Yesterday, May 19, at cdCon 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, we announced the 2026 Continuous Delivery Foundation Community Award winners.
Thank you to everyone who nominated and voted and to our projects, who ran their awards. And finally, thank you to our award officers for ensuring the sanctity of the CDF awards:
- Alexander Brandes
- Nikunj Doshi
This year, 13 awards were given out. Congratulations to this year’s winners! Your hard work and leadership make this community and the progress of Continuous Delivery possible.
And the 2026 CDF Community Award winners are…
CDF Awards
Top Ambassador | Kris Buytaert
Kris has been a cornerstone of the continuous delivery and DevOps community for decades, and his work organizing Config Management Camp (CfgMgmtCamp) — one of the most genuinely community-driven events in our field — is a testament to that commitment. This event brings together practitioners, open source contributors, and thought leaders in a format that prioritizes real debate and the exchange of ideas over vendor noise. Kris creates a space where the hard questions about infrastructure, automation, and continuous delivery actually get asked — and answered. Speaking at CfgMgmtCamp earlier this year gave me a renewed sense of motivation and connection to the community; it directly inspired me to get more involved. That kind of ripple effect is rare, and it speaks to the environment Kris has built over the years.
Top Contributor | Dadisi Sanyika
He was re-elected Governing Board Chair for a reason. He’s involved with most CDF initiatives, including CDEvents, Spinnaker, the Ambassadors. He helped Lisa N Cao launch the DataOps Initiative and more. The Foundation is better thanks to his numerous contributions.
Top Doc(umenter) | Ann Marie Fred
Ann Marie has played a foundational role in advancing the CDF’s work on secure software delivery through her early leadership and contributions to the CI/CD Cybersecurity Guide. As one of the early contributors helping shape the guide’s direction and structure, she helped establish the framework and technical depth that enabled the community to develop a practical, vendor-neutral resource for securing modern CI/CD pipelines.
Continuous Enthusiast | Roxanne Joncas
Roxanne is a foundational force within the CDF, ensuring the community remains aligned and informed. She operates as a connective layer across the foundation — reinforcing communication, follow-through, and shared understanding — while also elevating the quality of what the community produces. Roxanne represents the spirit of a Continuous Enthusiast through her sustained commitment to keeping the community continuously moving forward together.
Top End User | Capital One
Capital One has been an active CDF member for years. One of our most prolific ambassadors is from this company. One of their employees was also on this year’s cdCon Program Committee, and someone from Capital One will be speaking at cdCon.
Project Awards
CDEvents | David Bernard
David has been one of the driving forces behind the CDEvents project for a long time now, improving the quality, consistency, and semantics of the specification, maintaining the Rust SDK, driving the discussion at working group meetings, and advocating for CDEvents. Thanks, David!
JayeX | Jordan Goasdoué
Jordan is awarded JayeX Most Valuable Contributor 2026 for his work with getting JayeX up to date with the latest Tekton Pipelines versions, especially the updates to support api version tekton.dev/v1. This takes great dedication and knowledge due to the deep integration with Tekton Pipelines of several components of JayeX. Thank you, Jordan!
Ortelius | Jing Chen
Jing was unanimously selected as the recipient of the Ortelius Top Contributor Award in recognition of her exceptional leadership, technical contributions, and community outreach efforts across the Ortelius ecosystem. She earned the prestigious Gold Legend badge — Ortelius’ highest level of recognition — for consistently advancing both the technical direction of the project and the growth of the community itself. The community decision was 100% unanimous, reflecting the broad respect and appreciation for her dedication, collaboration, and impact on the success of the Ortelius project.
Spinnaker | Joe Cavanagh
Joe did awesome work helping migrate the project to the mono repo implementation and helping address build system issues.
Screwdriver | Yuki Okesaku
For his varied contributions to improve the functionality, stability, and usability of Screwdriver, such as:
- Implementing pipeline stages for PR workflows
- Improved pipeline deletion handling
- Slack message customization
- Skip clone on invalid SD configurations
- Node 22 upgrade
Graduated Project Awards
Most Valuable Advocate | Bruno Verachten
For years, Bruno has been the driving force behind the Jenkins presence at FOSDEM. From organizing the booth to preparing materials and coordinating volunteers, he consistently ensures that Jenkins is visible and represented in one of the largest open source gatherings in Europe.
What impresses us the most is his dedication to the community. Bruno seems to never get tired of listening to Jenkins users — their experiences, challenges, and ideas — and bringing those insights back into the project.
Most Valuable Contributor | Daniel Krämer
Daniel has been the major driving force behind the transition to JUnit 5 / JUnit Jupiter in the Jenkins ecosystem. Modernizing the testing stack across a project as large and long-lived as Jenkins is not a small task, but Daniel has been steadily moving this effort forward.
Beyond the technical groundwork, he has opened hundreds of pull requests across plugins and repositories, helping maintainers update and modernize their unit tests. This work significantly improves the reliability, maintainability, and future readiness of the Jenkins testing ecosystem.
What stands out is not just the scale of the work, but the collaborative approach: helping maintainers adopt new testing practices while reducing the effort required on their side.
Security MVP | Kevin Guerroudj
Kevin has been on the Jenkins Security Team for many years, and currently helps with the running of the Jenkins Bug Bounty Program, and has been involved in facilitating some of the Security Releases with fellow members on the Security Team.