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Lachlan Evenson

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Principal Program Manager at Microsoft
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Lachlan is a Principal Program Manager at Microsofts Azure Cloud Native Ecosystem team with over a decade of experience in open source. A key figure in the cloud native community, he is a CNCF Ambassador and emeritus Kubernetes steering committee member. People who have worked with him describe him as dedicated and highly effective with in-depth technical knowledge.

Outside of his core professional responsibilities, Lachlan is a prolific contributor to the open-source community, co-authoring several OReilly books on Kubernetes and maintaining a YouTube channel where he does deep dives and "unboxings" of cloud-native projects. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, sharing his extensive operational knowledge.

He once helped build the initial Kubernetes infrastructure for OpenAI back in 2017 while at Deis, Inc.

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Experience
15 Years
Current Role
Principal Program Manager
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Personality Overview

How Lachlan shows up

Hard To Convince
Demanding
Upfront

They don’t always try to control the conversation but neither do they like yielding it fully. They focus on objectivity in a pitch and pay little attention to bells and whistles. They care equally about the product and its potential impact.

Priorities

Topics Lachlan cares about

OSS Sustainability
He is actively discussing the open-source sustainability crisis, noting that many maintainers are unpaid and face burnout, and will be speaking on this topic at All Things Open 2025.
Cloud Native Tech
As a CNCF ambassador, author of Kubernetes books, and emeritus Kubernetes steering committee member, this is his core area of expertise and passion.
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Career

Work history

4-2017
Principal Program Manager
Microsoft
11-2019
Governing Board Member
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
1-2018
CNCF Ambassador
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
4-2020 - 10-2020
Kubernetes Steering Committee Member
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
8-2016 - 4-2017
Senior Solutions Architect
Deis, Inc
In the press

Media appearances

Lachlan Evenson | Principal Program Manager @Microsoft & K8s .... Featured in QCon SF 2019 (archive.qconsf.com)
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Education
2001 - 2003
Bachelor of Information Technology
QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Calculativeness (C)

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