Governing Board

Alan heads the HCL Cloud Native & AI Labs business and is also the HCL CTO for Cloud Native.  A successful entrepreneur and technologist, Alan is deeply passionate about using technology to support the digital transformation of business and driving the creation of innovative products and services.

Alan has an extensive track record as both a visionary and thought leader. He combines in-depth engineering credibility with real hands-on experience leading global technology organizations. With a track record of bringing over 250 software products to market, Alan has a unique perspective on the application of modern Cloud-enabled services to accelerate market success.

HCL Cloud Native & AI Labs are the HCL Centre of Excellence, helping clients leverage modern technologies and practices to accelerate transformation.

Working closely with HCL ecosystem partners, the Labs showcase the Art-of-the-Possible, and with a track record of over 1,000 engagements, the Labs are uniquely positioned to guide our clients’ complete journey.

The Labs provide engineering assistance to modernize existing applications, or to create innovative new solutions. Deeply collaborative, our Labs also provide education and skills modernization to support the cultural transformation necessary to make the vision of a Cloud Native Enterprise become a reality.

Alan leads HCL corporate participation in leading open-source communities such as the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

He is a Fellow of both the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs.

Alena is a software engineer at Apple, working on cloud infrastructure services. Prior to joining Apple, Alena was one of the founding engineers at Rancher Labs. She also served as CNCF TOC in 2020-2022.

Anne leads program development in Google’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO). The Program Development Team helps teams at Alphabet develop, contribute to, and release open source software with an eye towards strategy, sustainability, and the spirit of the Open Source Definition. The Program Development Team works across domains, from cloud to data analytics to gaming to security.

Security is a special focus for Anne, particularly open source vulnerability disclosure. She previously worked on Kubernetes and container security, and authored the paper Why Container Security Matters to Your Business. Before coming to Google, she was a staff member of the OpenStack Foundation (now known as the Open Infrastructure Foundation), where she was part of the inaugural, core team of the Kata Containers project and on the OpenStack release management team. Anne has B.A.s in policy and ethics and worked in community and government relations in renewable energy before coming to tech.

Arun Gupta is vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel Corporation. He is an open source strategist, advocate, and practitioner for nearly two decades. He has taken companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Sun Microsystems through systemic changes to embrace open source principles, contribute and collaborate effectively. As an elected chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Governing Board, Arun works with CNCF leadership and member companies to grow cloud native ecosystem. He has delivered technical talks in 45+ countries, authored multiple books, and is a Docker Captain, Java Champion, and Java User Group leader. He also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the U.S. and continues to promote technology education among children. Arun holds two patents on using XML and XSL for an efficient generation of test reports. Arun is an avid runner, and is easily accessible at @arungupta on Twitter.

Barry is responsible for growing Kubernetes across AWS including Amazon EKS, Amazon EKS Anywhere and RedHat Open Shift.

Barry joined Amazon in 2022 from DigitalOcean, whereas CTO he led the organization through its IPO. A global enterprise technology veteran, Barry brings 25 years of experience across all aspects of technology, from board design, FPGA based hardware, and operating systems, to application microservices and cloud. Over the course of his career, Barry has twice led teams through successful IPOs. His previous experience includes DigitalOcean, VMware, and Sun Microsystems. Barry holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University and a MS in Computer Science from the University of Oregon.

Bill is Director of Huawei’s Open Source and Developer Department and also serves as Huawei’s Chief Open Source Liaison Officer. In this role, he is for responsible for using open source to build industrial ecosystems, expand industrial spaces, and build a healthy and harmonious industrial environment.

Chris is the Vice President and Chief Technologist at Red Hat. During his nearly 20 years as a software engineer he has worked in the telecom industry on high availability and distributed systems and in the Linux industry on security and virtualization. He has been a Linux developer for over a decade, most of that time spent deep in the Linux kernel working on security and virtualization. He is intrigued by the challenges that cloud computing brings to virtualization and networking, and is now focused on the cloud, KVM, network virtualization, and virtualizing network functions. He lives in sunny Portland, OR where he is happily hacking on OpenDaylight, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack.

Christoph is an Architect and Senior Principal Site Reliability Engineer at Red Hat and a maintainer of the Kubernetes project. He has served two terms on the Kubernetes Steering Committee, is a Technical Lead for SIG Contributor Experience, and a co-chair for the CNCF Code of Conduct working group. If he’s not reviewing PRs, he is probably walking his dog.

Dorota leads a team responsible for AT&T Software Defined Network (SDN) Platform portfolio planning and Network Cloud architecture and evolution for Mobility Services.

Since joining AT&T in 1998, Dorota has held a number of positions across AT&T Labs, product and technical marketing spanning a plethora of technologies ranging from IP VPNs and Security through Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), performance analysis, integration to Cloud Service Development.  Dorota started her career at Telcordia where she focused on helping telecom and automotive industry players launch IP based collaboration and exchange services.

Dorota holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Cooper Union in NYC.  She resides in Holmdel, NJ with her husband, Mariusz, and 21-year old daughter, Audrey.

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.

Eric Han serves as Vice President of Public Cloud Services (PCS) Product Management for NetApp’s cloud portfolio and Kubernetes data management, including Astra, Cloud Volume Services, and Azure NetApp Files. Eric has been recognized as a top software product executive in 2020. Eric started his container journey as the founding product manager for Kubernetes at Google, where he also co-founded the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) service. Eric began his career as a part of Microsoft’s Windows Server and Core Networking product teams.

From 2018-2020, Eric has served on the nonprofit board of Thrive-Wise focused on retaining women in technical careers. In his home life, he can be found either slowly training for his next triathlon, planning a trip to Disneyland with his wife and their three kids, or trying to make the ultimate Spotify mixed tape.

Hari is a Sr. Director, Product Management in the Public Cloud team at Palo Alto Networks, responsible for the Cloud Workload Protection pillar of Prisma Cloud. He joined Palo Alto Networks from Qualys, where he was head of cloud and container security products. He has over 18 years of Product Management and Marketing experience, conceptualizing and building cybersecurity, systems management, and infrastructure products at industry leaders such as Oracle. Hari lives in the bay area, and outside of work, he is passionate about volunteering for environmental projects in and around the bay area.

Jaice Singer DuMars is a cloud native ecosystem specialist and top 1% Kubernetes contributor who has served in many crucial leadership roles in the project over the last 7 years. They are currently a Senior Director of Engineering at VMware, overseeing development of upstream Kubernetes and components within the Tanzu Kubernetes platform. Prior to VMware, Jaice worked on cloud native strategy and engineering at Apple, Google, and Microsoft. In their spare time, they can be found playing or hand-engraving saxophones, painting, and drawing.

Jenn is the Senior Manager for Software Engineering Engagements at Boeing. Her organization includes the Open Source Program Office, Enterprise Software Continuous Improvement, Software Compliance and Productivity, and Digital Transformation Environments. She has been working in open source and cloud native for over 10 years, and has a wealth of experience in software engineering leadership roles across aerospace, defense, and biotech industries. Jenn holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Zoology, and a Master’s degree in Computational Biosciences from Arizona State University.

Jeremy is the VP of technical community and open source at Datadog, where he’s responsible for developer advocacy, training, documentation, technical writing, multiple engineering teams, and the open source programs office. An ardent but realistic open source advocate with a pragmatic approach, he is the founder of LinuxQuestions.org, which is one of the largest independent open source communities on the web. An early podcaster, he’s currently a presenter on Bad Voltage. He’s also on the board of the Linux Fund. Before joining Datadog Jeremy ran a consultancy helping organizations implement open source programs, find viable open source business models, and grow technical communities. He’s spoken at a variety of conferences, had a column in Linux Magazine, was an ambassador for Opensource.com, and regularly blogged about the intersection of business and open source. Outside of technology he is an avid runner and foodie, and long time Buffalo Bills fan.

Justin Dustzadeh is the Chief Technology Officer at Equinix. In this role, Justin drives the company’s technology vision, strategy and architecture as well as the overall technical innovation and focus on software transformation and engagement within the developer community, including within the Linux Foundation.

Justin is an industry-recognized thought leader on cloud-native technologies and software-defined infrastructure and has a wealth of executive and technical leadership experience, including leadership roles at Uber (where he served as Head of Global Network & Software Platform), Visa, Huawei, Ericsson, AT&T, a technology startup which he co-founded, and two leading service providers in France.

He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Télécom Paris, and a B.S. in Theoretical Physics from École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) in Paris.

Lachlan is a Principal Program Manager on the open source team at Azure. As a cloud native ambassador, emeritus Kubernetes release lead, and Helm charts maintainer, Lachlan has deep operational knowledge of many Cloud Native projects. He spends his days building and contributing to software that addresses key challenges in the Cloud Native ecosystem.

Li Yi (Mark), is the Director of Engineering for Container Service at Alibaba Cloud. Mark leads the product development and technical strategy for the container product portfolio at Alibaba Cloud. His team contributes to a variety of Open Source communities in CNCF such as Kubernetes, containerd, Dragonfly, Argo, and more. Previously Mark worked at IBM for 14 years as Senior Technical Staff Member in cloud computing and middleware areas.

Liz is Chief Open Source Officer with eBPF specialists Isovalent, creators of the Cilium cloud native networking, security and observability project. She is on the Board of OpenUK, and was Chair of the CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee in 2019-2022, and Co-Chair of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in 2018. She is also the author of Container Security, published by O’Reilly.

Mohammad is leading the cloud and infrastructure architecture for Charter Communications. He is responsible for driving the vision, strategy, and innovation for Cloud and Edge.

Mohammad has been actively engaged with the industry and helping shape the future of cloud, NFV, and Edge for almost two decades. He is a globally-minded high-tech executive with extensive leadership experience and an inspiring leader and communicator with a proven track record of scaling organizations and cross functional teams towards a shared strategic vision.

Mohammad currently resides in The Mile High City, Denver, Colorado.

Naresh holds the position of Associate Vice President and Global Head of Modernization Practice at Infosys. In his role, he oversees the development of intellectual property (IP), collaboration with modernization partners, and introduction of new services within the domain of application modernization. The practice led by Naresh takes a prominent role in spearheading application transformation initiatives across diverse industries and service lines. It places particular emphasis on four fundamental pillars of application modernization: Open Source, Agile/DevOps, Legacy modernization, and Cloud.

Over the course of his 29-year career, Naresh has occupied various roles that have encompassed IT services delivery, program management, enterprise architecture, as well as incubating and fostering multiple specialized groups.

Naresh holds a B Tech in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India.

Richard “RichiH” Hartmann is the Director of Community at Grafana Labs, Prometheus team member, OpenMetrics founder, OpenTelemetry member, CNCF TAG Observability chair, CNCF Governing Board member, and more. He also leads or organizes various conferences, including PromCon, FOSDEM, DENOG, DebConf, and Chaos Communication Congress. In the past, he made mainframe databases work, ISP backbones run, freenode work, and designed and built a datacenter from scratch. Go through his talks at https://github.com/RichiH/talks or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/TwitchiH for musings on the intersection of technology and society.

Stephen is Head of Developer Relations at JFrog and author of The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, Raspberry Pi with Java, Pro JavaFX Platform, and the upcoming DevOps Tools for Java Developers title from O’Reilly. He has keynoted numerous conferences around the world including Devoxx, JNation, JavaOne, Joker, and Open Source India. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do embedded and robot programming together with his teenage daughter. You can follow his hacking adventures at http://steveonjava.com/

Sudha is the VP for all the services in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Developer Platform. OCI’s developer services aim to improve productivity for all roles performed by Developer Security Operations engineers. Enabling a secure, fast, and connected developer platform across all Oracle internal and external cloud engineers is her team’s goal. She prides herself in running numerous large cloud scale distributed services developed in house using open-source technologies.

She is also a founding committee member of the Oracle Women’s Leadership (OWL), Seattle chapter and runs several mentoring rings. She has a Masters in Computer Science and has previously worked at Microsoft Bing. She is a goal-driven technology leader with a passion to attract more women into leadership positions.

Takao is a Senior Professional Engineer of the Linux development division at Fujitsu. He has contributed to several open source communities more than 20 years. He has worked for Linux kernel RAS feature, especially crash dump feature like netdump, diskdump and kdump. He has also joined QEMU, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and more OSS projects and contributed to them. Now he is leading a support team of Linux-based products for Fujitsu’s customers.

Tom studied computer architecture at the University of Michigan and researched microprocessor design in partnership with ARM. After university, he joined the server team at Maginatics, a cloud-based file system company that was acquired by EMC. After the acquisition, he joined Dropbox where he was focused on improving the efficiency of Dropbox’s metadata storage, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance. Tom joined the founding team at Kasten, which was acquired by Veeam in 2020. He is now VP of Engineering building Kasten by Veeam’s flagship product K10, focussed on Kubernetes Backup and DR.

Thomas Di Giacomo is Chief Technology and Product Officer for SUSE, where he leads our global Office of the CTO and Product and Solution Management. His team covers SUSE’s entire portfolio of products as well as innovation priorities. He is also responsible for driving and guiding SUSE’s current and future technology and solutions, and for sharing SUSE’s vision with customers, partners, and key industry stakeholders.

Prior to his role, Thomas was SUSE’s President of Engineering & Innovation and was responsible for the rapid growth of SUSE’s expanding portfolio. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, serving in various global leadership and executive roles in engineering and product innovation.

Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Geneva, and lives in France.

Tom is VP Product at Grafana Labs, a member of the Prometheus team, and one of the original authors of the Cortex and Loki projects. In his spare time, he builds 3D printers and makes pizza.

Vasu is Vice President and Chief Architect on topics concerning the Cloud Native Strategy at SAP. Having always been accused of having his head in the clouds, he went on to make it his career. In his current role, he works with several cross-product initiatives to foster the cloud native mindset across engineering teams. In spite of having a very brown thumb, he went green by reaching into the bountiful cloud native and open source ecosystem and was instrumental in establishing Kubernetes (with Project Gardener) as the modern foundation at SAP. As a champion of cloud native development, advocating both inner and open source technologies, he aims to make innovation simpler for both SAP and its customers. Vasu holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Osnabrück but refuses to be tied down to any geography. He prefers it in the cloud.

Vijoy Pandey is Vice President, Emerging Technologies and Incubation (ET&I) at Cisco. ET&I is chartered to create and drive the next Bold Bets businesses for Cisco in an agile, ambitious, and entrepreneurial manner. Vijoy runs product, engineering, research and a product-led growth team. He is also the CTO for Cloud at Cisco. Vijoy has held various strategy, product and engineering leadership roles and has over 20 years of expertise in planet-scale distributed systems, cloud, operational excellence, and application-first software infrastructures which serve to complement his role as a technical visionary for a software-focused digital future. Before joining Cisco, he served as Head of Engineering at Google for the company’s global cloud networks, where he was responsible for developing software systems for intent-driven automation, observability, AI/ML-based data analytics, and application-level awareness. Vijoy has held the CTO role at various companies including IBM, and Blade Network Technologies, and has led large geo-diverse, agile product and engineering teams at Blade Network Technologies, Nortel, Alteon, and Google. Vijoy has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis. He currently holds over 80 patents in cloud, networking, AI/ML, and distributed systems

Xin is the VP of Volcano Engine, previously CEO & co-founder of Caicloud and an ex-Googler. Xin has been actively involved in cloud native technology innovation, helping Chinese enterprises to achieve enterprise digital transformation and intelligence.

Zain is the GM/GVP of Pixie & Open Source at New Relic. Zain is also an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark before co-founding Pixie. He has a PhD from Stanford and has helped build at-scale data and AI/ML at Google AI, Trifacta and Nvidia.