Staff
Leadership
Deb Goodkin
Deb has been with the Foundation since August, 2005. She has spent 20+ years working in marketing, sales, and development of data storage devices. She earned an MSEE from the University of Santa Clara, and a BSCE from the University of California, San Diego.
Ed Maste
Ed first became involved with FreeBSD while working on the operating system team at Sandvine, Inc. in 2003. In 2005 he started working with Robert Watson to solve issues in the FreeBSD network stack and received a commit bit later that year.
Since then, he moved on to lead the operating system team and led a number of developers working to bring enhancements from FreeBSD into Sandvine’s operating system by contributing back changes that they have made and supporting work that they find valuable by contracting FreeBSD committers. Ed started working as a kernel consultant in 2012 after leaving Sandvine.
In 2013, Ed took on the role of Director of Project Development for the FreeBSD Foundation, managing the project grant process and full-time FreeBSD Foundation Development staff.
Anne Dickison
Anne joined the Foundation in 2015 and brings 20 years of experience in technology-focused marketing, communications, and operations. Specifically, her work as the Marketing Director and then Co-Executive Director of the USENIX Association helped instill her commitment to spreading the word about the importance of free and open source technologies.
Team
Konstantin Belousov
Konstantin started using FreeBSD in 1998 and began working on fixing bugs in 2005. He received his commit bit in 2006.
Konstantin’s main objective is to keep FreeBSD stable and usable. He joined the Foundation in 2011, and currently works on new features, bug fixes, security, and code reviews. He specifically likes to understand the details of the x86 hardware operations.
Isaac Freund
Isaac is a passionate open source developer whose tastes have drifted ever further in the direction of the BSDs over time. He is a systems programmer with experience working on compilers, databases, display servers, and more. He is the primary author of the river Wayland compositor and a member of the Zig programming language core team.
Loren Gurkowski
Li-Wen Hsu
Li-Wen has been involved with FreeBSD since 1999 and received his FreeBSD commit bit in 2007. He regularly organizes FreeBSD related community resources and events in Taiwan, and also helps with the BSD events in other parts of Asia. He joined the FreeBSD continuous integration team in 2013.
Li-Wen joined the FreeBSD Foundation in May 2018 as a Software Engineer responsible for the software quality improvement projects. In his spare time for fun, he is a scuba diver, biker, and snowboarder.
Joseph Mingrone
Joseph has been a FreeBSD user since the late 1990s and became a ports committer in 2016. He became increasingly interested in FreeBSD when he began administering a FreeBSD-based cluster for an academic group at Dalhousie University. He served as the secretary for the tenth Core team from 2018 until 2020.
Senior WRITER
Jason Perlow
Jason Perlow is a prominent technology and food blogger, known for his expertise in Linux, open-source technologies, enterprise technology, cloud computing, mobile technology, and embedded systems. As ZDNet’s Senior Contributing Writer since 2008, he leads the “Tech Broiler” blog, covering a wide range of tech topics. With a background in consultancy for major corporations, Perlow brings a deep understanding of the tech landscape. He served as Editorial Director at the Linux Foundation from January 2020 to December 2023, contributing significantly to Linux and open-source initiatives. Perlow also held positions at Microsoft and IBM Global Technology Services.
Alice Sowerby
Alice joined the FreeBSD Foundation in early 2024 as a contract employee. She is a multi-skilled program manager and open source leader with over 15 years in technical roles across cloud native, AI/ML, and DevOps. Currently active in the FreeBSD Foundation, CHAOSS, and the TODO Group, she brings expertise in program management and strategic leadership. Alice’s past roles include Program Director at Equinix, with other experience spanning product management, UX, and developer relations. She is known for her collaborative approach and commitment to impactful, community-driven initiatives.
Pierre Pronchery
Pierre installed his first FreeBSD system back in 2001, while studying the possibilities of different open source Operating Systems available. Passionate about their design & implementation, he gradually focused on NetBSD since 2005, eventually becoming a NetBSD developer in 2012 and serving on the Board of Directors for the NetBSD Foundation since 2017.
By joining the FreeBSD Foundation, he brings his experience from another major BSD derivative to FreeBSD, while contributing to pkgbase, the installer, maintaining ports, and focusing on improving user experience with the desktop environments in particular.
Moin Rahman
Moin has been a dedicated FreeBSD user since 1999, beginning his journey with FreeBSD 3.4. Over the years, he has made significant contributions to the project, particularly within the ports tree, earning his commit bit in 2014. He also holds a docs bit and focuses on improving documentation processes, especially managing rules for the document linter(Vale). Moin has worked across various areas of the FreeBSD Project, including port management (portmgr), the CI team, the Phabricator admin team, and the wiki admin team. He also lurks around the release engineering and cluster admin teams. Additionally, he served as the core-secretary for the CORE-11 team. At the FreeBSD Foundation, Moin focuses on tackling technical debt and contributing to projects funded by the STF. He continues to support the CI team and release engineering team, leveraging his deep experience to improve the CI infrastructure and release engineering processes. Beyond his professional work, Moin is passionate about attending networking conferences like NOG meetings, engaging in SIM racing, and trekking or mountaineering in the Himalayas.
Board of Directors
The Foundation Board is a governing board composed of volunteers who champion FreeBSD and bring a wealth of knowledge in their respective areas of open source, research, academia, industry, and community building. While they are not involved in the day-to-day operations of the Foundation, their duties include helping to set the strategic direction for the Foundation, overseeing the budget, and shining a light on the FreeBSD Project and Foundation whenever possible.
Justin T. Gibbs
Justin is a Software Engineer at Facebook. His past experience has ranged from office application development at Microsoft to embedded systems for general aviation aircraft at Avidyne. A member of the FreeBSD Development Team since 1993, Justin has contributed to many areas of the FreeBSD operating system, and is best known for his work on the SCSI subsystem. After serving on the FreeBSD Core Team from 1995-2000 he created the FreeBSD Foundation to provide a non-profit framework for funding FreeBSD development and community support.
Andrew Wafaa
Andrew leads Arm’s Open Source Office, encompassing internal and external open source engagements and has been working with both the FreeBSD Foundation and the community for over 8 years, pushing for Arm adoption externally and FreeBSD adoption internally. As a member of Arm’s Open Source Software leadership team, he is responsible for building the relationships between Arm engineering and key open source projects of which FreeBSD is one such project.
With nearly 20 years of experience in the Open Source space working for the likes of Fujitsu, EMC, Sun Microsystems as well as local government IT teams. He has held and continues to hold numerous Board positions in various Open Source projects, including openSUSE, Xen and the Yocto Project. Prior to the technology world, Andrew spent over a decade in the aviation space and is slowly returning to it as a
private pilot.
Dr. Robert N. M. Watson
Dr. Watson is a University Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Systems, Security, and Architecture at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, where he leads a research team exploring intersections between operating systems, networking, security, program analysis/transformation, and computer architecture. He has worked extensively with industrial consumers of FreeBSD to support their interaction with the open-source community, and developed the MAC Framework that supports product-specific security models, such as the sandboxing features in iOS, Mac OS X, and Junos. Previously, Dr. Watson was a Senior Research Scientist at McAfee Research. He co-authored “The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System.” He has served on the FreeBSD Core Team and Foundation Board for over ten years and has been an active contributor to the open-source FreeBSD operating system in the areas of security, networking, and release engineering since the late 1990s.
Deb Goodkin
Deb has been with the Foundation since August, 2005. She has spent 20+ years working in marketing, sales, and development of data storage devices. She earned an MSEE from the University of Santa Clara, and a BSCE from the University of California, San Diego.