A hands-on Solution Architect and an experienced Techno Manager with demonstrated history of delivering solutions while leading Global Project Teams.
Skilled at providing and building E2E solutions, architecture, design and implementations for both commercial and open source projects, using various tools and technologies.
One of the key contributors of the LF community, constantly striving to build an overall solution with the user centric designs. Demonstrated leadership capabilities in handling global teams across time zones and binging back value to the stake holders with his technical knowledge of networking and programming.

Speaker at various global forums like the ONES, Kubecon, Open-infra, ETSi, LFN, on various topics including Orchestration, 5G, Slicing, NFV/SDN, PaaS, K8s, ETSi, Edge, Cloud native and many more. Been a guest lecturer to various reputed Universities (IIT-Madras, BEC-Bagalkot).
Strong information technology professional with a distinction throughout the academics.

Roles held in Open-Source communities:
Member of the Technical Steering Committee for the Nephio, ONAP, EMCO and XGVela projects.
Member of the LFN Marketing Advisory Council.
PTL of the ORAN-SC SMO
PTL of ONAP Service Orchestration.
Liaison officer of the ONAP and ORAN-SC-RSAC.
Contributor to the ORAN-SC, Nephio, Sylva, Straling-X.

Key Awards and Recognitions:
Individual Gold Medal Award, Highest Individual Award across Global R&D.
Best Project Lead Award,
Future Star Award (2017, 2019, 2021).
Multiple Excellent and Outstanding contribution awards for different roles handled.
The Open-Community Recognitions:
Top Achievement Award (2021)
Best Demo Award (CNFO 2021)
Best Code Developer Award (2017 and 2018)
Best Project (as PTL of SO 2018)
Best Contributor award Open-O

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:

• LFN DTF June 2023 
• Nephio R2 summit Oct 2023
• OAI summit Nov, 2023
• Promoted Nephio in ORAN Aliance.
• OSC RSAC - Showcased possible integrations with Nephio
• ONAP - Nephio integration
• OSC-SMO Nephio through O-Cloud operator

Currently working on:

• Contributor to the WG2
• OSC and Nephio integration for O-Cloud Operator for IMS and DMS from OSC and WG2.
• Happy to render my help to LFN MAC Board (was part of it from other communities earlier and know how the processes in detail).

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.

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. 

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.

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:

• Implemented a prow instance and CI/CD jobs to be utilized by the community during the software development process.
• Created an installer to provision Nephio components and Sandbox VM for End-to-End process.
• Improved the Nephio UI to support PackageVariant and PackageVariantSets.
• Created KPT function to manipulate NetworkAttachmentDefinition resources.
• Proposed the management of Security policies on Nephio Deployments.
• Proposed a tool creation to facilitate the migration of existing Helm Charts to Operators.
• Participated on the discussions related to the integration of O-RAN project.

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://nephio.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/07/Nephio-Telus-CaseStudy-v4.pdf?hsCtaTracking=9dfabe15-a71f-43ed-a47a-4973f8489356%7C4d50251e-b3d3-416a-b9cc-538357f59c7d

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:

1. Served as TSC vice-chair in in the 2022/23 term.
2. Served as Nephio Sig Arch Chair in the 2022/23 term.
3. Supported All Nephio events through active participation, coordination and presentations e.g., Nephio Summit, One Summit, D&TFs etc. 
4. Published 2x blogs on Nephio website and contributed in various analyst reports. 
5. More than 20+ contributions including project governance, documentation, leading SIG Architecture and TSC, R1 & R2 requirements gathering and establishing community momentum along with other Nephio leads. 

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:

• He led OpenStack's Project Cyborg which brought accelerators as first-class resources in cloud computing.
• He contributed to the design and implementation of the Edge and Multi Cluster Orchestrator in Linux Foundation Networking.
• Most recently, he contributed to a performance optimization in a Web Application Firewall named Coraza (see blog). 
• Current role in LFN: Nephio & EMCO TSCs and LFN AI Task Force.

Contributions to Nephio:

• Presented the "5G Use Cases for Nephio" document with a team as part of requirements definition early in 2023.
• Regularly participant and contributor in TSC meetings since the very beginning.
• Have been keeping Intel management and teams updated on Nephio developments, so that we can make an informed decision on how best to contribute to Nephio in view of available resources and our partner engagements.