 Hi everyone my name is Arsh and this is my Kubernetes story. My journey started when I decided to learn more about Docker and Kubernetes in December of 2020. While learning I wrote down everything I learned in my blogs. Jim read some of my blogs and offered me an internship at Neymata. Jim was very supportive and he was the one who encouraged me to apply for the Linux Foundation mentorship program. While going through the list of projects honestly I was very overwhelmed but then I reached out to Tim's regarding the project he was mentoring. Tim's was incredibly kind and made me feel so welcomed. From there with his help slowly everything started to fall in place by itself. My project is about evaluating dependency updates made to Kubernetes. I think more than what I learned on the technical side of things I am grateful for all the friends I've made. I've met some really amazing folk and it's truly a joy to be around there. To anyone who is getting started my advice would be to just take that first step drop that first message. I know it's very hard to overcome that initial mental barrier but once you do that you'll see that there is a super awesome community waiting to help you. So this was it for my story and please feel free to reach out if I can help in any way. Thank you.