Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)

Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast. He is one of the maintainers of the Tekton project and a member of its 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 FOSSASIA, FOSDEM, FOSS Backstage, KubeCon, Open Source Summits and more.

Emil Bäckmark is an architect for the CI/CD solutions within Ericsson. He is experienced in generic CI/CD solutions on all product levels and is as such part of leading the development of CI/CD systems necessary to reliably deliver high quality products for Ericsson. Emil is one of the founders of the CDEvents project, driving the common event protocol for all CI/CD tools, and has been active in the CD Foundation since late 2019 in various SIGs. Emil is also active in the open source Eiffel Community maintaining an in-production event protocol for continuous integration and delivery.

Senior Engineering Manager & Product Owner for Yahoo Screwdriver, the flagship CI/CD product at Verizon Media https://screwdriver.cd/

Justin Abrahms is a Principal Architect at eBay and chair of their Open Source Program. His day job is spent helping unblock teams from reaching continuous delivery by tackling systemic problems within the organization (lack of tooling/capabilities) as well as targeted team-specific issues related to their architecture or methods of getting things done. His work is primarily driven by the method and practices outlined in the Accelerate book, which includes a strong focus on continuous delivery.

His website: https://justin.abrah.ms/

Melissa is passionate about Java, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery. She loves sharing her knowledge with the community as a developer, speaker, author, and hardworking mom. Melissa has been recognized as a Java Champion and Docker Captain, is an international speaker at events including Kubecon and DockerCon, and is co-author of the upcoming O’Reilly title, DevOps Tools for Java Developers.

Given her 20 plus years of development and DevOps experience, Melissa is an ideal candidate to participate in the CDF TOC. She will be able to shed light on the latest industry trends, build strong connections for the growth of present and future CDF projects, and provide feedback from the developer and DevOps end users who work daily with CDF projects including Jenkins, Tekton, Spinnaker, Ortelius, and Screwdriver.

Oleg’s background includes research, development and automation in hardware and embedded/CAD software areas. I also have an experience in customer support.

Interests: Embedded systems, HW/SW co-design, Electronic design automation, Continuous integration.

Robert is CTO and Co-founder of Liquibase and leads Liquibase’s technology strategy. He is as passionate about supporting everyone he can with Liquibase as he is about punk rock and comic books. Prior to co-founding Liquibase, he was a Director at the Austin Technology Incubator and co-founded Phurnace Software, inventing their flagship product for middleware and infrastructure management. A US Army veteran, Robert holds an Economics degree from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS degree in Science and Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business.

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.

Tracy is a dynamic and entertaining speaker. She is expert in software development practices and can present on a wide variety of topics in this area.  In recent years, she has focused her attention on cloud native development, containers and Kubernetes.  She understands the service based architecture disruption in software practices and how companies need to pivot to support a microservice based continuous delivery practice – what she likes to call K8s Pipelines.  Tracy has been a visionary in this area her entire career.  In 1995, she co-founded OpenMake Software, a private software company that specializes in the automation of cross-platform, and accelerated software builds (compile/link standards).   Her innovation in this area was recognized by IBM, leading her to a board position on the newly formed Eclipse Foundation where she served for 5 years.  In 2014, Tracy and her team recognized the shift in pipeline management that the new container-based architecture would require.  This led to the formation of DeployHub, a new product and company focused on bringing microservice configuration mapping, sharing, and deployment to high performing development teams.  Ortelius was launched as an open source solution for microservice mapping in early 2019 based on a core of the DeployHub code base.

See some of her recent talks:

“Pivoting from Monolithic to Microservices”, DevOps World 2019

“Cultural Transformation via Release Automation”, DevOps World 2018

“A State of DevOps Tools: A Primer”; DevOps.com, March 2018

“Agile Challenges and Solutions”; ExperienceIT, September 2017