Governing Board

Alena is a software engineer at Apple, working on cloud infrastructure services. Prior to joining Apple, Alena was one of the founding engineers at Rancher Labs. She also served as CNCF TOC in 2020-2022.

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 is vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation. He is an open source strategist, advocate, and practitioner for nearly two decades. He has taken companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems through systemic changes to embrace open source principles, contribute and collaborate effectively. As an elected chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Governing Board, Arun works with CNCF leadership and member companies to grow cloud native ecosystem. He has delivered technical talks in 45+ countries, authored multiple books, and is a Docker Captain, Java Champion, and Java User Group leader. He also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the U.S. and continues to promote technology education among children. Arun holds two patents on using XML and XSL for an efficient generation of test reports. Arun is an avid runner, and is easily accessible at @arungupta on Twitter.

Brendan is a Senior Developer Evangelist at GitLab.

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 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.

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.

Davanum Srinivas (a.k.a Dims) is a Staff Engineer with Amazon Web Services working full time on Kubernetes and related projects at CNCF. Dims is on the Kubernetes Steering Committee and actively involved in various Kubernetes SIGs and working groups like the Architecture, Testing, Node, Infrastructure etc. Previously at VMware, Huawei and Mirantis, he was involved in OpenStack Nova, Oslo, KeyStone, Magnum and related projects and on the Technical Committee in OpenStack.He also worked on IBM PureApplication product as an Architect and led a team working on Web Services support in WebSphere. Dims has a long track record in open source projects including Apache Cocoon, Axis2, Geronimo at the Apache Software Foundation and co-founded WSO2 based on the open source business model.

Dorota leads a team responsible for AT&T Software Defined Network (SDN) Platform portfolio planning and Network Cloud architecture and evolution for Mobility Services.

Since joining AT&T in 1998, Dorota has held a number of positions across AT&T Labs, product and technical marketing spanning a plethora of technologies ranging from IP VPNs and Security through Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), performance analysis, integration to Cloud Service Development.  Dorota started her career at Telcordia where she focused on helping telecom and automotive industry players launch IP based collaboration and exchange services.

Dorota holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Cooper Union in NYC.  She resides in Holmdel, NJ with her husband, Mariusz, and 21-year old daughter, Audrey.

Eric Han serves as Vice President of Public Cloud Services (PCS) Product Management for NetApp’s cloud portfolio and Kubernetes data management, including Astra, Cloud Volume Services, and Azure NetApp Files. Eric has been recognized as a top software product executive in 2020. Eric started his container journey as the founding product manager for Kubernetes at Google, where he also co-founded the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) service. Eric began his career as a part of Microsoft’s Windows Server and Core Networking product teams.

From 2018-2020, Eric has served on the nonprofit board of Thrive-Wise focused on retaining women in technical careers. In his home life, he can be found either slowly training for his next triathlon, planning a trip to Disneyland with his wife and their three kids, or trying to make the ultimate Spotify mixed tape.

Jay is a Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services working on cloud-native technologies in the AWS Kubernetes team focused on open source contribution in the Kubernetes ecosystem. Jay leads the AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) project and helps to shape the upstream open source contribution strategy of AWS engineers.

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.

Justin Dustzadeh is the Chief Technology Officer at Equinix. In this role, Justin drives the company’s technology vision, strategy and architecture as well as the overall technical innovation and focus on software transformation and engagement within the developer community, including within the Linux Foundation.

Justin is an industry-recognized thought leader on cloud-native technologies and software-defined infrastructure and has a wealth of executive and technical leadership experience, including leadership roles at Uber (where he served as Head of Global Network & Software Platform), Visa, Huawei, Ericsson, AT&T, a technology startup which he co-founded, and two leading service providers in France.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Télécom Paris, and a B.S. in Theoretical Physics from École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) in Paris.

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 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 (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.

Navneet Joneja is a Vice President of Product Management at VMware. Before VMware, he led product management for Azure Virtual Machines, Confidential Computing and HPC at Microsoft, and Compute and Developer platforms (Google Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Functions, Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine) at Google.

Paris is a Program Manager at Apple working on internal and external cloud native community building. She started in Kubernetes as a everyday contributor in sig-contributor-experience and has held several roles in the upstream community. Now, Paris sits on the Kubernetes Steering Committee and co-chairs CNCF SIG-Contributor-Strategy, a group that she is passionate about for the scalability of the ecosystem.

Ricardo was named chief engineer of Open Source and Cloud Native Computing in November, 2021. He is responsible for leading the Open Source Program Office, for helping teams adopt cloud technologies, and for advocating for open source software throughout The Boeing Company.

In this role Ricardo helps teams adopt cloud native patterns and solutions and discusses cloud migration strategies with programs across the enterprise.

Prior to this role, Ricardo was the solutions architect for Nostromo. He has also served as technical lead, principal software engineer, and scrum master on rapid research and development projects.

Previous to returning to Boeing, Ricardo worked for Secureworks as a member of the Counter Threat Platform team. Responsibilities included full software lifecycle development of threat intelligence services. Ricardo served as technical lead to re-platform legacy applications to private and public clouds and led greenfield development of cloud native microservices.

Ricardo earned a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Ricardo holds US patent 9,959,415 titled, “Methods and systems for accessing data from different security domains”, issued on May 1, 2018.

Richard “RichiH” Hartmann is the Director of Community at Grafana Labs, Prometheus team member, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, CNCF TAG Observability chair, CNCF Governing Board member, and more. He also leads or organizes various conferences, including PromCon, FOSDEM, DENOG, DebConf, and Chaos Communication Congress. In the past, he made mainframe databases work, ISP backbones run, freenode work, and designed and built a datacenter from scratch. Go through his talks at https://github.com/RichiH/talks or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchiH for musings on the intersection of technology and society.

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.

Sebastian is co-founder of Kubermatic, a start-up with 60 employees that is the #7 committers to Kubernetes and that is focused on developing open core software solutions for automating Kubernetes operations at scale. Sebastian, a developer himself, has his finger on the pulse of where the Kubernetes landscape is going and is contributing many of his team’s resources to upstream K8s development. As one of the early pioneers in the cloud native ecosystem since 2016,  he has helped hundreds of enterprises embrace Kubernetes to solve cutting edge challenges in both cloud and edge computing.   

Sebastian is a CNCF Ambassador and has spoken at numerous conferences around the world about the impact of Kubernetes and cloud native technologies for IT.

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/

Takao is a Senior Professional Engineer of the Linux development division at Fujitsu. He has contributed to several open source communities more than 20 years. He has worked for Linux kernel RAS feature, especially crash dump feature like netdump, diskdump and kdump. He has also joined QEMU, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and more OSS projects and contributed to them. Now he is leading a support team of Linux-based products for Fujitsu’s customers.

Tom studied computer architecture at the University of Michigan and researched microprocessor design in partnership with ARM. After university, he joined the server team at Maginatics, a cloud-based file system company that was acquired by EMC. After the acquisition, he joined Dropbox where he was focused on improving the efficiency of Dropbox’s metadata storage, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance. Tom joined the founding team at Kasten, which was acquired by Veeam in 2020. He is now VP of Engineering building Kasten by Veeam’s flagship product K10, focussed on Kubernetes Backup and DR.

Thomas Di Giacomo is Chief Technology and Product Officer for SUSE, where he leads our global Office of the CTO and Product and Solution Management. His team covers SUSE’s entire portfolio of products as well as innovation priorities. He is also responsible for driving and guiding SUSE’s current and future technology and solutions, and for sharing SUSE’s vision with customers, partners, and key industry stakeholders.

Prior to his role, Thomas was SUSE’s President of Engineering & Innovation and was responsible for the rapid growth of SUSE’s expanding portfolio. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, serving in various global leadership and executive roles in engineering and product innovation.

Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Geneva, and lives in France.

Tom is VP Product at Grafana Labs, a member of the Prometheus team, and one of the original authors of the Cortex and Loki projects. In his spare time, he builds 3D printers and makes pizza.

Vasu is Vice President and Chief Architect on topics concerning the Cloud Native Strategy at SAP. Having always been accused of having his head in the clouds, he went on to make it his career. In his current role, he works with several cross-product initiatives to foster the cloud native mindset across engineering teams. In spite of having a very brown thumb, he went green by reaching into the bountiful cloud native and open source ecosystem and was instrumental in establishing Kubernetes (with Project Gardener) as the modern foundation at SAP. As a champion of cloud native development, advocating both inner and open source technologies, he aims to make innovation simpler for both SAP and its customers. Vasu holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück but refuses to be tied down to any geography. He prefers it in the cloud.

Vijoy Pandey is Vice President, Emerging Technologies and Incubation (ET&I) at Cisco. ET&I is chartered to create and drive the next Bold Bets businesses for Cisco in an agile, ambitious, and entrepreneurial manner. Vijoy runs product, engineering, research and a product-led growth team. He is also the CTO for Cloud at Cisco. Vijoy has held various strategy, product and engineering leadership roles and has over 20 years of expertise in planet-scale distributed systems, cloud, operational excellence, and application-first software infrastructures which serve to complement his role as a technical visionary for a software-focused digital future. Before joining Cisco, he served as Head of Engineering at Google for the company’s global cloud networks, where he was responsible for developing software systems for intent-driven automation, observability, AI/ML-based data analytics, and application-level awareness. Vijoy has held the CTO role at various companies including IBM, and Blade Network Technologies, and has led large geo-diverse, agile product and engineering teams at Blade Network Technologies, Nortel, Alteon, and Google. Vijoy has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. He currently holds over 80 patents in cloud, networking, AI/ML, and distributed systems

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.

Zain is the GM/GVP of Pixie & Open Source at New Relic. Zain is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark before co-founding Pixie. He has a PhD from Stanford and has helped build at-scale data and AI/ML at Google AI, Trifacta and Nvidia.