About
With over two decades of experience across Infrastructure, QA, CI/CD, and DevOps, my work focuses on designing and building software delivery systems that scale in complexity without sacrificing quality, speed, or security.
This work centers on the end-to-end delivery of complex products, solutions, and platforms, with deep expertise in interoperability across disparate CI/CD and software delivery platforms: high-quality software delivery that is secure, reliable, and high-velocity.
Strategic & Technical Leadership in CI/CD & DevOps
I am currently Senior Manager, Core Infrastructure QE at SUSE, where I lead a high-performing engineering team and own the QA and CI/CD strategy across the organization.
My role focuses on solution validation across Edge, Telco, and Core Infrastructure, ensuring that products developed across SUSE and the wider open source ecosystem integrate into coherent, reliable, and secure solutions.
Industry Impact & Community Leadership
Beyond my role at SUSE, I bridge corporate strategy and open source innovation to help shape global industry standards:
- Executive Leadership: Former Executive Director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), part of the Linux Foundation (LF)
- Founding & Technical Leadership: Creator and former lead of OPNFV Cross Community CI (XCI); co-creator of the OpenCI initiative (historic contribution that helped form the CDF); co-founder of CDF Special Interest Groups (SIGs) for Interoperability and Software Supply Chain, now inactive
- Advisory & Governance: Strategic Advisor to a stealth-stage startup; former member of Technical Committees for OPNFV, CDF, Eiffel, and Nordix
Experience & Ecosystem Contribution
Previously a Principal Developer at Ericsson, I designed and delivered complex, large-scale CI/CD and software delivery systems during a critical phase of the company’s evolution.
My work directly influenced Ericsson’s delivery strategy and execution model, with outcomes reviewed and steered at the C-suite level, shaping how software was built, validated, and released across highly regulated, carrier-grade environments. This experience placed me at the intersection of deep technical execution and executive decision-making.
In parallel, I have contributed across open source communities including LF Networking (LFN), OpenStack, Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), and Eiffel, and continue to engage with these ecosystems through leadership, standards, and periodic community roles.
My work has been recognized through multiple impact and key contributor awards at Ericsson for business and engineering impact, as well as community awards within OPNFV for sustained open source contributions.
My long-term focus is establishing interoperability standards that make global software delivery predictable, scalable, and secure across organizations, ecosystems, and industries.
Keynotes, Conference Talks, Panels
| Title | Event | Date | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Companies vs. Foundations: Who Should Steer Your Open Source Project? | FOSDEM 2026 | Feb 2026 | N/A |
| Companies vs. Foundations: Who Should Steer Your Open Source Project? | OSA CON 2025 | Nov 2025 | Recording |
| The Evolution of Stack Validation: Progress and Insights |
SUSECON 2025 | Mar 2025 | Recording |
| Validating the Edge: Where Bits Meet Beyond |
SUSECON 2024 | Jun 2024 | Recording |
| Interoperability: Empowering Multi-Vendor CD in Telecommunications with Standardization |
ONE Summit Regional Days 2023 | Sep 2023 | Recording |
| Keynote: Welcome and Opening Remarks |
cdCon + GitOpsCon 2023 | May 2023 | Recording |
| Securing Your Software Supply Chain One Open Source Project at a Time | FOSDEM 2023 | Feb 2023 | Recording |
| Making Continuous Delivery Accessible to All | FOSDEM 2023 | Feb 2023 | Recording |
| Keynote: Interoperability in CI/CD and Why it Matters? |
ETSI UCAAT 2021 | Oct 2021 | N/A |
| 5G and Challenges with Software Supply Chain Security | Supply Chain Security Con NA 2021 | Oct 2021 | Slides/Recording |
| Interoperability Birds of a Feather (BoF) | cdCon 2021 | Jun 2021 | N/A |
| Velocity or Governance: Why not both? | cdCon 2021 | Jun 2021 | Slides/Recording |
| The Road to Interoperability in Cloud Native Continuous Delivery | KubeCon CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 | May 2021 | Slides/Recording |
| The Road to Interoperability in CI/CD | FOSDEM 2021, Virtual | Feb 2021 | Slides/Recording |
| ONAP and DevOps - Integration with CI/CD Pipelines | LFN Developer and Testing Forum | Feb 2021 | Recording |
| Interoperability Challenges in CI/CD Ecosystem | CI/CD Industry Workshop, ICST2020 | Oct 2020 | Slides |
| Interoperability Birds of a Feather (BoF) | cdCon 2020 | Oct 2020 | Notes |
| CI/CD as Enabler to Building Next Generation Networks | Open Infrastructure Summit, Denver | May 2019 | Recording |
| Digital Transformation in Finance Industry | Open Infrastructure Summit, Denver | May 2019 | Recording |
| Evolving CI/CD in Open Source | Spinnaker Summit, Seattle | Oct 2018 | Slides |
| Panel: The Growing Spinnaker Ecosystem | Spinnaker Summit, Seattle | Oct 2018 | Recording |
| Creating Synergies: Sharing and Reusing Results of CI/CD System Between Communities |
Open Networking Summit Europe | Sep 2018 | Slides |
| Evolving CI/CD in Open Source Networking | Open Networking Summit Europe | Sep 2018 | Slides |
| Keynote: Continuous Delivery Across Communities | OpenDev, Vancouver | May 2018 | Recording |
| We Came Together, Now What? | OpenDev, Vancouver | May 2018 | Slides |
| OpenCI: What, Why, How? | OpenDev, Vancouver | May 2018 | N/A |
| Lab as a Service: Compose Your Cloud Automatically with Few Clicks |
OpenStack Summit, Vancouver | May 2018 | Recording |
| Lessons Learned: Integration, From the Cradle to the Stage | LFN Dev Forum, Los Angeles | Mar 2018 | N/A |
| Cross Community Infra/CICD | LFN Dev Forum, Los Angeles | Mar 2018 | N/A |
| Lab as a Service: Compose Your Cloud Automatically with Few Clicks |
Open Networking Summit NA | Mar 2018 | Slides |
| Integrating Cloud and Container Projects in the OPNFV community: Cross Community CI | FOSDEM 2018, Brussels | Feb 2018 | Recording |
| Cross Community CI | OPNFV Plugfest, Portland | Dec 2017 | N/A |
| Bringing Open Source Communities Together: XCI | OpenStack Summit, Sydney | Nov 2017 | Recording |
| Bringing Open Source Communities Together: XCI | Open Source Summit, Prague | Oct 2017 | N/A |
| Composing your cloud, learn how to automate deployment of your complete cloud stack |
OpenStack Days Nordic | Oct 2017 | N/A |
| Bringing Open Source Communities Together: Cross Community CI | OpenStack Days Nordic | Oct 2017 | Recording |
| Cross Community CI & Lab as a Service | OpenDaylight DDF, Santa Clara | Oct 2017 | N/A |
| Cross Community CI ETSI NFV TST | ETSI NFV#19, Denver | Sep 2017 | N/A |
| Being Brave: Deploying OpenStack from Master |
OPNFV Summit, Beijing | Jun 2017 | Recording |
| Improving POD Usage in Labs, CI and Testing | OPNFV Summit, Beijing | Jun 2017 | Recording |
| OPNFV XCI | OPNFV Summit, Beijing | Jun 2017 | N/A |
| OPNFV Testing + OPNFV Pharos + OPNFV XCI | OpenStack Summit, Boston | May 2017 | N/A |
| OPNFV XCI and Infrastructure | OPNFV Hackfest, Paris | Apr 2017 | N/A |
| How Automated CI/CD Enables Network Provisioning | Open Networking Summit, NA | Apr 2017 | N/A |
| OPNFV CI and Challenges | CODE-STHLM, Stockholm | Nov 2016 | N/A |
| The Benefits of E2E Integration between Open Source Communities Using 3rd Party CI | OpenStack Summit, Barcelona | Oct 2016 | Recording |
| OPNFV Infrastructure | OPNFV Summit, Berlin | Jun 2016 | Recording |
| CI/CD & DevOps | OPNFV Summit, Berlin | Jun 2016 | Recording |
| Multisite OPNFV Testing Challenges | OPNFV Summit, Berlin | Jun 2016 | Recording |
| Panel: CI/CD & DevOps | OPNFV Summit, Berlin | Jun 2016 | Recording |
| Diary of an Infra Guy | OPNFV Summit, San Francisco | Nov 2015 | N/A |
| OPNFV Infrastructure Projects | OPNFV Summit, San Francisco | Nov 2015 | N/A |
| Integrate, Deploy, and Test using OPNFV Labs | OPNFV Summit, San Francisco | Nov 2015 | N/A |
| OPNFV Continuous Integration | OpenStack Summit, Vancouver | May 2015 | N/A |
Interviews, Webinars, Podcasts, Meetups
| Title | Event | Date | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Continuous Delivery Foundation State of Union | The Linux Foundation & TFiR | Jul 2023 | Recording |
| CI/CD, Interoperability, Supply Chain Security, Platform Engineering | The Cube | May 2023 | Recording |
| Interoperability, CDEvents | Techstrong TV | May 2023 | Recording |
| The CD Pipeline: Continuous Delivery and the End User Community |
Techstrong TV & CDF | Apr 2023 | Recording |
| The CD Pipeline: Interoperability Challenges and Solutions |
Techstrong TV & CDF | Feb 2023 | Recording |
| Pulling the Strings: The Future of Platform Engineering |
Puppet Podcast | Jan 2023 | Podcast |
| The Future of Continuous Delivery | Cloud Native Turkiye & Kubernetes | Dec 2022 | Recording |
| Continuous Delivery Foundation | CDF Meetup | Oct 2022 | Recording |
| Continuous Delivery is a Critical Software Development Practice | The Linux Foundation & TFiR | Jul 2022 | Recording |
| Open Source, CDF, and SIGs | JFrog DevOps SpeakEasy | May 2022 | Recording |
| Defining Standard Policies for a Common DevOps Pipeline | CDF Meetup | Mar 2021 | Slides Recording |
| The Pipeline: All things CI/CD & DevOps Podcast: Interoperability |
CDF Podcast | May 2020 | Podcast |
| Telecom TV: OpenCI | OpenStack Summit, Vancouver | May 2018 | Recording |
| RDO Community: Using Zuul outside of OpenStack | OpenStack PTG, Dublin | Mar 2018 | Recording |
| RDO Community: OpenStack and OPNFV | OpenStack PTG, Denver | Sep 2017 | Recording |
| Linux Foundation: OPNFV XCI | OPNFV Summit, Beijing | Jul 2017 | Recording |
| Telecom TV: Network Functions Virtualization | OpenStack Summit, Boston | May 2017 | Recording |
| The New Networking: DevOps, Cross-project Integration, and XCI |
LF Webinars | Nov 2017 | Recording |
Articles, Blog Posts
| Title | Date | Link |
|---|---|---|
| CNCF Cloud Native Security Whitepaper | May 2022 | CNCF TAG Security Whitepaper v2 |
| Supply Chain Security + CI/CD Interoperability | Nov 2021 | CDF Blog Post |
| CDF SIG Interoperability 2020: Year in Review | Jan 2021 | CDF Blog Post |
| Why Interoperability in CI/CD Matters for Future Innovation | Oct 2020 | Ericsson Blog |
| Building the Future on Bare Metal | Jul 2020 | OpenStack Foundation Bare Metal Whitepaper |
| How the CDF is Establishing a Shared Vocabulary for the Industry | Apr 2020 | CDF Newsletter Article |
| CDF TOC Approves Interoperability Special Interest Group | Jan 2020 | CDF Blog Post |
| XCI: How OPNFV Slashed Upstream Integration from Months to Days | Oct 2017 | OPNFV Website |
| XCI Solution Brief | Aug 2017 | XCI Solution Brief |
| DevOps: fueling the evolution toward 5G networks | Apr 2017 | Ericsson Technology Review |
Other
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| Co-chair of the Program Committee | CNCF-hosted Co-located Events, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 |
| Member of the Program Committee | Platform Engineering Day, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 |
| CI/CD Devroom Contributor | FOSDEM 2023 CI/CD Devroom |
| Track Chair, CI/CD | OpenInfra Summit Berlin, 2022 |
| CI/CD Devroom Contributor | FOSDEM 2022 CI/CD Devroom |
| CI/CD Devroom Moderator | FOSDEM 2021 CI/CD Devroom |
| Member of the Program Committee | Continuous Delivery Summit, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, 2020 |
| Member of the Program Committee | Continuous Delivery Summit, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, 2019 |
| Track Chair, CI/CD | Open Infrastructure Summit Denver, 2019 |
| Track Chair, CI/CD | OpenStack Summit Berlin, 2018 |
| Member of the Program Committee | OpenDev, 2018 |
| Track Chair, Infrastructure & DevOps | OPNFV Summit Beijing, 2017 |
| Track Chair, NFV | OpenStack Summit Boston, 2017 |
| MSc Thesis Supervisor | Investigating the Possibility of an Active/Active Highly Available Jenkins |
Disclaimer
The views expressed on this website are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer and/or the open source communities I am involved in.