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.

Dan has been working on and worrying about containers since 2015 as an engineer, manager, founder and CEO. He started projects like Minikube, Skaffold, and Kaniko to make containers easy and fun, then got so worried about the state of OSS supply-chains he partnered up with Kim and others to found the Tekton and Sigstore projects to make it easier to build and use containers securely; as well as SLSA to create a common language for software security and supply chain integrity. He’s now a founder and CEO at Chainguard, a startup focused on software supply chain security.

Fatih specializes in automation, infrastructure, CI/CD, and DevOps and is currently involved in several CI/CD initiatives across Ericsson and within open source. He has previously served in the OPNFV Technical Steering Committee as a committer-at-large representative and has led the OPNFV Release Engineering Project. He is co-chair of the CDF’s Interoperability Special Interest Group (SIG). Prior to Ericsson, Fatih worked for Havelsan Inc and provided expertise to customers including BOEING and BAE Systems.

She is leading the operational vision of the company by ultimately maximizing value for customers through the Strategic Business Transformation. She has helped a wide variety of organizations adopt agile software delivery practices. She is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely published author of articles and research reports

Jason co-founded Google Cloud Build and the Tekton project at Google, and recently joined Red Hat to continue working on Tekton, Shipwright, and other related development and delivery projects. He contributes to various container-image-related projects, and has never heard a joke about his name and the JavaScript Object Notation that didn’t elicit a polite chuckle. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and kids, and enjoys naps and most cheeses.

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

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.

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.