Technical Advisory Board

The CNCF End User Technical Advisory Board (TAB) represents end users within the CNCF community. The TAB helps surface end user needs, improve visibility into CNCF project adoption, advise on technical direction, and review reference architectures.

The TAB oversees and governs the User Groups and Technical Community Groups per the User Group Governance document. The TAB itself operates under its own charter, described in the cncf/tab README — it is not itself subject to User Group Governance.

TAB members

Profiles last refreshed from public GitHub sources on October 5, 2026.

Ricardo Rocha

TAB Chair

CERN

Joseph Sandoval

TAB Vice Chair

Adobe Inc

Ahmed Bebars

The New York Times

Alolita Sharma

Apple

Ben Somogyi

Lockheed Martin

Chad Beaudin

Boeing

Katie Gamanji

Apple

Kenta Tada

Toyota

Michael Amundson

CVS Health

Mike Bowen

BlackRock

Xu Wang

Ant Group

TAB responsibilities

• Facilitate communication between end users and CNCF governing bodies.
• Advise the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) on technical directions and challenges in the cloud native ecosystem.
• Improve visibility into end user adoption of CNCF projects.
• Provide feedback on project usability, reliability, and performance.
• Review and approve reference architectures.
• Advise on End User Radar tools and techniques.
• Provide oversight for User Groups and Technical Community Groups.

See the TAB membership and charter, open issues, and discussions.

Meeting and communication channels

• CNCF End User mailing list
• CNCF Slack, including the #tab and #enduser channels
• CNCF community platform
• Public TAB meeting project
• TAB public meeting — third Monday of each month at 8:00 AM Pacific Time

Reference architectures

The TAB-led Reference Architecture Submission Process describes how to submit a real-world architecture for peer and TAB review. Browse the architecture catalog.

Submissions can begin with the in-repo reference architecture template, or through the CNCF TAB issue template and pull request template when the material is ready.

End User Technology Radar

The CNCF Technology Radar captures end user technology adoption data. The repository includes the radar data and the CNCF Radar application.