Andrew Nelson recently joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate, focusing on Kubernetes usability and extensibility of YugabyteDB. He brings experience from previous roles at Worldstor, VMware, and Nutanix, where he worked on various projects including virtualization, Big Data, and containers. Nelson is excited to work with an open-source company and contribute to the growth of a new technology platform. In his previous role at Nutanix, he was part of the development team for Kubernetes and had experience working with independent frameworks for running containers and cloud-native applications. He believes that open-source software development can drive more robust and user-driven features. Nelson is looking forward to being part of an agile startup and learning about a next-generation database from the ground up.