#265 May 7, 2026

GKE Turns 10 Hackathon, with Amie Wei

Hosts: Abdel Sghiouar, Kaslin Fields

Amie Wei is a Sr. Solutions Engineer at HashiCorp and was the winner of last year’s GKE Turns 10 Hackathon. It was Amie’s first time entering a hackathon and she ended up bringing the prize home with a Cart-To-Kitchen AI Assistant.

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News of the week

• Kubernetes 1.36 codename Haru is here
• LLM-d is a CNCF Sandbox project
• CNCF Certification Advancement & Recertification Experience program (CARE)
• Agones is a CNCF Sandbox project

Links from the interview

• Amie Wei on LinkedIn
• GKE turns 10 Hackathon
• Hackathon winner announcement
• Online boutique sample
• Bank of Anthos sample
• The Cart-to-Kitchen AI Assistant on GKE