Welcome our new and returning architecture committee members

Congratulations to the newly elected Kata Architecture Committee!

The Architecture Committee (AC) is comprised of 5 members, who are elected by contributors. The AC elections take place every six months, in February (2 seats available) and in September (3 seats available). The AC is responsible for architectural decisions, including standardization, and making final decisions if Maintainers disagree.

For the September 2019 Kata Containers Architecture Committee elections, we had three seats available and received three candidate nominations. Thus, we bypassed the question and voting phases of the elections, and move directly to the results announcement.

Please welcome back Eric Ernst as a returning member and new members Haomin Tsai and Justin He to the Kata AC. Congratulations all of you!

The complete slate of candidates represented five leaders from four different companies, a reflection of the growth of the Kata Containers project since it was formally announced in December 2017. The Kata Containers Architecture Committee is composed of five members:

• Eric Ernst, Intel

Eric is a senior software engineer in Intel’s Open Source Technology Center, acting both as a contributor as well as a technical lead for the Intel-team contributing to Kata Containers. Before Kata, he spent time working on Clear Containers, and prior to that spent a few years working on Linux kernel.

• Justin He, Arm Electronic Technology (Shanghai) Co.Ltd

Justin is a Staff Engineering in the Open Source Software Group and he is working on virtualization and container technology on the Arm platform. He has more than 10 years of experience in low level Linux software development, especially for linux kernel, DPDK on arm64 and hardware virtualization development including KVM and qemu

• Samuel Ortiz, Intel

Samuel is a software engineer at Intel where he works on different projects related to virtualization and containers: rust-vmm, NEMU and Kata Containers. He has been involved with Kata Containers for about 3 years now, as he started to work on what used to be Clear Containers before the 2.0 release. He was part of the small OSF-Hyper-Intel team that worked together to merge Clear Containers and runV into what today is Kata Containers.

• Haomin Tsai, Huawei

Haomin is working as a Senior Engineer in Huawei Corporation, leading a technical team to provide container solutions for other departments in his Corporation and Huawei Public Cloud. They focus on docker/containerd/kata-containers/linux kernel and other infrastructure technology. He is now working on Kunpeng Arch which based on arm64 extended.

• Xu Wang, AntFin

Xu is a Senior Staff Engineer at Ant Financial. He was the CTO of hyper.sh before Hyper was acquired by AntFin. Xu lead the Hyper team contributing to Kata Containers and related communities. Before Kata, he and his team worked on runV, which is one of the predecessors of Kata Containers.

We want to extend our congratulations to the new Architecture Committee members, and also say thanks to everyone who participated in the election. Governance by community-elected officials is one of the cornerstones of the Four Opens, and is a major step forward in the maturation of Kata Containers.

Please visit the Kata Containers’ website for more information about how Kata Containers can build lightweight virtual machines that seamlessly plug into the containers ecosystem. You can also explore Kata Containers on GitHub and get involved! Connect with the community via Slack or IRC Freenode: #kata-dev, Mailing List, Weekly meetings and Twitter.