Nanci Lancaster
VMware
Senior Open Source Community Manager
Nanci Lancaster works at VMware as the Community Manager for the Carvel (ytt, kbld, imgpkg, kapp, kapp-controller, vendir, and secretgen-controller) and Tanzu Community Edition Open Source Projects, a role she only recently attained in January 2021. Before taking on the role of Community Manager, she managed the content planning, event scheduling, speakers, program committee, co-chairs, and other pieces of CNCF events, primarily KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, at The Linux Foundation. She has also worked previously as an event manager at DigitalOcean and South by Southwest. She currently resides in Austin, TX, where she is active in the improv comedy circuit, doing her best to make people laugh.