Kim has over a decade of experience in the tech industry leading diverse teams and working with enterprise customers. She is passionate about the people behind the technology, especially in the open source community. For the past seven years, she has transformed her love of learning and community into organizing multiple user groups. In addition to founding the Seattle Cloud Foundry Meetup and the Seattle Chapter of the Startup Chicks Foundation, Kim serves as a Cloud Foundry Ambassador. Her interest in cloud technologies is longstanding, evidenced by her roles as Director of Cloud Evangelism at CenturyLink and Director of Technical Advocacy - Office of the CTO at IBM BlueBox, where she focused in part on Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes and OpenStack. Most recently, Kim joined Google in Developer Relations where she heads up their worldwide Technical Customer Engagement programs for Google Cloud Platform. You can follow her on twitter at @kmbannerman.