Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)

Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast. He is the co-founder of the CDEvents project and a member of the Tekton project governance team. Before Tekton, he contributed to OpenStack for several years, focusing on testing and CI/CD, serving as the QA project technical lead for one year. He’s a strong advocate for transparency in open source. Apart from DevOps, he enjoys playing with machine learning, sometimes combining the two worlds. Andrea has previously been a speaker at several open source conferences, including cdCon, FOSSASIA, FOSDEM, FOSS Backstage, KubeCon, Open Source Summits and more.

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 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.

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.

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.

Jason McIntosh is an engineering architect with over 25 years of industry experience. He was one of the early pioneers of DevOps, integrating database administration, network management, software development, and monitoring as part of a stack at the University of Missouri.

After his stint at the University of Missouri, Jason worked at Carfax on their core services and helped design their “DataCenter 2.0 Pod Architecture” deploying microservices to multiple regions while ensuring 100% up times for customer-facing systems. A need for high availability led Jason to embrace continuous delivery concepts. He brought in infrastructure as code, rolling deploys, and automatic load testing while integrating monitoring into the release process, enabling fast safe software delivery. Through these efforts, Jason was able to help deliver more stable releases.

This journey and the evolving requirements in the enterprise space led to a deep investigation and love of Spinnaker in 2019 when Jason started working full-time at Armory. He continues today as an Engineering Architect at Harness supporting Spinnaker while looking toward next-generation continuous delivery paradigms. Jason loves observability 2.0, DevOps, systems architecture, and technology. Jason somehow finds time for woodworking, reading science fiction and spending time with his family in the rare moments when he is not digging through code.

Mark is a member of the Jenkins governing board, a Jenkins core maintainer, a member of the Jenkins infrastructure team, a member of the Jenkins release team, and a maintainer of Jenkins plugins, including the git plugin and many others. He’s served in the past as Jenkins documentation officer and is one of the co-authors of the “Improve a plugin” tutorial with its accompanying video series.

Mark has been an active Jenkins contributor for many years. His first contributions were in community discussions and mailing lists. Those early contributions grew into code contributions, then project leadership roles.

Steve is seen as a visionary and industry leader in the area of software development, DevOps process improvement and software build and release automation. Lets just say he was designing continuous delivery pipelines for Fortune 1000 companies before the term ‘continuous integration’ was ever used. He is the master mind behind OpenMake Meister, a build automation solution that has served its customers for over 20 years. Steve is also the architect of DeployHub, the first microservice sharing platform that also versions and maps microservices and their configurations. Steve is the primary contributor to Ortelius, the open source solution for microservice configuration management. Steve is expert in all things Kubernetes and Service Mesh. He is driving the Oretlius feature map to support the new challenges that microservices create, particular to the In his free time, Steve is the Chief to the Turquoise Trail Volunteer Fire Department where he serves as a super hero.