Governing Board

Amr Abdelhalem

Fidelity Investments

Amr is the head of cloud platforms, managing Fidelity’s multiple cloud strategies include containers, serverless, and API platforms. He is responsible for the CNCF strategy and advances the digital transforming of Fidelity.

Before Fidelity, he led cloud architecture and platform teams at Citigroup and ADP. In Citigroup, he focused on delivering Citi-Cloud and the modernization of ADP containers platforms.

Amr has more than 25 years of Enterprise development, software, and systems experience. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Alexandria University.

Aparna Sinha

Google (Chairperson)

Aparna is the Director of Product Management for Kubernetes and Anthos at Google. Her work is focused on transforming the way we work through technology innovation. She started the Kubernetes Product Management SIG in 2016 to maintain an open backlog for the project and community. Before Google, she was Director of Product at NetApp on storage automation for private clouds. Aparna holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and has authored several technical publications.

Arun Gupta

Apple

Arun Gupta is a Senior Engineering Manager at Apple. He is responsible for the open source strategy at Apple, and participates at CNCF Board and technical meetings actively. He has extensive experience in building, growing, and engaging with communities using collaboration and passion. He has extensive speaking experience in 45+ countries on myriad topics. Gupta also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the US and continues to promote technology education among children. A prolific writer, author of several books, an avid runner, a globe trotter, a Docker Captain, a Java Champion, a JUG leader, he is easily accessible at @arungupta on twitter.

Barry Cooks

DigitalOcean

Barry is DigitalOcean’s Chief Technology Officer. In this role he oversees all aspects of DigitalOcean’s products from inception through design, development and support. Barry leads DigitalOcean’s engineering, product, infrastructure, Ux, security and support teams.

Barry has more than 20 years of software, systems and product development experience, including hardware and software engineering, product management, quality assurance and support. Most recently, he served as vice president of R&D, cloud operations products at VMware. Before VMware, he was senior vice president of products, engineering and support at Virtual Instruments, and director of engineering at Sun Microsystems.

Barry holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Bob Wise

Amazon Web Services

Bob Wise is General Manager for Kubernetes at Amazon Web Services. He leads teams that build Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), App Mesh and Cloud Map. He was an early customer of AWS while CTO at Melodeo, led HP’s early effort on Openstack, and was CTO for Samsung’s Cloud Native Computing Team, where he helped to form the first Kubernetes SIG and launch Kubernetes 1.0.

Brendan O’Leary

GitLab

Brendan is a Senior Developer Evangelist at GitLab.

Bryan Che

Huawei

Bryan is Chief Strategy Officer at Huawei. There, he leads Huawei’s vision and strategy across its overall businesses and portfolio, which spans mobile and consumer electronics, telecommunications, and cloud and AI.

Bryan has tremendous experience building new enterprise businesses and open source technologies. Prior to joining Huawei in China, Bryan spent over 15 years at Red Hat in the US, where he was the general manager of their cloud business and also led overall product strategy across the company. As an American expat employed in China who has traveled 3 million miles to over 40 countries, Bryan has worked extensively with many customers and partners around the world.

Bryan graduated with his Bachelors and Masters degrees in computer science from MIT.

Chris Wright

Red Hat

Chris is the Vice President and Chief Technologist at Red Hat. During his nearly 20 years as a software engineer he has worked in the telecom industry on high availability and distributed systems and in the Linux industry on security and virtualization. He has been a Linux developer for over a decade, most of that time spent deep in the Linux kernel working on security and virtualization. He is intrigued by the challenges that cloud computing brings to virtualization and networking, and is now focused on the cloud, KVM, network virtualization, and virtualizing network functions. He lives in sunny Portland, OR where he is happily hacking on OpenDaylight, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack.

Craig McLuckie

VMware

Craig is a VP of research and development at VMware. Previously he was the founder and CEO of Heptio (a startup working to make upstream Kubernetes accessible to enterprise organizations). He worked at Google for 6 years during which time he worked with Joe Beda to build and launch Google Compute Engine, found the Kubernetes project, and bootstrap the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in collaboration with Linux Foundation.

Dan Gerrity

Oracle

Dan is the SVP of Developer Services for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Dan joined Oracle in January 2020 to build and lead the team whose mission is to drive developer adoption and usage, and enable building, deploying, and operating workloads at scale in Oracle’s Cloud.  This mission includes CNCF-influenced services like Kubernetes, Streaming, Logging, Events, and APIs. Before OCI, Dan spent 5 years at AWS building platforms.  A developer most of his life, he founded and led several startups that ultimately took advantage of cloud services offered by multiple clouds.  He has an MBA, a MS in EE (Computer Systems), and a BS in EE, all from Stanford University, and has over 60 Patents in technologies ranging from coin discrimination through CPU instruction set design.

John Morello

Palo Alto Networks

John is the VP Product for container and serverless security at Palo Alto Networks. John was the second employee and CTO at Twistlock and helped take the company from zero to over 400 customers, including 40% of the Fortune 100, and the acquisition of Twistlock by PANW for $410M.

As CTO, John led the product, product marketing, sales engineering, and customer success functions. Prior to Twistlock, John was the CISO of a Fortune 500 global chemical company. Before that, he spent 14 years at Microsoft, in both Microsoft Consulting Services and product teams. He ran feature teams that shipped security technologies in Windows, Azure, and Office 365 and was the lead consultant on several security projects at the White House. John lives in Louisiana with his wife and two young sons. A passionate fisherman and scuba diver, he’s also a long-time board member of the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana.

Kevin Ryan

Arm

Kevin is the Sr. Director of Software Ecosystem Development at Arm. In his current role, he is responsible for developing the open source and commercial software ecosystem and developer programs. In previous roles, Kevin has driven software ecosystem, marketing and product management activity in start up and large enterprise solutions providers, across enterprise and carrier markets.

Lachlan Evenson

Microsoft

Lachlan is a Principal Program Manager on the open source team at Azure. As a cloud native ambassador, emeritus Kubernetes release lead, and Helm charts maintainer, Lachlan has deep operational knowledge of many Cloud Native projects. He spends his days building and contributing to software that addresses key challenges in the Cloud Native ecosystem.

Li Yi

Alibaba Cloud

Li Yi (Mark), is the Director of Engineering for Container Service at Alibaba Cloud. Mark leads the product development and technical strategy for the container product portfolio at Alibaba Cloud. His team contributes to a variety of Open Source communities in CNCF such as Kubernetes, containerd, Dragonfly, Argo, and more. Previously Mark worked at IBM for 14 years as Senior Technical Staff Member in cloud computing and middleware areas.

Liying Zhang

JD.com

Liying (Vivian) is a product and open source community manager at JD.com, whose main responsibilities include driving the community adoption of JD’s open source projects and promoting the collaborations with CNCF and the broader LF open source communities, as well as companies/members/individuals in the communities.

Liz Rice

Aqua Security (TOC Chair)

Liz is the VP Open Source Engineering at container security specialists Aqua Security, where she works on container-related open source projects including kube-bench and kube-hunter. She was Co-Chair of the CNCF’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Copenhagen, Shanghai and Seattle. She has a wealth of software development, team, and product management experience from working on network protocols and distributed systems, and in digital technology sectors such as VOD, music, and VoIP. When not writing code, or talking about it, Liz loves riding bikes in places with better weather than her native London, and competing in virtual races on Zwift.

Matt Klein

Lyft (Developer Seat)

Matt is a software engineer at Lyft and the creator of Envoy. He has been working on operating systems, virtualization, distributed systems, networking, and making systems easy to operate for nearly 20 years across a variety of companies. Some highlights include leading the development of Twitter’s L7 edge proxy and working on high-performance computing and networking in Amazon’s EC2.

Michael Payne

JPMorgan Chase

Michael leads Research & Development for the Platform / Cloud Services team at JPMorgan Chase. In addition, he is the Lead Design Authority for Kubernetes. He led the effort to have JPMorgan Chase join the CNCF as a Silver End User Member and is an active participant in several SIGs and WGs. Prior to JPMorgan Chase, Michael was the Financial Services Segment Executive in the Global Industry Solutions and Marketing group at Cisco Systems. His initiation into the world of the internet and cloud began on the team that built the first in-browser internet banking solution in Australia while he was a management consultant at Accenture. After spending 10 years in NYC, Michael now resides in California with his wife and daughter.

Michelle Noorali

Microsoft (Developer Seat)

Michelle is a Sr. Software Engineer on the Azure Containers team and a core maintainer of the Kubernetes Helm project. Michelle serves on the Kubernetes Steering Committee, and co-founded and co-leads the special interest group in Kubernetes that focuses on running and managing workloads in Kubernetes (SIG-Apps). She is also an engineer on open source projects under the Azure umbrella like Draft and Brigade. Michelle holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Georgia.

Niraj Tolia

Kasten

Niraj is the General Manager and President of Kasten (acquired by Veeam), that he founded in order to solve the problem of Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. With a strong technical background in distributed systems, storage, and data management, he has held multiple leadership roles in the past, including the Senior Director of Engineering for Dell EMC’s CloudBoost family of products and VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Maginatics (acquired by EMC). Dr. Tolia received his PhD, MS, and BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Rob Esker

NetApp

Rob’s responsible for product & strategy across a variety of cloud services at NetApp and the company’s participation in the broader open ecosystem. He’s long been involved in different models of community software development – beginning with Apple’s FreeBSD and Darwin efforts and thereafter at NetApp having led the company’s open infrastructure integration and upstream activities.

Rob had been an early advocate in establishing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation leading to NetApp’s role as a charter member and he’s had the pleasure of serving a term on the CNCF Governing Board. Additionally, while serving in various community leadership roles throughout the arc of OpenStack he’d contributed in capacities ranging from having co-founded the Manila project, to having served four elected terms on the OpenStack Foundation Board, to frequently speaking at design summits, conferences and user groups globally.

Prior to NetApp, Rob served in a number of diverse roles at Apple including as technical attaché to the CEO and the Board of Directors reporting to Steve Jobs. He’s a former U.S. Marine, and currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, & two daughters.

Ron Lev

Cox Edge Services

Ron is an executive with 20 years of international experience in developing, executing, and operating strategic new business projects at best-in-class Telecom and Media companies. Ron is currently the GM of Cox Edge Services and is responsible for developing, incubating, and executing on the company’s Edge/Low Latency strategy, including solution and partnership development, investments, acquisitions, and market trials. Ron also serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at WTFast.

Ryan van Wyk

AT&T

Ryan van Wyk leads AT&T’s Network Cloud Platform design, development, testing, delivery lifecycle, security compliance and tenant care, D2 compute infrastructure planning and design; as well as software asset lifecycle management for the enterprise.

Ryan has held a variety of leadership positions within AT&T Communications – primarily driving transformation programs and new technology introduction and engineering.  A few of his many contributions to AT&T include leading technology teams that helped:

• deliver the first virtualized network functions and services on a network cloud, using an open source approach.
• create Airship, a declarative container automation platform designed to rapidly deploy and upgrade cloud infrastructure with no SDN workload impact.
• transform the network tools, process, and data that support AT&T’s largest managed networking customers.
• integrate products from multiple suppliers to deliver Uverse (AT&T’s award-winning IPTV platform).

Additionally, Ryan has driven several innovations that resulted in nine US patents, and currently represents AT&T on the board of directors for the OpenStack Foundation (the third largest opensource software project in the world).

Ryan has 23 years of information technology experience. He holds an MBA from Washington University’s Olin Business School and a double major in Management Information Systems and Engineering Management from Saint Louis University.

Shannon Williams

Rancher

Shannon is a co-founder at Rancher Labs, a company focused on building open source software for operating containers in production. Shannon has spent his career at technology start-ups, working with visionary customers to embrace next generation technologies like cloud computing, identity management, and security.

Prior to starting Rancher, Shannon was a founder and VP of Sales at Cloud.com, a pioneer in Cloud Computing. In 2011 Cloud.com was acquired by Citrix Systems, after which he spent three years as Vice President of Market Development for Citrix’s cloud platforms business unit. Over six years working in Cloud Computing, Shannon lead teams that built hundreds of computing clouds, including many of the world’s largest at companies such as BT, AutoDesk, Disney, Datapipe, Apple, Zynga, and KT.

Shannon is a frequent speaker, and has spoken around the world about the impact of open source software, cloud computing, information security and entrepreneurship.

Stephen Chin

JFrog

Stephen is Head of Developer Relations at JFrog and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the upcoming DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O’Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including Devoxx, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do embedded and robot programming together with his teenage daughter. You can follow his hacking adventures at http://steveonjava.com/

Thomas Hertz

SAP

At SAP, Thomas is the Head of Runtimes & Core which is a part of SAP Cloud Platform. He started out as one of the founders of Hybris software and joined SAP when it bought Hybris in 2013, never losing the appetite to innovate and create things people genuinely love.

Now in SAP Cloud Platform, he is working to make it easier for developers working with SAP products and developers within SAP to face the challenges of our ever-changing technological environment. A champion of cloud-native development and open source technologies at SAP, he supports open source CNCF projects like Gardener and Kyma, and drives Kubernetes adoption across SAP to make innovation and digital transformation easier for both SAP and its customers.

Tomohiko Tashiro

Fujitsu

Tomohiko is a Senior Director of the Linux development division at Fujitsu. He has 10+ years of experience as a Linux kernel performance engineer and had achieved many kinds of severe performance requirements of 400+ enterprise customers including mission-critical systems. He’s now leading an OSS development team. His team contributes to a variety of OSS communities such as the Linux kernel, QEMU, libvirt, Linux Test Project (LTP), OpenStack, Kubernetes, Istio, the Open Container Initiative (OCI), and more.

Vijoy Pandey

Cisco

Vijoy is the VP / CTO of Cloud Platforms and Software at Cisco. He is responsible for helping define Cisco’s strategy and products in cloud software, systems, and infrastructure in a multi-cloud world.

Vijoy was previously at Google where he has held various leadership roles in the Google Cloud and Technical Infrastructure groups. He led the development of software and systems for intent-driven zero-touch automation, diagnostic telemetry, data analytics and ML/AI and application-level awareness in the infrastructure. He also led architecture, engineering and operations of Google’s global data center networking footprint, Cloud networking, and their two global WAN networks.

Prior to Google, Vijoy served in numerous senior leadership capacities including CTO of Networking at IBM Cloud and IBM Software groups; CTO of a startup, Blade Network Technologies; and has led global Engineering teams for numerous infrastructure companies.

He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and holds over 60 patents in distributed systems & networking.

Xin Zhang

Volcano Engine

Xin is the VP of Volcano Engine, previously CEO & co-founder of Caicloud and an ex-Googler. Xin has been actively involved in cloud native technology innovation, helping Chinese enterprises to achieve enterprise digital transformation and intelligence.