Eeshaan Sawant
Eeshaan is a DevRel Engineer at ONLYOFFICE and a CNCF maintainer for multiple projects, with five years deep in open source and cloud native. His job? Making technical things a little less technical – or at least, a little less painful
A seasoned speaker, he's shared stages at APIDays Australia, GNOME Summit Japan, Write the Docs Australia, UbuCon Asia, KubeCon Amsterdam and many more FOSS events across the globe.
Eeshaan loves sharing what he learns, especially around open source. His continuous contributions to the greater open source community have earned him the Dan Kohn Scholarship twice, the LiFT Scholarship, and much more.
Based in India 🇮🇳, he spends his off-hours hitting the gym and brewing good coffee. ☕️
議程
Open source has never had more contributors, and yet, more and more projects struggle with adoption, onboarding, and retention. Ever wondered why?
The bottleneck isn't code quality. It's the experience. More specifically the Contributor experience. Bad READMEs, undocumented APIs, broken setup scripts, and hostile first-timer experiences kill more projects every year than any technical limitation ever will.
Developer experience is now the highest-leverage contribution you can make to open source. Yet it remains the most overlooked.
In this talk, we will prove it with evidence. We'll share concrete examples of what broke and what we fixed across API ecosystems and cloud-native infrastructure: onboarding flows that cut time-to-first-PR, documentation architectures that actually scaled, API design decisions that reduced support burden, and contributor ladder structures that turned drive-by visitors into long-term contributors and maintainers. If you care about scaling your open source project, this talk is for you.
Europe isn't just talking about digital sovereignty anymore. Governments are actually doing it. Schleswig-Holstein is moving 30,000 workstations off Microsoft. France is deploying open source productivity stacks across ministries. Denmark, the ICC, universities, hospitals — the list keeps growing. And at the center of most of these migrations sit open source tools like Libre Office, Nextcloud and more.
This talk is about what these migrations really look like in practice — the architecture decisions (why Hub over Suite matters), the deployment realities (self-hosted, air-gapped, sovereign cloud), the partner ecosystem that makes it function, and the things that go wrong that nobody puts in the press release.
But this isn't a Europe talk at a European conference. This is a Europe talk at an Asian conference, and that's the point. Taiwan, Japan, Korea, India, and more; Every country in this room is navigating some version of the same question: how dependent are we on infrastructure we don't control? Europe is five years ahead on this journey. Some of what they (and we) have learned is directly transferable. Some of it isn't. I want to bring that honest conversation to COSCUP: What works, what doesn't, and what your community can start doing now rather than waiting for policy to catch up.