Yesterday I was invited for "Connect with the Industry Influencers" event as a speaker. I talked around my journey from 2016 (Docker Captain) to 2019(Tip of Captain's Hat Award). Overall it was an amazing opportunity to interact with DellTechnologies folks.

1. SAN FRANCISCO
RECAP
My Journey from
“Docker Captain” to
“Tip of Captain’s Hat Award”
2016
2019

2. $whoami
Principal Development Engineer at DellEMC
1st half of my career was in CGI & VMware
2nd half of my career has been in System Integration Testing
Docker Captain (since 2016)
Docker Bangalore Meetup Organizer ( 7700+ Registered Users)
DockerLabs Incubator/Founder

4. 4
My Journey
2015
The Birth of Collabnix.com
0.2+ Million Visitors

5. Solomon Hykes, Founder of Docker
March 22, 2013
PyCon

10. A Growing Ecosystem

12. 29
2015
The Birth of Collabnix.com
0.2+ Million Visitors
2016
Honored as “Docker Captain”
Invited for Docker Distributed Summit,
Berlin, Germany
My Journey

13. 32
Docker Distributed Systems Summit, Berlin

14. 30
Docker Captains
Who are they?
 Community Leaders who love Docker
 An Elite group of Docker Super-Users
 Docker ambassadors but NOT Docker employees
What they do?
All the Great Things -
 Blogging
 Writing Books
 Speaking in Conferences,
 Creating Tutorials & Classes
 Offering Support in Forums, Slack Channels, IRC
 Contributing to Local Events
 Contributor for Docker Projects
https://www.docker.com/docker-captains

15. 500K+
People Taught Speaking Sessions
400+
Articles
100s

17. 17
2015
Birth of Collabnix.com
2+ Million Visitors
2016
Honored as “Docker Captain”
Invited for Docker Distributed Summit,
Berlin, Germany
2017
Awarded “Most Read Blog”
Conducted Workshop @
Dockercon 2017 Austin TX
My Journey

18. 18
Networking Workshop @ Dockercon Austin

19. Building the First CentOS 7.2 ARM Docker Image For
Raspberry Pi Cluster

20. Collabnix Statistics

21. 21
2015
Birth of Collabnix.com
2+ Million Visitors
2016
Honored as “Docker Captain”
Invited for Docker Distributed Summit,
Berlin, Germany
2017
Awarded “Most Read Blog”
Conducted Workshop @
Dockercon 2017 Austin TX
2011
Docker Meetup Organizer
Top LinuxKit Contributor
OpenUSM for Server
Management & Machine
Learning using Docker
My Journey

22. 31

23. https://github.com/collabnix/openusm

24. 24
2015
Birth of Collabnix.com
2+ Million Visitors
2016
Honored as “Docker Captain”
Invited for Docker Distributed Summit,
Berlin, Germany
2017
Awarded “Most Read Blog”
Conducted Workshop @
Dockercon 2017 Austin TX
2011
Docker Meetup Organizer
Top LinuxKit Contributor
2018
10 Million Visits @ Collabnix
Invited for Dockercon 2018 SF
My Journey

25. Docker Meetup Groups Worldwide!
75 user
groups
events
worldwide!

26. Docker Bangalore Community by the numbers
7700+
Members
40+
Conducted Meetup
till date
Sponsors
30+
Average Attendance
per Meetup
150-200

27. 27
2015
Birth of Collabnix.com
2+ Million Visitors
2016
Honored as “Docker Captain”
Invited for Docker Distributed Summit,
Berlin, Germany
2017
Awarded “Most Read Blog”
Conducted Workshop @
Dockercon 2017 Austin TX
2011
Docker Meetup Organizer
Top LinuxKit Contributor
2018
10 Million Visits @ Collabnix
Invited for Dockercon 2018 SF
2019
Tip of Captain’s Hat Award
Dockercon 2019 SFO
My Journey

28. Docker Community

31. #5 Golden Tips for becoming Docker Captain

32. #1: Getting Involved with Docker Community – “Be Passionate”

33. #2: Share Your Knowledge via Blogs, Webinars

34. #3: Be a High-Class Docker Contributor

35. #4: Speak at Conferences

36. #5: Be Part of Local Docker Event

37. #6: Follow Docker Captains

38. DockerLabs ~ Join 400+ contributors
 DockerLabs is a GITHUB repository which holds a mix of labs & tutorials related
to Docker, Kubernetes & Cloud that will help you, no matter if you are a
beginner, Sysadmins, IT Pro or Developer.
 Works based on crowdsourcing model where group of Docker enthusiasts
come together via to contribute towards a common goal –
“Learning by Collaborative Contributions”

39. Thank You!