Ryland Degnan

Board Appointee (Chair)

Ryland Degnan is a software engineer at Twitter, where his current focus is on expanding Twitter’s edge infrastructure. Prior to Twitter he was CTO of Netifi and a member of the Netflix Edge Platform team that created RSocket, Hystrix and RxJava. He has over 15 years of experience using reactive and functional programming to build high-performance and scalable distributed systems. Ryland holds an AB from Harvard University and an MSc from the University of Oxford.

Oleh Dokuka

RSocket Representative

Software Engineer who knows how to work with Reactive as a user as well as a developer. Java Champion. Co-author of the book “Hands‑On Reactive Programming in Spring 5”. Works on RSocket and improves Project Reactor along the way

Mark Paluch

R2DBC Representative

Mark Paluch leads the Spring Data efforts at VMware and is involved in various other Spring projects. He designed the reactive Spring Data stack, and he’s very involved in the Reactive Programming scene being the spec lead for the Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) project and maintaining the reactive Lettuce Redis driver. Outside of work, he is a passionate trance music producer.

James Townley

Board Appointee (Community Manager)

James Townley is the Community Manager for the Reactive Foundation. He is an experienced Reactive Systems Architect, Project Manager, Agile coach, Leader, Trainer and Developer. He has a love of simple and tries to have that reflect in his work.