Technical Oversight Committee

Alena Prokharchyk

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. 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.

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.

Katie Gamanji

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, 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. 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 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

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

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.

Sidhant Bhayana

SiriusXM-Pandora