Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)

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.

Basil is a long-standing and active maintainer of Jenkins core, where he has made hundreds of contributions that improve the reliability, maintainability, and security of the project. His work includes major enhancements to core APIs, cleanup of legacy code, improvements to the administrative user experience, and fixing edge-case bugs that impact production Jenkins instances. He has been a key part of multiple significant Jenkins projects.

Basil actively participates in Jenkins’ governance and infrastructure discussions as an elected member of the Jenkins Governance Board. He is a trusted voice in decisions made by the Jenkins Governance Board and has worked to improve the health of the project by promoting long-term maintenance strategies, CI reliability, and better development tooling.

Basil regularly supports other contributors through code reviews, technical discussions, and mentorship. His deep knowledge of Jenkins internals makes him a go-to resource for both new and experienced contributors.

Basil won Jenkins Most Valuable Contributor Award in 2022.

Carlos Tadeu Panato Jr. is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard and an open source leader with over 20 years of experience building and scaling software platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, and secure software delivery systems.

He is a Tech Lead for Kubernetes SIG Release and a leader within the Linux Foundation ecosystem, contributing to initiatives across Kubernetes and the CD Foundation to advance cloud-native technologies, continuous delivery, and software supply chain security.

His work bridges engineering excellence, technical leadership, and open source governance, with a focus on enabling organizations to build secure, resilient, and scalable software at global scale. Carlos is a regular speaker at international industry events, where he shares practical insights on Kubernetes, continuous delivery, software supply chain security, and the future of open source collaboration.

Dan is an experienced technologist and has a good perspective on the nature of open source software and commercial software. His organization uses a commercial product based on Jenkins. He’ll be a strong voice for users and the user community.

Jason McIntosh is an engineering architect with over 25 years of industry experience. He was one of the early pioneers of DevOps, integrating database administration, network management, software development, and monitoring as part of a stack at the University of Missouri.

After his stint at the University of Missouri, Jason worked at Carfax on their core services and helped design their “DataCenter 2.0 Pod Architecture” deploying microservices to multiple regions while ensuring 100% up times for customer-facing systems. A need for high availability led Jason to embrace continuous delivery concepts. He brought in infrastructure as code, rolling deploys, and automatic load testing while integrating monitoring into the release process, enabling fast safe software delivery. Through these efforts, Jason was able to help deliver more stable releases.

This journey and the evolving requirements in the enterprise space led to a deep investigation and love of Spinnaker in 2019 when Jason started working full-time at Armory. He continues today as an Engineering Architect at Harness supporting Spinnaker while looking toward next-generation continuous delivery paradigms. Jason loves observability 2.0, DevOps, systems architecture, and technology. Jason somehow finds time for woodworking, reading science fiction and spending time with his family in the rare moments when he is not digging through code.

Nikunj is a Solutions Consultant and Cloud DevOps engineer focused on cloud-native development, DevOps practices, and building scalable distributed systems. His work revolves around designing end-to-end systems from APIs and microservices to CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.

He’s spent the last few years working across technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, Argo CD, and cloud technologies, with a strong emphasis on observability, performance, and reliability. He enjoys solving complex system design challenges and continuously improving how software is built, tested, and deployed.

Stefan is a Solution Architect at Schaeffler and a Senior Expert for User-centric DevOps. His passion lies in driving technical modernization, and I am deeply committed to the open source community, where he serves as an Event Officer for the Jenkins project.

Beyond his day-to-day role, he is a published author and an active speaker, always eager to engage in conversations about the future of digitalization and architecture. Stefan thrives on building connections within the international tech space and sharing insights on how we can evolve our development practices.

Vutukuri is a senior AI, security, and kernel engineer, open source contributor, and CDF Ambassador. A frequent speaker at international tech conferences and a dedicated mentor, he also serves as an Org Admin and Project Mentor for Google Summer of Code for Jenkins. As a TOC Representative, Vutukuri is committed to advancing secure, scalable, and community-driven continuous delivery practices globally.