🌟 Celebrating the 2025 Jenkins Contributor Award Winners
At cdCon 2025 in Colorado this week, we proudly recognized outstanding contributions within both the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) and the Jenkins community. These awards celebrate exceptional ambassadors, contributors, documentation champions, and users who drive CI/CD excellence.
🎖️ Jenkins Project Honors
Jenkins presented three distinguished awards:
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Jenkins Security MVP
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Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor
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Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate
🏅 Award Recipients
Most Valuable Contributor: Jan Faracik
Jan has made tremendous contributions to the UI/UX front of the Jenkins project as the UI/UX SIG Lead, not just this year but throughout the years, and for helping to foster a collaborative environment especially in helping newcomers of the Jenkins ecosystem via code reviews.
Security MVP: Daniel Beck
Daniel brought skills and thorough efforts to maintain and improve the security of Jenkins. His code reviews for Jenkins core are great examples of attention to detail and awareness of impact. He reviews security threats carefully and keeps himself current on recent security topics. He works well with release leads when delivering Jenkins security releases and works well with the Jenkins infrastructure team in many different areas.
Most Valuable Advocate: Stefan Spieker
Stefan has made continuous efforts in advocating Jenkins in his company with excellent explanations and showcases. He organized Hacktoberfest, and encouraged other colleagues to contribute to Open Source, specifically Jenkins. He speaks at conferences to advocate for Jenkins. He also wrote a successful book where he shared his insights on the open source and Jenkins.
📌 Closing Thoughts
These award winners exemplify the collaborative spirit that drives the Jenkins community forward. By spotlighting their achievements, we shine a light on security vigilance, code craftsmanship, educational outreach, and unwavering community support.
Every nominee deserves a huge thank you and congratulations - your contributions are felt through the performance and reliability Jenkins provides users.
Thank you to every voter, and participant who submitted nominations - your involvement continues to make Jenkins thrive.
About the author
Member of the Jenkins Advocacy and Outreach SIG. Alyssa drives and manages Jenkins participation in community events and conferences like FOSDEM, SCaLE, cdCON, and KubeCon. She is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc.
