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TAG Infrastructure Tech Lead Nomination

Open mrbobbytables opened this issue 7 months ago • 15 comments

Following the TAG Reboot Timeline, we are opening nominations for (3) Tech Leads for TAG Infrastructure. If this interests you, please review the information on TAG governance and responsibilities in the TAG Governance doc and the draft charter for the TAG. Then, if you're still interested - please post your bio below and confirm your interest in running for Tech Lead.

Election timeline: May 5: Nominations open for new TAG Technical Leads May 19: TOC Vote opens for initial TAG Technical Leads (3 per TAG) June 2: TOC Vote closes for initial TAG Technical Leads June 2: Initial round of newly seated TAG Technical Leads announced July 7: Nominations close for new TAG Technical Leads July 7: TOC and TAG Chairs Vote opens for new TAG Technical Leads (TAG Chairs only vote for their TAG TLs) July 28: TOC and TAG Chairs Vote closes July 28: Newly seated Technical Leads announced

NOTE: Timeline is subject to change; check the TAG Reboot Timeline issue for the most up-to-date information.

Once the initial leads are seated, we'll work on refining the charters and really get things going. :)

Links: TAG Restructuring Presentation - Feb 4, 2025 TAG Reboot Timeline Issue TAG Governance Doc Draft Charter

mrbobbytables avatar May 05 '25 22:05 mrbobbytables

I'd like to propose my candidacy as TAG infrastructure Tech Lead. Here is my Bio:

Raffaele Spazzoli

https://www.linkedin.com/in/raffaelespazzoli/

Raffaele Spazzoli is a full-stack enterprise architect with 20+ years of experience. Raffaele started his career in Italy as a Java Architect, then gradually moved to Integration Architect and then Enterprise Architect. Later he moved to the United States to eventually become an OpenShift Architect for Red Hat consulting services, acquiring in the process, knowledge of the infrastructure side of IT. Currently Raffaele covers a consulting position of cross-portfolio Red Hat products with a focus on OpenShift. For most of his career Raffaele has worked with large financial institutions allowing him to acquire an understanding of the processes, security and compliance requirements of large enterprise customers. Around 2019 Raffaele became part of the CNCF TAG Storage and contributed to the Cloud Native Disaster Recovery whitepaper. Later he took the co-chair role for TAG Storage. Two major focus points for Raffaele are how to improve the developer experience by implementing internal development platforms (IDP) and more recently how to help organization run Virtual Machines in Kubernetes.

raffaelespazzoli avatar May 06 '25 19:05 raffaelespazzoli

Hey,

I want to nominate myself as a TAG infrastructure tech lead. Read more below.

Shabeeb Khalid is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at IQM Quantum Computers, where he develops scalable and secure infrastructure to support quantum computing platforms, working with HPC and other high-performing applications. With a decade-long experience in the IT industry, most of the time in DevOps, automation and cloud engineering, he has held key roles at Kuvera, Amagi, and HCL Technologies—driving improvements in automation, reliability, and deployment efficiency.

His technical skill set spans AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Jenkins, and Python, with strong expertise in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code. Shabeeb holds a Diploma in Mechatronics and is pursuing a B.Sc. in Programming and Data Science from IIT Madras as part-time, blending a robust understanding of hardware with modern software practices.

He is also an active contributor to the open-source community, sharing tools and scripts that enhance DevOps and quantum tech workflows.

shabeebk avatar May 08 '25 07:05 shabeebk

Hello folks, I would be honoured if you would consider my candidacy for the role of tech lead within TAG Infrastructure, please find my bio below:

Nic Jackson is a Developer Advocate for HashiCorp (IBM), he has over 25 years experience building distributed systems with his core interests being system connectivity and reliability. He has served as tech lead and co-chair for TAG Network, assisted with the new CNCF Domain Technical Reviews process, helped co-author the initial CNCF Service Mesh Interface standard, and has served on the program committee for Service Mesh Con.

For the last 8 years Nic has worked for HashiCorp, helping to solve problems related to infrastructure patterns, and the education of practitioners on best practices with relation to building and deploying modern systems. In addition to his professional work, Nic is an open source contributor, both creating his own tools and contributing to others.

Nic is also a published author and YouTube creator, currently he is researching the infrastructure and implementation best practices for Artificial Intelligence.

nicholasjackson avatar May 09 '25 07:05 nicholasjackson

Hi 👋🏼,

I’d like to nominate myself as a candidate for the role of technical lead within TAG Infrastructure.

I’m Bruno Schaatsbergen, a software engineer (with focus on infrastructure and configuration management) and open-source contributor, based in Amsterdam. I previously worked at HashiCorp, where I was directly involved in Terraform and its provider ecosystem. Prior to that, I worked as a Principal Consultant at Xebia, a consultancy firm, where I helped organizations in managing infrastructure—spanning cloud-native, on-premise, and hybrid environments.

These days, I enjoy working on configuration languages and protocol design in the infrastructure and configuration management space.

I currently co-chair the CNCF WG Infrastructure Lifecycle, where I collaborate with community members to shape a standardized framework for managing infrastructure across cloud-native environments—making it secure, resilient, and easier to operate. Serving as co-chair puts me at the center of forward-looking conversations about how infrastructure should "evolve", and it’s given me the chance to guide discussions, bring people together around shared goals, and help move ideas into actionable outcomes. It’s experience that I believe aligns well with the responsibilities of a technical lead within the TAG Infrastructure.

I care about simplifying software, systems and delivery. My focus is on reducing complexity, minimizing waste, and optimizing for joy in the tools we build and use. I love contributing to open source, and I’ve always had a deep passion for tooling in the infrastructure space.

Thanks for considering my nomination!

bschaatsbergen avatar May 09 '25 16:05 bschaatsbergen

Hi,

I'm interested in running for TAG Infrastructure TL.

Bio:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajojea/

Antonio Ojea is a highly accomplished Software Engineer at Google, where he significantly contributes to the Kubernetes project. He is recognized as one of the top contributors to the Kubernetes project, demonstrating his deep expertise and commitment to the open-source community.

As a proven Tech Lead in Kubernetes SIG Network and SIG Testing, Antonio has a distinguished track record of leading technical initiatives that have enhanced Kubernetes infrastructure stability and performance. While his primary expertise within infrastructure lies in networking, he is also a strong advocate for robust performance, scalability, and reliability practices within open-source communities. His significant contributions include delivering critical features such as Dual-Stack and IPv6 Kubernetes implementation, as well as driving architectural changes like KEP-1880 to improve the performance and scalability of Kubernetes Services. He has also contributed to enhancing the performance and reliability of container networking through changes to the OCI specification.

Antonio's extensive career in open source spans significant contributions to both OpenStack and Kubernetes. Prior to his role at Google, he served as Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat and Engineering Manager at SUSE, where he led and contributed to OpenStack and Kubernetes projects. He has been a speaker at numerous KubeCon and OpenStack Summits, sharing his insights on topics related to networking and infrastructure performance, scalability, and reliability.

aojea avatar May 10 '25 10:05 aojea

Hi,

I would like to apply as TAG infrastructure tech lead.

My bio:

Philippe Huet https://www.linkedin.com/in/phuet/

Philippe Huet is an experienced infrastructure architect and trusted technical advisor with over 30 years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating complex infrastructure systems across datacenter and edge environments. His career spans from managing ISP infrastructures in the early internet era to advising global enterprises and Telco operators on cloud-native infrastructure strategy and adoption.

He currently serves as a Solution Architect at SUSE, working closely with software vendors and customers to design and operationalize Cloud Native platforms. Previously, Philippe spent several years at Red Hat in a similar role, supporting customers in adopting container platforms and infrastructure-as-code practices at scale.

Philippe brings a strong track record of bridging strategic vision with hands-on engineering. He remains deeply involved in the technical execution of the solutions he supports—collaborating directly with teams on design, architecture reviews, prototyping, and delivery.

His background also includes founding and running two managed services companies (Artful, dotgee) and leading infrastructure for large-scale environments, including European operations at Rakuten.

With a background in technical leadership and team management, Philippe is recognized for his ability to guide and support engineers in developing their own expertise.

I am applying for the position of TAG Infrastructure Technical Lead because I believe that my practical experience can help the community make significant progress. Having spent my career focused on open-source solutions, I feel that it is time for me to actively contribute to the development of practical, forward-looking infrastructure practices that will benefit everyone who develops and operates cloud-native systems.

Philippe

xymox avatar May 14 '25 10:05 xymox

Hi,

I would like to nominate myself as a technical lead of TAG infrastructure.

Yanjun Chen is a senior expert of large-scale cloud native AI Infrastructure at China Mobile. Her expertise spans distributed systems, cloud native technology, edge computing and AI infrastructure.

Before joining China Mobile, Yanjun spent over 13 years at Orange as a technical expert in cloud computing and IoT system. She began her career as a software developer of a peer-to-peer distributed streaming product, which served as a complementary solution to CDN networks. She later specialized in telecom network convergence research and IoT solution architecture, designing cloud-to-edge continuum solutions for connecting MQTT, LoRa, and M2M devices. During this period, she actively contributed to CNCF open source projects for lightweight edge clusters, such as the KubeEdge and K3S, and also co-initiated the KubeEdge MEC special interested group.

Since joining China Mobile five years ago, Yanjun has been a key member of the next-generation infrastructure strategy project. Her experience spans traditional telecom services and internet cloud service expansions, providing her with cross-domain expertise in both telecom and internet infrastructure. Her work focuses on multi-cluster management, scheduling, service discovery and interoperability. She played a pivotal role in proposing an open-source Akraino Blueprint (BP) project together with CNCF project Karmada, which serves as an end-to-end cross-domain service deployment solution. Additionally, she has been involved in the software stack architecture of large-scale AI clusters, specializing in cross-domain cloud-native scheduling solutions for heterogeneous device management.

Yanjun is passionate about open-source community work and has been a consistent active contributor. From 2020 to 2024, she served as a TSC member of LF Edge Akraino, participated in the CNCF Runtime TAG and AI WG. She has also delivered multiple speeches at CNCF's KubeCon. Her extensive open-source community experience, combined with the technical background in both telecom and IT infrastructure, will bring broader and more comprehensive perspectives to the development of TAG Infrastructure.

chenyanjunyjy avatar May 17 '25 13:05 chenyanjunyjy

Good day.

I would like to nominate myself as a technical lead of TAG Infrastructure.

I was serving as technical lead to TAG-Runtime in the past, and I would like to continue helping community and CNCF ecosystem to improve in the areas of more efficient usage of the hardware and performance optimizations for workloads.

Bio: Alexander is currently employed by Intel as Principal Engineer, Cloud Software, focusing on various aspects in Kubernetes: Resource Management, power and performance optimizations for workloads, container runtimes, Device Plugins and DRA for enabling hardware accelerators in the CNCF ecosystem. Alexander has over 25+ years of experience in areas of Linux distributions, SCM, Networking, Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Cloud Orchestration, Continuous Integration & Delivery. Alexander is an active member of Kubernetes SIG-Node, tech lead of CNCF TAG-Runtimes, co-chair of Container Orchestrated Device WG.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/akanevskiy/

kad avatar May 18 '25 19:05 kad

I would like to nominate myself for the TAG Infrastructure Tech Lead position.

My name is Carlory, and I am currently an open source engineer at DaoCloud. I have been actively contributing to the Kubernetes community, with a primary focus on the kubernetes/kubernetes and kubernetes-csi projects. Over the years, I have made more than 1,100 contributions across 56 repositories, including code, reviews, and issue triage. My work spans core Kubernetes features, storage, and infrastructure improvements.

As part of my role at DaoCloud, I am able to dedicate significant time to open source and community work. While I still have much to learn, I hope that my experience and commitment can be of value to the TAG Infrastructure group. If given the opportunity, I would do my best to contribute to the team and help foster a welcoming and productive environment.

Thank you for considering my nomination.

carlory avatar May 19 '25 02:05 carlory

Hello All,

I would love to be considered for the Tech Lead role for TAG Infrastructure. This is my bio.

Selvi Kadirvel is currently VP of Engineering at a Kubernetes AI Infrastructure startup, Elotl. She is a hands-on Individual Contributor, Tech lead and Staff engineer in the Kubernetes space for 10+ years. She received her MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Florida, USA (PhD thesis). Her distributed systems experience spans two decades in the fields of High Performance Computing, MapReduce and machine-learning for improved systems performance through anomaly detection and performance prediction.

Technical leadership and Development expertise

  • Selvi’s work and research experience has spanned startups (Elotl, ContainerX), large enterprises (VMware, Cisco) and University Research Centers (University of Florida HPC Center, University of Florida Advanced Computing and Information Systems Lab). LinkedIn Profile: Selvi
  • Selvi is proficient in Golang and Python. Her most recent development contributions include:
    1. An open-source Generative AI stack for Question-Answering systems on Kubernetes: Gen-AI Infra Stack
    2. Hybrid cloud orchestration for multi-cluster Kubernetes environments: Multi-cluster Kubernetes Orchestrator

Research and Subject-Matter Leadership expertise:

With my hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, diverse experience in distributed systems, and customer-focussed leadership roles, I will be able to bring in the necessary technical knowledge and cross-functional coordination needed for this role.

Thank you for considering my nomination!

Regards, Selvi

selvik avatar May 19 '25 07:05 selvik

I am very interested in running for the Tech Lead of the new Infrastructure TAG.

I am a principal software engineer at Huawei, I am an open-source enthusiast and has contributed extensively to cloud native open source projects for past eight years.

I am currently the Tech Lead of TAG Network, in the last year, we have evaluated and pushed project sandbox/incubation application: K8GB, LoxiLB, Kuadrant, KubeSlice, Sermant, Connect, Kmesh, OVN-Kubernetes, Kgateway, etc.

I have served as Istio Steering Committee member from 2020, and oversees the administrative aspects of istio, including governance, branding, marketing, and working with the CNCF. I have been a core maintainer and one of the TOP 3 contributors in Istio. I am also an maintainer of Volcano and Kmesh.

I am also the co-author of Cloud Native Service Mesh Istio, the best-selling service mesh book in China. In 2023, I co-authored "The definitive guide of Istio”. I am also an active contributor to many other projects, like Kubernetes, Gateway API, Gateway-api-inference-extension, Agent-Gateway (https://github.com/agentgateway/agentgateway), Cluster-API.

My practical expertise spans infrastucture managment, networking, service mesh, API managment, distributed application, high concurrency and realiability system design. Recently I have also been deeply involved in AI inference, and believe that servicemesh, networking and storage all construct the LLM inference fundamentals, TAG Infrastructure should put high priority for AI Infra in the next decade.

Before joining Huawei, I worked at Netease, where I was responsible for the message-pushing middleware system that served hundreds of millions of devices.

With the reboot of the TAG, I see many opportunities to collaborate with excellent individuals from other domains to better guide project evolution. I aim to help resolve cross-projects technical issues, and provide mentorship to projects to help move projects forward from different phases. If elected, i would be very happy to contribute to the cloud native next decade prosperity.

hzxuzhonghu avatar May 19 '25 07:05 hzxuzhonghu

I am pleased to nominate myself for the position of Technical Lead for CNCF TAG Infrastructure.

Name: Humble Devassy Chirammal
 Current Role: Principal Software Engineer, VMware by Broadcom
 GitHub: https://github.com/humblec LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/humblec

Contributor Card : https://contribcard.clotributor.dev/humblec

Technical leadership and Development expertise:

Kubernetes Contributor & Maintainer since 2016: Active involvement in core components, particularly within SIG Storage, CSI, LTS, and Tech lead for WG nodelifecycle Kubernetes Contributor Award Recipient: Recognized for significant contributions to the Storage domain. (https://www.kubernetes.dev/community/awards/2023/#storage) Extensive Code Contributions: Authored and reviewed numerous PRs across key repositories such as kubernetes/kubernetes, kubernetes-csi, and kubernetes-sigs. (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/commits?author=humblec)

One of the top contributor to the K/K project ( 71th :https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/graphs/contributors )

Community Engagement & Leadership

  • CNCF Ambassador: Advocating for cloud-native technologies and fostering community growth. (https://www.cncf.io/people/ambassadors/?p=humble-devassy-chirammal)
  • KubeCon Program Committee Chair: Led content curation for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in North America, China, and India.
  • Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Organizer: Spearheaded events in Bengaluru and Kerala, promoting regional engagement.

https://www.credly.com/users/humble-chirammal

Vision for TAG Infrastructure

With nearly a decade of experience in cloud-native infrastructure, I aim to:

  • Enhance Project Scalability: Advocate for resilient and scalable infrastructure practices across CNCF projects.
  • Foster Cross-Project Collaboration: Bridge gaps between SIGs, working groups, and CNCF-hosted projects to promote unified progress. Lead outreach programs for TAG Infrastructure with community programs and LTS.
  • Promote Inclusive Growth: Champion mentorship and create accessible pathways for contributors worldwide.
  • Strengthen Governance and Transparency: Ensure clear communication and governance within TAG Infrastructure activities.

humblec avatar May 19 '25 14:05 humblec

Hello, I would like to be considered for the TAG Infrastructure Tech Lead Nomination.

Name: Faisal Afzal Current Role: Principal Technical Consultant Lead, AHEAD LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/faisalafzal/ Github: https://github.com/faisalcodesinfrastructure

I am involved in and an ambassador for both the CNCF and Platform Engineering communities. I lead CNCF's Los Angeles group and engage in online and in-person events championing open source technologies. At AHEAD, I am also responsible for leading and growing our Platform Engineering practice. Previously, I was part of the team that managed KCD LA (which is no longer active), and I continue to volunteer for the SCaLE event in Los Angeles every year.

Before AHEAD, I was a Senior Resident Architect at HashiCorp. Over the last 10 years, I have spent time around Infrastructure as Code, Cloud, Cloud Native, and in the Platform Engineering area. At nClouds, before starting my role at HashiCorp, I was responsible for building a GenAI practice through a partnership with AWS.

faisalcodesinfrastructure avatar May 20 '25 03:05 faisalcodesinfrastructure

Thanks everyone for putting your nomination forward :) With the nomination period now closed, we're going to temporarily lock the issues just so it's clear that the nomination period is over. We'll reopen soon with updates. 👍

mrbobbytables avatar May 20 '25 13:05 mrbobbytables

Announcing the Tech Leads for TAG Infrastructure:

Antonio Ojea @aojea - 2 year term Nicholas Jackson @nicholasjackson - 1 year term Zhonghu Xu @hzxuzhonghu -2 Year term

Thank you all for volunteering.

We encourage continued participation from everyone. There's plenty to do and many opportunities to come.

riaankleinhans avatar Jun 11 '25 19:06 riaankleinhans

Hello everyone,

I am interested in being a Tech Lead for TAG Infrastructure. Bio:

LinkedIn Website

My name is Alexa Griffith, and I am a Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg on the AI Platforms Inference team. My work is centered on building a scalable inference platform using KServe, a CNCF open-source project, which empowers our AI engineers to deploy and serve both predictive and generative AI models efficiently. I am also actively involved in the Envoy AI Gateway, another CNCF open-source project, where we are leveraging Envoy Gateway for advanced request traffic management to GenAI services. I am committed to the cloud-native community and enjoy sharing knowledge and fostering collaboration.

I am on the program committee for Cloud Native + Kubernetes AI Day (Kubecon NA 2025), served as a Lead Subject Matter Expert in the Cloud Native Platform Associate Advisory Council and currently serving on the Cloud Native Platform Engineer Advisory Council as an Advisory Panel Member. I have also given multiple talks at Kubecons, knowledge-sharing the infrastructure we are building at Bloomberg and cloud-native best practices.

Personal Info/Other Links:

  • Tech podcast host for "Alexa's Input (AI)".
  • YouTube Channel.
  • Conference talks (see: website for full list): I have had the privilege of speaking at numerous conferences, including keynotes at KubeCon NA 2024 and KubeCon Japan 2025, on topics ranging from platform engineering to serving AI models on Kubernetes.

I am excited about the future of cloud-native infrastructure and believe my hands-on experience in building and scaling real-world AI platforms, combined with my dedication to open-source and community engagement, would be a valuable asset to the leadership of TAG Infrastructure. I would be honored to be part of this to help steer TAG Infrastructure towards critical infrastructure challenges and best practices.

Thank you for your consideration!

alexagriffith avatar Jul 07 '25 20:07 alexagriffith

Hi 👋🏼,

I’d like to formally resubmit my nomination for the role of Technical Lead within TAG Infrastructure.

I’m Bruno Schaatsbergen, a Principal Engineer at Xebia specializing in infrastructure and configuration management, based in Amsterdam. In my current role, I support organizations ranging from large enterprises and governments to scale-ups in managing their infrastructure across cloud-native, on-premise, and hybrid environments.

Previously, I worked at HashiCorp, where I contributed directly to Terraform and its provider ecosystem. Before that, I worked as a consultant helping enterprises deliver, manage, and scale their infrastructure. I actively contribute to and have maintained open-source projects including Terraform, the AWS and Google Terraform providers, Atlantis, and other tools within the infrastructure as code ecosystem. I’m also a Terraform Core Contributor, a Google Champion, an AWS Community Builder, and a host at the Google Cloud User Group in the Netherlands.

In my current role I focus on the large-scale delivery of infrastructure and configuration management. In my spare time, I focus on configuration language and protocol design within the infrastructure space, driven by a passion for simplifying software, systems, and delivery – reducing complexity, minimizing waste, and optimizing for joy in the tools we build and use.

In addition, I previously co-chaired the CNCF Working Group on Infrastructure Lifecycle, collaborating with the community to define standardized frameworks for managing infrastructure in cloud-native environments. In that role, I was involved in discussions about how infrastructure should evolve, helping to drive conversations, align stakeholders, and turn ideas into practical results. I see this as closely aligned with the responsibilities of a Technical Lead in TAG Infrastructure.

Thank you for considering my resubmission. I look forward to the opportunity to contribute further 💙

https://bschaatsbergen.com https://linkedin.com/in/bschaatsbergen

bschaatsbergen avatar Jul 10 '25 20:07 bschaatsbergen

Thanks everyone for putting your nomination forward. With the nomination period now closed, we're going to temporarily lock the issues just so it's clear that the nomination period is over. We'll reopen soon with the election results.

riaankleinhans avatar Jul 14 '25 11:07 riaankleinhans

Announcing the Tech Leads for TAG Infrastructure:

Alexa Griffith @alexagriffith - 2 year term Bruno Schaatsbergen @bschaatsbergen - 1 year term

Thank you all for volunteering.

We encourage continued participation from everyone. There's plenty to do and many opportunities to come.

riaankleinhans avatar Jul 22 '25 16:07 riaankleinhans