feat: add Kubeflow steering committee goals blog post

content/posts/kubeflow-steering-committee-goals-2025/kubeflow-steering-committee-goals-2025.md

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+---
+title: "Kubeflow Goals"
+description: "Goals and vision for Kubeflow's future as a steering committee member"
+date: 2024-11-20
+---
+
+# Kubeflow Goals
+
+**Author:**[Francisco Javier Arceo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscojavierarceo/) | **Date:**Nov 20, 2024
+
+We are at a critical moment in time for AI/ML. Open-source models have taken center stage, and resilient, scalable infrastructure has become critical to the success of AI. However, infrastructure alone isn't enough—tools must inspire excitement and engagement among users.
+
+As a Kubeflow Steering Committee member, my core focus would be to drive engagement and increase adoption by improving the experience and impact of Kubeflow for end users, ensuring it's not only a robust platform but also one that people love to use. More precisely, I would focus on 6 key goals.
+
+1. **Expanding Kubeflow Adoption:** increasing awareness, adoption, and engagement through collaborations with enterprises and startups.  
+2. **Making RAG a first class priority:** the AI community has settled on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a critical component for production AI. I will work to make this a new focus area for Kubeflow.  
+3. **Improving the User/Developer Experience for Model Developers/Users:** simplifying workflows and enhancing usability to reduce barriers to entry.  
+4. **Engaging and Empowering AI Engineers:** supporting software engineers integrating AI/ML into their products. By providing intuitive workflows, thoughtful defaults, and subsets of Kubeflow's tooling, we can ensure AI Engineers are set up for long-term success as they scale their products.  
+5. **Building a more Feature-Complete AI/ML Platform:** driving development of critical features to support end-to-end AI/ML workflows.  
+6. **Improving Documentation:** ensuring comprehensive, user-friendly docs and resources for the community.  
+7. **Strengthening the Community:** fostering a vibrant, inclusive contributor and user ecosystem to support Kubeflow's long-term growth.
+
+I believe [I am qualified](https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscojavierarceo/) to help lead Kubeflow's [values and structure](https://github.com/kubeflow/community/blob/master/KUBEFLOW-STEERING-COMMITTEE.md#kubeflow-steering-committee) because of my past open-source contributions and professional experience. 
+
+As a [leader](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DgtDmLCBnXQF9qva9X6Vac2ehpplj2iz6ZYw76NL8gM/edit?tab=t.0), [maintainer](https://feast.dev/blog/the-future-of-feast/), and [contributor](https://insights.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/foundation/lf-ai-foundation/overview/github?project=feast&repository=https:%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Ffeast-dev%2Ffeast&routedFrom=Github&dateFilters=Last%2010%20Years&dateRange=2014-11-20%20to%202024-11-20&compare=PP&granularity=year&hideBots=true) to Feast, I have helped evolve a critical component of the MLOps ecosystem, driving innovation in feature storage and retrieval. My 12+ [years of experience](https://www.linkedin.com/in/franciscojavierarceo) at the intersection of data engineering, AI/ML engineering, and MLOps include technical and managerial leadership roles at Red Hat, Affirm, Fast, Goldman Sachs, and others. Across these positions, I've designed, built, and scaled AI **models and platforms** in production, gaining a deep understanding of user pain points and opportunities to innovate.
+
+I bring this experience to Kubeflow with a vision of making it the leading open source platform for scalable, production-grade AI/ML. By expanding adoption, improving the user experience, and delivering a feature-complete solution, my goal is to empower MLOps teams to build a powerful AI/ML platform that enables their success and expands the global impact of AI.

public/sitemap.xml

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     <priority>0.5</priority>
   </url>
 
+  <url>
+    <loc
+      >https://franciscojavierarceo.github.io/post/kubeflow-steering-committee-goals-2025</loc
+    >
+    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
+    <priority>0.5</priority>
+  </url>
+
   <url>
     <loc>https://franciscojavierarceo.github.io/post/learning-new-things</loc>
     <changefreq>daily</changefreq>

utils/posts.js

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ export function getPostsFolders() {
 // Get day in format: Month day, Year. e.g. April 19, 2020
 function getFormattedDate(date) {
   const options = { year: "numeric", month: "long", day: "numeric" };
-  const formattedDate = date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", options);
+  const dateObj = typeof date === 'string' ? new Date(date) : date;
+  const formattedDate = dateObj.toLocaleDateString("en-US", options);
 
   return formattedDate;
 }