Tasha has been an innovative product leader in Silicon Valley for over a decade. She is Senior Director of xLabs in the Office of the CTO’s Advanced Technology Group at VMware. She is co-chair of the Kubernetes Working Group for Multi-Tenancy and co-chair of the Kubernetes SIG Usability. Previously she launched VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid for vSphere, and was a member of the team that launched Project Pacific, Tanzu for SDDC, and vSphere with Tanzu at VMware. Tasha has also held product roles at Chef, Rentlytics, Engine Yard and Lockheed Martin. She was a core maintainer of Chef Habitat. Tasha holds a B.S. in Computer Science from USC and an M.S. in Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship from RPI.