SIG Autoscaling Leadership Change

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Kuba Tużnik

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May 12, 2026, 12:37:00 PM (3 days ago) May 12
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Hello all,


On behalf of the current SIG Autoscaling leadership (Jack Francis, Adrian Moisey and myself) and as discussed on the SIG weekly meeting on 2026 30 April, Guy Templeton is stepping down from his leadership role within the SIG and we are proposing Jack Francis (@jackfrancis) to replace him as SIG Chair (currently serving as Tech Lead).


Guy's first commit dates to October 2018, and as that suggests he has committed a significant amount of time and energy making the SIG what it is today. Thank you, Guy!!


We are also pleased to propose that Omer Aplatony be recognized as Tech Lead based on his extraordinary work over multiple years on both HPA and VPA. Welcome, Omer!


Finally, in order to better formalize the division of responsibility within the SIG, we are proposing to introduce the following Tech Lead roles:

  • Node Autoscaling Tech Lead

  • Workload Autoscaling Tech Lead

The Node Autoscaling Tech Lead will be responsible for ensuring the engineering health of projects like Cluster Autoscaler, Karpenter, and optimizing for common node autoscaling standards and patterns that benefit all projects under the SIG. Similarly, the Workload Autoscaling Tech Lead will do the same for projects like HPA and VPA.


New, proposed structure going forward:

Chairs: Kuba Tużnik, Jack Francis

Tech Leads: Kuba Tużnik (Node Autoscaling), Adrian Moisey (Workload Autoscaling), Omer Aplatony (Workload Autoscaling)


The lazy consensus deadline for this proposal is one week from today - Tuesday the 19th of May.


This email is sent in accordance with the process updates for SIG leadership transitions (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/contributors/chairs-and-techleads/leadership-changes.md) and the SIG Autoscaling charter (https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/sig-autoscaling/charter.md).


If you have any questions about this proposal, please reach out via any of:


  • The #sig-autoscaling Slack channel

  • The #sig-autoscaling mailing list

  • This week's (Thursday 14 May) weekly SIG meeting

  • Current SIG Autoscaling leads Kuba Tużnik, Jack Francis, or Adrian Moisey


If you have any private concerns, please reach out instead to: steering...@kubernetes.io


Thanks,

Kuba Tużnik

Michael McCune

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May 12, 2026, 12:43:29 PM (3 days ago) May 12
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thank you to Guy for many years of service to the SIG!

and congrats to Jack and Omer!

peace o/

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Jack Francis

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May 12, 2026, 12:52:00 PM (3 days ago) May 12
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Thank you so much Guy!!

Jean-Marc François

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May 12, 2026, 12:55:28 PM (3 days ago) May 12
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Omer Aplatony

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May 12, 2026, 1:13:42 PM (3 days ago) May 12
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Thanks Guy for all the years!
I am honored to step up and keep building with everyone :) 

Adam Bernot

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May 13, 2026, 10:48:59 AM (2 days ago) May 13
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Thanks for all your work, Guy.

Congratulations, Omer!

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Marco Völz

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May 13, 2026, 10:51:48 AM (2 days ago) May 13
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Thanks for all your time and efforts spent on this, Guy! It was a please working on this together with you!

Congrats Omer for the Tech Lead!

Warm regards
Marco

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