The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) provides technical leadership to the cloud native community.
The TOC 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.
TOC representatives
Alena Prokharchyk
Apple
Software Engineer at Apple
Brendan Burns
Microsoft
Brendan is a Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft Azure and co-founder of the Kubernetes open source project.
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

Justin Cormack
Docker
Justin is an engineer at Docker and a maintainer of the Notary project.
Katie Gamanji
American Express
Cloud Platform Engineer at American Express
Liz Rice
Aqua Security (TOC Chair)
Liz is the VP Open Source Engineering at container security specialists Aqua Security.
Matt Klein
Lyft
Matt is a software engineer at Lyft and the creator of Envoy.
Michelle Noorali
Microsoft
Michelle is a Sr. Software Engineer on the Azure Containers team and a core maintainer of the Kubernetes Helm project.
Saad Ali
Saad Ali is a staff software engineer at Google.
Sheng Liang
Rancher
Cofounder and CEO at Rancher Labs
Xiang Li
Alibaba
Xiang is a Senior Staff Engineer at Alibaba, responsible for improving software infrastructure.
TOC contributors

Alex Chircop

Allen Sun

Andres Vega
SPIFFE/SPIRE

Andrew Hobden

Andy Santosa

Ara Pulido

Ayrat Khayretdinov

Bassam Tabbara

Bob Wise

Bora Ozkan

Calvin Weng
PingCAP

Cathy Zhang

Chase Pettet

Christopher Liljenstople

Clinton Kitson

Dan Wilson

Darren Ratcliffe

Davanum Srinivas

Dave Zolotusky

David McKay

Deyuan Deng

Doug Davis

Drew Rapenchuk

Dustin Kirkland

Ed Lee

Eduardo Silva

Erin Boyd

Gergely Csatari

Geri Jennings

Ghe Rivero

Gilbert Song

Gou Rao

Ian Crosby

Jeyappragash JJ

Jia Xuan
China Mobile Research Institute

Jinming Yue

Joe Beda

John Hillegass
Capital One

Jonghyuk Jong Choi

Josef Adersberger

Joseph Jacks

Josh Bernstein

Jun Du

Justin Cappos

Justin Cormack

Kai Chen

Kevin Wang

Kiran Mova

Lachlan Evenson

Lee Calcote

Lei (Harry) Zhang

Louis Fourie

Mark Peek

Matt Farina

Matthew Fornaciari

Nick Chase

Pengfei Ni

Philip Lombardi

Quinton Hoole

Randy Abernethy

Ricardo Aravena

Rick Spencer

Sarah Allen

Siddharth Bhadri
Sidhant Bhayana
SiriusXM-Pandora

Steven Dake

Tammy Butow

Timothy Chen

Vasu Chandrasekhara

Xiang Li

Xu Wang

Yaron Haviv

Yin Ding
Futurewei

Yong Tang

Yuri Shkuro

Zhipeng Huang
