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 (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.
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.
Ben Hindman
Mesosphere
Ben is one of the creators of Apache Mesos, a platform for building and running resource-efficient distributed systems at scale.
Ben Hindman
Mesosphere
Ben is one of the creators of Apache Mesos, a platform for building and running resource-efficient distributed systems at scale. Ben started working on Mesos as a PhD student at Berkeley before he brought it to Twitter where it runs on thousands of machines. An academic at heart, his research in programming languages and distributed systems has been published in leading academic conferences.
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.
Bryan Cantrill
Joyent
Bryan Cantrill is the CTO at Joyent, where he oversees worldwide development of the SmartOS and SmartDataCenter platforms, and the Node.js platform.
Bryan Cantrill
Joyent
Prior to joining Joyent, Bryan served as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he spent over a decade working on system software, from the guts of the kernel to client-code on the browser. In particular, he co-designed and implemented DTrace, a facility for dynamic instrumentation of production systems that won the Wall Street Journal’s top Technology Innovation Award in 2006 and the USENIX Software Tools User Group Award in 2008. Bryan also co-founded the Fishworks group at Sun, where he designed and implemented the DTrace-based analytics facility for the Sun Storage 7000 series of appliances. Bryan received the ScB magna cum laude with honors in Computer Science from Brown University.
Camille Fournier
Two Sigma
Camille Fournier is the head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma.
Camille Fournier
Two Sigma
She was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway. Her book “The Manager’s Path” was published by O’Reilly in 2017. She serves on the technical oversight committee for the Cloud Native Compute Foundation, on the board for the ACM Queue publication, and as a PMC member and committer for Apache ZooKeeper.
Jonathan Boulle
nStack
Jonathan works at nStack and is an advisor to CoreOS.
Jonathan Boulle
nStack
He previously worked at Twitter building out datacenters and developing their application container and orchestration systems based around Mesos. He’s been heavily involved in container standardisation efforts like the App Container (appc) project and the newer OCI (Open Container Initiative) Image Format specification.
Ken Owens
Mastercard
Ken Owens is the Vice President for Digital Native Architecture at Mastercard.
Ken Owens
Mastercard
He was previously the CTO of Cloud Native Platforms at Cisco, where he was responsible for creating and communicating technical/scientific vision and strategy for Cisco’s cloud native technologies. He brings a compelling view of technology trends in enterprise IT (e.g. infrastructure, computing, SaaS, virtualization, and cloud) and evangelizes the technology roadmap for the business. Before joining Cisco in 2014, Ken spent over 7 years at Savvis as the Chief Scientist, CTO, and VP Security and Virtualization Technologies. Prior assignments include 5 years as a network security architect at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., and Edward Jones brokerage firms in St. Louis, Mo, and 10 years in the design and architecture of s systems and components for Erlang Technologies, Tellabs, and Wiltel. Ken holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Quinton Hoole
Huawei
Quinton is Technical Vice President at Huawei, where he provides technical and organizational leadership and guidance across all of Huawei’s cloud computing efforts, including public and private cloud, edge cloud, IoT, PaaS, IaaS and SaaS.
Quinton Hoole
Huawei
Quinton is Technical Vice President at Huawei, where he provides technical and organizational leadership and guidance across all of Huawei’s cloud computing efforts, including public and private cloud, edge cloud, IoT, PaaS, IaaS and SaaS. His past experience includes being the founding engineer of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), where he initiated and lead the early design, development and productization for the first 5 years. He has also served as Technical Lead and Senior Manager of Google’s Ads Serving SRE teams, one of the Technical Leads in the early Google Cloud Kubernetes team, and Technical Lead in various startups spanning the financial services, telco and IT industries. He is also serves as an elected member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee, which is responsible for the overall governance of that project.
Sam Lambert
Github
Sam is the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at GitHub.
Sam Lambert
Github
He is an experienced engineer that focuses on growing the technical organization responsible for scaling GitHub’s infrastructure and core data platforms. Sam is passionate about technical leadership and building high performing engineering groups. He has spent his four years at GitHub applying his experience to positively impact the availability and performance of its technologies while also advocating for mature engineering practices throughout the community.
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
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
Heptio
Jonghyuk Jong Choi
NCSoft
Josef Adersberger
QAware
Joseph Jacks
Independent
Josh Bernstein
Dell
Jun Du
Huawei
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
Xu Wang
Hyper
Yaron Haviv
iguazio
Yong Tang
Infoblox
Yuri Shkuro
Uber
