Eclipse Foundation Staff
The Eclipse Foundation is fortunate to have some very talented people working full-time on behalf of the Eclipse community. Below is the list of our staff.
Eclipse email addresses all follow the firstname.lastname@eclipse-foundation.org convention.
Mike Milinkovich
Executive Director
Outside of work, Mike's passions are his family, the family cottage and hockey (as a coach, player and fan) in pretty much that order. When he's not working, or traveling for work, you will probably find him involved in one of those three things.
You can read Mike's blog at mmilinkov.wordpress.com/.
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Boris Baldassari
Open Source Services Specialist
Boris is a long time open source enthusiast and contributor. Previously a methods and tools consultant for the industry, he joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2021 to help people and organisations adopt, understand and apply open source principles and best practices to their own projects. He is also a juggler, musician, and nature lover. He is moored in Europe.
Mikaël Barbero
Head of Security
Mikaël is passionate for software engineering. He enjoys building user-centered software and solutions. His experience is diverse and includes things from architecture to team management. He started programming at the age of 8 in ST Basic and hasn't stopped ever since (he changed language though). His constant questioning of Trust has lead him to its current position.
You can read Mikaël's blog at mikael.barbero.tech
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Wayne Beaton
Director of Open Source Projects
Wayne works for the Eclipse Foundation where he fills the dual roles of Director of Open Source Projects and Evangelist. He spends his days working with the many Eclipse open source project teams, learning about Eclipse technology, and making sure that everybody knows just how cool it all really is. In 1982, he received the prestigious Chief Scouts Award from then-Governor General Edward Schreyer. In 1984 his team was selected to represent beautiful British Columbia in the Kinsmen Voyageur Relay. In his spare time, he writes down meaningless accomplishments from his youth in a lame attempt to impress the reader.
Wayne authors the Eclipse Hints, Tips, and Random Musings blog.
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Théodore Biadala
Drupal engineer
Théodore has been working with Drupal for more than 12 years and has joined the Eclipse Foundation to help improve the various websites managed for the community. He enjoys spending time with his family and eating delicious food.
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Gaël Blondelle
Chief Membership Officer and Managing Director, Eclipse Foundation Europe GmbH
Gaël has been involved in Open Source for 15 years with the goal to help companies adopt and develop open source projects and collaborate better. He joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2013 to develop the ecosystem in Europe, and to support the development of Eclipse Working Groups. Outside of work, Gaël likes spending time with his family and travelling to visit beautiful places in the world.
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Paul Buck
Vice President, Community Development
Paul's responsible for the growth and well being of the projects, work groups and the diverse community of members, committers and contributors at Eclipse. Once his work day is complete, you can find him outside running, biking and cross-country skiing the vast network of trails in Gatineau Park... and consuming large post work-out snacks.
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Samantha Carter
Office Manager
Outside of the office, Samantha enjoys many hobbies such as music/singing, creating/trying new recipes, and riding her motorcycle. As an avid animal fan, she will always stop to pet any dog that’s willing, and loves her two cats!
Sharon Corbett
Program Director, Working Groups Operations
Following a successful career in Intellectual Property Management with Eclipse, Sharon has turned her attention and leadership to Eclipse Foundation Working Groups and associated programs to ensure governance compliance and operational excellence! Outside of work, Sharon’s main focus continues to be Chihuahua rescue and her two adopted Chi fur babies!
Maria-Teresa Delgado
Open Source Community Manager
Maria Teresa joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2018. Her role is to manage the Foundation activities within European Research Projects leveraging her experience in the IoT world with the Eclipse Open Source community. When she is not working, she enjoys spending time with family more than anything in the world!!
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Carmen Delgado
Community Manager
Carmen joined the Eclipse Foundation in October 2022 as a Community Manager having a background in project, operations, and financial management. She also volunteers as group manager and mentor at Step4ward, a mentoring program for women starting in the tech world. During her free time, she enjoys traveling to visit her family and exploring new places, cooking, and reading.
Frédéric Desbiens
IoT and Edge Computing Program Manager
Frédéric Desbiens joined the Eclipse Foundation in February 2019. As the IoT and Edge Computing Program Manager, his job is to help the community innovate by bringing devices and software together. After hours, Frédéric will typically be found reading a history book, playing video games or watching Anime. He also likes going outdoors and playing sports with his friends and family.
You can follow his blog at: https://blog.blueberrycoder.com/
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Zahra Fazli
Membership Coordinator
Zahra is the Membership Coordinator at Eclipse Foundation. Outside of work, Zahra loves to spend time with her friends and family, enjoys writing and traveling.
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Karla Ferrer
Head of Marketing
Karla's passion is Marketing and Technology. She has more than 20 years of experience working in companies like IBM and Advantech, and her core expertise is on strategy and international business. Her core values are inclusion and horizontal management… but mostly, having fun doing what she loves.
Gesine Freund
Corporate Executive Assistant
Gesine joined the Eclipse Foundation in February 2022. In her spare time, Gesine is an avid runner, who enjoys road and trail running throughout the seasons. She loves to travel, try new recipes, entertain family and friends, and relax in her forest garden.
Sara Gallian
SDV Program Manager
Sara joined the Eclipse Foundation in October 2022 as SDV Program Manager. She started her career as a researcher in the field of plasma physics, but quickly changed her mind and moved to the Automotive world where she worked as a developer for ADAS functions. After a few years of coding, Sara discovered her interest for managing people and projects, and moved to team and group leading in the field of Intelligent Mobility. After 12+ years in the US and Germany, she finally found her way back to Italy where she enjoys mountain biking and climbing.
Rahul Mohan Geetha
Open Source Compliance Engineer
Rahul works as an open source license compliance engineer with the Eclipse Foundation. He likes to spend his free time with family or friends, enjoying a variety of food items.
Shanda Giacomoni
Marketing Team Lead
Shanda has spent the majority of her career working in the non-for-profit space, and has a particular interest in tech-based organizations. Outside of the office, she likes spending time with her growing family.
Steph Gottardo
Manager, Accounting and Reporting
Stephanie joined the Eclipse Foundation in March 2021. Outside of work, Stephanie enjoys spending time with her two daughters, seeing friends, traveling and going to the gym.
Olivier Goulet
Front End Web Developer
Olivier is a member of the web development team. He enjoys building web applications. His hobbies include watching hockey, playing games, and most recently got into cycling.
Ivar Grimstad
Jakarta EE Developer Advocate
Ivar Grimstad is the Jakarta EE Developer Advocate at Eclipse Foundation. He is a Java Champion, JUG Leader, and a frequent speaker at International developer conferences.
In his spare time, Ivar is usually busy with all sorts of outdoor sports and activities. As a Norwegian, he is born with skis on his feet and when the water is ice-free, he enjoys swimrunning in the Scandinavian archipelagoes.
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Paulina Gueorguieva
Product Marketing Manager, SDV
I am a marketer with an abundance of experience covering wide fields of marketing - from CRM, content, email and digital marketing placing a strong focus on product marketing and product development. My passion is everything related to technology, innovation and sustainability in the mobility and automotive industries. My strongest skills include excellent communication, storytelling via engaging content, hosting and managing events and executing customer-first focused media strategies for brand awareness, relevancy and increased engagement. In my free time I find comfort in reading, traveling and doing yoga.
Christopher Guindon
Manager, Web Development
When he’s not at a computer, which is rare, Chris spends his time with his dog Winston, playing the drums, watching a Habs game or at the top of a hill snowboarding.
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Frederic Gurr
Release Engineer
Fred is a java developer by trade, based out of Cologne, Germany. Responsible for supporting Eclipse projects, focusing on build and release processes. In his spare time, Fred can be found kite surfing off the coast of the Netherlands and Spain, or building quadcopters and testing their flight capabilities.
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Jacob Harris
Marketing Campaign Manager
Jacob joined the Eclipse Foundation's marketing team in 2020, where he contributes to digital campaigns that include social media, web content, online ads, and emails. When he isn't working, he enjoys playing and watching hockey, spending time outside, and planning his next trip.
Sébastien Heurtematte
Release Engineer
As a member of the release engineer team, his leitmotif is to help the community by providing expertise/advice/support and thus unlocking their full potential. In his spare time, he likes to push the knobs on his guitar amps, metal concerts, music festivals, and enjoys sports like running.
Anne Jacko
Conference Queen
When not in front of a monitor, Anne prefers activities that involve wearing a helmet--horseback riding, skiing, and cycling. One of her favorite books is The Chicago Manual of Style, so if you need help with the nitpicking details of writing in English, she's happy to help.
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Marco Jahn
Senior Research Project Manager
Marco is part of the Eclipse Foundation research team where he helps to turn innovations into successful open source projects. Outside of work, he enjoys skiing, spending time with family and friends and making pizza in his wood-fired oven
John Kellerman
Cloud Development Tools Community Manager
John is part of the Community Development team at Eclipse working closely with the Cloud DevTools and Open Research working groups. He also spends time volunteering with the People Not Property project in North Carolina. Outside of work John enjoys hiking, swimming, gardening and a good practical joke.
Maira Khan
Graphic Design Assistant
Maira joined Eclipse Foundation in February 2023. Her passion is graphic designing, and she loves to explore and learn new things everyday. In her free time, she loves painting and doing arts and crafts projects; art in any form inspires Maira. Traveling with her family makes her happy!
Shawn Kilpatrick
Intellectual Property Analyst
Shawn is a member of the Eclipse IP team. When he's not poring over code, Shawn enjoys spending time with his family, playing guitar and singing, fishing, hiking, and boating at the family cottage, and cheering on his beloved Ottawa Senators.
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Mehrnaz Kokabi
Creative Lead
Mehrnaz is a member of the Eclipse marketing team. With more than 10 years as a web and graphic designer, Mehrnaz has experience designing and implementing effective creative projects and services for a variety of large public and non-profit organizations. Outside of work, her hobbies include painting, photography, and antique collecting.
Philippe Krief
Director, Research Relations
Philippe manages the Eclipse Foundation contributions to European-funded research projects. When he is traveling, Philippe enjoys photographing the places he visits, and when he isn't on the road, he is having fun with his family, riding his motorcycle or playing jazz with some good friends.
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Perri Louise Lavergne
Membership Growth, Manager
Perri joined the Eclipse Foundation in May 2010. Her focus is on membership retention, management and sales, including sales of our advertising portfolio and sponsorships for our conferences. Outside of work Perri enjoys spending time with family and friends, medical research, volunteer work for organizations dealing with children with special needs, running, cooking and baking. Perri hopes to one day accomplish her long time dream of a unique day program for young adults with special needs.
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Dennis Leung
VP Corporate Development
Dennis has been involved with open source since 2007 when Oracle made its initial contribution to the Eclipse Foundation and joined as a strategic member. He served on the Eclipse Foundation board for over 10 years. He resides in Ottawa where he enjoys an active lifestyle playing golf, hockey and spending time at the lake.
Martin Lowe
Software Developer
Martin is a developer for the Foundation, working with the Web team and helping develop the Eclipse platform. When not working, Martin enjoys tabletop RPGs, video games, and music (both playing and listening).
Tiago Lucas
Open Source Software Engineer
Tiago has been staring at computers for most of his life, wondering how every little thing works. With a passion for open-source and a mission for security, he joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2023 to make a difference. His cat is named after an operating system, but he'll tell you he's a dog person.
Sharon Macdonald
Trademarks Specialist
Sharon is a member of the Eclipse Projects team. She manages all aspects of the Eclipse Foundation's trademark portfolio; this includes prosecution, defence, and monitoring to ensure the marks are fully protected and up to date at all times. When she is not working, she likes to spend her time enjoying the outdoors with her family.
Jenn Martel
Director, Worldwide Operations
Jenn joined the Eclipse Foundation in September 2016. Away from the office, she enjoys spending time with her family, watching her girls play sports and is also a fitness enthusiast.
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Shabnam Mayel
Senior Marketing Manager, Cloud Native Java
Shabnam joined the Eclipse Foundation in June 2019 as the Senior Marketing Manager with focus on Jakarta EE, Eclipse MicroProfile and other Cloud native java projects. Her passion is in multimedia marketing, and brand management . Outside of work, she enjoys traveling, watching anime series, hiking and reading.
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Jakub Mazanek
European Senior Systems Administrator
Jakub joined the Eclipse Foundation in March 2021. He is a sysadmin spending most of the time in the Linux command line. In his free time he enjoys trekking in mountains.
Ed Merks
Release Engineer for Eclipse SimRel
Ed Merks founded his own small consulting company, macromodeling. He is a coauthor of the authoritative book EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework which is published as a second expanded edition. He has been an elected member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors for the past fifteen years and has been recognized by the Eclipse Community Awards as Top Newcomer Evangelist, Top Ambassador, and Top Committer, as well as for Lifetime Achievement. Ed is well known for his dedication to the Eclipse community since 2002, having posted more than 32,000 forum answers. He spent 16 years at IBM, achieving the level of Senior Technical Staff Member after completing his Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University. He is currently living in Switzerland and has learned to speak German. His experience in modeling technology spans more than thirty years.
Silvia Miles
Office Manager
Silvia joined the Eclipse Foundation in September 2020 as the Office Manager Europe. Outside of work, Silvia loves to spend time with her family and friends, likes to travel around the world, enjoys sports like running, hiking and fitness.
Thomas Neidhart
Software Engineer
Thomas is passionate about Open Source development and has been a long time contributor to various Open Source projects. Since joining the Eclipse Foundation in 2023, he helps in building tools and processes to strengthen the software supply chain security of the Foundation's projects.
Federica Nocerino
Content & Digital Marketing Specialist
Federica is a creativity-driven person with a passion for marketing and tech. She loves to match technology and empathy to craft meaningful stories that bring value to people. Outside of work you can see her learning digital art, coding, or taking long walks.
Tanja Obradovic
Jakarta EE Program Manager
Tanja joined Eclipse Foundation as Jakarta EE Program Manager June 2018. Having been involved with Java and Java EE for quite some time, revitalizing Enterprise Java seems like a good challenge and a great fit for her! Outside the office, she loves spending time with her family and friends, enjoys art events, outdoor activities (even in the winter!), visiting different countries and most of all spending summers on a beach.
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Francisco Perez
Open Source Software Engineer
Francisco joined the Eclipse Foundation in March 2023 as Open Source Software Engineer. He is based in Seville, Spain. Francisco has been involved in different Open Source projects, organizations and idustries for +20 years. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his daughter, running, reading and travelling.
Michael Plagge
Vice President, Ecosystem Development
Michael joined the Eclipse Foundation in 2021 as Director, Ecosystem Development. In a previous life, he started his career as a software developer in the area of automotive software before he changed to the dark side of business development. Here he held various business development positions in companies like Elektrobit, Alibaba, and Alibaba Cloud, and spent 3 years as General Manager Elektrobit Automotive (Shanghai) Ltd. in China.
Eric Poirier
Web Developer
Eric is part of the web development team! Other than working with web stuff, his other passions are mostly constituted of hockey, video games and tv shows.
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David Remon
Research Project Manager
David joined the Eclipse Foundation in January 2023, bringing experience in industry and research projects in IoT, smart cities, or environment. David enjoys spending time in the mountains, traveling, and practicing any kind of sport.
Mario Rodriguez
Verification Engineer
Mario joined the Eclipse foundation in March 2023. He is passionate about Verification, and enjoys catching the bugs in the designs he works with. He is also interested in open-source projects that are related to home domotics.
Rosaria Rossini
Research Project Leader
Rosaria is a computer scientist and part of the Eclipse Foundation research team. Passionate about technology, she joined the community to help spread "open source" best practices and assist in putting them in place. She is very curious about the world and loves nature. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and learning about new cultures, as well as playing and trying different sports.
Clark Roundy
Director, Product Marketing
As the head of product marketing for the Eclipse Foundation, Clark is the guy to talk to if you are looking for ways to raise awareness for your project. Prior to joining the Foundation, for more than 25 years Clark worked within the technology industry in a broad range of marketing, product management, sales and executive roles, many of which were closely aligned with the open source industry. In his spare time, Clark likes spending time with his family, exploring the world, playing golf, and hiking in the beautiful mountains of Utah.
Denis Roy
Director, IT Services
In the office, Denis spends his time in front of a Linux command prompt, helping manage the servers, networks and software that run the Eclipse websites. When not at work, Denis enjoys time with his family and friends.
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Marta Rybczynska
Technical Program Manager
Marta has engaged in various open-source projects for 20 years. She holds a Ph.D. in network security and has developed embedded software (including a Linux kernel port to a new architcture) and tooling. At the same time, for her, communication is at least as crucial as the development itself. Because of this, she is currently a frequent speaker at various open-source conferences. In her free time, Marta hikes in the mountains, writes, reads all types of books, and takes care of her garden.
Zachary Sabourin
Web Developer
Zachary is an avid learner who is fascinated by the power of technology. When he's not working, learning, or out on a walk, he enjoys exploring his many interests, such as video games, bass guitar, music, Magic: the Gathering, and listening to podcasts on various topics.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken
-Oscar Wilde
Serina El Salibi
Virtual Event Specialist
Serina has spent the majority of her career working at non-for-profit, tech-based organizations. After hours, Serina loves spending time with her growing family. She has a LOVE for food, travel, cars and surfing/scuba diving... a true thalassophile.
Pawel Stankiewicz
Open Source Software Release Engineer
Paweł is an IT technology enthusiast, and has been working in Operations and Devops for a long time for different companies. As a natural consequence, remote working became part of the job and he’s been trying to make that process better and more efficient while appreciating “Anywhere Operations”, and gaining knowledge of new technologies and how developers use them. To balance limited physical activity at his keyboard, he enjoys riding his bike almost every day, especially if they're on interesting routes. Outside of work, he likes spending time with his family and playing with low level electronics.
Sandy Thompson
Finance Specialist
Sandy is the Finance Specialist. Outside of work, Sandy enjoys travel, hockey (Go Leafs Go) and spending as much time as possible with her family, especially her grandchildren.
Olga Timakova
Conference Coordinator
Olga is a Conference Coordinator and a member of the Marketing team. Outside of work, Olga enjoys traveling with her family, exploring beautiful places in the world, sports, and fashion.
Monica-Daniela "Dana" Vede
Automotive Process Engineer
Dana is passionate about Software and Innovation. She has worked in the automotive industry for over 20 years, where she experienced all the SW related roles of a project.
Outside of work, Dana enjoys music, photography, travel, hiking, riding motorcycles, reading, and laughing. She'll always stop to pet a cat, dog or horse. She also takes a high interest in mental health topics and any related techniques and mechanisms, and is keen on further improving herself and helping others through her knowledge and experiences.
Matt Ward
IT Manager
Matt spends his time triaging the Webmaster inbox and putting out fires. If you can't take the heat, stay out of the data center.
Paul White
Vice President, Member Services
Paul’s role at the Foundation is to drive value for our members. His interests outside the Foundation are diverse, but all centre around family, friends, learning (and a bit of teaching) - all mixed with a heavy dose of travel.
