Mike Brown (IBM) is a Software Engineer, IBMer, Inventor, Coach, PC Gamer, and Proud Father. He works on Open Container Initiative (OCI) projects ranging from the runtime and image specifications to products that are implementing OCI such as Docker, Containerd, and Kubernetes. Mike is currently a maintainer for containerd focusing on the Kubernetes CRI integration project which uses the OCI runtime and image specifications. Mike has worked as a Software Engineer, lead, and standards body representative on projects ranging from Operating Systems, Java Virtual Machines, Web Browsers, and Middleware Stacks to Insurance and Finance products.
Taylor Brown (Microsoft) is a Principal Program Management Lead in the Base division of the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft. His over 15-year engineering career at Microsoft has encompassed development and program management roles focused on virtualization technologies including Virtual PC, Virtual Server, Hyper-V, Windows containers and the Windows Subsystem for Linux with stents on ACPI/power management and the Microsoft Smart Watch (SPOT) teams. As the Lead Program Manager for Windows containers he has been instrumental in bringing Docker, Kubernetes and other open source technologies to Windows.
Stephen Day (Docker) is a software engineer at Docker. His many contributions to Docker ecosystem projects include containerd, SwarmKit and the version 2 specification for the Docker Registry HTTP API. His work has been instrumental evolving the available models for container image distribution. Currently a OCI image spec maintainer since the beginning of the project.
Phil Estes (IBM) is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the office of the CTO of IBM Cloud. Phil is a long-time core contributor and maintainer of the Moby open source container engine where he has contributed key features like user namespace support and multi-platform image capabilities. Phil is also a founding maintainer of the CNCF containerd project, and has participated in the formation of the OCI, contributing to runc and libcontainer. Phil currently sits on the recently formed Moby Technical Steering Committee (TSC). He is also active on Twitter @estesp and writes regularly about the container ecosystem at his blog: https://integratedcode.us.
Qiang Huang (Huawei) is the OS and container architect who has been working on container and kernel area from 2010 in Huawei. He has been an active Docker contributor since 2014 and joined OCI community when it's established in 2015. Now Qiang is the maintainer in runtime-spec, runc and runtime-tools projects. He is familiar with container industry and keen on container technologies, he promoted commercial landing of container technology in Huawei and managed the container team to work tightly with OCI.
Jon Johnson (Google) is a software developer maintaining gcr.io and container tooling at Google. Among other work, he's contributed support for OCI images to gcr.io, Bazel, and the Google Docker Registry client.
Mrunal Patel (Red Hat) is a Software Engineer at Red Hat working on containers. He is a maintainer of runc/libcontainer and the OCI runtime specification. He has helped contribute support for user namespaces to the Go programming language and runc/libcontainer. He has also helped contribute various other features to runc.
Brandon Philips (CoreOS) is cofounder and chief technology officer of CoreOS. He leads teams building modern server infrastructure enterprise products, like CoreOS Tectonic, the enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform, and pioneering cloud native open source projects like Container Linux. He guides technical direction of cloud native technologies in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, serving on the CNCF governing board as a member representing project developers. He leads the Technical Oversight Board of the Open Container Initiative, guiding open source communities building modern infrastructure and the technical future of projects essential to cloud native infrastructure stacks. Prior to CoreOS, he worked at Rackspace hacking on cloud monitoring and was a Linux kernel developer at SUSE. As a graduate of Oregon State's Open Source Lab, he is passionate about open source technologies and is a member of Oregon State's Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers.
Aleksa Sarai (SUSE) is an undergraduate at the University of Sydney, and works on the Kubernetes core team at SUSE. He has been working on and helping maintain container runtimes for several years, and has a passion for working on Free Software and open standards. Notable examples of his work include the rootless containers support in runc (as well as work with other communities to integrate rootless containers into their projects), and developing tools like umoci to operate with OCI images.
1. Brandon Philips (CoreOS) (Not defeated in any contest vs. another choice) |
2. Phil Estes (IBM), loses to Brandon Philips (CoreOS) by 9–7 |
3. Mrunal Patel (Red Hat), loses to Phil Estes (IBM) by 11–7 |
4. Stephen Day (Docker), loses to Mrunal Patel (Red Hat) by 10–7 |
5. Jon Johnson (Google), loses to Stephen Day (Docker) by 11–6 |
6. Tied: Taylor Brown (Microsoft), loses to Jon Johnson (Google) by 9–7 Aleksa Sarai (SUSE), loses to Stephen Day (Docker) by 10–8 |
8. Mike Brown (IBM), loses to Taylor Brown (Microsoft) by 10–6 |
9. Qiang Huang (Huawei), loses to Mike Brown (IBM) by 12–6 |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||
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1. Brandon Philips (CoreOS) | - | 9 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 11 | |
2. Phil Estes (IBM) | 7 | - | 11 | 13 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | |
3. Mrunal Patel (Red Hat) | 9 | 7 | - | 10 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 14 | |
4. Stephen Day (Docker) | 9 | 4 | 7 | - | 11 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 11 | |
5. Jon Johnson (Google) | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | - | 9 | 8 | 9 | 6 | |
6. Taylor Brown (Microsoft) | 7 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 7 | - | 8 | 10 | 11 | |
7. Aleksa Sarai (SUSE) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 8 | - | 10 | 8 | |
8. Mike Brown (IBM) | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 8 | - | 12 | |
9. Qiang Huang (Huawei) | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 6 | - |
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