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Heba Elayoty

Heba Elayoty

Microsoft, software enginner

مايكروسوفت, مهندسة برمجيات

San Jose, California, United States

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Heba is a software engineer on Microsoft's Azure Cloud Native OSS team and co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Scheduling and the Workload-Aware Scheduling Working Group. She previously worked on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and served as Bug Triage Lead for the Kubernetes 1.25 release. Her 19+ years in the industry span ten years of Java development and more than nine in distributed systems and infrastructure engineering. Heba holds a Computer Engineering degree from Cairo University and lives in California with her two daughters. Outside work, she enjoys music, cooking, and community work.

هبة مهندسة برمجيات في فريق Azure Cloud Native OSS بشركة مايكروسوفت، ورئيسة مشاركة لمجموعة SIG Scheduling ومجموعة العمل Workload-Aware Scheduling في مشروع Kubernetes. عملت سابقًا ضمن فريق Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)، وتولّت قيادة فريق فرز الأخطاء (Bug Triage Lead) في إصدار Kubernetes 1.25. تمتد خبرتها لأكثر من 19 عامًا، منها عشر سنوات في تطوير Java وأكثر من تسع سنوات في هندسة الأنظمة الموزعة والبنية التحتية. هبة حاصلة على درجة في هندسة الحاسبات من جامعة القاهرة، وتقيم في كاليفورنيا مع ابنتيها. وخارج أوقات العمل، تهوى الموسيقى والطهي والعمل المجتمعي.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Real Estate & Architecture

Topics

  • Kubernetes
  • Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
  • distributed systems

The Cloud-Native Workloads Journey Through the CNCF Tag-Runtime

In this session, we will cover the following:

1) How to get involved with CNCF TAG-Runtime.
2) Overview of CNCF open source projects that enable running cloud native workloads.
3) The latest on the TAG working groups, including topics like:
a. Progress in the WASM working group.
b. Latest in the Edge IoT space.
c. Enhancements to large-scale Kubernetes batch jobs.
d. Updates on container interfaces with hardware devices.
e. New TAG working groups on the horizon.
4) Future trends in cloud-native technologies within the TAG scope (such as running and serving LLMs and WebAssembly).

After the session, attendees will understand the CNCF landscape comprehensively within the realms of workloads and runtime. They will also be informed about the latest developments and learn how to actively contribute to open source projects and the CNCF community.

WG-Workload Aware Scheduling: An Introduction

The Kubernetes community has been hard at work enhancing the scheduling of workloads. In 2026, the community started adding support for workload aware scheduling and this work was eventually folded into a working group. In this session, we will highlight the APIs added, provide details on the in-tree roadmap and the goal of the working group with respect to the ecosystem.

We will discuss the integrations with Kueue and popular workload controllers like JobSet. This session will provide the roadmap and future plans for the working group. We are also looking for engagement from the community.

WAS/TAS/Scheduling/Auto-scaling Summit at KubeCon NA

Workload-aware Scheduling working group would like to host a design workshop (summit) similar to the ones were hosted by Google in the last two KubeCon. The first half will be an update and presentation / Q&A style, and the second half will unstructured for break out sessions.

Project Lightning Talk + ContribFest + Maintainer Track: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2026 Sessionize Event Upcoming

November 2026 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 Sessionize Event Upcoming

November 2026 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Heba Elayoty

Microsoft, software enginner

San Jose, California, United States

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