Community Awards
CNCF Community Awards will reward the community members, developers and advocates working hardest to advance cloud native.
We traditionally have the following awards, rewarded at different times of each calendar year:
- Top Committer: This award recognizes excellence in technical contributions to CNCF and its hosted projects. The CNCF Top Committer has made key commits to projects and, more importantly, contributes in a way that benefits the project as a whole.
- Top End User: The special award for the CNCF End User Community representatives in recognition of major contributions to the cloud native ecosystem. All end users can be nominated, but end user members can not win two consecutive years in a row.
- Lorem Ipsum (prev. Top Documentarian) (since 2021): This award recognizes excellence in documentation contributions to CNCF and its projects. Excellent technical documentation is one of the best ways projects can lower the barrier to contribution.
- Chop Wood Carry Water Award: This award is given to community members helping behind the scenes, dedicating countless hours to open source projects, hosting and building community meetups, and often completing thankless tasks for the benefit of the community.
- The TAGGIE: This award is presented to the person who has done the most to advance CNCFβs Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs). TAGs scale contributions by the CNCF technical and user community, while retaining integrity and increasing quality in support of CNCFβs mission of making cloud native ubiquitous.
Table of contentsβ
Awardedβ
2025β
2025 Top End Userβ
2024β
2024 Top End Userβ
2024 Lifetime Achievementβ
Tim Hockin (thockin)
2024 Top Committerβ
Joe Stringer (joestringer)
2024 Top Documentarianβ
- Qiming Teng (tengqm)
- Michael Yao (windsonsea)
2024 Chop Wood Carry Waterβ
- Sandeep Kanabar (sandeepkanabar)
- Ali Ok (aliok)
- William Rizzo (wrkode)
- Priyanka Saggu (Priyankasaggu11929)
- Stefan Schimanski (sttts)
- James Spurin (spurin)
2024 The TAGGIEβ
Nancy Chauhan (Nancy-Chauhan)
2024 Lift and Shiftβ
- Aaron Crickenberger (spiffxp)
- Arnaud Meukam (ameukam)
- Ben Elder (bentheelder)
- Caleb Woodbine (bobymcbobs)
- Cole Wagner (cjwagner)
- Davanum Srinivas (dims)
- Hippie Hacker (hh)
- Justin Santa Barbara (justinsb)
- Koray Oksay (koksay)
- Linus Arver (listx)
- Mahamed Ali (upodroid)
- Marko MudriniΔ (xmudrii)
- Michelle Shepardson (michelle192837)
- Patryk Przekwas (pkprzekwas)
- Ricky Sadowski (rjsadow)
- Tim Hockin (thockin)
2023β
2023 Top End Userβ
2023 Top Committerβ
- Akihiro Suda (@AkihiroSuda)
2023 Top Documentarianβ
- Divya Mohan (@divya-mohan0209)
2023 Chop Wood Carry Waterβ
- Kaslin Fields (@kaslinfields)
- Faseela K (@kfaseela)
- Arnaud Meukam (@ameukam)
- Lin Sun (@linsun)
- Rajas Kakodkar (@RajasKakodkar)
2023 The TAGGIEβ
- Catherine Paganini (@CathPaga)
2023 Small but Mightyβ
2022β
2022 Top End Userβ
2022 Top Committerβ
- Carolyn Van Slyck (@carolynvs)
2022 Top Documentarianβ
- Catherine Paganini (@CathPaga)
- Rey Lejano (@reylejano)
2022 Chop Wood Carry Waterβ
- Adolfo GarcΓa Veytia (@puerco)
- Alex Chircop (@chira001)
- Catherine Paganini (@CathPaga)
- Xing Yang (@2000xyang)
- Patrick Ohly
2021β
2021 Top End Userβ
2021 Top Ambassadorβ
2021 Top Committerβ
2021 Top Documentarianβ
2021 Chop Wood Carry Waterβ
2020β
2020 Top End Userβ
2020 Top Committerβ
2020 Top Ambassadorβ
2020 Chop Wood Carry Waterβ
2019β
2019 Top Ambassadorβ
2019 Top Committerβ
2019 Chop Wood Carry Waterβ
2019 Top End Userβ
2018β
2018 Top Ambassadorβ
2018 Top Committerβ
2018 Chop Wood Carry Waterβ
- Davanum Srinivas
- Dianne Mueller
- Christoph Blecker
- Nikhita Raghunath
- Paris Pittman
- Richard Hartmann
- Tim Pepper
- Stephen Augustus
- Kris Nova
- Zach Arnold
- Reinhard NΓ€gele
- Babak βBobbyβ Salamat
- Jorge Castro
- April Kyle Nassi