Technical Advisory Council

Bill is Co-Founder and CTO at Dianomic.

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 Nordmark is currently the chief architect at ZEDEDA and is working among other things on the EVE project. His background includes several computing and networking industry companies, but also working across the industry as part of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force; www.ietf.org) in the form of an individual contributor, a working group chair, 5 years as an Area Director, and Erik is currently serving on the IAB (Internet Architecture board; www.iab.org). The IETF is a mixture of “rough consensus and running code”, researchers and academia, competing companies, all finding some common benefits in working together to standardize protocols. Erik’s direct involvement with opensource has been during the efforts and Sun Microsystems to get OpenSolaris in place and move the Solaris development to the open (something which gained almost no community traction) with a few years of open development, and a submitting few patches in the Linux kernel.

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

Glenn is a member of the LF Edge Governing Board & The Vice President of Product Management and Strategy for Wind River’s Software Defined Infrastructure business unit. Glenn has held Product Management positions with platform software providers for over 30 years and has been a strong advocate of Open Source. He was a founding member of the Linux Foundation Carrier Grade Linux Workgroup and is currently Wind River’s representative for Open Platform for NFV. Other open source roles include a contributor to the SCOPE Alliance Carrier Grade OS committee and the Vice President of the OpenSAF Foundation. Glenn has been in Product Management positions with Wind River since 2005 and prior to Wind River Glenn held Director of Product Management positions at MontaVista Software and BSDi and Unix Product Management roles at SCO and Texas Instruments.

Hatsumi is the Senior Director of Strategic Planning Unit in Fujitsu Ltd. She is currently responsible for the open source and community strategy, and leading to create 5G era global network & business architecture. Her previous roles included director positions of both Product Planning and Business Management of global photonic business. She was assigned to Texas US for more than 8 years and her main business has been for big carries in US market.

She has BS for Mathematical Statistics, and resides in Kawasaki city, Japan.

Henry is System Software Architect with HP Retail Solutions group developing point of sale systems. 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.

Jim St. Leger chairs the LF Edge Technical Advisory Council (TAC) and represents the TAC on the LF Edge Governing Board.

Jim is involved in several other open source projects including DPDK where he was on the creation team, LF Networking, Tungsten Fabric, Hyperscan, and more. His career has spanned automotive, aerospace, semiconductor fab equipment, and semiconductor products and has included roles in manufacturing, product engineering, product marketing, and ecosystem and business development. Jim has degrees from RPI and Northwestern University, in the disciplines of mechanical engineering, engineering management, and business administration. His passions are family, fun, education, outdoors, and disability inclusion.

James White is a Distinguished Engineer and Director of the IoT Platform Development Team within the IoT Solutions Division of Dell Technologies. He is the chief architect and technical lead in Dell’s largest open source effort to date called EdgeX Foundry. EdgeX is an open framework for building industrial IoT edge computing systems. EdgeX is now a Linux Foundation, Apache 2 license project (edgexfoundry.org). Jim still serves as Vice Chairman of the EdgeX Foundry Technical Steering Committee. He has over 25 years of experience leading the successful design and implementation of software applications for a variety of industries and platforms. He is co-author of Java2 Micro Edition: Java in Small Things, a Lynda.com author, a frequent conference speaker, and contributor to journals and on-line magazines.

Jinguk Jeong is currently the leader of 5G related projects including MEC and vRAN at Samsung. He has over 20 years of experience developing several kinds of software. He was a lead architect of iotivity open source project hosted by Linux Foundation. He has led many R&D projects such as DLNA, Smart Factory, and so on. He has dozens of published papers regarding multimedia and communication technology domain, and a number of my patents have been filed, too.

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.

Kandan Kathirvel is Director at AT&T and responsible for AT&T’s Cloud Strategy and Architecture.

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.

Mahir is a Senior Technology Architect at Netsia, Inc

Vice President, Technology & Strategy at Radisys.

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

Rodney is an Enterprise Architect at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Shahid Khan is Senior Engineering Manager at Qualcomm Corporate R&D. He is currently responsible for driving Telco & Edge products strategy, software architecture, and development of end-to-end platform solutions for ARM SoCs with a focus on Orchestration and NFV/SDN as the key technology enablers of disruptive solutions for emerging markets for Edge computing and 5G/IOT. Previously, Shahid has been responsible for driving open source software ecosystem enablement for Qualcomm’s ARM based server platforms through various community engagements and partnerships.

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.

Tim is part of the Product Design Systems Engineering team at Seagate Technology

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

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.

Wenjing is a Senior Director, Open Source and Research in Futurewei Technologies, Inc. In that role, he leads Open Innovation strategies around open source and open collaborations in Futurewei, and is responsible for open technology projects in Artificial Intelligence and future of computing. Wenjing is an open source veteran, currently a TAC member of LF Edge, a TAC member of LF Networking, and a TSC member of the Akraino project, and was previously a Board member and TSC member in OPNFV project in the Linux Foundation, and the Chair of the OPNFV (now LF Networking) Compliance and Certification committee. Prior to Futurewei, he was a Distinguished Engineer in Dell Research responsible for its High Velocity Cloud program. He also played lead engineering roles in early enterprise Wi-Fi pioneer Airespace, Inc. (acquired by Cisco), multimedia switching startup Sentient Networks (acquired by Cisco) and other entrepreneurial roles. Wenjing holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia, and a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Peking University.

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.