The CNCF Governing Board (GB) is responsible for marketing and other business oversight and budget decisions for the CNCF. The GB does not make technical decisions for the CNCF, other than working with the TOC to set the overall scope for the CNCF. The GB currently consists of these representatives:
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.
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.
Anni Lai
Huawei
Anni leads Futurewei's Open Source Operations and Marketing covering open source strategy, compliance, and community and ecosystem building.
Anni Lai
Huawei
Anni leads Futurewei’s Open Source Operations and Marketing covering open source strategy, compliance, and community and ecosystem building. Anni served on the OpenStack Board for ~4 years and contributed to various OpenStack Board committees (Finance, Compensation, New Membership, etc) and currently serves on the CNCF and OCI Trademark Boards.
Prior to Futurewei, Anni worked at Oracle, Salesforce.com, Savvis (acquired by Centurylink), Fast Search and Transfer (acquired by Microsoft), and Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle) in the areas of product management/marketing, technology evangelism/developer relations, partner strategy/recruitment/management, and enterprise business development & consulting. For the last 7+ years, Anni has traveled to 30+ countries, 5 continents visiting telco and enterprise customers and partners in EMEA, APAC, and AMER to discuss their ICT, Cloud, Datacenter transformation and strategy, and presented the latest cloud and open source trends at various industry conferences.
Anni holds both MS and BA degrees in Computer Science, and is currently based in Silicon Valley, USA. Anni has also completed NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) Director Professionalism Training, and is currently a member of NACD Northern California Chapter.
Aparna Sinha (chairperson)
Aparna is the Director of Product Management for Kubernetes and Anthos at Google.
Aparna Sinha
Google
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
Amazon Web Services
Arun Gupta is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services.
Arun Gupta
Amazon Web Services
Arun Gupta is a Principal Technologist at Amazon Web Services. He is responsible for the CNCF strategy within AWS, and participates at CNCF Board and technical meetings actively. He particularly enjoys AMA on Containers and Serverless. He has built and led developer communities for several years at Sun, Oracle, Red Hat and Couchbase. He has extensive speaking experience in 40+ countries on myriad topics. Gupta also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the US and continues to promote technology education among children. A prolific blogger, 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 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.
Brandon Philips
Red Hat (Developer Seat)
Brandon is a member of Red Hat's technical staff and was CoreOS's CTO. Since 2013 he has helped shape the container and Kubernetes ecosystems.
Brandon Philips
Red Hat (Developer Seat)
Brandon is a member of Red Hat’s technical staff and was CoreOS’s CTO. Since 2013 he has helped shape the container and Kubernetes ecosystems.
Chris Wright
Red Hat
Chris is the Vice President and Chief Technologist at Red Hat.
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.
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.
Gabe Monroy
Microsoft Azure
Gabe is a software entrepreneur and systems architect with 20 years experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical IT infrastructure.
Gabe Monroy
Microsoft Azure
Gabe is a software entrepreneur and systems architect with 20 years experience designing, building, and operating mission-critical IT infrastructure.
Gabe is the founder of Deis, which was acquired by Microsoft in April 2017. As an early contributor to Docker and CoreOS, Gabe has deep experience pushing the boundaries of early-stage technology and speaks frequently at industry events on Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. Gabe co-founded OpDemand which was acquired by Engine Yard in 2015. Prior to OpDemand, Gabe studied computer science at Tufts University and worked as a lead architect for Temboo, Intuit, and as a consultant for software companies in New York City.
Haifeng Liu
JD.com
Haifeng has always had a passion for building complex systems. He is the Chief Architect of JD.com, China’s largest retailer and the world’s third largest internet company by revenue.
Haifeng Liu
JD.com
Haifeng has always had a passion for building complex systems. He is the Chief Architect of JD.com, China’s largest retailer and the world’s third largest internet company by revenue. He is also Vice President of JD’s Technical Infrastructure department. Haifeng joined JD in 2013 and is responsible for the construction and optimization of the infrastructure that powers all facets of the company’s business. In his time at JD, he has led the company to independently develop several critical
infrastructure services, which taken together form JD’s highly efficient infrastructure system – the Archimedes platform. The platform covers container cluster management, databases & storage systems, microservices, middleware, product image services & machine learning, cross-region multi-datacenter scalability for e-commerce, and intelligent operations.
A veteran in the space, Haifeng previously held leadership roles at Baidu and Yahoo, focused on the design, development and implementation of large-scale distributed systems. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the subject, all from the University of Science & Technology of China.
John Morello
Palo Alto Networks
John is the VP Product for container and serverless security at Palo Alto Networks.
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.
Jon Mittelhauser
Oracle
Jon runs engineering for the Container Native Platform team at Oracle (which includes all of Oracle’s Kubernetes offerings).
Jon Mittelhauser
Oracle
Jon runs engineering for the Container Native Platform team at Oracle (which includes all of Oracle’s Kubernetes offerings). Jon is considered one of the founding fathers of the World Wide Web with more than 20 years of open source and engineering management experience. He wrote the first widely used Web browser (NCSA Mosaic for Windows) as part of his Master’s thesis at the University of Illinois and was a founding engineer of Netscape Communications. More recently he ran engineering for Nebula, Inc., was on the OpenStack foundation board and was CEO of CloudBolt Software.
Junjie Cai
Alibaba Cloud
Junjie (Jack) is the Chief Architect of the Elastic Compute Service at Alibaba Cloud.
Junjie Cai
Alibaba Cloud
Junjie (Jack) is the Chief Architect of the Elastic Compute Service at Alibaba Cloud. He has extensive experience with Cloud Computing across IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS. His current focus is to make the IaaS controller more intelligent for better compute service availability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Previously he led a SaaS platform initiative in Huawei, and served as the Application Runtime architect in IBM Bluemix Cloud platform, building an application-centric experience in the Cloud. Before his Cloud journey, Jack was deeply involved in the Java core platform technologies and the related open source community. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation.
Kevin Ryan
Arm
Kevin is the Sr. Director of Software Ecosystem Development at Arm.
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.
Liz Rice
Aqua Security (TOC Chair)
Liz is the technology evangelist at container security specialists Aqua Security, where she works on container-related open source projects including kube-bench and kube-hunter.
Liz Rice
Aqua Security
Liz is the technology evangelist 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.
Michael Payne
JPMorgan Chase
Michael leads Research & Development for the Platform / Cloud Services team at JPMorgan Chase.
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.
Michael Wintergerst
SAP
Michael is the Development Executive, SVP, Head of SAP Cloud Platform Core at SAP.
Michael Wintergerst
SAP
Michael is the Development Executive, SVP, Head of SAP Cloud Platform Core at SAP. He is leading a 1,000+ global development organization in the area of SAP Cloud Platform with teams in Germany, Israel, Bulgaria, India, and China. Amongst his responsibilities are SAP’s Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, application server, data management, security, and development experience offerings.
With SAP Cloud Platform, SAP supports customers in developing and running innovative software solutions in their innovation and digital transformation projects, whether in areas of user experience, mobile, application integration, internet of things (IoT)/industry 4.0, big data, machine learning, blockchain, security, analytics, or application development and operations (DevOps).
SAP Cloud Platform is built around and leveraging open source and open standards like OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes. Based on SAP’s commitment to and active support of and contribution to Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes, Michael is involved in the Cloud Foundry Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Michael holds a Master of Science in Computer Science with a specialization in parallel algorithms, hardware architecture, and parallel computer systems from the Technical University of Dortmund (2002).
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 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.
Priyanka Sharma
GitLab
Priyanka is the Director of Cloud Native Alliances at GitLab Inc.
Priyanka Sharma
GitLab
Priyanka is the Director of Cloud Native Alliances at GitLab Inc. GitLab is the only cloud-agnostic single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle.
She has worked on several CNCF projects with her deepest expertise being the OpenTracing standard. She has also worked on Jaeger Tracing and Vitess, and given talks on Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy, and SPIFFE/SPIRE.
A former entrepreneur with a passion for building developer products and growing them through open source communities, Priyanka advises startups at HeavyBit industries, an accelerator for developer products. She holds a BA in political science from Stanford University.
Raj Panchapakesan
JFrog
Raj is Sr. Director of Global Alliances and Business Development at JFrog, the company that is the creator of Artifactory, the industry-leading universal binary repository manager.
Raj Panchapakesan
JFrog
Raj is Sr. Director of Global Alliances and Business Development at JFrog, the company that is the creator of Artifactory, the industry-leading universal binary repository manager. At JFrog, Raj leads building worldwide alliances that include Cloud providers, ISV’s, channel partners, and many others that help further the growth of DevOps and help realize JFrog’s mission of fast, safe continuous software updates. Throughout an over 20-year career, Raj has helped build strategic alliances for the promotion and success of Open source and emerging technologies, including CI/CD, containers, microservices, and Kubernetes. Raj also serves on the Board of CD foundation and Executive Board of Sankara Eye Foundation, an NPO, the largest free community eye care provider in the world.
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.
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.
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 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.
Tom Doron
Apple
Tom is a technologist and entrepreneur. As a senior engineering manager at Apple, Tom oversees a technology team that creates libraries, frameworks and services designed to enable creativity and productivity of Apple's internal developers and open source communities.
Tom Doron
Apple
Tom is a technologist and entrepreneur. As a senior engineering manager at Apple, Tom oversees a technology team that creates libraries, frameworks and services designed to enable creativity and productivity of Apple’s internal developers and open source communities.
Tomohiko Tashiro
Fujitsu
Tomohiko is a Senior Director of the Linux development division at Fujitsu.
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 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.