2023 Qualified TSC Voters & Companies Page
- An active contributor is defined as any member of the Nephio community who has made twenty or more measurable contributions as assessed by the TSC during the previous twelve month period, inclusive of code merges, code reviews performed, presentations, technical documentation of software functions, wiki page edits, or JIRA activities.
- In addition the decision was made to allow a company to appoint a candidate in the event that no single individual has met the 20 contribution threshold if there are contribution in aggregate by employees of that organization to meet the 20 contribution threshold. Candidates running under this provision should note "appointed" below their company name.
Nomination Period: open close 11:59 pm Pacific Time
Election Period: open: close 11:59 pm Pacific Time
Name (Use @ Macro) | Company | Brief Bio | Candidate's Statement Clearly show case 20+ contributions | |
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| 1 | Balaji (Bala) Varadaraju | Red Hat | ||
| 2 | Wind River | A hands-on Solution Architect and an experienced Techno Manager with demonstrated history of delivering solutions while leading Global Project Teams. Key Awards and Recognitions: | Contributions including TSC, OSC-OAI-ORAN documentation, contributions in WG2 and Cross community collaboration. Below are some of the details of technical participation and Panel discussions:
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| 3 |  Raj Panchapakesan Raj | AccuKnox Inc | As the Global Head of Partner Ecosystem and Business Development at AccuKnox, I lead the creation and execution of innovative strategies to grow our cloud-native security platform and solutions across diverse markets and segments. With over 25 years of experience in technology-driven global enterprises, I have a proven track record of establishing and managing Strategic alliances, Business Development & collaborating with cross-functional teams like Product, Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Solution Eng., Legal, etc. for product integrations, joint solutions & GTM activities Skills: Global Strategy · Strategic Relationships · Global Alliances · GSI · Teamwork · Partner Relationship Management · Global Business Development · Executive Management · Strategic Partnerships | I am the TSC and Security SIG lead representing AccuKnox in Project Nephio. I chaired a motion for Security SIG, created the charter presentation, and assisted with operational aspects such as Gdrive, mailing list, and Slack channel. I have contributed to the development and growth of the cloud-native computing industry as a Governing Board Member of CNCF and CD Foundation for 3 years. During my tenure, I helped shape the vision, direction, and governance of these influential open-source foundations. My passion is to empower businesses and organizations to understand the Open source tools and ecosystem to build their products and achieve their goals with strategic partnerships, cutting-edge technology, and industry best practices. In Project Nephio, I aim to contribute by helping make it the de facto standard for K8S-based cloud-native network automation in different industries, as well as LFN projects. I want to represent Project Nephio in the LF Networking Strategic Planning Committee and Marketing Advisory Council, build relationships, and promote Nephio with other LF and open-source projects, as well as various verticals in the industry. |
| 4 | Nokia | |||
| 5 | Ericsson | Ciaran is a senior expert in operations support systems (OSS) and programmable network architecture, and he is the chief architect of Ericsson’s Network Management portfolio. He has over 20 years’ experience in software development and architecture in the OSS domain, driving the evolution of management paradigms through multiple generations of networks. In the past Ciaran has represented Ericsson on the ONAP TSC and architecture sub-committee. He is a strong believer in the use of open source software to progress industry alignment, drive standardization, improve openness and simplify processes in telecommunications network management. | Ericsson has actively participated in Nephio in the following areas:
Currently the active developers from Ericsson with over 20 contributions include Fiachra Corcoran , Liam Fallon , Francesco Davide Lapenta with a number of other supporting contributors. | |
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| Kandan is currently the Head of Product for Telco Automation and Analytics at Google Cloud, where he is responsible for driving the development and delivery of innovative cloud products in Data, AI/ML and Cloud-native automation that can help telecommunications companies transform their businesses. Kandan has 20+ years of experience in product innovation, building products from scratch, and driving its adoption. Kandan is a strong advocate for open source software based products, founded and led many open source projects and associated products for mass adoption. >Founded and current chair of Nephio >Played key role in the inception of O-RAN RIC and was a major contributor to the O-RAN SC. This led to industry wide innovation and products. >Co-founded the LF Edge/Akraino project, which is at the forefront of pioneering edge innovations. The blueprints are adopted by many products in Telecom. >Instrumental role on the OpenStack board, which contributed significantly to its success. AT&T and many telecom on-prem clouds are deployed on Openstack. Kandan played an instrumental role in transforming AT&T's cloud strategy and Domain 2.0 initiatives. Spearheaded AT&T's and industry advancements in Edge Computing, NFV, and SDN. Now spearheading innovation in the Data, AI/ML and Cloud Native automation space. | Google is a major contributor to Nephio. Kandan was instrumental in founding Nephio along with other Googlers and community members. Google remains dedicated to Nephio's success and adoption by the industry. Kandan wants to run for the TSC position because he is committed to the community's success. Contributions Details:
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| 7 | Victor Morales | Samsung | Victor is a passionate Sr. Staff Software Engineer in the Samsung Open Source Group with nearly 18 years of experience in building solutions that are easy to use, scale and adapt. He is a regular speaker at technical conferences in Latam Open Source communities. Co-chair of the CNF Working Group in the CNCF, and Co-founder of the OpenStackGDL, Cloud-Native El Salvador and Guadalajara communities. Active contributor to CNCF, LFN and Open Infrastructure projects and fervent supporter of the DevOps culture. | Samsung has participated in the success on Nephio in the following areas:
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| 8 | TELUS, Canada | Sana is a principal technology architect leading the architecture and long-term roadmap of E2E Service Orchestration for supporting 5G/edge services over a hybrid telco cloud. She has been leading initiatives to improve cloud-native adoption through DevOps, open source solutions, and implementing organization-wide automation principles, and an API program. She has been involved in leading industry initiatives on making telco automation agile and cloud-native, founding partner of TELUS OSPO, project Nephio, and leading industry efforts around cloud-native automation. She is actively working and leading various efforts with the Linux Foundation include TAC representative and GB member, NGMN and supporting research across North American Universities. Sana Tariq is a Ph.D. in Computer Science majoring in optical communications, cloud computing, and software-defined networking (Fulbright scholarship and CREOL fellowship awards) Sana has given many presentations on service orchestration, cloud-native transformation, open source adoption and telco transformation at the edge of 5G. Some of recent blogs published at Nephio website: https://nephio.org/on-the-road-to-public-cloud-5g-networks/ https://www.ngmn.org/wp-content/uploads/NGMN_Cloud_Native_Manifesto.pdf | TELUS has supported Project Nephio since inception as founding member with Google and other community members. TELUS is also dedicated to driving Nephio's success and vision across all NF vendors and driving the industry to embrace cloud native automation and openness best practises driven through Nephio. Contributions Details:
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| 9 | Deutsche Telekom | Bernard is a Lead Architect of Deutsche Telekom. His main focus is on simplifying the lifecycle management of network solutions. | Deutsche Telekom has been contributing to the Nephio project by detailing major requirements regarding the lifecycle management of cloud infrastructures, network functions and solutions from a telco operator perspective. In addition Deutsche Telekom has shared with the community a couple of design considerations regarding service assurance, modeling and dependency management between cloud infrastructures and network functions. | |
| 10 | Intel | Sundar has more than 20 years of experience in the industry spanning networking, virtualization, cloud/edge computing and accelerator offload technologies. At Intel, he co-architected the OPAE software stack for FPGAs and worked on enabling FPGAs in Docker containers. As part of KVM4NFV (a project in OPNFV), he authored a whitepaper on low-latency NFV infrastructure. He was elected twice as Project Technical Lead of Project Cyborg, which enabled accelerators such as FPGAs in the OpenStack cloud orchestration framework. His current focus is on multi-cluster orchestration, service mesh, WASM, and cloud-native Secure Access Service Edge. He serves on the EMCO and Nephio Technical Steering Committees, and the LFN AI Task Force. He is a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, and has 12+ patent filings, issued or in progress. | Sundar Nadathur is an architect at Intel's Network and Edge Group, with a focus on multi-cluster orchestration and cloud-native security (incl. SASE, service mesh and AI use cases for networking/security). With over 20 years in the networking industry, Sundar has been active in the open source community for many years; some his contributions include:
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| 11 | Hunor Demeter | VMware | ||
| 12 | Sandeep Sharma | Aarna Networks | Principal Architect at Aarna Networks | Contributions to Nephio : |
| 13 | F5 | Ravi comes with a contribution of over 23+ years in the Telecommunication industry contributing both on Advanced Technology and Telco products. He currently drives the Architecture and Design of F5's Orchestration and Cloud Platform for 5G/vRAN /Core and MEC scenarios with focus on Telco Operators. He also was the Chief Architect at Corning Inc and Sterlite Tech., contributing to the architecture and design of next generation cellular products and technologies for 5G and beyond such as virtualizing DU while inter-operating with third party O-RU based on O-RAN OFH-7.2 specs (midband radios), Near-RT RIC Design and XApps, and participating in O-RAN and driving contribution such as Dynamic Spectrum Sharing use case in WG-1, contributing to E2-AP specifications in WG-3, and actively participating in WG-6 on several work items. Prior to this, he led Advanced Technology activities in CTO's office at Futurewei technologies (Huawei) and Nortel Networks. He has been active contributor to standard bodies such as Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), ITU, ATIS and ORAN forums. Also contributed to International Telecommunication Union’s focus group on driving International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT)-2020 requirements for 5G. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Carleton University. also served as an editor of Photonics Journal and been on the TPC of several other IEEE/ACM Conferences. Over the course of his career, he has been granted over 50 U.S patents and many still pending in various areas of data networking technology, and have over 50 peer reviewed publications in IEEE and ACM journals and conferences, with overall google scholar citations of patents and papers exceeding 2000. |
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| 14 | OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA)/OAI | Sagar is currently working at OpenAirInterface Software Alliance (OSA). At OSA he is responsible for DevOps, Data Center management, and Radio equipment management. He takes care of packing OAI network functions (RAN and Core) and deploying them on different distributions of Kubernetes. He has experience deploying NFs via ONAP and OSM. In the past, he has worked with OpenStack and LXC/LXD. He holds a PhD in Telecommunication from Sorbonne University (Thesis title: Cloud Native Network Slice Orchestration in 5G and Beyond). His thesis focused on the orchestration of network functions. | Started contributing to Nephio to apply my experience of NF deployment and management. During my PhD studies, I have worked with different open-source Core and RAN network functions, and different Orchestrators (ONAP, OSM, and different European project proposed orchestrators). I would like to bring this experience and knowledge to Nephio. Contributions to Nephio | |
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