Sagar Utekar

With over 9 years of IT experience and a strong background in Site Reliability Engineering, Sagar currently works as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at CrowdStrike, focusing on scaling planetary-scale platforms and leading AI-SRE infrastructure initiatives.
As a Docker Captain, CNCF Ambassador, and certified Kubestronaut (holding all five core Kubernetes certifications), Sagar is a passionate mentor who has coached thousands of learners globally. He actively leads the Docker Pune and CNCG Pune chapters, bringing local developers together to simplify cloud-native engineering.
Sagar loves creating educational content and technical roadmaps; his comprehensive YouTube series and DevOps/SRE newsletter support a community of over 57,000 followers, making complex, production-grade automation intuitive and accessible to everyone.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Sagar.Utekar
Passionate about community building and digital sovereignty, his goal is to continue mentoring the next generation of engineers, contributing to open-source governance, and helping the technology ecosystem grow together