Technical Steering Committee (TSC)

As defined in the OPEA Charter, the Technical Steering Committee is responsible for all technical oversight of the OPEA project including:

  • coordinating the technical direction of the OPEA project;

  • approving project or system proposals

  • creating committees or working groups (for example, an executive or architectural committee or end-user advisory committee) to support the OPEA project;

  • appointing representatives to work with other open source or open standards communities;

  • establishing community norms, workflows, issuing releases, and security issue reporting policies;

  • approving and implementing policies and processes for contributing

  • discussions, seeking consensus, and where necessary, voting on technical matters relating to the code base that affect multiple sub-projects;

  • coordinating any marketing, events, or communications regarding the OPEA project.

Refer to the OPEA Charter for more details.

Technical Steering Committee Members

Table 2 TSC Members (as of September 6, 2024)

TSC Member Name

Member’s Title and Company

Malini Bhandaru (Chair)

Senior Principal Engineer, Intel

Amr Abdelhalem

SVP, Head of Cloud Platforms, Fidelity

Nathan Cartwright

Chief Architect - AI, CDW

Justin Cormack

CTO, Docker

Ke Ding

Senior Prinicipal AI Engineer, Intel

Steve Grubb

Senior Principal Engineer, Red Hat

Robert Hafner

Senior Principal Architect, Comcast

Melissa Mckay

Head of Developer Relations, JFrog

Logan Markewich

Founding Software Developer, LlamaIndex

Nick Ni (Interim)

Senior Director Ai Product Management, AMD