Technical Oversight Committee

Alena Prokharchyk

Apple

Alena is a Software Engineer at Apple. She drives the architecture and implementation of Kubernetes and CNCF technologies within Apple’s cloud infrastructure team. Alena has more than 10 years of experience developing open source cloud infrastructure software and more than 5 years of experience developing container orchestration software. She spoke at KubeCon in 2016, 2017, and 2018 and many other industry conferences in the past 10 years. Prior to joining Apple, Alena was a Senior Architect at Rancher and developed Apache CloudStack at Cloud.com.

Cornelia Davis

WeaveWorks

As the Chief Technology Officer at WeaveWorks, Cornelia Davis is responsible for the company’s technology strategy, inclusive of open source projects, commercial products and services offerings. She is driven by the desire to help enterprises transform their business through the leverage of cloud platforms. She cut her teeth in the space of modern application platforms at Pivotal where she was on teams that brought Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Pivotal’s PaaS) and Pivotal Container Service (Pivotal’s Kubernetes Service) to market.  She is the author of the book Cloud Native Patterns: Designing Change-tolerant Software.

An industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems and web application architectures, and cloud-native platforms, Cornelia holds the B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge and further studied theory of computing and programming languages at Indiana University.

When not doing those things you can find her on the yoga mat or in the kitchen.

Davanum Srinivas

VMWare

Davanum Srinivas (a.k.a Dims) is a Staff Engineer with VMware 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 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.

Dave Zolotusky

Platform Engineer at Spotify

Dave is an engineer in Spotify’s Platform team, where his focus has been core infrastructure, the data platform, and Spotify’s use of cloud services. A noted evangelist for cloud native and open source technologies, Dave spurred Spotify to join the CNCF and remain active in the community, launched the Stockholm CNCF meetup, and is both a CNCF Ambassador and a member of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Program Committee.

In his work at Spotify, Dave has been essential to the adoption of CNCF projects like Kubernetes, gRPC, Envoy, and OpenTelemetry, as well as experimentation with Service Mesh. Prior to his time with Spotify, Dave worked at AWS, at VMware on cloud management software, and at Microsoft on the Office team.

Erin Boyd

Apple

I have been an active member of the TOC as a contributor from it’s inception. I have led and participated discussions on how to improve the impact of the CNCF through the TOC and it’s wider community as well as performed the due diligence around countless projects. As an engineer at Apple and a member of the End User Community, I have an opportunity to take the knowledge of being a contributor to Kubernetes and other upstream projects outside the CNCF and focus my attention to the usability and consumption of these technologies and . I feel this can truly help foster projects in the open source way. I have seen the space of projects grow and fully understand the challenges associated with scaling projects while still trying to maintain legitimacy and fairness in this Cloud Native community. Being a committer to the Ambari project and contributor to Kubernetes, I have worked across industries and communities and am sought as a trusted advisor and technical architect for the Kubernetes Storage SIG. As part of the Storage SIG I helped establish an E2E testing framework focused on real use cases from customers and usability of the system. I have consulted with other Kubernetes SIGs from this work to help grow the ecosystem with the vision of a more stable environment. I am dedicated to open source and the growing of the cloud native community to incorporate the tools that make this ecosystem so powerful. I bring to the table the perspective of both a developer, tester and usability fanatic and continually reach across communities to accomplish these shared goals. With my new role at Apple participating as an end user of Kubernetes gives me a fully holistic view I can contribute to evaluating and identifying technologies to continue to grow our Cloud Native community.

Justin Cormack

Docker

Justin is the CTO at Docker. He is passionate about software development, security, and the open source community.

Lei (Harry) Zhang

Alibaba Group

Lei is a member and co-maintainer of the Kubernetes community and is now co-leading the Kubernetes & OSS effort ta Alibaba Group. Lei has been engaged in the Kubernetes project since 2015 and is also a member of KataContainers community.

Specialties: Kubernetes, Containerd

Location: China/US

Liz Rice

Isovalent (TOC Chair)

Liz is the Chief Open Source Officer at eBPF and networking specialists Isovalent. 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.

Ricardo Rocha

CERN

Ricardo is a Computing Engineer in the CERN cloud team focusing on containerized deployments, networking and more recently machine learning platforms. He has led for several years the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training efforts. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF and is a lead of the CNCF Research User Group. Prior to this work Ricardo helped develop the grid computing infrastructure serving the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Saad Ali

Google

Saad Ali is a staff software engineer at Google where he works on the open-source Kubernetes project. He joined the project in December 2014, and has led the development of the Kubernetes storage and volume subsystem. He serves as a lead of the Kubernetes Storage SIG, and is co-author and maintainer of the Container Storage Interface. Prior to Google, he worked at Microsoft where he led the development of the IMAP protocol for Outlook.com.

Sheng Liang

Rancher

Sheng Liang is a co-founder and CEO of Rancher Labs, where he has led the Rancher team to develop a number of popular open source projects, including: 1) Rancher, an open-source container management platform that integrates CNCF technologies such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Fluentd and is used by tens of thousands of teams globally. 2 ) K3s, a lightweight Kubernetes distro that enables Kubernetes deployment to extend to branch offices, edge devices, and beyond. 3. Longhorn, a CNCF Sandbox project, is cloud native distributed block storage for Kubernetes.

Ayrat Khayretdinov

Google

Ayrat (a.k.a Archy) is a Hybrid Cloud and Application Modernization Specialist at Google. He founded and organizes Eastern Canada CNCF Meetups in Toronto, Kitchener, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec and Halifax.

Davanum Srinivas

VMWare

Davanum Srinivas (a.k.a Dims) is a Staff Engineer with VMware 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 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.

Dave Zolotusky

Platform Engineer at Spotify

Dave is an engineer in Spotify’s Platform team, where his focus has been core infrastructure, the data platform, and Spotify’s use of cloud services. A noted evangelist for cloud native and open source technologies, Dave spurred Spotify to join the CNCF and remain active in the community, launched the Stockholm CNCF meetup, and is both a CNCF Ambassador and a member of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Program Committee.

In his work at Spotify, Dave has been essential to the adoption of CNCF projects like Kubernetes, gRPC, Envoy, and OpenTelemetry, as well as experimentation with Service Mesh. Prior to his time with Spotify, Dave worked at AWS, at VMware on cloud management software, and at Microsoft on the Office team.

David McKay

Equinix Metal

David is a Senior Developer Advocate at Equinix Metal and a member of the Kubernetes org and release team.

As a professional technology magpie, David was an early adopter of cloud, container, and cloud-native technologies; crossing the murky waters of AWS in 2008, Docker in 2014, and Kubernetes in 2015.

With an insatiable love for technology, David is always on the hunt to learn and share knowledge with others in fun and exciting ways.

Erin Boyd

Apple

I have been an active member of the TOC as a contributor from it’s inception. I have led and participated discussions on how to improve the impact of the CNCF through the TOC and it’s wider community as well as performed the due diligence around countless projects. As an engineer at Apple and a member of the End User Community, I have an opportunity to take the knowledge of being a contributor to Kubernetes and other upstream projects outside the CNCF and focus my attention to the usability and consumption of these technologies and . I feel this can truly help foster projects in the open source way. I have seen the space of projects grow and fully understand the challenges associated with scaling projects while still trying to maintain legitimacy and fairness in this Cloud Native community. Being a committer to the Ambari project and contributor to Kubernetes, I have worked across industries and communities and am sought as a trusted advisor and technical architect for the Kubernetes Storage SIG. As part of the Storage SIG I helped establish an E2E testing framework focused on real use cases from customers and usability of the system. I have consulted with other Kubernetes SIGs from this work to help grow the ecosystem with the vision of a more stable environment. I am dedicated to open source and the growing of the cloud native community to incorporate the tools that make this ecosystem so powerful. I bring to the table the perspective of both a developer, tester and usability fanatic and continually reach across communities to accomplish these shared goals. With my new role at Apple participating as an end user of Kubernetes gives me a fully holistic view I can contribute to evaluating and identifying technologies to continue to grow our Cloud Native community.

Jia Xuan

China Mobile Research Institute

Jia is a project manager for China Mobile Research Institute in China, working on edge computing and NFV (5G using cloud native technology).

Specialties: Kubernetes, CNI, Helm, Networking

Location: Beijing, China

Joe Beda

VMware

Joe is a Principal Engineer at VMware. Joe arrived at VMware via the acquisition of Heptio, a leader in the cloud native movement and a company that he co-founded. Previously, at Google, Joe co-created Google Compute Engine and filed the first ever Kubernetes project commit. He remains a frequent contributor to the open source community.

Joseph Jacks

Joseph is the founder and GP of OSS Capital (COSS-focused VC), Open Core Summit (the COSS, commercial open-source software, ecosystem conference), Aljabr, KubeCon (the Kubernetes community conference, now owned and run by CNCF after being donated where he is also a founding member), Kismatic (the first enterprise Kubernetes company, acquired by Apprenda and subsequently acquired by ATOS) and previously worked at Mesosphere, Enstratius, TIBCO Software and Talend. He has spent the last 12 years working in high growth technology startups. Joseph was also previously an EIR at Quantum Corporation, working to launch the Rook project.

Justin Cormack

Docker

Justin is the CTO at Docker. He is passionate about software development, security, and the open source community.

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.

Lee Calcote

“Lee Calcote is the Founder of Layer5, where the community helps organizations harness and exploit the value of service meshes. Previously, Calcote stewarded technology strategy and innovation across SolarWinds. He led software-defined data center engineering at Seagate, delivering predictive analytics and modern systems management. Calcote held various leadership positions at Cisco, where he created Cisco’s cloud management platforms and pioneered new, automated, remote management services.

In addition to his role at Layer5, Calcote serves in various industry bodies, including as a SIG chair in Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and formerly, participated in the delivery of Redfish 1.0 in the Distributed Management Task Foundation (DMTF), and Docker Benchmark 1.0 in Center for Internet Security (CIS). He is a startup advisor, Docker Captain, Cloud Native Ambassador, O’Reilly author, and speaker in the cloud native ecosystem.

Calcote is a maintainer of open source projects, including Meshery, Service Mesh Interface, and Service Mesh Performance. Calcote holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a master’s degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fresno and retains a list of industry certifications.”

Meetup: Cloud Native Austin

Company Affiliation: Layer5

Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, Meshery, Service Mesh Performance, Service Mesh Interface

Lei (Harry) Zhang

Alibaba Group

Lei is a member and co-maintainer of the Kubernetes community and is now co-leading the Kubernetes & OSS effort ta Alibaba Group. Lei has been engaged in the Kubernetes project since 2015 and is also a member of KataContainers community.

Specialties: Kubernetes, Containerd

Location: China/US