Technical Advisory Council

CTO – Software and Cloud Solutions

Bill Hunt is the CTO and Co-Founder of Dianomic, creator of the Linux Foundation’s Fledge project, an IoT and ML framework for the Industrial Edge. Previously, he was Group Vice President at Oracle, where he led an 1,100-person software development team and managed a $126 million budget. Bill has founded and/or been a senior exec at multiple venture-backed software companies, each an innovator and the leader in their space. Five of his companies were acquired for $700m by Oracle, Avaya, Alcatel and others. He has also acquired multiple companies.

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).

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.

Frank is currently part of the Edge Computing Technologies & Strategy, Office of the CTO team at Red Hat.

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.

Joel Markham is a Chief Engineer in the Edge Computing & Controls Lab for GE at the Research Center in Niskayuna, NY. He received his M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Clarkson University. As part of the center, he focuses on the development of industrial software and networking technologies to enable controls convergence for GE. He is a highly skilled software architect and technologist with a focus on safety-critical real-time embedded systems. Prior to joining GE, he worked on mission critical systems for Lockheed Martin related to autonomous systems. Some of those programs include USMC Cargo UAS, Army’s Autonomous Technologies for Unmanned Air Systems and ONR’s Autonomous Aerial Cargo/Utility System.

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Kandan is the Director at AT&T labs and Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Chair at Akraino Edge Stack and Technical Advisory Council (TAC) at Linux Foundation. Kandan served on the OpenStack board of directors from 2017 to 2019. Kandan has led several opensource initiatives, and a big Open Source advocate. He has been vocal about the potential of 5G, Edge Computing and frequent speaker on the IEEE, OpenStack, Linux Foundation and other Opensource forums. He has more than 16 years of experience in Telecommunication industry.

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.

Lisa Lammens is Director, Program Management in the Open Source Group at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) working as the liaison with the open source community and QTI’s involvement in open source ecosystem. As the open source lead across all Qualcomm divisions, she works with engineering developers and legal to evangelize and enable Business Units to effectively utilize open source software while also maintaining license compliance and mitigating risks. Lisa has served on the Executive Board for Code Aurora Forum, is the designated QC alternate for Linux Foundation Board of Directors, sits on the LFNetworking Board and the LFEdge Outreach Committee. She is involved in several other open source projects including Akraino Edge Stack, OpenChain, SPDX and previously helped establish the structure, governance, policies & ecosystem for AllSeen Alliance, which drove availability of the first broadly adopted open source IoT platform.

Joining Qualcomm more than 20 years ago, Lisa has worked in multiple Qualcomm divisions and has been in the telecommunications industry for most of her career. Prior to Qualcomm, Lisa worked at Kyocera Wireless and Verizon Wireless in sales, network deployment and business strategy functions.

Lisa resides in San Diego, California and has 2 boys. She is a passionate advocate for autism and special needs inclusion. She has her BA in Business Economics from the University of San Diego.

Mahir is a Senior Technology Architect at Netsia, Inc

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

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

Rodney is an Enterprise Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

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

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

Sukhdev Kapur is Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He is part of Contrail Software Development team. He is on Technical Steering Committees of Tungsten Fabric as well Akraino Edge Stack (open source projects under Linux Foundation).

Sukhdev is a networking veteran with over 20 years’ experience in highly available distributed systems, cloud computing, disaster recovery, policy based mobile workloads management, and software defined networks. He has held architectural positions in Arista Networks, F5, Cisco, Alteon, and others.

Sukhdev holds several patents in cloud computing, hierarchical data center deployments, cloud-based disaster recovery, high availability, etc.

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

Thor Chin is Chief Architect at inwinSTACK responsible for Edge Computing product development and participate many open source communities includes OpenStack, Ceph, K8S, Akraino, …etc. Currently, Thor Chin is a TAC member of LF Edge and a TSC member of the Akraino. He has more than 10 years experience on Cloud Computing, Networking (include SDN) and Storage (include SDS) from a developer to Architect.

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

Toshimichi Fukuda is a Senior Architect at Fujitsu.

Trevor Conn is the Chair of the EdgeX Foundry Core Working Group and has been developing software for over 20 years. He has in-depth experience in designing and building distributed platforms based on event-driven, reactive programming models and microservices. Prior to his involvement with EdgeX Foundry his team pioneered Dell’s migration toward Pivotal Cloud Foundry, enabling application development and practices for robust support in the cloud.

Lead product Manager at MobiledgeX laying out the infrastructure and virtualization landscape to move immersive and AI applications towards edge. In past Led the technology strategy and architecture for Verizon Internet services platform and was a founding engineer at affirmed networks. Active contributor in Linux and author at IETF. I am very interested in data-path programmability and accelerations which can be open-sourced for community benefit.

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.