About
I am a technologist with a track record of over 15 years in infrastructure, CI/CD, DevOps, and platforms. I have a big passion for developer productivity and experience and I contributed to many efforts both in corporate settings as well as in open source communities in order to empower developers to focus value adding activities and decrease the congnitive load on them.
In the past, I worked as the Executive Director of the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) at the Linux Foundation, leading CDF’s efforts to increase the cross industry and cross community collaboration and push the CI/CD domain forward. Before the Continuous Delivery Foundation, I worked as a Principal Developer at Ericsson and I was involved in several large scale CI/CD initiatives within Ericsson and across open source.
I actively contribute to various open source projects as member of committees, team lead, and maintainer. I served as a committer-at-large member in OPNFV Technical Steering Committee (TSC), end user representative member in the CDF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), and as a member of Nordix Technical Committee (TC).
The initiatives I take part in aim to establish CI/CD principles and practices in the industry and across open source while improving developer experience and productivity. OPNFV Cross Community CI (XCI) Project started within OPNFV community during 2016 which I was the creator and technical lead of. XCI helped us to pave the way for broader collaboration across different open source communities in CI/CD and Infrastructure area. This resulted in an initiative named OpenCI in April 2018. I am co-founder of this initiative which is now dormant.
Following the work we have been doing within the industry and across various open source communities, we proposed the formation of Special Interest Group (SIG) Interoperability to Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). The SIG was approved during January 2020 by CDF TOC. I served as the co-chair to the SIG until January 2022.
In January 2022, we proposed a new SIG, SIG Software Supply Chain. The SIG Software Supply Chain is approved by the CDF TOC during February 2022.
In addition to CI/CD engagements listed above, I contributed to OpenStack Baremetal SIG, Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and Eiffel Community.
In following sections, you will find the list of talks I’ve given, webinars, panels and interviews I’ve taken part of and articles and blog posts I contributed to.
Keynotes, Conference Talks, Panels
| Title | Event | Date | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interoperability: Empowering Multi-Vendor CD in Telecommunications with Standardization | ONE Summit Regional Days 2023 | September 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 | February 2023 | Recording |
| Making Continuous Delivery Accessible to All | FOSDEM 2023 | February 2023 | Recording |
| Keynote: Interoperability in CI/CD and Why it Matters? | ETSI UCAAT 2021 | October 2021 | N/A |
| 5G and Challenges with Software Supply Chain Security | Supply Chain Security Con NA 2021 | October 2021 | Slides/Recording |
| Interoperability Birds of a Feather (BoF) | cdCon 2021 | June 2021 | N/A |
| Velocity or Governance: Why not both? | cdCon 2021 | June 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 | February 2021 | Slides/Recording |
| ONAP and DevOps - Integration with CI/CD Pipelines | LFN Developer and Testing Forum | February 2021 | Recording |
| Interoperability Challenges in CI/CD Ecosystem | CI/CD Industry Workshop, ICST2020 | October 2020 | Slides |
| Interoperability Birds of a Feather (BoF) | cdCon 2020 | October 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 | October 2018 | Slides |
| Panel: The Growing Spinnaker Ecosystem | Spinnaker Summit, Seattle | October 2018 | Recording |
| Creating Synergies: Sharing and Reusing Results of CI/CD System Between Communities | Open Networking Summit Europe | September 2018 | Slides |
| Evolving CI/CD in Open Source Networking | Open Networking Summit Europe | September 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 | March 2018 | N/A |
| Cross Community Infra/CICD | LFN Dev Forum, Los Angeles | March 2018 | N/A |
| Lab as a Service: Compose Your Cloud Automatically with Few Clicks | Open Networking Summit NA | March 2018 | Slides |
| Integrating Cloud and Container Projects in the OPNFV community: Cross Community CI | FOSDEM 2018, Brussels | February 2018 | Recording |
| Cross Community CI | OPNFV Plugfest, Portland | December 2017 | N/A |
| Bringing Open Source Communities Together: XCI | OpenStack Summit, Sydney | November 2017 | Recording |
| Bringing Open Source Communities Together: XCI | Open Source Summit, Prague | October 2017 | N/A |
| Composing your cloud, learn how to automate deployment of your complete cloud stack | OpenStack Days Nordic | October 2017 | N/A |
| Bringing Open Source Communities Together: Cross Community CI | OpenStack Days Nordic | October 2017 | Recording |
| Cross Community CI & Lab as a Service | OpenDaylight DDF, Santa Clara | October 2017 | N/A |
| Cross Community CI ETSI NFV TST | ETSI NFV#19, Denver | September 2017 | N/A |
| Being Brave: Deploying OpenStack from Master | OPNFV Summit, Beijing | June 2017 | Recording |
| Improving POD Usage in Labs, CI and Testing | OPNFV Summit, Beijing | June 2017 | Recording |
| OPNFV XCI | OPNFV Summit, Beijing | June 2017 | N/A |
| OPNFV Testing + OPNFV Pharos + OPNFV XCI | OpenStack Summit, Boston | May 2017 | N/A |
| OPNFV XCI and Infrastructure | OPNFV Hackfest, Paris | April 2017 | N/A |
| How Automated CI/CD Enables Network Provisioning | Open Networking Summit, NA | April 2017 | N/A |
| OPNFV CI and Challenges | CODE-STHLM, Stockholm | November 2016 | N/A |
| The Benefits of E2E Integration between open Source Communities Using 3rd Party CI | OpenStack Summit, Barcelona | October 2016 | Recording |
| OPNFV Infrastructure | OPNFV Summit, Berlin | June 2016 | Recording |
| CI/CD & DevOps | OPNFV Summit, Berlin | June 2016 | Recording |
| Multisite OPNFV Testing Challenges | OPNFV Summit, Berlin | June 2016 | Recording |
| Panel: CI/CD & DevOps | OPNFV Summit, Berlin | June 2016 | Recording |
| Diary of an Infra Guy | OPNFV Summit, San Francisco | November 2015 | N/A |
| OPNFV Infrastructure Projects | OPNFV Summit, San Francisco | November 2015 | N/A |
| Integrate, Deploy, and Test using OPNFV Labs | OPNFV Summit, San Francisco | November 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 | July 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 | April 2023 | Recording |
| The CD Pipeline: Interoperability Challenges and Solutions | Techstrong TV & CDF | February 2023 | Recording |
| Pulling the Strings: The Future of Platform Engineering | Puppet Podcast | January 2023 | Podcast |
| The Future of Continuous Delivery | Cloud Native Turkiye & Kubernetes | December 2022 | Recording |
| Continuous Delivery Foundation | CDF Meetup | October 2022 | Recording |
| Continuous Delivery is a Critical Software Development Practice | The Linux Foundation & TFiR | July 2022 | Recording |
| Open Source, CDF, and SIGs | JFrog DevOps SpeakEasy | May 2022 | Recording |
| Defining Standard Policies for a Common DevOps Pipeline | CDF Meetup | March 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 | March 2018 | Recording |
| RDO Community: OpenStack and OPNFV | OpenStack PTG, Denver | September 2017 | Recording |
| Linux Foundation: OPNFV XCI | OPNFV Summit, Beijing | July 2017 | Recording |
| Telecom TV: Network Functions Virtualization | OpenStack Summit, Boston | May 2017 | Recording |
| The New Networking: DevOps, Cross-project Integration, and XCI | LF Webinars | November 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 | November 2021 | CDF Blog Post |
| CDF SIG Interoperability 2020: Year in Review | January 2021 | CDF Blog Post |
| Why Interoperability in CI/CD Matters for Future Innovation | October 2020 | Ericsson Blog |
| Building the Future on Bare Metal | July 2020 | OpenStack Foundation Bare Metal Whitepaper |
| How the CDF is Establishing a Shared Vocabulary for the Industry | April 2020 | CDF Newsletter Article |
| CDF TOC Approves Interoperability Special Interest Group | January 2020 | CDF Blog Post |
| XCI: How OPNFV Slashed Upstream Integration from Months to Days | October 2017 | OPNFV Website |
| XCI Solution Brief | August 2017 | XCI Solution Brief |
| DevOps: fueling the evolution toward 5G networks | April 2017 | Ericsson Technology Review |
Other
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Program Committee | Continuous Delivery Summit, KubeCon Europe, 2020 |
| Program Committee | Continuous Delivery Summit, KubeCon North America, 2019 |
| Track Chair, CI/CD | Open Infrastructure Summit Denver, 2019 |
| Track Chair, CI/CD | OpenStack Summit Berlin, 2018 |
| Member of the Programming 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 view of my employer and/or the open source communities I am involved in.