a series where we explore Kubernetes Community Days from every corner of the globe. Behind every event is a community of volunteers, contributors, organizers and attendees who make it all happen. Through conversations with the people behind each KCD, we share what makes it unique. This stop: San Francisco Bay Area. Coming up on September 1, 2026 is the second KCD San Francisco Bay Area, held at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. We spoke with three of its organizers, Rey Lejano, Lisa-Marie Namphy, and Jason (Jay) Smith, about what makes the Bay Area community tick. Meet the community Kashish Verma (KV): Could you each introduce yourselves and tell us how you got involved in Kubernetes? Rey Lejano (RL): I'm one of the KCD San Francisco Bay Area organizers, a Kubernetes SIG Docs co-chair and SIG Security subproject lead, and I work at Red Hat. I've served on seven Release Teams, including as the v1.23 Release Lead. A conversation with a Kubernetes contributor at the 2019 KubeCon in San Diego is what pulled me into contributing to the project. Lisa-Marie Namphy (LN): Hi! I'm Lisa-Marie Namphy (Lisa), I've been a CNCF Ambassador since the early days of the program and have run one of the largest Kubernetes/Cloud Native user groups for over 10 years, now called Cloud Native Silicon Valley. I also run the Developer Relations and Tech Learning team at Intuit, where open source is core to how we build: our flagship products like TurboTax and QuickBooks run on Kubernetes and other CNCF technologies, including Argo, which Intuit originally created and donated. Jason "Jay" Smith (JS): I'm a Staff Customer Engineer on the Application Ecosystem team at Google Cloud, though I like to call myself the "Cloud Alchemist," since I help customers move from legacy monolithic architectures to microservices. On the community side, I'm a co-lead for the Cloud Native San Francisco Community, an organizer for the 2025 and 2026 KCD San Francisc