Governing Board

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.

Mark is a Jenkins user and contributor, a core maintainer, and maintainer of the git plugin, the git client plugin, and several others. He is one of the authors of the “Improve a plugin” tutorial.

He 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.

Dadisi Sanyika is Governing Board Chair of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and a co-author of the CDEvents Interoperability specification. He brings over a decade of experience improving software delivery at scale, including leading the Spinnaker engineering team at Apple Services Engineering. He continues to serve on the Spinnaker project Technical Oversight Committee and has contributed to the CDF through the Interoperability SIG, the TOC, Program Committees, and the Outreach Committee. Outside the Foundation, Dadisi is the Founder and CEO of Sol Duara, where he is building commercial infrastructure on top of the CDEvents standard. He is passionate about purpose-driven communities and the conviction that interoperability is shared infrastructure, not a competitive differentiator.

I’m an Associate Principal Engineer at Nagarro and based in Cape Town, South Africa, where I love surfing my local break. When I’m not in the water, you’ll find me skateboarding, DJing, or geeking out with my six-node Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster. I’m passionate about open source projects, especially Ortelius, and dedicated to building world class internal developer platforms.

Dewan Ahmed is a Principal Developer Advocate at Harness, a company that enables software engineering teams worldwide to deliver code reliably, efficiently, securely, and quickly to their users. Before joining Harness, he worked at IBM, Red Hat, and Aiven in various roles, including developer, QA lead, consultant, and developer advocate.

For the past fourteen years, Dewan has tackled DevOps and infrastructure challenges for startups, large enterprises, and government organizations. He began his public speaking journey with Toastmasters in 2016 and has since been a frequent speaker at tech conferences and meetups. His work is driven by a passion for open source and a deep commitment to the tech community.

Outside of work, he advocates for underrepresented groups in tech and provides pro bono career coaching as a way to give back.

Ben Powell is an ambitious software engineer at Apple, specializing in Spinnaker and high-scale software delivery systems. His work emphasizes stability and performance, including memory optimizations that reduced Spinnaker’s footprint by up to 80%. In addition to his role at Apple, he is a maintainer of the CDEvents project, helping advance consistency and interoperability within the continuous delivery ecosystem.

Steve Fenton is a Principal DevEx Researcher at Octopus Deploy, a DORA Community Guide, and a 8-time Microsoft MVP with more than two decades of experience in software delivery. He has written books on TypeScript (Apress, InfoQ), Octopus Deploy, and Web Operations. Steve has worked in the role of Software Engineer, SDET, Development Manager, and Director of Product and Data in a range of startups, SMEs, and enterprises.