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:
Alena Prokharchyk
Apple
Software Engineer at 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.
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.
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).
Justin Cormack
Docker
Katie Gamanji
American Express
Cloud Platform Engineer at American Express
Currently a Cloud Platform Engineer at American Express. Former cloud platforms engineer at Condé Nast, that contributed to the creation of a centralized, globally distributed platform, with Kubernetes as its centerpiece. In the past worked on maintaining and automating site delivery on OpenStack based infrastructure, which transitioned into a role that focuses on designing, deploying and evolving cloud-native infrastructure.
A strong advocate for women in STEM, and public speaker on topics that gravitate towards cloud-native tools and Kubernetes ecosystem.
Liz Rice
Aqua Security (TOC Chair)
Liz is the VP Open Source Engineering at container security specialists Aqua Security.
Liz Rice
Aqua Security
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
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.
Saad Ali
Saad Ali is a staff software engineer at 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
Cofounder and CEO at Rancher Labs
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.
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
Andres Vega
Andrew Hobden
PingCAP
Andy Santosa
eBay
Ara Pulido
Bitnami
Ayrat Khayretdinov
Bassam Tabbara
Upbound
Bob Wise
Amazon Web Services
Bora Ozkan
Vizlib
Calvin Weng
Cathy Zhang
Huawei
Chase Pettet
Wikimedia
Christopher Liljenstople
Tigera
Clinton Kitson
VMWare
Dan Wilson
Concur
Darren Ratcliffe
Atos
Davanum Srinivas
VMware
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
Gilbert Song
Mesosphere
Gou Rao
Portworx
Ian Crosby
Container Solutions
Jeyappragash JJ
Independent
Jia Xuan
China Mobile Research Institute
Jinming Yue
Caicloud
Joe Beda
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
Randy Abernethy
RX-M LLC
Ricardo Aravena
Rakuten
Rick Spencer
Bitnami
Sarah Allen
Independent
Siddharth Bhadri
Infoblox
Steven Dake
IBM
Tammy Butow
Gremlin
Timothy Chen
Cloudera
Vasu Chandrasekhara
SAP SE
Xiang Li
Alibaba
Xu Wang
Hyper
Yaron Haviv
iguazio
Yong Tang
Infoblox
Yuri Shkuro
Uber
Zhipeng Huang
Huawei
