Jorge O. Castro is a community manager, specializing in Open Source. He's basically a cat herder – a combination of engineering, developer relations, and user advocacy.

Jorge graduated with a degree in Telecommunications from Michigan State University and rode with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment for four years. He first entered the technology field at SAIC and then moved to system administration at the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan. Jorge then joined Canonical to work on Ubuntu for about 10 years before moving to Heptio/VMware to work on Kubernetes. These days Jorge is a Developer Advocate at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, where he's tasked with a singular goal: help make open source sustainable.