2025 Technical Council Election

The FOLIO Technical Council's charter is to maintain the community’s technical policies, best practices, infrastructure, and monitor the operational health of the FOLIO project. It will also track and report Technical Debt and facilitate architectural decisions as needed by the community. It operates with close collaboration with the Community and Product Councils.

Seats on the Technical Council are available to Members of the FOLIO community, in accordance with the FOLIO Governance Model. Member is defined as an individual who is an employee or a sponsored contractor of a Member Organization. Individuals will be elected to seats for two year terms. Shorter terms may be required for the initial transition period or to fill seats that become vacant between elections.

The Technical Council will be seeking nominees who have one or more of the following:

Strong collaboration skills, able to drive decisions that champion the interests of the community and project
Deep understanding of software development processes and technologies required for a modern services oriented application
Familiarity with agile software development methodologies.
Knowledge of DevOps and Quality tools and processes
Experience with FOLIO’s code-base, technologies and development processes
Frequent contributor to FOLIO’s code-base
Experience with Folio system operations
Experience managing technology, technical debt, and competing priorities
Participating in and/or managing open community governance
Knowledge of library management systems and library workflows
Experience with leading development or other technical teams

The current members are:

@Jenn Colt - Cornell University (Co-chair)
@Florian Gleixner - BVB
@Marc Johnson - Knowledge Integration (Backup CC/PC liaison) - Not eligible for re-election
@Ingolf Kuss - HBZ
@Julian Ladisch - GBV/VZG
@Maccabee Levine - Lehigh University (CC liaison)
@Craig McNally - EBSCO (Co-chair) - Not eligible for re-election
@Tod Olson - University of Chicago (PC liaison) - Not eligible for re-election
@Kevin Day - Texas A&M University
@Jakub Skoczen - Index Data - Not eligible for re-election
@Joshua Greben - Stanford University

There are 5 open seats on the Technical Council for 2-year terms starting July 2025. Technical Council members currently serving a term that ends June 2025 may stand for re-election if they have not occupied a seat for 2 consecutive terms.

Dates

Nominations will be collected until June 13th, 2025 via the nomination form here.

Successful candidates will join the council on July 1, 2025

Nominees

THANK YOU to all of the nominees for their interest in helping FOLIO become its best.

The following individuals have been nominated:

Name	Institution	Candidate Statement
Olamide Kolawole	EBSCO Information Services	With three years of hands-on FOLIO expertise, I'm eager to guide the platform's technical evolution and elevate both the software and its community. My contributions span critical areas including Inventory, Search, Data Import and Enhanced Consortia Support, where I've driven significant developments and improvements.
Wayne Schneider	Index Data	As the FOLIO project continues to grow and evolve, community participation in technical decision-making and clear communication about technical issues remain critical to the project's sustainability. As a member of the TC, I would work to maintain the high technical standards of the project and advocate for the concerns of independent hosting providers and developers. I've been an active community participant since 2016, working on the DevOps team, and as a participant in several SIGs. At Index Data, I work with our team to provide hosting, consulting, and development services for a number of FOLIO libraries, giving me a broad perspective on the needs of the community. Thank you for your consideration.
Shelley Doljack	Stanford Libraries	I am a Software Engineer at Stanford University Libraries. Since 2021, I helped migrate our data to FOLIO, develop our deployment strategy for self-hosting FOLIO in Kubernetes, troubleshoot and fix data inconsistency issues, develop our upgrade strategies, design and develop workflow integrations using Airflow, dive into various modules’ logs and code to understand root cause, and analyze SQL queries to improve efficiency with database indexes. I am a member of the SysOps SIG and am tech-leading an effort to create an anonymized dataset for better QA. I would appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with the community to help shape the future of library technology. Vote for me for Technical Council!
Viachaslau Khandramai	EPAM Systems, Inc.	I have been actively contributing to the FOLIO since 2018, steadily progressing from a developer role to that of a team leader/solution architect. Over the years, I have been deeply involved in the design and implementation of architectural solutions for some of the most critical features. My long-term involvement has given me insights not only into the technical aspects of the FOLIO but also into its operational challenges and opportunities for innovation. I continuously look for ways to improve the project and actively contribute ideas for its future evolution. I am confident that my participation on the Technical Council would bring value not only through deep technical knowledge, but also through my commitment to FOLIO’s mission.

Elected Members

To be posted after election.