Technical Oversight Committee

Cathy is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel responsible for defining the cloud-native strategy and leading the company wide contributions and influence across 1000s of developers at Intel to the CNCF projects/TAGs/WGs and Kubernetes SIGs. She has over 20 years of software design and development experience in a wide range of areas such as serverless, large scale distributed VM/container orchestration and scheduling, edge computing, container runtime, service mesh, software defined network, and high availability etc. Cathy has been an active contributor in the cloud-native computing ecosystems including Kubernetes, OpenStack, OPNFV, and has led the development of several open-source projects under CNCF, Linux Foundation Networking, Linux Foundation Edge and Open Infrastructure. She has made strong contributions to the technical direction and design, driving working group discussion, and resolving technical disagreements. She co-authored the CNCF serverless whitepaper, the CloudEvents specification, and the OpenStack service function chaining design. She has served as the program committee member/track chair for several Kubecons and OpenStack summits. She has delivered talks at various open-source conferences (Kubecon, OpenStack Summit, Open Source Summit, OPNFV).

Davanum Srinivas (a.k.a Dims) is a Principal Engineer with Amazon Web Services working on Kubernetes, containerd and related projects at CNCF. Dims is involved in various Kubernetes SIGs and working groups like the Architecture, Testing, Node, Infrastructure etc.

Dave is an engineer in Spotify’s Platform team, where his focus has been core infrastructure, the data platform, and Spotify’s use of cloud services. A noted evangelist for cloud native and open source technologies, Dave spurred Spotify to join the CNCF and remain active in the community, launched the Stockholm CNCF meetup, and is both a CNCF Ambassador and a member of the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Program Committee.

In his work at Spotify, Dave has been essential to the adoption of CNCF projects like Kubernetes, gRPC, Envoy, and OpenTelemetry, as well as experimentation with Service Mesh. Prior to his time with Spotify, Dave worked at AWS, at VMware on cloud management software, and at Microsoft on the Office team.

Duffie is a member of the CNCF Technology Oversight Committee and speaks on a number of topics ranging from Kuberenetes to security and networking.

Why I am excited to be an ambassador: I am excited to be an ambassador as I really enjoy helping others navigate our community. Helping them feel welcome and learning from them as we all lift each other up!

Emily Fox is a DevOps enthusiast, security unicorn, and advocate for Women in Technology. She promotes the cross-pollination of development and security practices. She has worked in security for over 13 years to drive a cultural change where security is unobstructive, natural, and accessible to everyone. Her technical interests include containerization, least privilege, automation, and promoting women in technology. She holds a BS in Information Systems and an MS in cybersecurity. Serving as chair on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) and co-chair for KubeCon+CloudNativeCon China 2021, Europe 2022, North America 2022, Europe 2023, and CloudNativeSecurityCon 2023, she is involved in a variety of open source communities and activities.

Karena Angell is a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) and was a Technical Lead for the CNCF Technical Advisory Group (TAG) App Delivery. She is also a Senior Principal Technical Product Manager at Red Hat focused on upstream projects, including Kubernetes. She has a broad background within various disciplines including Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Solution design and management, Marketing, IT Service Management and technical community building. She has also worked extensively within Commercial and Government enterprises. These experiences give her a unique understanding of how to guide strategic efforts to engage community members and drive increased CNCF involvement.

Katie is a cloud native leader, practitioner, and contributor, currently in a Senior Kubernetes Field Engineer role at Apple and a TOC for CNCF. As a cloud platform engineer, Katie has built the infrastructure for Conde Nast and American Express, gravitating towards cloud-native technologies, principles, and Kubernetes as the focal point. At CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), she was a Technical Oversight Committee member and led the CNCF End User Community. At present, Katie advises the Keptn startup and holds the Chief of Future Founders Officer (CFFO) position at OpenUK.

Recently, Katie released the Cloud Native Fundamentals course and led the creation of the CNCF KCNA (Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate) certification. Additionally, Katie is an active keynote public speaker, a #TechWomen100 winner, and a strong advocate for women in STEM.

Kevin Wang has been an outstanding contributor in the CNCF community since its beginning and is the leader of the cloud native open source team at Huawei. Kevin has contributed critical enhancements to Kubernetes, led the incubation of the KubeEdge, Volcano, Karmada projects in CNCF, actively participated in the TOC, and played a critical role in building and supporting the growth of CNCF technologies and the CNCF community in the globe.

Lin is the Head of Open Source at Solo.io, also serving as a CNCF TOC member and ambassador. She has been actively involved with the Istio service mesh since its inception in 2017, holding positions on both the Istio Steering Committee and Technical Oversight Committee. Prior to her current role, she was a Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor at IBM for 15+ years. She is the author of the book “Istio Ambient Explained” and has more than 200 patents to her name.

Nikhita is a member of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee, a core contributor to the Kubernetes project and works as a Staff Software Engineer at VMware. She won the CNCF ‘Top Committer Award’ in 2021 for her technical contributions and the ‘Chop Wood Carry Water’ in 2018 for her community work. Additionally, Nikhita is the technical lead for Kubernetes SIG Contributor Experience and a former member of the Kubernetes Steering Committee. She has also been featured in Business Insider as one the ‘top 21 developers transforming Silicon Valley’.

Ricardo leads the Platform Infrastructure team at CERN with a strong focus on cloud native deployments and machine learning. He has led for several years the internal effort to transition services and workloads to use cloud native technologies, as well as dissemination and training efforts. Ricardo got CERN to join the CNCF and is a lead of the CNCF Research User Group. Prior to this work Ricardo helped develop the grid computing infrastructure serving the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).