Meet the Committee

Maurice Brinkmann is the Product Owner for STACKIT Cloud Foundry at Schwarz Digits Cloud, where he has been shaping cloud solutions since 2021. A long-time community member, Maurice has been “cf pushing” apps and attending CF conferences for over a decade. He thrives on driving challenging IT projects and delivering innovative business solutions, drawing from a diverse background that spans IT architecture, quality assurance, agile software, and cloud platform engineering.

I manage the Persistence Team of SAP Cloud Foundry Runtime and the second level support team.

Dr. Xiujiao Gao is Co-Founder and COO of FiveTwenty Inc., bringing more than 15 years of experience and deep roots in the Cloud Foundry community. Her platform architect background helps her guide clients through both technical decisions and long-term technology investments. She has led teams in Cloud Foundry deployment, BOSH automation, Concourse pipelines, disaster recovery, monitoring, and application migration. Today, she focuses on building strong partnerships that help clients succeed with modern application platforms while continuing to contribute to the Cloud Foundry ecosystem and community.

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 work. He is a proponent of product development and engineering teams that put the community first.

Father of 5, certified cat herder

Nick Kuhn is an Application Marketing Engineer at Broadcom, working on Tanzu Platform and co-hosting Cloud Foundry Weekly, where he covers what’s new across the CF and Tanzu ecosystem. He’s spent years deep in the Cloud Foundry world — BOSH, Ops Manager tiles, and platform operations — after starting out as a traditional VI admin and morphing into DevOps, SRE, and Platform Architecture & Engineering for a Fortune 100 company. Off the clock, you’ll find him with his family, tinkering in his GPU homelab, shipping small projects under the kuhn-labs umbrella, and sneaking in the occasional video game session.