The results for the most recent CD Foundation Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Elections are in! We are very happy to welcome the following five members.
Learn more about the TOC and view all its members on this page.
Governing Board TOC Representatives
Anyone can be nominated, but they were voted for by the Governing Board.
- Benjamin Powell, Apple
- Carlos Tadeu Panato Jr, Chainguard
- Garima Bajpai, Founder DevOps Community of Practice
End User TOC Representatives
This seat was nominated and voted for by end user members.
- Damian Curry, NGINX, Inc.
- Steve Taylor, DeployHub
Thank you to the candidates for stepping forward to serve the community in this way. Here’s a bit more information about our new representatives.
Our Newly Elected TOC Members
Benjamin Powell, Apple
Governing Board TOC Representative
Term: July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2026
Ben is a software engineer at Apple for the Spinnaker team with previous experience at AWS from the teams of SDK and Tools and ECS. He has contributed to various tools, services, and proposals through the years, governs the Cloud SIG for Spinnaker, and is an active participant of CDEvents.
Carlos Tadeu Panato Jr, Chainguard
Governing Board TOC Representative
Term: July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2026
Carlos Panato is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, Inc., specializing in development and infrastructure with Kubernetes and containers. He has a diverse background in development, testing, processes, and management. Carlos actively contributes to several Linux Foundation projects and is a prominent member of the open source software community.
Garima Bajpai, Founder Canada DevOps Community of Practice
Governing Board TOC Representative
Term: July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2026
Garima is a thought leader in DevOps & Cloud technologies. She is the founder of DevOps Community of Practice, Canada. She leads the ambassador program for the Continuous Delivery Foundation.
Damian Curry, NGINX, Inc.
End User Representative TOC Representative
Term: July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2026
After many years of managing infrastructure for many companies, Damian now heads up all things technical for the Community and Alliances team at NGINX. Damian is a long-time NGINX user, and it has played a key role in almost every environment he has managed. Over the years, Damian has designed, built and managed numerous CI/CD pipelines, leveraging multiple tools including custom-built systems.
Steve Taylor, DeployHub
End User TOC Representative
Term: July 1, 2024 to July 1, 2026
Steve Taylor is seen as a visionary and industry leader in the areas of cloud native architecture, open source security, DevOps process improvement, software build and release, and software supply chain. Steve is the architect of DeployHub, the first security and pipeline evidence catalog. Steve is a primary contributor to the Ortelius CDF project and is currently a CDF TOC Board Member. Steve received the CDF Top Contributor Award for 2023, and Top Pyrsia Contributor for 2023.
Thank You
Thank our outgoing members for dedicating time and effort to moving the CD Foundation forward and helping in the global adoption of Continuous Delivery.
- Dadisi Sanyika, Apple
- Melissa Mckay, JFrog
- Neil McGonigle, Fidelity Investments
- Robert Reeves, Liquibase
- Tracy Ragan, DeployHub
