Name: Samuel Ortiz Email: samuel.ortiz@intel.com Background: I am a software engineer at Intel where I work on different projects related to virtualization and containers: rust-vmm, NEMU and Kata Containers. I have been involved with Kata Containers for about 3 years now, as I started to work on what used to be Clear Containers before the 2.0 release. I was part of the small OSF-Hyper-Intel team that worked together to merge Clear Containers and runV into what today is Kata Containers. I deeply believe that Kata Containers is a key project for the cloud native ecosystem. Thanks to an ever growing community effort, we moved it from two diverging code bases to something that can now be deployed at scale. In order to reach that state we built a very versatile software architecture that can adapt to a large number of use cases. On one hand this architecture really put hardware virtualized container runtimes in the cloud native map, but on the other hand it added complexity and in some cases technical debt to our project. With new specifications and APIs (runtimeClass, containerd shim v2) truly taking vm based runtimes into account, I think it's time for us to work on simplifying and cleaning our feature bloat and push that into Kata Containers v2. This is what I'd like to focus on for the next few months and this is one of the main reasons why I'd like to renew my seat at the Architecture Committee.