The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) is the team responsible for the technical vision, project oversight, and technical community decisions for the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). The vision of the CDF is to be the most trusted community that supports organizations in becoming high performing software delivery organizations while leveraging open source and open practices, and continuously improving their pursuit of software delivery excellence. More about the TOC.
Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)
TOC Representatives
Alan Dong
Yahoo Inc.
Alan is a Senior Software Engineer and has been working on Screwdriver for over six years.
Alan has a track record of over six years of dedicated work with Screwdriver, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to excellence. His passion for the open source community has been a driving force since his college years, showcasing his enduring enthusiasm for collaborative innovation. Furthermore, Alan’s exceptional expertise has earned him the privilege of delivering enlightening talks at prestigious events such as cdCon in both 2020 and 2021. Moreover, Alan’s invaluable contributions to the Screwdriver UI repository firmly establish him as a key contributor in advancing the user interface to new heights of functionality and usability.
Andrea Frittoli (TOC Chair)
IBM
Andrea is the co-founder of the CDEvents project and a member of the Tekton project governance team.
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 Powell
Apple
Ben is a software engineer at Apple for the Spinnaker team.
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 Tadeu Panato Jr
Chainguard
Carlos is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, Inc., specializing in development and infrastructure with Kubernetes and containers.
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.
Damian Curry
NGINX, Inc.
Damian now heads up all things technical for the Community and Alliances team at NGINX.
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 Bajpai
Canada DevOps Community of Practice
Garima is a thought leader in DevOps & Cloud technologies.
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.
Mark Waite
CloudBees
Mark is a manager at CloudBees and has been an active Jenkins Contributor for many years.
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 Taylor
DeployHub
Steve is seen as a visionary and industry leader in the area of software development, DevOps process improvement and software build and release automation.
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.
