Julia Kreger

Chair | Individual Director
Red Hat

I started my working career in technology close to twenty years ago. It has surely not been an average career, but a career where I've continually learned and evolved to fulfill the need. In a sense, it all started with Linux and answering some questions about installing Linux. This started a journey into computer networking and eventually shifted to a systems engineering focus with a stop-over in data center operations.

The DevOps movement lead me more into software development and the operationalization of software due to the need to automate large scale systems deployments. This required bringing an operational perspective while bridging to the requirements, and often required digging deep into the underlying code to solve the problem of the day.

In a sense, I found a home in OpenStack in 2014 and the Ironic project in 2015 because of many years spent working with physical hardware in data centers.

I presently work for Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer, where my upstream focus has been Ironic for the past few years, and my downstream focus has been on helping lead adoption and use of Ironic.

Allison Randal

Vice Chair | Individual Director
Open Usage Commons, Software Freedom Conservancy, Eigenstate Ltd, Ericsson Software Technology, The Perl Foundation, Onyx Neon, Inc.

Allison is a software developer and open source strategist. She is the Chair of the Board of the OpenInfra Foundation, a board member of the Software Freedom Conservancy, a board member of the Perl Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders. She previously served as President of the Open Source Initiative, President of the Perl Foundation, board member at the Python Software Foundation, Chief Architect of the Parrot virtual machine, Chairman of the Board at the Parrot Foundation, Open Source Evangelist at O'Reilly Media, Conference Chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She participates in the Debian and OpenStack projects, and is currently taking a mid-career research sabbatical to complete a PhD at the University of Cambridge.

Amy Marrich

Vice Chair | Individual Director
Red Hat

Amy Marrich is a Principal Technical Marketing Manager at Red Hat. She previously worked at a small Open Source e-assessment company in Luxembourg where she was the Open Source Community and Global Training Manager. Previously she was the OpenStack Instructor at Linux Academy and a Linux System Engineer on the Platform Engineering Cloud Operations team at Rackspace. She currently serves on the OpenInfra Board, is an active member of the Openstack Ansible project, chair of the OpenInfra Foundation Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, and previously the chair of the OpenStack User Committee. Amy spends her free time competing in performance events (agility, FASt Cat, and dock diving) with her Dalmatians and competing in Dressage with her Connemara pony.

Eoghan Glynn

Gold Director
Red Hat

Director of OpenStack Engineering, Red Hat. Eoghan leads the OpenStack engineering team at Red Hat. He has been part of the Red Hat investment in OpenStack for the past decade, first as an individual contributor and upstream project leader, and then later as a manager. He has a long background with open source and with cloud technology, having contributed to the Apache community for many years and also worked on AWS monitoring while at Amazon. Eoghan is based in Dublin, Ireland though he's also part of a highly globalized team at Red Hat.

Ghanshyam Mann

Individual Director
NEC

Ghanshyam is currently serving as a Chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee and Core developer in various OpenStack projects (Nova, QA and a few more) and served as PTL of the OpenStack QA. project. He started working in OpenStack with NEC in 2012 as a cloud support engineer, and since 2014 he has been involved in upstream development. His main upstream focus is on Nova, QA, API stability, and CI/CD. In addition, he is passionate about bringing more contributors to the Open Infra family and helping them in onboarding in the community via different programs like First Contact SIG, Upstream Institute Trainings, mentorship. Before OpenStack Upstream, he worked in different domains like Avionics, Storage, Cloud, and Virtualization. Ghanshyam started his career in technology as a software developer in the Avionic domain with the C++ language.

He has also been a frequent speaker in various Open Source events such as OpenStack, Open Infra, Open source summit, Open Infra Days and LinuxCon on various topics like RESTful API, QA, Cloud Backup, Open Source Community Building, Open Source Governance. In addition, he has been actively involved in various PoC and solutions designs around Cloud OSS and currently serving as Cloud Consultant in NEC.

Kurt Garloff

Individual Director
Sovereign Cloud Stack

With Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS), we have a publicly funded project to build cloud standards, software and operational knowledge. The reference implementation is openly developed open source and contains Linux, kvm,ceph, ovn, OpenStack, Kubernetes, K8s-CAPI along with operational and IAM tooling. The project is carried out in the OSBA and the standardization will continue there in 2025. Dec 2018 - Dec 2019, I was responsible for the Cloud and Storage Departments in SUSE R&D. SUSE was a strong OpenStack supporter but then changed direction in ways that I could not support. Before SUSE, I was leading the architecture, community and consulting teams in Deutsche Telekom's Open Telekom Cloud Team. DT has been a vocal supporter of OpenStack since I joined in early 2012 -- we have been able to run several OpenStack projects. I personally supported the InterOp Workig Group, when DT became gold member of the OpenStack Foundation in 2016. I was serving in the board in as DT rep as well as individual member after moving on from DT. Before joining DT at the end of 2011 I was a long-time contributor to the Linux kernel, which also gave me the privilege of building up and leading SUSE Labs and work with a number of great engineers in- and outside my company, contributing to the success of the Open Source technology.

ChangBo Guo

Individual Director
EasyStack

ChangBo Guo is consulting architect at EasyStack. As founding engineer of EasyStack, he has held various roles, including engineer, product manager, architect, and participated in every aspect from product design to delivery, and online operation. He attended the earliest of large-scale OpenStack adoptions in China, such as Lenovo, Postal Savings Bank of China, China Telecom, State Grid, etc. He was one of the earliest OpenStack contributors in China. He has been working on the OpenStack since 2012, when he worked on the PowerVM driver under Nova to support IBM Power Systems. He has been contributing several projects like Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Oslo, etc. He was the organizer of China OpenStack user group, and promote OpenStack technologies in several meet-ups in China including Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, Shenzhen, etc. He is also keen to help others learn how to contribute in upstream and delivered presentation about upstream contribution for several companies. He attended several design summits and delivered presentations. He served as track chair of upstream development in Barcelona, Boston and Sydney design summit. He served as Individual Director of OpenStack Foundation in 2017- 2019 and Oslo PTL for Pike and Queens.

Johan Christenson

Gold Director
Cleura

Johan Christenson is a serial entrepreneur whom has successfully exited multiple companies he founded. After receiving a graduate degree in Engineering, from Florida Institute of Technology, his focus turned to the digital space. Johan is the founder and CEO of Cleura (former City Network), which offers a global public cloud as well as private clouds for enterprises - all based on OpenStack and other open source projects. Cleuras mission is to enable innovation and focuses on enterprises with regulatory challenges such as within finance, health care of government agencies. Johan sees OpenStack and open source as a whole, as critical for all enterprises in order to provide options and create competition in an ever more centralized infrastructure world. He, and the team at Cleura, empower new types of industries and markets to use the power of OpenStack, to enable and increase innovation in their organizations.

Josh Villarreal

Platinum Director
Rackspace

Josh Villarreal is a 15-year Racker who has been working in the OpenStack arena since the early days of OpenStack at Rackspace. He is currently leading a global organization for the Rackspace OpenStack Business Unit. The BU provides E2E customer experience, operations, product management, and engineering with regards to the OpenStack and Kubernetes product portfolio.

Mohammed Naser

Individual Director
VEXXHOST

Over the past 10 years, I’m happy to have watched the hosting industry transform and be part of the transformation process as it evolved from traditional physical hardware to cloud-native infrastructure, powered by OpenStack. Since the creation of VEXXHOST, I have had the chance to work with different sorts of customers, ranging from growing small businesses to helping architect solutions for large Fortune 500 companies, based on OpenStack. I've helped integrate other open infrastructure projects into our commercial offering. By fostering OpenStack at it’s early days in 2011, it has helped improve the project and our service as a whole. I’ve been a contributor to the project since and I have contributed code to almost every release of OpenStack since then. I've also served as PTL for Puppet OpenStack, continue to serve as a PTL for OpenStack-Ansible and serve on the technical committee, chairing the committee for a term.

Paul Miller

Platinum Director
Wind River

A technology executive with extensive experience in leading complex high technology solutions development, product management, evangelization and team leadership. Entrepreneurial drive and energy combined with deep technical skills used to motivate cross-functional teams and drive products and solutions from concept to production. Experienced and effective at being the voice of the business to industry forums, customers and internal teams. A demonstrated history of business effective product innovation and inventorship.

Phil Robb

Platinum Director
Ericsson AB, Ericsson Software Technology

With over 30 years in Software Engineering and 20 years in open source communities, my passion is bringing developers and companies together to leverage the significant strengths of open collaborative development while avoiding the pitfalls. These communities are often driven by competing forces of technical excellence, customer desire, and individual corporate agendas. When done right they create a rich set of digital assets that can be widely leveraged. When done wrong, it is often a waste of the participant’s time, effort, and resources. Mastering how to best navigate this new form of software development has been an overarching theme of my career.

Tytus Kurek

Gold Director
Canonical

As a Product Manager at Canonical, Tytus drives the evolution of Canonical’s products and services in the data centre space. Tytus received his PhD with honours in telecommunications in 2018. His background is data centre administration and cloud engineering. His research interests focus on 5G networks, network functions virtualisation, container network functions and unikernels.

Xiangyu Li

Gold Director
China Mobile

Xiangyu Li comes from China Mobile Cloud Centre and she has been working here for 7 years. She currently serves as the leader of the Computing Product Group of the IaaS product department, taking responsibility for the R&D of the OpenStack team. ECloud has become the fastest-growing public cloud in China with the highest revenue growth rate in the past several years. As a member of the China Mobile Public Cloud architecture team, she participated in multi-phase projects of the ECloud and could be considered as the main contributor for guiding ECloud to join the Million Core Club. Xiangyu Li has considerable rich work experience in the development and operation of hyperscale public clouds. The OpenStack R&D team which she is leading has achieve multiple great achievements, implementing the scheduling and concurrency optimization for hyperscale clusters carrying more than 100,000 servers. With this optimization, the delivery of 5 thousand cloud hosts could be completed in several minutes. Xiangyu Li is also very active to join community events. She is a frequenter in OpenInfra Summit, China Day and Strategy Day activities. Her team has published dozens of speeches in OpenStack-related community activities, sharing China Mobile's practical and innovation experience in OpenStack.

Huaxing Zhang

Gold Director
China Telecom

2017, I joined China Telecom and have been working on Cloud & Network infrastructure products since then. In the past years, I used to led a team to design and develop VIM products based on OpenStack and ETSI MANO specifications; and participated in design China Telecom's NFV three-layer decoupling scheme and implemented multiple projects such as 5GC, vIMS, and vBRAS. Our CT Cloud based on OpenStack have been deployed in 31 provinces and maintain upgrading with new Cloud & Network technologies. I believe it is precisely the mutual promotion with the open source community that has helped the industry to grow rapidly.

Yulong Liu

Gold Director
China Unicom

LIU Yulong currently works at China Unicom Cloud for research, development and management for a team of Cloud Networking. He has been engaged in Cloud Computing for more than ten years. He is proficient in the core components of OpenStack, and has a deep understanding of the architecture of Nova and Neutron with the underlying technologies, such as Openvswitch, OpenFlow, SDN, Linux Networking, Libvirt and Qemu/kvm. His past work experience in several famous public clouds has enabled him to have a deep construction of cloud technologies, which also shows his love for Cloud Computing. Since 2019, he has become the core developer of OpenStack Neutron. At present, his main work and research fields are focused on cloud networking, SDN, SmartNIC, DPU and hardware offloading.

Alexander Navratil

Gold Director
T-Systems

I started my IT careen in 2000 as the owner of my small business for training solutions in Germany. I provide Linux courses Development trainings in C and Java as well a lot of Infrastructure and collaboration topic like Lotus or Exchange. Later I was joining a hardware manufacture company Fujitsu and become responsible for Fujitsu OpenStack initiative. After servaral years and project me and my team could develop this initiative into a real product. With this entry into Cloud and Linux I followed the open-source path to the cloud world and got part of the OpenStack and OpenInfra family. Since 2019 I'm with T-Systems in the role Chief Architect of Open Telekom Cloud (OTC)! As the architecture lead, I am responsible for everything between the upper edge of operating system to the outer edge of Service Delivery. Open Telekom Cloud is by now one of the largest OpenStack-based clouds in Europe, providing full GDPR-compliance and the full stack of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings. Some personal stuff from myside, I am married, have tree sons, and a passionate kitesurfer, spending time with my family close to the ocean around the world.

Xu Wang

Platinum Director
Ant Financial

Xu Wang is a senior staff engineer at Ant Financial and an initial member of Kata Containers Architecture Committee. He was the CTO and Cofounder of hyper.sh and created hypervisor-based open source container runtime runV (secure as VM, fast as container). runV merged with clear containers from Intel, and become Kata Containers project in Dec 2017. Before cofounded hyper.sh, Xu worked in a public cloud in China since 2011 and was working for China Mobile cloud team from 2007 to 2011. Xu had experiences on Linux Kernel, virtualization, container, and distributed storage system. And he is also a technical writer and translator on Linux, virtualization, NoSQL etc.

Young Gwang Kim

Platinum Director
Okestro Co., LTD

Serving as CEO of OKESTRO, Young Gwang Kim joined the company as a founding member, contributing to its rapid growth in management, technology, and sales. He began as a senior researcher and advanced through roles such as team leader of sales and consulting and director of business strategy. Young Gwang was appointed CEO in 2022. In 2023, Young Gwang was selected for Forbes Korea's '30 Under 30' in Deep/Enterprise Tech and won the 'Minister of the Interior and Safety Award' in the Individual IT Service Digital Innovation category at the '2023 Korea IT Service Innovation Awards.' He was honored for leading OKESTRO's innovative growth, standardizing Korea's cloud platforms like the E-Government Cloud Platform, driving innovation in the cloud ecosystem, and contributing to digital transformation. Young Gwang consistently emphasizes a 'customer-centric' approach. OKESTRO entered the market with a cloud platform concept and has since advanced its technology and recognition by implementing customer-centric cloud orchestration, adapting to the shift from single to multi-hybrid clouds. The company specializes in 'cloud platform orchestration technology', integrating diverse cloud technologies, functions, features, and products within a flexible architecture. OKESTRO aims to empower customers in cloud operations, moving away from a service-provider-centric market.

Zhou Junyi

Platinum Director
Huawei

Zhou Junyi serves as the president of Huawei Cloud Network Open Source Development Team, having 16 years of experience in Huawei and 6 years of experience in open source software engagement. He used to be the Director of Packet Core Department in ICT, leading the department developed multiple products in 4G and 5G. He is also an expert in core network, cloud native, cyber security and software engineering.