Technical Advisory Council

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.

• Anni leads the Open-Source Operations and Marketing for Futurewei’s projects covering Kubernetes, Cloud Native, Cloud-Edge, OpenStack, Open Storage, AI/Deep Learning areas. Anni previously served on the OpenStack Foundation board, and is currently serving on the CNCF, OCI, LF Edge boards (as primary/alternate), and has been participating in various committees & working groups in area of community development, outreach, and marketing.
• For the last 10 years, Anni has traveled to 30+ countries, 5 continents visiting telco and enterprise users in EMEA, APAC, and North & South America to discuss their ICT, Cloud, Datacenter Transformation, and Open-Source strategies, and is a frequent speaker at various industry conferences worldwide.
• Anni firmly believes that Open Source is a global movement and is passionate in helping regional member companies and developer communities in China and India understand Open Source and better collaborate with the US and European communities. Anni has helped organized large and small open-source community events (both physical and virtual) with thousands of attendees in China and 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).

Vice President Software Applications at Emerson Automation Solutions

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.

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 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.

Joe is an Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM.

Coming Soon

Keesang Song is located in Bay Area, working at AMD Santa Clara HQ, leading Telco Ecosystem SW Engineering projects for Enabling and Optimization

Mark Riddoch is the Chief Software Architect at Dianomic Systems.

Technical lead of Baidu’s IoT edge computing direction and an active contributor to Baetyl.

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.

With over 30 years of senior level Engineering and Management experience, Paul has led the successful design and deployment of FTTH Network-as-a-Service platforms intended for global deployment and already in operation in Latin America.  Paul has designed and implemented next-generation Carrier Ethernet SDN networks, to include Coherent Optics for the delivery of wavelength services and he plays a leadership role in American Tower’s global OSS team.  Paul’s expertise extends to cellular networks, including 5G, both in outdoor deployment as well as DAS and small cells and he has managed multi-country operations that included cellular, sub-sea fiber, metro/carrier Ethernet, PON, DSL, FWA and HFC networks.  

Sven van der Meer is a lead architect at VMware building an autonomic grid covering RAN, edge, core, and private mobile networks.

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.

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.

Toshimichi Fukuda is a Senior Architect at Fujitsu.