Cloud Foundry Staff
The Cloud Foundry Foundation is led by a team of accomplished professionals who are united in their effort to drive global awareness and adoption of Cloud Foundry. Learn more about the Foundation.

Chip Childers,
Executive Director
Chip has spent 20 years in large-scale computing and open source software. In 2020, he took over as Executive Director at Cloud Foundry Foundation, which he co-founded in 2015. He was the first VP of Apache Cloudstack, a platform he helped drive while ...

Brie Rogers,
Digital Marketing Manager
Brie oversees digital marketing including social media, email marketing, webinar development, website optimization and more at the Foundation. She brings nearly eight years of experience managing integrated communications via digital channels for technology start-ups and enterprises. In her free time, Brie enjoys taking road ...

Chris Clark,
Technical Operations Manager
Chris Clark is a software engineer and project manager, with a focus on Javascript and Node.js development. He lives in Oakland with his wife, their baby, two cats, and about five thousand bees. He enjoys music, games of skill and road trips, among other ...

Paige O'Connor,
Executive Administrator
Paige is the organizational backbone of the Foundation. She brings more than six years of experience in office management, sales and customer service with expertise in scheduling and correspondence. Her focus is supporting the executive team, planning logistics for the Board of Directors and ...

Shedrack Akintayo,
Developer Advocate
Shedrack Akintayo is a Developer Advocate and Software Developer from Lagos, Nigeria, who has a love for community building, open source, creating content, and software for the next billion users. As a technical writer and speaker, he shares his knowledge about JavaScript, React, and ...

Ram Iyengar,
Developer Advocate
Ram Iyengar is an engineer by practice and an educator at heart. He was (cf) pushed into technology evangelism along his journey as a developer and hasn’t looked back since! He enjoys helping engineering teams around the world discover new and creative ways to ...

Deb Giles,
Event Manager
Deb has over ten years of event management experience and has been with the Foundation for more than four years, overseeing all events including Cloud Foundry Summit, Cloud Foundry Days, and Cloud Foundry’s presence at tradeshows around the world. Living in Nashville, Deb spends ...

Naomi Washington,
Meeting and Event Coordinator
Naomi is a meeting and event coordinator and has over 7 years experience in administrative and event management ranging across a variety of fields including hospitality, non-profit, oil and gas, research and technology. A recent transplant to New Orleans, she enjoys taking time to ...

Shannon Jessee,
Senior Event Programming Coordinator
Shannon is an Event Programming Coordinator with over 7 years of coordination experience in various sectors. She brings experience from the fields of education, science and non-profits to help manage content and speakers for the Cloud Foundry Foundation. In her free time, she enjoys ...

Natalie Fine,
Meeting & Events Coordinator
Natalie is a Meeting & Events Coordinator with over 5 years of experience from her Event Management degree and professional work in the non-profit, hospitality and technology sectors. In her free time she enjoys exploring the food scene in Chicago, watching movies and playing ...