Technical Oversight Committee (TOC)

Andrea Frittoli is a Developer Advocate at IBM and an open source enthusiast. He is the co-founder of the CDEvents project and a member of the Tekton project governance team. Before Tekton, he contributed to OpenStack for several years, focusing on testing and CI/CD, serving as the QA project technical lead for one year. He’s a strong advocate for transparency in open source. Apart from DevOps, he enjoys playing with machine learning, sometimes combining the two worlds. Andrea has previously been a speaker at several open source conferences, including cdCon, FOSSASIA, FOSDEM, FOSS Backstage, KubeCon, Open Source Summits and more.

Aravind is a long-time practitioner and advocate of platform engineering at scale. He lead multiple geographically distributed platform engineering teams at eBay—overseeing our CI/CD platform, internal developer platform (IDP), developer experience, productivity, and engineering-velocity programs, and spearheading the integration of AI agents into CI/CD. He recently shared some of these battle-tested best practices at cdCon 2025 and on a Techstrong.TV panel in 2023, and is eager to bring this real-world expertise to the Technical Oversight Committee.

Basil is a long-standing and active maintainer of Jenkins core, where he has made hundreds of contributions that improve the reliability, maintainability, and security of the project. His work includes major enhancements to core APIs, cleanup of legacy code, improvements to the administrative user experience, and fixing edge-case bugs that impact production Jenkins instances. He has been a key part of multiple significant Jenkins projects.

Basil actively participates in Jenkins’ governance and infrastructure discussions as an elected member of the Jenkins Governance Board. He is a trusted voice in decisions made by the Jenkins Governance Board and has worked to improve the health of the project by promoting long-term maintenance strategies, CI reliability, and better development tooling.

Basil regularly supports other contributors through code reviews, technical discussions, and mentorship. His deep knowledge of Jenkins internals makes him a go-to resource for both new and experienced contributors.

Basil won Jenkins Most Valuable Contributor Award in 2022.

Ben is a software engineer at Apple for the Spinnaker team with previous experience at AWS from the teams of SDK and Tools and ECS. He has contributed to various tools, services, and proposals through the years, governs the Cloud SIG for Spinnaker, and is an active participant of CDEvents.

Carlos Panato is a Staff Software Engineer at Chainguard, Inc., specializing in development and infrastructure with Kubernetes and containers. He has a diverse background in development, testing, processes, and management. Carlos actively contributes to several Linux Foundation projects and is a prominent member of the open source software community.

Dan is an experienced technologist and has a good perspective on the nature of open source software and commercial software. His organization uses a commercial product based on Jenkins. He’ll be a strong voice for users and the user community.

Garima is a thought leader in DevOps & Cloud technologies. She is the founder of DevOps Community of Practice, Canada. She leads the ambassador program for the Continuous Delivery Foundation.

Jason McIntosh is an engineering architect with over 25 years of industry experience. He was one of the early pioneers of DevOps, integrating database administration, network management, software development, and monitoring as part of a stack at the University of Missouri.

After his stint at the University of Missouri, Jason worked at Carfax on their core services and helped design their “DataCenter 2.0 Pod Architecture” deploying microservices to multiple regions while ensuring 100% up times for customer-facing systems. A need for high availability led Jason to embrace continuous delivery concepts. He brought in infrastructure as code, rolling deploys, and automatic load testing while integrating monitoring into the release process, enabling fast safe software delivery. Through these efforts, Jason was able to help deliver more stable releases.

This journey and the evolving requirements in the enterprise space led to a deep investigation and love of Spinnaker in 2019 when Jason started working full-time at Armory. He continues today as an Engineering Architect at Harness supporting Spinnaker while looking toward next-generation continuous delivery paradigms. Jason loves observability 2.0, DevOps, systems architecture, and technology. Jason somehow finds time for woodworking, reading science fiction and spending time with his family in the rare moments when he is not digging through code.