Technical Advisory Council

CTO – Software and Cloud Solutions

Anil is part of the Network Team at the Office of CTO, RedHat. He has been doing research, design and development of software networking products for more than 15 years at RedHat and his prior employers. Most of his career he has been working in Software Defined Networks, Data Center Networking, Network Virtualization and Cloud Networking domain. He has been an active contributor to various open source projects like OpenDaylight, OpenStack and recently CNCF projects. He has contributed to open source projects for more than a decade now in various roles like project maintainer, project chair, technical oversight committee member, and community elected board member. He has been a frequent speaker at various research conferences, summits and local meetups. His research work can be found here. He is passionate about disruptive networking technologies and prefers to contribute to these technologies in Open Source way. He has a masters in computer engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani-India.

Daniel currently serves as a Senior Technical Program Manager at the CTO office at OSIsoft, focusing on technology, research and innovation projects related to IIoT, Open Source and Energy (Distributed Energy Resources). Daniel acts as technical liaison for strategic partners and represents OSIsoft at the Industrial Internet Consortium. Prior to joining OSIsoft in 2010, Daniel collaborated in various international research and development projects related to both edge and cloud.

Daniel holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Valladolid University (Spain) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Aalborg University (Denmark).

Engineering Technologist, Office of the CTO at Dell

Erik is a member of the LF Edge Technical Advisory Committe, a member of the Internet Architecture Board, and the Chief Architect at ZEDEDA. He has designed and implemented substantial parts of the EVE implementation in LF Edge. He is an expert on architecting and implementing secure large scale software systems, with a deep understanding of the implications of the Internet on system design. Prior to joining ZEDEDA he was developing software at Arista Networks, architecting the evolution of core software as a Cisco Distinguished Engineer, and earlier had a long and varied career as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Erik has been involved in standardization in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since the very early days of IPv6 and continues to drive IoT-related issues in the IETF and IAB. Erik holds over 29 US parents, and has a Technical Licentiate degree from Uppsala University and a MS from Stanford University.

Henry leads system and software architecture for HP retail, hospitality, healthcare products and solutions. Henry has over 30 years of experience developing embedded systems, VOIP gateways, and mobile phones from startups to global companies.

Henry holds a M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Southern California and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California San Diego.

Jeffrey Saelens is a principal engineer and cloud architect in Charter Communications’ Networking Engineering & Technology group. Starting his career in the US Army, Jeffrey served as a Green Beret who specialized in communications and systems engineering. After leaving the military, he dove into the service provider world heavily focusing on NFV and SDN transformations within data center, core and access networks. Recently, he has shifted focus towards facilitating cloud and edge transformations within Charter’s network and data centers.

Currently serves as Software Architect in Cloudify Network OSDT (Open Source Develop Team) at Huawei, focusing on architecture and technical planning for Open Ecosystem in Autonomous Driving Networks. 15+ years of experience in Transport network management solution.

Jim St. Leger has been creating, nurturing, and growing open source projects for more than ten years. He was part of the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and the Fast Data I/O (FD.io) open source project creation teams. Today he holds community leadership roles in DPDK and LF Edge. His focus is on networking and edge computing projects. His personal pursuits include lifelong learning, outdoor recreation, and advancing STEM disciplines.

Joe is an Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM.

Jorge Campello is the Sr. Director of Systems and Software Technologies at Western Digital.

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Kandan is a Director at AT&T Labs, currently leading 5G use case innovations, Cloud infrastructure for 5G RAN NFVi, Network APIs to transform the 5G network, and associated product development at AT&T. Kandan was the lead architect/Product Manager of AT&T’s SDN, NFVi, OpenStack based Cloud infrastructure supporting 4G and 5G, Compute-as-a-Service public cloud offering (CaaS), and Intelligent Content Delivery (ICDS) platform.

Led several Open source initiatives and Kickstarter of Akraino, Linux Foundation Edge Open source project to drive industry-wide innovations on edge computing. Served on the OpenStack board of directors from 2017 to 2019 and played a key role in transforming Open Source to support Telco NFVi and SDN.

Delivered 50+ public technical talks, published multiple articles, chaired & organized several Open source events in Akraino, OpenStack, Linux Foundation Edge, O-RAN, ONF, ONAP, OPNFV, OEC, CNTT, ETSI, OCP, and IEEE. Kandan is an industry leader in delivering results in Product development, technology & telecommunications solutions, across strategy, and research & innovation with 18+ years of Telecommunications, Cloud & Datacenter experience.

Mr. Li is Chief Architect of Baidu Cloud IoT. Mr. Li joined Baidu in 2010, and is responsible for architecture and development of platform focused around Edge computing, 5G and Internet of Things. In previous roles at Baidu, he was the lead architect for Baidu Open Search, and has worked extensively on the SOA framework of both Spider and Indexer of Baidu Search. Mr. Li was also an early participant in introducing machine learning to Web mining.

Mark Riddoch is the Chief Software Architect at Dianomic Systems.

MyeongGi Jeong (MJ) is Principle Engineer, Software Architect at Samsung Electronics.

Reed is an Embedded Security Market Development Manager for IoT at Arm

Shamik is Assistant Vice President – Technology & Practice Head | Innovation at Aricent

Subhas is Chief Architect – 5G, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Wipro Limited

Takeshi is a Director, Head of Innovative Network Technology and Collaboration Group, Network Technology Laboratories, NTT Corporation.

Takeshi has over 20 years of experience in R&D of ATM networks, IP-VPNs, cloud systems, network security, and edge computing technologies. He was in charge of telecom carrier relations regarding network R&D while based in US, and led the establishment of ATII (APAC Telecom Innovation Initiative) while in his current position.
He received a B.E. and M.E. from Waseda University, Tokyo.

Tapio is Technical Leader at Nokia Mobile Networks

Tina Tsou is an innovator and a visionary with far-reaching accomplishments within the technical engineering realm. As Arm’s Enterprise Architect, Tina serves in the highly visible Technical Lead role for the Enterprise Open Source Enablement team, where she analyzes, designs, and implements robust strategies to establish first tier status for Arm’s architecture within open source communities and projects. Tina also serves as Arm’s Edge Computing Team Lead. As the company’s open source thought leader, she builds powerful partnerships with and influences open source communities in support of multiple architectures. Tina previously served as the Digital Domain Expert (Connectivity) for Philips Lighting, where she implemented NB-IoT in an outdoor carrier project with China Mobile and Huawei. She released Bluetooth + ZigBee combo chip architecture and delivered connectivity hardware/software platform (ZigBee 3.0, Wi-Fi). The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Tina 100+ patents. She earned her Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technologies. Tina was the first woman to chair an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) working group from a Chinese business enterprise and was the youngest Asian rapporteur in ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) history. She currently serves as Chair of the Akraino Technical Steering Committee.

Torbjörn is Chief SW Architect RAN, Senior Expert Software Architecture at Ericsson

Toshimichi Fukuda is a Senior Architect at Fujitsu.

Mr. Yachen Wang is the General Manager of Wireless and IoT Network Center in Tencent. He is mainly leading in Tencent IoT Network, 5G, edge computing, Radio and wireless network related technical research, platform development and network deployment. before Mr. Yachen Wang joined in Tencent, he was the Deputy General Manager of Network Technology and AI R&D Center in China Mobile, President of ONAP, Vice Chair of Linux Networking Fund including ONAP, ODL, OPNFV etc. and Vice-Chairman of ITU-T SG13 IMT-2020/5G Working Party. He has much experience in 4G/5G, NFV/SDN, network evolution, international standardization, and open source etc.