Now you can watch the keynotes that took place during the OpenInfra Summit in Berlin!
The candidates on this list have the 10 nominations required to be on the election ballot and have completed the application.
Nominated by: Jonathan Bryce Melvin Hillsman Egle Sigler ChangBo Guo Christophe Sauthier Tom Fifield Allison Randal Artem Sidorenko Elliot Nichols Shane Wang
Nominated by: Jonathan Bryce Melvin Hillsman Egle Sigler ChangBo Guo Tom Fifield Shane Wang Steven Dake Prakash Ramchandran Giuseppe Paterno' Allison Price
Allison is an open source software/hardware developer and strategist. She is a board member of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, a board member of LLVM Foundation, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders. She previously served as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president of the Open Source Initiative, president and board member of the Perl Foundation, board member at the Python Software Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, 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 RISC-V projects, and has a PhD in hardware security from the University of Cambridge.
Nominated by: Jonathan Bryce Fred LI Egle Sigler Prakash Ramchandran Malini Bhandaru Mark Collier Kurt Garloff David Lyle ChangBo Guo Anni Lai
Shane Wang is an Engineering Director of Cloud Software at Intel's System Software Products. He has participated in or led his team on research and development of open source software projects such as Xen, tboot, Yocto and OpenStack. He has been serving as an Individual Director of OpenStack Foundation Board since 2015, with years of commitment to community development and building. Currently he is focusing on software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) technologies, edge computing, and NFV-related domains, including OpenStack, Ceph, SODA (also known as OpenSDS), ONAP, Akraino, StarlingX, OpenDaylight, OPNFV, DPDK, and so forth. He is interested in edge computing much so he is engaged in other open source solutions such as EdgeX, CORD, OpenEdge, KubeEdge, and ioFog. Right now he is also chairing the APAC session of OSF Edge Computing Working Group.
He got his PhD degree on Computer Science from Fudan University at Shanghai in 2004, and joined Intel after graduating from the school.
Nominated by: Allison Randal Igor Yozhikov Steven Dake Thierry Carrez Jonathan Bryce Julia Kreger Chris Dent Clark Boylan Mark Collier Ghanshyam Mann
Monty is the founder, core member and past PTL of the OpenStack Infra team which runs CI and developer tooling for OpenStack. He's a founding admin of OpenDev and Zuul. He's a past member of the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors, a Python Fellow and past member the OpenStack Technical Committee. Monty is past PTL of the openstacksdk project and is the past maintainer of the Ansible modules for consuming OpenStack. Before his OpenStack days he was a core developer on Drizzle and was a Senior Consultant for MySQL, Inc.
Monty has a degree in Theatre Directing and went to grad school at CalArts in lighting design. The intersection of fields has led him to start more than one business around developing technology for and related to live performance. Recently Monty served as an Adjunct Professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts teaching a class on programming related to lighting design. If you let him, he'll talk to you WAY too much about Scuba Diving.
Nominated by: Allison Randal ChangBo Guo Jonathan Bryce Shane Wang Sean McGinnis Steven Dake Prakash Ramchandran Giuseppe Paterno' Mark Collier Kurt Garloff
Egle Sigler is a principal architect on Rackspace's OpenStack Private Cloud team and an OpenStack Foundation board member. As part of the board, Egle is co-chair of the Interop Working Group (formerly known as DefCore committee). Egle has co-authored two books, DevOps for VMware Administrators and OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook.
Egle wants OpenStack to be regarded as one of the most successful open source projects, with a great community to back it. During the past year, Egle has been co-chair of Interop WG (DefCore committee), where she has seen that the impact interop has on OpenStack is crucial. Interoperability is one of the top OpenStack priorities, and she continues leading the efforts to increase it.
Nominated by: Alexis Aurin Maxime Cottret Sebastien Boyron Julien Senon Cristiano Bellucci Prakash Ramchandran Jean-Philippe Evrard Andreas Jaeger Thierry Carrez
My Name is Christophe Sauthier, a french guy living in the nice city of Toulouse. Living with my wife and father of 2 beautiful small guys (of course).
I think that OpenStack shouldn't only focussed on big companies / deployments / projects but also take into considerations smaller one... I'd like to be that voice.
I am CEO of a small french service company that I have funded almost 10 years ago : Objectif Libre. We only deals with Open Source Infrastructure (OpenStack/Docker/K8s/...). I have been really involved in the Ubuntu community then my life I crossed OpenStack. I am in the OpenStack community since almost day-1.
I also was the PTL (and co-father) for Cloudkitty, the rating component of OpenStack which I think is the thing I am the most proud of : being able to create a project from an idea, and get it adopted by many clouds around the world. All that in the respect of the OpenStack standards. I gave many talks related to Cloudkitty and OpenStack to various events.
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Nominated by: Roman Gorshunov Hemachandra Reddy Bryan Strassner Roy Tang Doug Aaser vikranth kongara Darren DeJaeger Jess Egler Aaron Sheffield John Wheeler
Matt is a cloud engineer living in Saint Louis, Missouri. He's participated in a number of OpenStack-related efforts in the community, and integrates this work within AT&T as part of its Network Cloud platform. He has been working in the OpenStack community for about two and a half years; first in a supervisory capacity for AT&T -- onboarding, mentoring, and guiding engineers as they get involved in open development for the first time; and more recently, hands-on as an engineer and core reviewer of the OpenStack-Helm and Airship projects. He is a former PTL of OpenStack-Helm.
Matt has a diverse engineering background prior to getting involved in open infrastructure, including DevOps coaching, data science / statistical analysis, mobile development, technician dispatch and scheduling software, VoIP provisioning, and integration with legacy terminal applications.
Nominated by: Chris Dent Jay Bryant Amy Marrich Chris Morgan Erik McCormick Melvin Hillsman Fred LI Egle Sigler Andreas Jaeger ChangBo Guo
Sean is a Distinguished Engineer in the Dell Technologies Office of the CTO, focusing on programs to support open source usage and involvement across the company.
Sean is currently a community representative on the OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors. He has served on the OpenStack Technical Committee (TC), was the Project Team Lead (PTL) for the Cinder block storage project and the Release Management team, and is currently a core reviewer in a number of OpenStack projects.
Nominated by: Fred LI Lingxian Kong Feilong Wang Xiaonan Jin Li Guannan Hongbin Lu Rico Lin Egle Sigler Jonathan Bryce Shane Wang
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.
Nominated by: Leopoldo Ceccarelli Marco Napolitano Vincenzo Di Somma Stefano Maffulli Shane Wang ChangBo Guo Cristiano Bellucci Rosario Di Somma Prakash Ramchandran Rossella Sblendido
It's hard to define myself, I would say that I'm a consultant. I came from the field and from the early stages of Linux, even if I contributed to many opensource projects.
I now work for SUSE as EMEA Principal Architect, also cooperating with the CTO office.
HP rates me among the global top 30 OpenStack consultant and even mentioned in Forrester Research OpenStack whitepaper “OpenStack is ready, are you?". I’ve been working in the past as an IT Architect and Security Expert for Canonical/Ubuntu, RedHat, Sun Microsystems and IBM and named Visiting Researcher at the University of Dublin Trinity College ad-honorem.
As I’ve spent my last 22+ years in OpenSource, I had the privilege of working with the best people in the industry. This is the reason why I’ve got great relationships with HP, RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, Dell, Intel, Fortinet and many many others. I wrote many whitepapers and books and my latest one “OpenStack explained” helped collecting funds to help the population in Nepal after the earthquake.
I’ve been working in super-exciting field projects: creating the standard for J2ME Over-The-Air (OTA) provisioning along with Vodafone, the study of architecture and standards for the delivery of MHP applications for the digital terrestrial television (DTT) on behalf of DTT Lab and implementation of HLR for Vodafone landline services. Not mentioning the most cited OpenStack installations in telco and finance.
My aim is to bring in connection the board of director with the real world of enterprises, service providers, outsourcers and system integrators.
On my private I’m still a geek enjoying testing and being part of the OpenSource world. I’d like to transmit data in any mean, that’s why I’m a radioamateur. I’m also a chef with passion of baking and a leisure pilot on the weekends :-)
My website is http://www.gpaterno.com and @gpaterno on Twitter
Nominated by: Gnanavelkandan Kathirvel Ruturaj Kadikar Malini Bhandaru Shashi Bhushan Madhuri Kumari JAYANTHI GOKHALE Bin Hu Gael Rehault David Paterson Rajini Karthik
Prakash has 35+ years of Telco/ICT experience with MSEE from IIT Bombay. He is a current Board of Director for Openstack 2019/2018 (Foucucs on Airship/Medhavi/India OSUG), Sr member IEEE (CS/ComSoc,VTA),IEEE SCW SC Vice Chair 2018, NFIC-2018 Chair, and has been a veteran consultant on NFV/CNTT, MANO, VIM, Virtualization, Conatainerization, Microservices, 5G Core/Edge/Access, Network Slicing and Vertical Industry solutions. The companies he has served for include Micronic Devices, IDM, Microdata Consultants, Intelligent System, Tandem, WinVision, AT&T Mobility, seven.com, coverity.com, AT&T Labs, Futurewei/Huawei Technologies and currently at Dell. He was also part of Valley start-ups and other IT /Internet Data Center ventures in late 90's and early 2000. He brought to table the experience building Platform PoCs using OpenStack ecosystems. He has been a regular attendee of OpenStack, OPNFV, 3GPP NFV/MEC,IEEE forums over the last several years in the Bay Area as well as globally in US, China & India.
Nominated by: Steven Dake Prakash Ramchandran Allison Randal Kurt Garloff Egle Sigler John Studarus David Lyle James Denton ChangBo Guo Nicolas Bock
Melvin Hillsman is a Senior SRE at Red Hat working on the Operator Enablement team. Prior to joining Red Hat he worked closely with members of the Kubernetes, OpenStack, CNCF, CloudFoundry, and OPNFV communities for integration and validation of cloud ecosystem tooling and support of hybrid and multi-cloud validation. As a member of the Operator Enablement team Melvin assists ISVs, Red Hat internal teams, and open source communities with developing, certifying, and maintaining operators.
Nominated by: Kiran Murari Md Reza Deepanshu Bhatia Vaibhav Tripathi Shivani Devshali Asad Hussain Abhimanyu Bhatter Arif Khan Shubham Dang Mohd Alishan Khan
I’m an OpenStack Ambassador & experienced professional in Strategic Consulting, Evangelism, Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS ) strong in Infrastructure space, OpenSource, Pre-Sales, Business Development and Datacenter Consolidation. I've strong record of innovation, thought leadership and publishing white papers.
Worked closely with Product Management as well as Product and Solutions Engineering on the company's current and future strategies related to OpenStack. Driving Cloud competency, alliance, leading multiple Pubic Cloud initiatives and driving customer engagements for solution architectures, use case definition, PoC, Cloud strategy, GTM & solutions, and rollout. Also, providing technology consultancy to various external and internal teams and CTOs, CIOs, and other executive leadership teams.
Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Silicon Institute of Technology. I’m very passionate about Open source cloud technologies ,involved in hosting OpenStack India meet ups across India and regular speaker at various technical conferences about happenings in the Openstack world. My hobbies includes Terrace barbeque, travelling ,skating & community engagement through Pod-Cast and coffee brewing - roasting activities.
Nominated by: Kurt Garloff Abel Navarro Egle Sigler Robert Simai Thomas Bechtold Jean-Philippe Evrard Andreas Jaeger Masayuki Igawa Vincent Untz Rossella Sblendido
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.
