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.

Dadisi is a CI/CD leader within Apple, he leads the Apple Services Engineering Spinnaker Development Team. He has focused the past 9 years on improving the developer experience. He has a passion for building purpose-driven communities. His open source community work includes CDF Interoperability SIG, Spinnaker & CDF TOC. He has also served on CDF Program Committees and CDF Outreach Committee.

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.

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.

I have been in open-source tech since the mid-90:ies and am currently CTO at Testkube as well as Kubeshop, a startup accelerator building open-source projects in the cloud-native space. I was co-founder and chairman of the OpenAPI Initiative (another LF workgroup project) for 4 years and have been a key driver of several open-source projects in the API/testing space over the last 15 years, most notably Swagger and SoapUI. I greatly believe in the value of interoperability provided by CDEvents to the CI/CD community, and would like to help advocate for CDEvents in general and Testing-related events/activities in particular.

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.

Wesley Pullen is a Software & Technology Executive with 28+ yrs. experience in product development and design, R&D, Go-To-Market (GTM) analysis and planning, complex license sales, increasing license revenue, , as well as early adopter phase technical solutions for Venture-backed and Private Equity-backed software companies. As a business strategy executive focused on Digital Transformation and DevOps Initiatives within small, mid-sized, and start-up companies, he has been able to rise through the ranks. He has worked within executive management teams to help grow businesses above board expectations.

He is currently Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for CloudBees, Inc. In this role, Wesley serves as a high impact executive within CloudBees helping to shape product priorities and direction and regularly evangelize solutions and roadmaps as one of CloudBees’ thought-leading technical experts. His role helps to support strategic sales opportunities, drive GTM within CloudBees, and provide deep industry knowledge on Continuous Integration (CI),Continuous Delivery (CD), Application Release Orchestration (ARO), DevOps Best Practices, Value Stream Management (VSM), DevOps Insights & Analytics, Feature Flags, Machine Learning (ML)/Artificial Intelligence(AI), and AI/LLM capabilities, and Cloud-Native Platforms to help customers solve business critical problems.

He was a part of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) within Electric Cloud when it was acquired by CloudBees in April 2019. At Electric Cloud, Wesley was the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) for DevOps and Corporate Development. In this senior executive capacity, Wesley led the strategy, sales execution, implementation, and GTM for the DevOps portfolio of solutions. This included Release Automation/Release Orchestration (RO), Deployment Automation, Continuous Delivery (CD), Analytics, and DevOps Insights. He also drove the strategy for the Machine Learning (ML), Predictive Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform (called “DevOps Foresight”).
Wesley brings over 25 years of experience in software development methodologies and design standards and has applied this experience to the commercial and private sector. His ability to take complex tasks and objectives and simplify them into actionable goals is unique. He has traveled to India, China, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, Austria, Israel, Germany, Ireland, London, Spain, Switzerland, Romania, Benelux, Australia, and over 45 states within the continental USA teaching, mentoring, and advising leaders in management and executive management on business concepts and strategies around DevOps, DevSecOps, OSS, and more. Wesley has also held leadership roles at CollabNet, Automic Software (now Broadcom), BMC Software, Department of Defense (DoD), and IBM. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and serves on several boards for technology start-ups in the Metro-DC area, San Francisco Bay area, and Israel.