Now you can watch the keynotes that took place during the OpenInfra Summit in Berlin!
Being a long time member of various open source communities (Linux kernel, openSUSE and others), I have a personal interest in seeing OpenStack becoming a leading cloud infrastructure. In my professional life, I ran an engineering organizations that are in charge of developing, building and running cloud infrastructure. (See the keynote at the Folsom Design Summit at http://vimeo.com/41449373 and http://de.slideshare.net/laurabeckcahoon/deutsche-telekom-12607469 for some details.) I built the OpenStack platform behind DT's Business Marketplace, worked with Huawei to build and run an OpenStack engineering team in Europe, built Open Telekom Cloud, ran the Cloud & Storage Engineering departments at SUSE.
I have been working on a building a European Cloud initiative - Sovereign Cloud Stack - for the past 4 years. This is a best-of-breed LOKI stack, and our contractors and employees have been contributing significantly to OpenInfra projects, mainly OpenStack.
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019, I was responsible for the Cloud and Storage Departments in SUSE R&D.
SUSE was a platinum member of the Foundation and a strong upstream contributor back then with good products - I failed to prevent it from changing course, which is why I left.
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, a key area for OpenStack's success given the centrifugal forces in such a large project. DT has become gold member of the OpenStack Foundation in 2016 and has been headline sponsor for a few summits.
Before joining DT 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.
I have been serving on the Board of the OpenInfra Foundation as Gold Director for DT and as individual Director 2020-2023.
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Nova,Kolla-ansible,Openstackclient,Openstacksdk,Keystone,Octavia
Keeping the momentum of OpenStack up in Europe and positioning it as a very good answer to sovereignty concerns. Getting funding for egineering and standardization work.
I have been on the OpenInfra board for a few years before.
Besides this, I served on numerous progam committees around Linux and OpenStack.
Working on visibility and overall healthiness of the projects, supporting with advice and by connecting people with each others or with sponsors.
Ensuring that we keep get some fresh momentum in, allowing to challenge some old decisions and keeping the good infra up and running.
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