Technical Advisory Council

Aayush Bhatnagar

Aayush leads the technology research and development organization at Reliance Jio. As part of this role, he is leading the effort on Openstack integration and network automation using ONAP. He is also heading the core network transformation project at Jio, which involves 5G architectural evolution. He is an open source enthusiast, and likes designing and developing software hands-on.

Abhijit Kumbhare (OpenDaylight Project Rep)

Abhijit is the TSC Chair for OpenDaylight. He is Principal Architect / Software Director in Ericsson. He has been involved in OpenDaylight since its inception and has been the PTL for the OpenFlow Project. He was also active at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) where he was a significant contributor to the OpenFlow Table Type Patterns spec. He has extensive experience in networking software development as well as leading teams toward successful outcomes. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.

Anders Rosengren

Anders Rosengren is head of Technology & Industry Engagement for Business Area Digital Services at Ericsson, leading technology innovation and exploration activities as well as defining and coordinating standardization and open source engagement in the area of Digital Services and Networking. Anders has 20+ years of experience in leading R&D work in both HW and SW for Telecom Core and IP products in an international environment as well as leading strategic technology and SW architecture activities on company staff level in Telecom Core, Cloud, IP, NMS/OSS and Radio product areas.

Anil Guntupalli

Bio coming soon.

Bin Hu (OPNFV Project Rep)

Being part of AT&T’s Domain 2.0 Architecture and Design team, Bin currently focuses on implementing AT&T’s open source strategy in network virtualization and cloud, and driving IPv6 and NFV Networking domains in OPNFV and OpenStack. Bin’s technical expertise ranges from mobile device, mobile Internet and web platform to network infrastructure, NFV, SDN and cloud computing. Bin’s experience covers software development, engineering management, project management, product management and business development.

Bin started his software career as a research engineer in NTT MCL and pioneered ATM high-speed networking and networked multimedia streaming technologies. Being an engineering manager of Disney Internet Group, Bin delivered Disney’s premium content to mobile devices in early 2000 which pioneered mobile Internet technology and business. After joining Motorola as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bin led the advanced technology team and delivered end-to-end solutions and products on IMPS, DCD/SCREEN3, and Mobile Advertising. Taking the role of Director of Product Management, Bin worked with the team and delivered Motorola Android Platform (MAP) and Motorola’s first 2 Android devices in 2009.

Prior to AT&T, Bin was Director of Business Development and Senior Director of Americas Software and Application Division in Futurewei, incubating software products and business in network virtualization, cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

Bin is the winner of 2015 OPNFV Annual Award and 2012 OMA Contributor and Achievement Award. In 2009, he led the IEEE ComSoc Santa Clara Valley Chapter winning 2009 IEEE ComSoc Chapter Achievement Award of North America Region.

In his personal life, Bin is an active volunteer in community, and won The President’s Volunteer Service Award of United States in 2016.

Catherine Lefevre (ONAP Project Rep)

Located in Belgium, Ms. Lefèvre is responsible for the software delivery and scaling of the Rules-Based Process Automation Platform, the Service Provisioning Platform (Voice, D2 Network/Service Elements, etc.) and Application Controller, Policy Framework and Control Loop Automation. She is also focusing on transforming BSS/OSS systems to Microservice Architecture and achieving data powered close loop automation. She is a member of the AT&T “Virtual Network Function” Governance Board and is co-leading the open sourcing of the ECOMP Platform.

Ms. Lefèvre received a master’s degree in computer science as well as a qualified teaching degree in computer science in 1996 from the University Of Namur (FUNDP). She is also part of AT&T’s EMEA Women’s Network, mentoring young women about careers in STEM.

Danny Lin

Danny Lin is the Senior Director of Solutions, Telco NFV Business Group at VMware, based in Silicon Valley. Danny is instrumental in driving the NFV initiative within VMware, enabling telecommunication operators to transition to next-generation converged cloud environment. He is responsible for technology strategy, solution design, reference architecture, and VMware’s ecosystem VNF certification program. · Prior to joining VMware, Danny held various technical leadership roles at GoGrid, VeriSign, and Synopsys.

David Sauvageau

David Sauvageau is the Senior Manager of Network Service Orchestration and Automation platforms at Bell Canada. His current objective is to drive internal innovation and accelerate the SDN/NFV journey through the architecture, implementation and operations of open network automation software. He has been working for over a decade as a strategist, IT architect and software engineer in many OSS automation domains. He holds a bachelor of software engineering and a master of business administration.

Davide Cherubini

Davide is Lead Software, Open Source and Labs in the Strategy, Planning and Operations team of the Cloud & Automation Centre of Excellence in Vodafone Group. His current responsibilities are Open Source Programs Coordination, Go-to Market Strategies and the End-to-End Cloud Architecture. In his previous role, he was responsible for the SDN/NFV Enterprise product portfolio transformation (VPN+) and his team developed the Group Transformation strategy and architecture for SDN and NFV (Vodafone Ocean). Prior to Vodafone, Davide served as Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs where he was part of the leading research team in Small Cells and, later on, of the Cloud, SDN and NFV research group. He co-authored scientific papers and published more than 15 patents. Prior to Bell Labs, Davide has held different positions within the Tiscali Group in Italy. Davide holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with a dissertation on optimization of multi-service (MPLS) networks. His main interests are around cloud architectures, network virtualization and optimization.

Dhananjay Pavgi

Dhananjay Pavgi heads Center of Excellence (CoE) for OSS2.0 in Tech Mahindra Ltd. His vision for OSS2.0 goes much beyond ETSI MANO reference architecture as he envisions “Composite or Hybrid” networks to be inevitable for CSPs for considerable time duration. He is an established Thought Leader in Telecommunications OSS domain. He carries over 20 years of experience in Telecom Networks, EMS/NMS/OSS and BSS. Dhananjay was a part of TMF OSS/J SQM Expert Group and has participated in panel discussions, speaking sessions at leading industry events.

Ed Warnicke (FD.io Project Rep)

Ed Warnicke is a Distinguished Consulting Engineer in the Chief Technology and Architecture Office (CTAO) office at Cisco Systems. He has been working for over a decade in many areas of networking and Open Source. He was the longest serving founding TSC member at OpenDaylight TSC. He was a founding TSC member at ONAP. Ed is currently the FD.io TSC Chair, and a founder of and active contributor to the Network Service Mesh project. Ed has a masters in Physics (String Theory) from Rutgers University.

Eyal Felstaine

As CTO, Eyal Felstaine is responsible for planning and developing Amdocs’ technology vision, as well as the architecture and roadmap of the entire product portfolio.
Previous executive roles include Amdocs’ Head of Orchestration group, where he led the ECOMP co-creation collaboration with AT&T around their software-centric Domain 2.0 vision of achieving 75% virtualization in their network by 2020. Eyal also spearheaded the establishment of Amdocs’ NFV group and was responsible for shaping Amdocs’ product vision, strategy, and long-term roadmap for Network Cloud Service Orchestration and NG OSS.

An innovator and entrepreneur by nature, he has co-founded and held CXO positions in several successful startups in the communications and evolved packet core space. These include Traffix Systems, acquired by F5, Allot Communications, and SANRAD, acquired by OCZ Technology (OCZ was later acquired by Toshiba Japan). Prior to joining Amdocs, Eyal served as VP of Radware’s Cyber Security Division.

An experienced speaker at industry conferences, he has authored multiple referred journal papers, articles, patents, and Internet-standardization documents. Eyal has served as a faculty member in the Information Systems Engineering department of Ben-Gurion University, now sits on the advisory board for the Computer Science department at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and has won several prestigious awards for research excellence in network security.

He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A.in computer science, as well as a B.Sc. in electrical engineering – all from the Technion. He also holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and an M.B.A. from the London Business School.

Frank Brockners

Frank is Distinguished Engineer in Cisco’s Chief Technology and Architecture Office, driving software and architecture development for software defined devices and associated telemetry processing solutions – with a strong focus on open source. He is involved in several projects that reside under the roof of Linux Foundation networking, including ONAP, OPNFV, OpenDaylight, FD.io, and PNDA. He is also very active in the IETF – integrating standards development and open source code development as part of the in-situ OAM effort. Frank holds a diploma degree in Electrical Engineering (Aachen University) and a PhD/Dr degree in Information Science (University of Cologne).

Igor Marty

Igor Marty is the Lenovo Global Telco CTO and has more than 20 years of IT experience across the Data Center networking industry. He is responsible for engaging C-level Telco customers, establishing the Lenovo Telco Strategy, driving technical requirements into Lenovo development, and engaging in a number of industry communities and organizations.

With a strong background in Project Management, Product Management and Training, Igor also plays an integral role in helping clients define their strategic direction and then working with them and the Lenovo teams to implement that direction.

Jason Hunt (TAC Board Rep)

Jason is a software architect at IBM, focused on distributed architectures across the convergence of enterprise applications and network services, with a particular fascination on designing highly available, reliable, and resilient software architectures.

Lingli Deng

Lingli Deng is a Project Manager at China Mobile Research Institute. She obtained her Doctor’s degree in Computer Application Technology from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and joined China Mobile in 2009. She is a core member of the Novonet project which drives SDN/NFV strategy for China Mobile, and is working on evaluation and introduction of data plane acceleration technology, running the Novonet Testing Lab and planning the SDN/NFV trial network for the company. She has been leading the OPNFV DPACC and OPEN-O NFV-O projects. She is currently serving on the OPNFV Board and OPEN-O TSC for China Mobile.

Marc Fiedler

Marc Fiedler is working as Lead Architect for Network and Service Management at Deutsche Telekom. He is based in Darmstadt, Germany.

Within in the last 18 years in Deutsche Telekom he has helped to drive and manage different technology projects across real-time network service management, virtualization technologies, datacenter projects, operations processes. Since 2016 Marc is working as Lead Architect for Operations Support Systems within the Technology Innovation department and latest he is responsible to drive the ONAP evaluation and development in DT.

Morgan Richomme

Morgan works as Network Architect for innovative services in Orange and is Orange Network open source evangelist. He is primarily involved in IMS deployment for Orange affiliates, and managed the project Emerginov (OW2), an open source PHP PaaS that has been deployed in Africa. Morgan has 10 years’ experience in managing open source solutions. He was OPNFV Functest PTL from 2014 to 2016, TSC member and is still OPNFV ambassador. Morgan is engaged in ONAP testing group and in charge of the Orange ONAP openlab.

Oğuzhan Ceylan

Bio coming soon.

Olaf Renner

Bio coming soon.

Rajesh Gadiyar

Rajesh Gadiyar is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Network Platforms Group and leads the Architecture & Systems Engineering organization at Intel. He is focused on delivering a scalable and efficient architecture for next generation communications platforms. He leads the architecture efforts to accelerate Network Function Virtualization (NFV) including 5G infrastructure, Edge Cloud, and AI in Networking.

Since joining Intel in 2000, he has held several positions in Engineering, Professional Services, Strategic Planning and Architecture. Prior to joining Intel, he led various engineering teams at Trillium Digital Systems and Wipro Ltd. He brings several years of experience in networking products, architecture, protocols, standards and software development for Voice over IP, cellular, broadband, mobile telephony and data networks. He represents Intel in standard committees such as ATIS TOPS council and TIA and is a TSC member of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) initiative under Linux Foundation. He is a regular speaker at industry events and forums. Rajesh has a B.S. in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Randy Bias

Randy Bias is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and futurist in cloud computing. He accurately predicted the geometric growth rate of AWS, is an advocate for open source technology and was among the first to identify the 30-year shifts from mainframe to client/server to cloud. Randy popularized the pets vs. cattle meme as a construct for describing the fundamental difference between how enterprise stacks and cloud stacks are managed.

Randy is a pioneer and early, vocal advocate for the OpenStack project, and has led teams that achieved numerous cloud firsts, including the first public cloud in Korea, the first global carrier NFV cloud, and the first “cattle cloud” for a Fortune 5 company. As a strategic R&D lead at Dell EMC, Randy led the open sourcing of several products, and today serves as Vice President Technology and Strategy, Cloud Software at Juniper Networks.

Ranny Haiby

Ranny Haiby is a director in Samsung’s Open Source Group. In this role he drives the
company’s participation in various open source communities. He focuses on
telecommunications and networking technologies. Ranny has been an active member of
the ONAP community since its inception and has successfully contributed to several
multi party initiatives in this community as well as others. He dedicates his time to
making the transition of network functions to modern platforms a smooth experience.

Prior to joining Samsung, Ranny spent over twenty years in various telecom equipment
vendors and startup companies. Acting as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff
(DMTS) and principal architect at Nokia, he led the design of an innovative cloud
orchestration system, and later drove its integration with ONAP. His previous roles
include leading system architecture teams at Juniper Networks and other networking
vendors. Ranny is always striving to think out of the box in order to make the
impossible happen.

Rossella Sblendido

Rossella works for SUSE, leading the engineering team in charge of SDN and NFV. She is a Core Reviewer for OpenStack Neutron, where her focus is the control plane. Prior to SUSE, she worked for Midokura, contributing to the creation of MidoNet, Midokura’s SDN solution.

Ryota Mibu

Ryota Mibu works as an Assistant Manager at NEC. He has been contributing multiple open source projects in OPNFV and OpenStack. He had led OPNFV Doctor Project and successfully developed missing fault notification feature in OpenStack. He is now coordinating LFN project contributions from NEC/Netcracker.

Shahid Khan

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.

Thomas Nadeau

Tom is Technical Director for NFV at Red Hat where he leads a team of some 25 engineers focusing on the area of Open Source Networking including SDN, NFV, data plane acceleration, Open Daylight and container networking efforts. In addition, Tom works across Red Hat’s products and business to strengthen and sure up its networking technologies around these products by working on M&A, partner and company strategy. Tom continues working as an Apache Committer and as co-Maintainer of The Public Yang Repository on GitHub.

Prior to Red Hat, Tom was a Distinguished Engineer at Brocade where he was The Chief Architect of Open Source in the Software Business Unit. Tom lead teams responsible for building commercial products based on open source, as well as contributions to upstream open source projects such as Open Daylight, OPNFV and OpenStack. Tom is co-chair of the IETF NETMOD Working Group, which is responsible for the standardization of the Yang modeling language as well as Yang models.

Prior to Juniper Tom held positions of Distinguished Engineer at Huawei Technologies, VP/Senior Principal Software Architect at CA Technologies, Director of Network Architecture at British Telecom (BT) and Senior Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems.

Tom is an active participant in the IETF, ITU, and IEEE, and is the author of several books. He received his BSCS from The University of New Hampshire, and a M.Sc. from The University of Massachusetts in Lowell, where he has been an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science since 2000 and teaches courses on the topic of data communications. Tom co-edits the SDN Programmability Blog at http://www.sdnprogrammability.net

Tina Tsou

Tina currently serves as an Enterprise Architect with Arm, a technical leadership position on the Enterprise Open Source Enablement team. In this highly visible role, Tina analyzes, designs, and implements dynamic strategies to establish first tier status for Arm architecture within open source communities and projects. She utilizes a thorough knowledge of relevant NFV/SDN collaborative open source initiatives, open source development tools, processes, build systems, packaging, continuous integration, and test methodologies.

As an open source thought leader within Arm, Tina develops and maintains strong partnerships with open source communities in support of multiple architectures, while prioritizing requirements for open source enablement in collaboration with Arm key stakeholders and relevant ecosystem partners.

Tina previously excelled as the Digital Domain Expert for Connectivity at Philips Lighting, where she championed the company’s first NB-IoT solution. She facilitated the company’s transition from conventional lighting to LED and digital lighting technology. Expertly guiding new concepts into research and development, Tina thrived in the development of compelling new ways to connect people, places, and devices.

Additionally, Tina was employed by Huawei (both in China and the US) for over 16 years as a Technical Lead and Principal Engineer. In these roles, Tina directed network architecture design, new product definition, product marketing strategy, technology research, standards definition, and embedded software design. Her top contribution in this role was the design and delivery of Huawei’s first IPv6 network migration professional service product.

Tina holds a seat on the Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). She leads VPP/AArch64 activities in FD.io—representing the Arm ecosystem in TSC. Tina currently directs the OPNFV Auto project as PTL, integrating ONAP onto OPNFV (upon both x86 and Arm architecture and hardware) with a focus on Edge Cloud use case and test case. She previously served as the project manager of the ONAP VNFSDK project, delivering multi-architecture to ONAP.

Tina has been awarded over 100 patents and 15 IETF RFCs, including the early RFC of 6lowpan. She earned her Bachelor of Computer Science from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technologies in China.

Wenjing Chu

Wenjing Chu is a Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of Open Source and Standards at Huawei in the US, leading strategy and research in NFV and cloud operating systems. Prior to Huawei, he was a Distinguished Engineer in Dell Research, Santa Clara CA, driving its NFV strategy and advanced research in High Velocity Cloud, focusing on high performance networking and real-time machine learning systems for the cloud. In that role, he also served as Secretary of the OPNFV Board, Chair of the Compliance and Certification Committee, and a member of the Technical Steering Committee. His long career in technology companies includes lead roles in startup multimedia network vendor Sentient Networks Inc. and enterprise Wi-Fi pioneer Airespace, Inc., both of which were acquired by Cisco Systems. Mr. Chu holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Peking University in China and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia in Canada.

Xiaojun Xie

Xiaojun XIE is the technical director of IT R&D center in Guangzhou Research Institute of China Telecom. For past several years, he has been working to bring Microservices and DevOps principles to BSS/OSS of the operator, focusing on service design, service orchestration and distributed systems tracing.

Xing Chen

Dr. Xing Chen is currently a Principal Architect in the corporate CTO Group in ZTE, responsible for new technologies and product strategies. He has been working on various projects including SDN/NFV adoption, cloud infrastructure, mobile core network, IMS, routers & switches, and xPON, etc. Dr. Xing Chen had worked for BNR/Nortel, GDC, and Alcatel, before joined ZTE in 2005. He held various positions in product R&D, strategic planning, marketing, and standards development. His professional interest includes future network architecture and evolution. He received his Ph.D in electrical and computer engineering from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.