Leadership

Leadership

Chris Aniszczyk

Executive Director

Chris Aniszczyk brings more than 20 years experience as The Linux Foundation’s VP of Developer Relations, CTO of CNCF and serves as Executive Director of the Open Container Initiative (OCI).

His work is focused on working with developer community to advance open source projects at scale. Previously Aniszczyk served as Twitter’s head of open source, where he led a team of developer advocates and was responsible for Twitter’s open source engineering, strategy and culture. He has also contributed to Gentoo/Fedora Linux and served on the Eclipse Foundation’s Board of Directors and the Java Community Process Executive Committee. An engineer by trade, Aniszczyk brings a passion for both open source and community development to the organization.

Technical Oversight Board

The Technical Oversight Board (TOB) is responsible for managing conflicts, violations of procedures or guidelines and any cross-project or high-level issues that cannot be resolved in the TDC for OCI Projects. The TOB shall also be responsible for adding, removing or reorganizing OCI Projects.

TOB members are directly elected by the maintainers of the OCI projects for two-year terms (staggered such that half of seats are up for election each year). The TOB Chair is elected each year by the TOB and is responsible for organising TOB meetings and setting the agendas of said meetings.

You can follow the TOB’s activities on GitHub and on their respective mailing list. The TOB holds infrequent meetings which are usually recorded and posted on the primary OCI development mailing list.

Sajay Antony

Microsoft
Term: 2024-01-29 → 2026-01-29

Mike Brown

IBM
Term: 2025-01-29 → 2027-01-29

Ramkumar Chinchani

Cisco
Term: 2024-01-29 → 2026-01-29

Phil Estes

AWS
Term: 2024-01-29 → 2026-01-29

Phil is a principal engineer at Amazon Web Services working on core container technologies.

Phil participates as an open source contributor and maintainer for the CNCF containerd project and has been active in the OCI since its founding in 2015.

Tianon Gravi

Docker
Term: 2025-01-29 → 2027-01-29

Tianon has been involved in the OCI community since the inception and has been a diligent participant in TDC maintainership (runtime-spec and more recently the image-spec) and meeting attendance for that duration.

Over the years, he’s also been involved in many related/adjacent ecosystems, especially the Docker Engine (“the Moby Project”), Docker’s Official Images program, containerd, and Debian.

Samuel Karp

Google
TOB Chair
Term: 2024-01-29 → 2026-01-29
Samuel Karp is a Staff Software Engineer working on containers at Google. Sam first contributed to Docker in 2015 and containerd in 2017 and is now involved as a maintainer for both projects.

Brandon Mitchell

Independent
Term: 2025-01-29 → 2027-01-29
Brandon is an open source developer working in the container ecosystem. He maintains the regclient and olareg projects.

Aleksa Sarai

SUSE
Term: 2025-01-29 → 2027-01-29
Aleksa Sarai is a core developer and maintainer of runc and umoci, contributor and maintainer of Open Container Initiative specifications, and a Linux kernel contributor. He works on the containers team at SUSE, maintaining various core parts of the lower levels of the containers stack and related software for both SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE; he is also committed to working in the open, and is a strong proponent of Free Software.

Giuseppe Scrivano

Red Hat
Term: 2024-01-29 → 2026-01-29