The results for the most recent CD Foundation Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) Election are in! We are happy to welcome the following four members. Learn more about the TOC and view all its members on this page.
- End User Representatives: Aravind Kannan, eBay, and Dan Johnson, Capital One.
- Project Representatives: Andrea Frittoli, CDEvents, and Basil Crow, Jenkins.
Our Newly Elected TOC Members
Andrea Frittoli, IBM
Project TOC Representative, CDEvents
Term: August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2027
Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast. He is a maintainer of CDEvents and Tekton and currently serves as chair of the Technical Oversight Committee for the CD Foundation (CDF). He is a strong advocate for transparency and collaboration in open source. He is also an active contributor to Tekton and CDEvents.
Basil Crow, CloudBees
Project TOC Representative, Jenkins
Term: August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2027
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.
Aravind Kannan, eBay
Project End User Representative
Term: August 1, 2025 – July 30, 2026
Aravind is a long-time practitioner and advocate of platform engineering at scale. He led multiple geographically distributed platform engineering teams at eBay—overseeing our CI/CD platform, internal developer platform (IDP), developer experience, productivity, and engineering-velocity programs, and spearheading the integration of AI agents into CI/CD. He recently shared some of these battle-tested best practices at cdCon 2025 and on a Techstrong.TV panel in 2023, and is eager to bring this real-world expertise to the Technical Oversight Committee.
Dan Johnson, Capital One
Project End User Representative
Term: August 1, 2025 – July 30, 2026
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.
Election Process
Project TOC Representatives: Each CDF Project could nominate a maximum of one (1) project representative to run for these seats in a GitHub issue. After nominations, the representatives were voted for by the CDF Community.
End User Representatives: Anyone could nominate a person who works for an End User Company in a Google Form. After nominations, the representatives were voted for by the CDF Community.
Thank You
Thank our outgoing members Steve Taylor, Mark Waite and Damian Curry.