Daniel Mangum is a Principal Software Engineer at Upbound and a maintainer of Crossplane, an open source CNCF incubating project. He has served in a variety of roles in the upstream Kubernetes project, most recently as a Tech Lead of SIG Release, and is active in multiple other open source circles. Daniel is also an advocate in the RISC-V community, hosting a meetup in Durham, NC and writing the RISC-V Bytes series on his blog (https://danielmangum.com/categories/risc-v-bytes). He is a frequent speaker at conferences, meetups, and anywhere else an audience will listen to him passionately promote a future of more open hardware and software.