Architecture

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@Sana Tariq

Sana Tariq is a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Fulbright alum, brings 20 years of telecom expertise. As TELUS's Principal Architect, shaping 5G and O-RAN automation architecture. A pioneer in cloud-native adoption through DevOps and open source, she leads initiatives with NGMN, LFN, and North American universities. Sana co-founded TELUS OSPO and Project Nephio. Her recognition as Nephio's top contributor award reflects her dedication to driving change in the industry and open source within TELUS. I have been serving Nephio community as TSC vice Chair and SIG Architecture Chair for the last 2 years.

TELUS

I have been passionate about Nephio’s vision and adoption across industry since inception. Working in Service Orchestration space for the past 8+ years I understand the problems with previous opensource projects, standards, existing industry solutions and looking to bridge the gap of telecom, enterprise and web-scale world through Nephio. At this stage I would like to do the following

1. Increase Nephio active participations through creating opportunities within enterprise, start-ups and academia’s involvement

2. Ensure TSC members share a voice in shaping SIGs strategy and Nephio’s roadmap/direction

3. Continue to align Nephio’s vision with O-RAN, CAMARA, Sylva and broader opensource ecosystem

4. Drive AI adoption for Nephio at various levels bring synergies with LFN’s AI initiatives.

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@balaji varadaraju

Bala Varadaraju works in Red Hat. He is the current chair of sig release and TSC member.

Planning to create priorities and roadmap for Nephio working with Sana and rest of the community. Intersection with the other OSS projects such as Sylva, O-RAN , OAI and O-RAN SC. Dive into the AI use cases in Telco orchestration

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Chair Only

@Liam Fallon

Liam Fallon is a practitioner working on delivering Network Automation in open source. He is helping to build the software frameworks that we need to realize the promise of real automation in modern telecommunication systems.

Liam has architected, designed, and implemented a variety of systems, one of which was the first packet analyzer for the Ericsson AXE switch. From there he moved to work on management of Ericsson's ATM switches (a connection tracing system), and onto mobile network management (a number of systems including a batch job management system, a session tracing system, and a complex event processing system). He believes that system architects and designers should follow their designs, and should be involved in the implementation and deployment of their designs so he has led the implementation teams for most of the systems he has designed.

In his time in Applied Research,he led the development of the APEX adaptive policy engine, which Ericsson contributed to the Linux Foundation ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform) project.

He followed APEX into the ONAP project and into the Open Source world. He worked on the design and implementation of the TOSCA driven Policy Framework architecture in ONAP. He also designed and and led the implementation of Automation Composition Management, which is the core of the rApp Manager in OSC.

Ericsson

The value that Nephio brings has been recognized by its community of users. The fourth release of Nephio is under development and will be released in the next months. As such, there is an expectation that Nephio will bring enhanced functionality with each release but also will mature as a system with each release.

The charter of SIG Automation stats that “this SIG group focuses on design and standardization of schemas, CRDs, and operators; development of CRDs, Operators, related tooling & reference Implementation; and packaging and testing of functional components of Nephio.”

In the spirit of the charter, for R4 and R5 I will

• Work with the other SIGs (particularly SIG-1) to drive the implementation and delivery of the functionality for Releases 4 and 5

• Focus on maturity and robustness the existing Nephio platform and its operators, specifically the operators in Nephio and Porch

• Engage with the community to augment and streamline the software engineering processes used in Nephio

Having delivered on this contribution plan, a mature Nephio will be well positioned to deliver on its promise of Cloud Native Intent automation.

SIG3

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@Radoslaw Chmiel

Radoslaw 'Rado' Chmiel has over 20 years of professional experience, large portion of it related to continuous integration/delivery and software release process. Worked for Cisco, Oracle, Dell and others. Currently holding position of vice chair of SIG3

Samsung

Continue to improve CI/CD infrastructure, release processes and tooling. Increase engagement and number of test-infra contributors.

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@Fiachra Corcoran

Fiachra has over 10 years professional experience in the Telco Network Management/Automation space.
In more recent years, he has been directly involved in open source network automation projects such as ONAP, acting as PTL in DMaaP,
and also delivering valuable input to the projects CI/CD, security and release pipelines.
Currently actively contributing to SIG-2 and SIG-3 Nephio groups to improve both the platform and it's delivery and release.

Ericsson

Assist in the overall improvement of the testing and release of each Nephio deliverable. Advance the CI/CD tooling to distribute the responsibility of test and delivery across each project.

SIG4

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@Rahul

Over 22+ years of experience, primarily in security and network/transport optimization.

Cofounder of AccuKnox, Engg, Dev Lead (k8s, kernel, cloud-native, C/golang coder)

• maintainer of KubeArmor - Runtime security (CNCF Project)

• open source contributor (kubearmor, cilium, scapy, lsquic, RIOT-OS, and others)

• Past IETF ROLL/6lo WG contrib (authored RFC 9009)

• CNCF Ambassador 2023

• TSC member of Open Horizon (LF project)

AccuKnox

Try and make Workload Identity scale across all Nephio use-cases.

Create Security Blueprints for ORAN and 5G Core deployments.