My name is Oscar Medina, and I am thrilled to be part of this fantastic community. I have spent over 22 years in the technology industry, and have seen things come and go.
One thing that excites me these days (aside from the plethora of outdoor activities), is the paradigm shift I’ve seen throughout my career when it comes to systems architecture.
Microservices and container orchestration is not going away as other things have. This is why I am committed to spreading the word and helping educate folks on what the Continuous Delivery Foundation is all about.
Over the past 4.5 years or so, I have spent a lot of time in the open-source world. I am currently a Developer Advocate for the Jenkins X project, which is also now under the CD Foundation umbrella along with other projects such as Spinnaker, Jenkins, Tekton, and Jenkins X, of course.
I look forward to meeting you at different organized events, virtual or hopefully in person in the future.
I am BMK Lakshminarayanan from New Zealand. I am excited to join on the other great ambassadors’ line-up with Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) as a newly appointed CDF Ambassador.
About me:
I am a passionate Solutions Architect over 20 years of ICT experience working with Bank of New Zealand. I am a hands-on engineer, architect and worked on various challenging assignments ranging from desktop applications to distributed systems.
I am #DevOps #ContinuousDelivery advocate and evangelist for modern engineering & developer practices including helping developer productive, effective and efficient at the same time simple methods, approaches to software architecture.
I am passionate about sharing and learning with the community. Outside of my work, I run community groups and host CNCF New Zealand #meetup for Cloud-Native enthusiasts and The Future ICT to help students, people returning to work or looking for career opportunities in ICT.
I am also CNCF & DevOps Institue ambassador with a commitment to connecting the Humans of DevOps and Modern IT to advance the Skills, Knowledge, Ideas & Learning (SKIL). I am a frequent speaker at local meetups and international in-person & virtual conferences and also the Core organiser of DevOpsDays New Zealand and co-chair Cloud-Native Summit Wellington conferences. I am passionate about engaging, connecting & learning with various community members & leaders.
I am excited to associate with CDF as an Ambassador in promoting core values of CDF, open-source and vendor-neutral CI/CD tools. I am enthusiastic about the opportunity of contributing to and supporting the global community of CD Foundation & growing continuous delivery ecosystem.
Let us learn, share, care and grow together.
Please feel free to reach me out on LinkedIn or Twitter: @LBMKRISHNA
Eduardo is a performance engineer at Red Hat, working on the OpenShift performance & latency sensitive applications (PSAP) . Eduardo is also a Computer Science PhD student at Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia, working on containerized distributed systems for research computing, with high focus on automated workflows and GitOps.
His research interests include High Performance Computing, Distributed systems, Dependency management, Linux containers and most recently, Container orchestration.
Over the past 5 years Eduardo has focused on enabling researchers to build and deploy performance sensitive applications with containers on distributed environments, by creating tutorials, talks and meetups around how to bridge Research computing and Cloud Native ecosystems.
Hello there! I’m Helen Beal, a new CD Foundation Ambassador from Chichester in the UK. I’m also Chief Ambassador at DevOps Institute so you can tell I’m a huge fan of the power of community. I’m also a DevOps coach, writer and speaker and strategic advisor. Books and words are a huge part of my life – I read constantly and have also written several novels with more in the pipeline. I also love playing Scrabble and Bananagrams.
I’m really excited to have this opportunity to work closely with the Continuous Delivery community as it’s such an integral part of what we do in DevOps and I’ve been working with the software development lifecycle for my whole career, starting with Lotus Notes (remember that?!) in 1995! I write and speak about many different aspects of DevOps – recently I’ve been really focused on neuroscience in the workplace and value stream management. I also just did my first talk on the relationship between community and capitalism for TechStrongCon. Here’s a beautiful visual rendition of a recent talk by the wonderful MindsEyeCCF.
When I’m not DevOpsing, I tend to be out enjoying the beautiful British countryside. I’m a volunteer warden at a local nature reserve, Kingley Vale, where I pick up litter, ask people to put their dogs on leads and monitor species like the Chalk Hill Blue butterfly and one of our two UK snake species, the (lightly venomous) adder. Here’s me with a baby tawny owl.
I’m excited to be contributing to this community and meeting new people and learning new things. You can follow me on InfoQ here and Medium here. Find me on LinkedIn here and Twitter here.
My name is Alexander Raul – and I am extremely happy to join the Continuous Delivery Foundation as a Community Ambassador!
I am the CEO of Rackner, which is a cloud native consultancy focused on Kubernetes and Open Source – so my day to day is really driven by projects in the ecosystem. Continuous Delivery is a piece which doesn’t get as much credit as it deserves and where there’s still plenty of work to be done.
I am looking forward to introducing projects like Spinnaker and Tekton to developers all over the globe – and let’s be clear, Continuous Delivery should make the developer’s job easier while improving operational capability. If it only does one of the two, there’s probably a better solution.
MLOps is the extension of the DevOps methodology to include Machine Learning and Data Science assets as first-class citizens within the DevOps ecology.
Shlomo Bielak here. I am a CTO at a boutique SI in Canada trying to help anyone and everyone understand how to implement Continuous Deployment.
I think we have got down Continuous Delivery and Integration. Not-so-much the auto-deploy to production; that **** is complicated. I enjoy sharing on our webinars or with customers our Star-Trek approach to governance and CI/CD pipeline fitness.
Demo…Demo…Demo = Believe. I am all about sharing the practicing side of DevSecOps within CI/CD. Having invented governance engineering which is the operating model for security within CI/CD we know the complexities of making security fast within a DevOps mode. I share the model, process, milestones, and clear tasks to achieve those milestones, using an inner-source training plan to simplify your CI/CD journey.
I love publishing whitepapers and archetypes/exemplars to the market to better understand CI/CD which is their thought-leadership’s starting point – knowing your goal.I have been the keynote at CDF sponsor companies where they are looking to understand what the enterprise requires to be successful. I make sure my content hits the pain points and some self-deprecating laugh-points.
Today my desk is set for COVID. Tomorrow it is ready for conferences. Happy to be here supporting the CDF. Its business goal is at the core of our practice.
2020 has been a crazy year, yet the opportunities remain to connect, learn, and share throughout our communities, and so I’m thrilled to join the Continuous Delivery Foundation. As a newly minted member of the CDF Ambassadors program, I look forward to getting to know everyone.
A little bit more about me: my name is Tiffany Jachja. I’ve lived in Maryland almost all my life (go Old Bay!). One of my goals is to become a catalyst for better software delivery.
Me, the one time I decided to leave Maryland and live 2,000 miles away from home.
I work as an evangelist at Harness. This is my team.
We believe in empowering developers to move fast without breaking things.
I joined at the start of 2020, excited to travel, connect, and share my experiences around software delivery.
Of course with the shelter in place policies, the travel bit did not pan out. But I’m grateful and fortunate for the opportunities to contribute to digitally!
Observe2020 was a day-long conference held in April about Observability.
ONUG Digital Live was ONUG’s first virtual event held in May 2020.
I’ve been enjoying the fact that many industry events and sessions are now free to attend. It gives people who normally would not be able to attend an event, the opportunity to grow new skills and learn more about specific topics.
As you can tell, I do enjoy being on stage.I look forward to a healthier and safer time.
I’m grateful for all the had opportunities I’ve had to help organizations and teams accelerate their DevOps journeys. It’s very rewarding to be a part of a team that’s hit their stride and can deliver effectively.
Before joining Harness, I was a consultant at Red Hat. I focused on cloud-native application development, so helping enterprises adopt and work with applications living in the cloud. I spent the latter half of my time at Red Hat, focusing on DevOps practices and culture.
It’s important to work with your people, processes, and technology properly when going on transformation journeys.
An area we can improve on within the tech space is sharing stories and leveraging the experiences of others.
I believe becoming a CDF Ambassador gives me the opportunities to help drive that mission further.
Stay passionate, caring, and safe during these times.
On behalf of the Jenkins User Experience, Documentation and Advocacy and Outreach special interest groups, we are happy to announce the online UI/UX hackfest on May 25-29! Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of their Jenkins development experience.
The goal is to get together and work on improving Jenkins user experience, including but not limited to user interface and user documentation. We also invite you to share experiences about Jenkins and to participate in UX testing. The event follows the Jenkins is the Way theme and the most active contributors will get special edition swag and prizes!
Event plan
This hackfest is NOT a hackathon. We do not expect participants to dedicate all their time during the event timeframe, but hop-in/hop-out as their time allows. Everybody can spend as much time as they are willing to dedicate. Spending a few days or just a few hours is fine, any contributions matter regardless of their size. Jenkins development experience is not required, we have newcomer-friendly stories for those who want to start contributing to the project. We will also have a 24/7 jenkinsci/hackfest Gitter chat for Q&A and coordination between contributors.
User Interface – Improve look&feel and accessibility for Jenkins users, work on new read-only interface for instances managed with configuration as code, create and update Jenkins themes, and many other topics. This track is coordinated by the UX SIG.
User Documentation – Improve and create new user documentation, tutorials and solution pages. Also, there is ongoing documentation migration from Wiki to jenkins.io and plugin repositories. This track is coordinated by the Documentation SIG.
Spread the word – Write user stories for Jenkins Is The Way site and the Jenkins blog, post about your Jenkins user experience and new features, record overview and HOWTO videos, etc. This track is coordinated by the Advocacy and Outreach SIG.
We are working on publishing project ideas and issues for the listed tracks. The current list can be found on the UI / UX hackfest event page, this list will be finalized by the beginning of the hackfest. You are welcome to propose your own projects within the User Experience theme.
During the event, we will organize online meetups and ad-hoc training sessions in different timezones. All these sessions will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel. There are no mandatory sessions you must attend, you are welcome to join ones remotely or watch the recordings. After the event we will invite participants to demo their projects at online meetings or recorded sessions.
Registration
P.S: Note that the registration form has a question top 3 things we could change in Jenkins to improve your user experience. We would appreciate your response there!
Contacts
Please use the following contacts to contact organizers:
50 most-active contributors will get an exclusive “Jenkins Is The Way” T-shirt and stickers
Active contributors will get Jenkins stickers and socks
We are working on special prizes for top contributors, to be announced later
Acknowledgements
We thank all contributors who participate in this event as committers! We especially thank all reviewers, organizers and those who participated in the initial program reviews and provided invaluable feedback. In particular, we thank User Experience, Documentation and Advocacy and Outreach SIG members who heavily contributed to this event.
We also thank sponsors of the event who make the swag and prizes possible: CloudBees, Inc. and Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). In addition to swag, CloudBees donates working time for event hosts and reviewers. CDF also sponsors our online meetup platform which we will be using for the event.
The CD Foundation has joined the list of organizations participating in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoc) this year. GSoC is an annual program aimed at bringing more student developers into open source software development. The CD Foundation projects Spinnaker and Screwdriver joined long-time participant Jenkins in providing mentors for a number of projects for students interested in continuous delivery and software pipeline infrastructure.
In total, 7 Jenkins projects, 2 Spinnaker and 1 Screwdriver project were accepted in this summer’s program. Mentors from many different organizations around the world are pitching in, including CD Foundation ambassadors.
“The CD Foundation is dedicated to supporting open source continuous delivery projects worldwide. Part of that mission includes supporting and encouraging the next generation of talented developers worldwide, said Tara Hernandez, Senior Engineering Manager, Google Cloud Platform and CD Foundation Technical Oversight Committee member. “Thank you to the students and mentors who work tirelessly to create and innovate for the GSoC. We hope everyone has a fantastic time coding and learning this summer. Congratulations!”
The following is a list of the projects accepted and links to each project description and associated mentors.
The principles of micro-benchmarking were used to create and execute a test suite which involves comparison of GitClient APIs implemented by CliGitAPIImpl and JGitAPIImpl using “average execution time per operation” as a performance metric.
The main idea behind the project is to build a customizable Jenkins distribution service that could be used to build tailor-made Jenkins distributions.
This project idea will aim at ensuring continuous delivery and continuous deployments, bringing up automated releases, undertaking deployments across multiple cloud providers, and mastering the best built-in deployments practices from Spinnaker.
The two key areas where Screwdriver will be improved are introduction of deployment keys for seamless handling of private repositories and triggering of builds from external SCM repositories.
Thank you to all participants! We look forward to getting updates and information on progress over the summer. For more details, please continue to visit the CD Foundation blog.
I look forward to a healthier and safer time. 
