This panel explores how the CNCF's Developer Experience Technical Advisory Group (TAG) supports CNCF projects to improve the daily lives of app developers—and by extension, software quality and delivery. We will take you through our group’s goals and initiatives where the TAG collaborates with maintainers to identify and address friction points, streamline workflows, and foster best practices that boost app developer productivity across the cloud native ecosystem. While developer experience is central, TAG DevEx’s scope goes further, covering essential areas like databases, microservices, and API management, ensuring the broader infrastructure also supports a seamless development journey. Join us to discuss how to integrate developer experience considerations into project lifecycles better, ensuring maintainers receive the support needed to build projects that truly empower developers to build, deploy, and manage applications more efficiently within a Kubernetes environment.