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: 2026-01-29 → 2028-01-29
Mike Brown
IBM
Term: 2025-01-29 → 2027-01-29
Jeff Carter
Docker
Term: 2026-01-29 → 2028-01-29
Phil Estes
AWS
Term: 2026-01-29 → 2028-01-29
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
TOB Chair
Term: 2026-01-29 → 2028-01-29
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
Amutable
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 (having been involved since the founding of the OCI in 2015), and a Linux kernel contributor. He works as a founding engineer at Amutable, building systems around verifiable integrity; he is committed to working in the open, and is a strong proponent of Free Software. He is also a package maintainer for most of the core container stack on openSUSE.