Sergio Méndez is a systems engineer and professor of operating systems at San Carlos of Guatemala university. His work at the university is related to teaching and researching cloud native technologies with his students. He has experience working on DevOps, and MLOps using open source technologies at work. About open source communities, he is involved in the CNCF Community, promoting students into the CNCF Ecosystem and hosting a Cloud Native meetup in Guatemala. He has been a speaker at several conferences such as KubeCon, WTFisCloudNative, and Kubernetes Community Days. He is also a Linkerd Ambassador and he is writing a book about Edge Computing and K3s with Packt publisher.