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Siddhant Khare
Siddhant Khare is a Research Engineer and AI Architect. He is an OpenFGA Core Maintainer (CNCF Incubating) and an engineer at Ona (formerly Gitpod), as well as a KubeCon speaker with over 40 technical articles.