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Technical Advisory Council (TAC)
Principal Engineer, Office of CTO (Networking)
RedHat
Anil Vishnoi
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.
Senior Technical Program Manager at AVEVA
TAC Vice-Chair
Daniel Lazaro
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).
Vice President Software Applications
Emerson Automation Solutions
Dave Denison
Vice President Software Applications at Emerson Automation Solutions
Chief Architect, ZEDEDA
TAC Voting Representative, LF Edge
Erik Nordmark
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.
Software Architect
Huawei
Jianguo Zeng
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.
CTO, IOTech
TSC Vice Chair, EdgeX Foundry
Jim White
Jim has over 25 years of experience in software development for IoT Edge systems, enterprise application integration and mobile applications. Most recently, Jim was a Distinguished Engineer and Director of the IoT Platform Development Team within the IoT Solutions Division of Dell Technologies, where he was the chief architect for Dell’s largest open source effort to date, EdgeX Foundry™. EdgeX is an open framework for building industrial IoT Edge computing systems and is now a Linux Foundation (LF) Edge project. Jim will continue to serve as Vice Chair of the EdgeX Technical Steering Committee. Prior to Dell, Jim was a partner at Intertech, specializing in Java and .NET application development. Jim is co-author of ‘Java2 Micro Edition: Java in Small Things’, a Lynda.com author, and a frequent conference speaker.
Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM
TAC Chair
Joe Pearson
Joe is an Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM.
Chief Technology Officer
Equinix
Justin Dustzadeh
Coming Soon
Chief Software Architect
Dianomic Systems
Mark Riddoch
Mark Riddoch is the Chief Software Architect at Dianomic Systems.
Technical Lead
Baidu
Mengmeng Zhang
Technical lead of Baidu’s IoT edge computing direction and an active contributor to Baetyl.
Product Security Expert and Validation Engineer Lead
Intel
Nick Haunschild
Nick is a software engineering manager with a passion for developing open source reference implementations in the edge device space of IOT. With a background in software security, IP handling, and quality assurance Nick leads teams using agile methodologies to build the right combination of microservices to address use cases in a way that can be securable and scalable.
CTO
Flexnode
Tarif Abboushi
Tarif is a veteran of over two decades in the data center space, with extensive experience in the design, development, construction, commissioning, deployment, maintenance and operation of data centers. Prior to becoming Flexnode’s CTO, he was VP of Data Center Infrastructure at NTT Ltd. (Americas), where he deployed ground-breaking technologies in data centers to improve efficiencies and reduce carbon footprints, including the first use of solid oxide fuel cells running on biogas from cow manure to produce electricity at a data center, and the implementation of virtualized cooling, a project that won the Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT award. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester and a Master’s in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford. Having built a solid core, he now gets his kicks living on the edge.
Director of Infra Ecosystem, Arm
Board Chair, LF Edge
Tina Tsou
Tina Tsou is an accomplished global industry leader. As a visionary, she develops and delivers infrastructure and enterprise products—through initial launch and iterations. She boasts expansive achievement in large-scale technical project management, software engineering, and strategic planning for complex organizational technologies, products, and solutions. She is demonstrably committed to designing products engineered for security, reliability, and scalability—and dedicated to helping clients and developers see benefits of technology come to life.
As Arm’s Director of Infra Ecosystem, Tina excels as an innovative and results-driven leader overseeing international teams on IP journey, where she manages phases 3 to 5, IP selection, bring up, and ramp. She consistently exhibits a solid grasp of “big picture” solutions.
As a previous Enterprise Architect at Arm, Tina served in a highly visible Technical Lead role for the Enterprise Open Source Enablement team, where she analyzed, designed, and implemented robust strategies to establish first tier status for Arm’s architecture within open source communities and projects.
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 a connectivity hardware/software platform (ZigBee 3.0, Wi-Fi). The China and United States Patent and Trademark Offices have granted Tina 100+ patents.
She earned her Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technologies, and currently studies in Stanford University Graduate Business School. Recent appointments include SIG 3 Release, Vice Chair of Nephio (Driven by Google), and Board Chair of LF Edge.
Senior Architect
Fujitsu
Toshimichi Fukuda
Toshimichi Fukuda is a Senior Architect at Fujitsu.