The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) provides technical leadership to the cloud native community. Its functions include:
- defining and maintaining the technical vision for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation,
- approving new projects and creating a conceptual architecture for the projects,
- aligning projects and removing or archiving projects,
- accepting feedback from end user committee and mapping to projects,
- aligning interfaces to components under management (code reference implementations before standardizing), and
- defining common practices to be implemented across CNCF projects.
You can review the TOC activity and upcoming schedule, join the mailing list or view the election schedule.
The TOC Representatives Are:
Alexis Richardson
Weaveworks
Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks. He is also the chairman of the TOC for CNCF, and the co-founder of the Coed:Code meetups.
Alexis Richardson
Weaveworks (TOC Chair)
Alexis is the co-founder and CEO of Weaveworks. He is also the chairman of the TOC for CNCF, and the co-founder of the Coed:Code meetups. Previously he was at Pivotal, as head of products for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Tomcat and vFabric. Alexis was responsible for resetting the product direction of Spring and transitioning the vFabric business from VMware. Alexis co-founded RabbitMQ, and was CEO of the Rabbit company acquired by VMware in 2010, where he worked on numerous cloud platforms. Rumours persist that he co-founded several other software companies including Cohesive Networks, after a career as a prop trader in fixed income derivatives, and a misspent youth studying and teaching mathematical logic.
Brendan Burns
Microsoft
Brendan is a Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft Azure and co-founder of the Kubernetes open source project.
Brendan Burns
Microsoft
Brendan is a Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft Azure and co-founder of the Kubernetes open source project. In Azure he leads teams that focus on containers, open source and devops, including the Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Resource Manager, Service Fabric and Azure Linux teams. He also has contributed many significant pieces of code to the Kubernetes project, including most recently work on client libraries for working with the Kubernetes API. He has been involved in open source for more than two decades, over that time he has acted as maintainer for projects as diverse as the JMeter load testing tool, the DroidDraw WYSiWYG designer for Android and the port of the Quake II to Linux. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a BA in Studio Art and Computer Science from Williams College.
Brian Grant
Brian is a Principal Engineer and co-Technical Lead of Kubernetes at Google.
Brian Grant
Google
Brian is a Principal Engineer and co-Technical Lead of Kubernetes at Google.
Jeff Brewer
Intuit
Jeff is Vice President, Chief Architect of the Small Business and Self Employed Group at Intuit. This group is responsible for QuickBooks and its ecosystem.
Jeff Brewer
Intuit
Jeff is Vice President, Chief Architect of the Small Business and Self Employed Group at Intuit. This group is responsible for QuickBooks and its ecosystem. As Vice President, Chief Architect of QuickBooks, Jeff is responsible for the technology strategy of the small business and self-employed ecosystem at Intuit. Jeff is an evangelist at Intuit for cloud native and open source technologies. Intuit is committed to move all services from private data centers to cloud native infrastructure running in AWS. Intuit is also committed to delivering open source back to the cloud native community including cloud native workflow technology called Argoproj (https://opensource.intuit.com).
Joe Beda
VMware
Joe is a Principal Engineer at VMware.
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.
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.
Matt Klein
Lyft
Matt is a software engineer at Lyft and the creator of Envoy.
Matt Klein
Lyft
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.
Michelle Noorali
Microsoft
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.
Xiang Li
Alibaba
Xiang is a Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba, responsible for improving software infrastructure.
Xiang Li
Alibaba
Xiang is a Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba, responsible for improving software infrastructure.
TOC Contributors
Alex Chircop
StorageOS
Allen Sun
Alibaba
Andrew Hobden
PingCAP
Andy Santosa
eBay
Ara Pulido
Bitnami
Ayrat Khayretdinov
CloudOps
Bassam Tabbara
Upbound
Bob Wise
Amazon Web Services
Cathy Zhang
Huawei
Chase Pettet
Wikimedia
Christopher Liljenstople
Tigera
Clinton Kitson
Dell
Dan Wilson
Concur
Darren Ratcliffe
Atos
Dave Zolotusky
Spotify
David McKay
InfluxData
Deyuan Deng
Caicloud
Doug Davis
IBM
Drew Rapenchuk
Bloomberg
Dustin Kirkland
Ed Lee
Intuit
Eduardo Silva
Treasure Data
Erin Boyd
RedHat
Gergely Csatari
Nokia
Geri Jennings
CyberArk
Ghe Rivero
Independent
Gou Rao
Portworx
Ian Crosby
Container Solutions
Jeyappragash JJ
Independent
Jia Xuan
China Mobile Research Institute
Jinming Yue
Caicloud
Joe Beda
VMware
Joe is a Principal Engineer at VMware.
Jonghyuk Jong Choi
NCSoft
Josef Adersberger
QAware
Joseph Jacks
Independent
Josh Bernstein
Dell
Jun Du
Huawei
Justin Cappos
NYU
Justin Cormack
Docker
Kai Chen
Alauda
Kevin Wang
Huawei
Kiran Mova
MayaData
Lachlan Evenson
Microsoft
Lee Calcote
SolarWinds
Lei (Harry) Zhang
Alibaba Group
Louis Fourie
Huawei
Mark Peek
VMware
Matt Farina
Samsung SDS
Matthew Fornaciari
Gremlin
Nick Chase
Mirantis
Pengfei Ni
Microsoft
Philip Lombardi
Datawire
Quinton Hoole
Huawei
Randy Abernethy
RX-M LLC
Rick Spencer
Bitnami
Sarah Allen
Steven Dake
NetApp
Tammy Butow
Gremlin
Timothy Chen
Cloudera
Vasu Chandrasekhara
SAP SE
Xiang Li
Alibaba
Xiang is a Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba, responsible for improving software infrastructure.
Xu Wang
Hyper
Yaron Haviv
iguazio
Yong Tang
Infoblox
Yuri Shkuro
Uber
