Technical Oversight Committee

Ayrat Khayretdinov

Google

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.

Bartłomiej Płotka

Red Hat

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.

Davanum Srinivas

VMWare

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 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. 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 McKay

Equinix Metal

David is a Senior Developer Advocate at Equinix Metal and a member of the Kubernetes org and release team.

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.

Erin Boyd

Apple

I have been an active member of the TOC as a contributor from it’s inception. I have led and participated discussions on how to improve the impact of the CNCF through the TOC and it’s wider community as well as performed the due diligence around countless projects. As an engineer at Apple and a member of the End User Community, I have an opportunity to take the knowledge of being a contributor to Kubernetes and other upstream projects outside the CNCF and focus my attention to the usability and consumption of these technologies and . I feel this can truly help foster projects in the open source way. 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. With my new role at Apple participating as an end user of Kubernetes gives me a fully holistic view I can contribute to evaluating and identifying technologies to continue to grow our Cloud Native community.

Jia Xuan

China Mobile Research Institute

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

Specialties: Kubernetes, CNI, Helm, Networking

Location: Beijing, China

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.

Joseph Jacks

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 Cormack

Docker

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

Kevin Wang (Zefeng)

Huawei

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/

Specialties: Kubernetes, KubeEdge, Volcano

Location: Hangzhou, China

Lachlan Evenson

Microsoft

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

“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

Company Affiliation: Layer5

Specialties: Kubernetes, Prometheus, Istio, Linkerd, Envoy, Meshery, Service Mesh Performance, Service Mesh Interface

Lei (Harry) Zhang

Alibaba Group

Lei is a member and co-maintainer of the Kubernetes community and is now co-leading the Kubernetes & OSS effort ta Alibaba Group. Lei has been engaged in the Kubernetes project since 2015 and is also a member of KataContainers community.

Specialties: Kubernetes, Containerd

Location: China/US

Randy Abernethy

RX-M

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.