Technical Oversight Committee

Cathy is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel responsible for defining the cloud-native strategy and leading the company wide contributions and influence across 1000s of developers at Intel to the CNCF projects/TAGs/WGs and Kubernetes SIGs. She has over 20 years of software design and development experience in a wide range of areas such as serverless, large scale distributed VM/container orchestration and scheduling, edge computing, container runtime, service mesh, software defined network, and high availability etc. Cathy has been an active contributor in the cloud-native computing ecosystems including Kubernetes, OpenStack, OPNFV, and has led the development of several open-source projects under CNCF, Linux Foundation Networking, Linux Foundation Edge and Open Infrastructure. She has made strong contributions to the technical direction and design, driving working group discussion, and resolving technical disagreements. She co-authored the CNCF serverless whitepaper, the CloudEvents specification, and the OpenStack service function chaining design. She has served as the program committee member/track chair for several Kubecons and OpenStack summits. She has delivered talks at various open-source conferences (Kubecon, OpenStack Summit, Open Source Summit, OPNFV).

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 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.

Emily Fox is a DevOps enthusiast, security unicorn, and advocate for Women in Technology. She promotes the cross-pollination of development and security practices. She has worked in security for over 12 years to drive a cultural change where security is unobstructive, natural, and accessible to everyone. Her technical interests include containerization, automation, and promoting women in technology. She holds a BS in Information Systems and an MS in cybersecurity.

I have been an active member of the TOC as a contributor from its inception. I have led and participated discussions on how to improve the impact of the CNCF through the TOC and its wider community as well as performed the due diligence around countless projects. 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. My history of working for both Apple and Red Hat gives me a fully holistic view I can contribute to evaluating and identifying technologies to continue to grow our Cloud Native community.

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

Katie is a cloud native leader, practitioner, and contributor, currently in a Senior Kubernetes Field Engineer role at Apple and a TOC for CNCF. As a cloud platform engineer, Katie has built the infrastructure for Conde Nast and American Express, gravitating towards cloud-native technologies, principles, and Kubernetes as the focal point. At CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), she was a Technical Oversight Committee member and led the CNCF End User Community. At present, Katie advises the Keptn startup and holds the Chief of Future Founders Officer (CFFO) position at OpenUK.

Recently, Katie released the Cloud Native Fundamentals course and led the creation of the CNCF KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) certification. Additionally, Katie is an active keynote public speaker, a #TechWomen100 winner, and a strong advocate for women in STEM.

Lei is a Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft Developer Division (DevDiv), where he works on the dev-centric tools and products. Lei has been engaged in the Kubernetes as a maintainer since 2015 and served as chair of TAG App Delivery for CNCF. Lei previously led the engineering effort around Kubernetes and application platforms at Alibaba.

Matt is a Distinguished Engineer at SUSE where he works on cloud native research and development. He is a former Kubernetes SIG Apps and Architecture chair and a current maintainer of the CNCF Helm and Artifact Hub projects. Matt likes to solve problems and has been contributing to open source projects for over 15 years.

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).

Richard “RichiH” Hartmann is the Director of Community at Grafana Labs, Prometheus team member, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, CNCF TAG Observability chair, CNCF Governing Board member, and more. He also leads or organizes various conferences, including PromCon, FOSDEM, DENOG, DebConf, and Chaos Communication Congress. In the past, he made mainframe databases work, ISP backbones run, freenode work, and designed and built a datacenter from scratch. Go through his talks at https://github.com/RichiH/talks or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchiH for musings on the intersection of technology and society.

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.

Ayush is a Principal Engineer at Cisco AppDynamics with 12+ years of experience in building and securing large scale systems.

Bartek Plotka is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with a background in SRE, currently working on Observability. As the co-author of the CNCF Thanos project and core maintainer of various open-source projects including Prometheus, he enjoys building OSS communities and maintainable, reliable distributed systems, ideally in Go. On top of that, he is active in the CNCF SIG Observability as the technical lead. He writes a book with O’Reilly.

Cathy is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel responsible for defining the cloud-native strategy
and leading the company wide contributions and influence across 1000s of developers at Intel
to the CNCF projects/TAGs/WGs and Kubernetes SIGs. She has over 20 years of software design
and development experience in a wide range of areas such as serverless, large scale distributed
VM/container orchestration and scheduling, edge computing, container runtime, service mesh,
software defined network, and high availability etc.
Cathy has been an active contributor in the cloud-native computing ecosystems including
Kubernetes, OpenStack, OPNFV, and has led the development of several open-source projects
under CNCF, Linux Foundation Networking, Linux Foundation Edge and Open Infrastructure.
She has made strong contributions to the technical direction and design, driving working group
discussion, and resolving technical disagreements. She co-authored the CNCF serverless
whitepaper, the CloudEvents specification, and the OpenStack service function chaining design.
She has served as the program committee member/track chair for several Kubecons and
OpenStack summits. She has delivered talks at various open-source conferences (Kubecon,
OpenStack Summit, Open Source Summit, OPNFV).

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 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 is a Staff Developer Advocate at Pulumi, a CNCF Ambassador, and host of the official Kubernetes Office Hours.

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; currently focusing on #RawkodeLive, a live stream for learning the technologies across the cloud native landscape.

I have been an active member of the TOC as a contributor from its inception. I have led and participated discussions on how to improve the impact of the CNCF through the TOC and its wider community as well as performed the due diligence around countless projects. 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. My history of working for both Apple and Red Hat gives me a fully holistic view I can contribute to evaluating and identifying technologies to continue to grow our Cloud Native community.

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

Jie is a passionate software engineer at Linkall and focuses on CloudEvents and Dapr at the moment. He is dedicated to open source software and vendor-neutral standards.

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

Kevin Wang is a contributor in the CNCF community since its beginning, co-founder of the KubeEdge and Volcano projects, and leader of the Cloud Native Open Source Team at Huawei.

Kevin has contributed to Kubernetes upstream for years and now spends 100% of his work and focus on wider open source cloud native community development.

In 2020, Kevin led the community members in China and worked with CNCF to organize the Cloud Native + Open Source Virtual Summit China 2020 conference.

Meetup Organizer: CloudNativeDaysChina https://www.meetup.com/Cloud-Native-days-china/

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 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

Lei is a Partner Software Engineer at Microsoft Developer Division (DevDiv), where he works on the dev-centric tools and products. Lei has been engaged in the Kubernetes as a maintainer since 2015 and served as chair of TAG App Delivery for CNCF. Lei previously led the engineering effort around Kubernetes and application platforms at Alibaba.

Liz is the Chief Open Source Officer at eBPF and networking specialists Isovalent. She is Emeritus chair of the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee, and was Co-Chair of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 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.

Randy is a Managing Partner at RX-M, a global cloud native advisory and training firm in the founding classes of Kubernetes Certified Service Providers (KCSP) and Kubernetes Training Providers (KTP).

His work allows him to pursue his passion for and evangelize on all things cloud native through training courses, seminars, and consulting engagements. He is a tech entrepreneur, startup advisor, financial technology pioneer, Apache Thrift committer, and author.

Richard “RichiH” Hartmann is the Director of Community at Grafana Labs, Prometheus team member, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, CNCF TAG Observability chair, CNCF Governing Board member, and more. He also leads or organizes various conferences, including PromCon, FOSDEM, DENOG, DebConf, and Chaos Communication Congress. In the past, he made mainframe databases work, ISP backbones run, freenode work, and designed and built a datacenter from scratch. Go through his talks at https://github.com/RichiH/talks or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchiH for musings on the intersection of technology and society.

Vasu is Vice President and Chief Architect on topics concerning the Cloud Native Strategy at SAP. Having always been accused of having his head in the clouds, he went on to make it his career. In his current role, he works with several cross-product initiatives to foster the cloud native mindset across engineering teams. In spite of having a very brown thumb, he went green by reaching into the bountiful cloud native and open source ecosystem and was instrumental in establishing Kubernetes (with Project Gardener) as the modern foundation at SAP. As a champion of cloud native development, advocating both inner and open source technologies, he aims to make innovation simpler for both SAP and its customers. Vasu holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück but refuses to be tied down to any geography. He prefers it in the cloud.