2021 Board Elections: Candidate List

About Tim Bell
Tim was responsible for the group at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, which manages the compute infrastructure for 13,000 physicists around the world to support fundamental research. He previously worked as a Unix kernel developer at IBM along with managing large scale Unix production deployments and services for Deutsche Bank in Europe. His team is running the CERN OpenStack cloud which has been in production since July 2013 and is currently around 300,000 cores. This cloud provides processing power to analyse the data from the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments which produce around 100PB a year. The practical experiences are shared on the blog at http://techblog.web.cern.ch . Tim was an elected individual director of the OpenStack and OpenInfra management board from 2012 until 2021 and was a founding member of the OpenStack user committee from 2013-2015.

About Allison Randal

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.

About Amy Marrich
Amy has been involved in Open Source since its early years as both an Operator and as an Open Source Software Development Manager. She joined the OpenStack community with the Grizzly release in 2013 while operating a private cloud and started contributing patches during the Mitaka release while at Rackspace. Over the years she has become a Core Reviewer on several projects and has held various leadership roles. She currently serves on the Open Infrastructure Foundation Board of Directors and is Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Finance Committee. In addition, she is a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, chair of the OIF Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, and previously served as the chair of the OpenStack User Committee. Amy is currently employed at Red Hat as an Open Source Evangelist and Principal Technical Marketing Manager while also serving as the Community Architect for the RDO Project.

About Julia Kreger

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. 

 

About Shane Wang

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.

About Mohammed Naser

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 commitee, chairing tthe commitee for a term.

About Rico Lin
Rico Lin, Board of Director for OpenInfra Foundation, Heat PTL, char for Multi-arch SIG, OpenStack Cloud Engineer at Vexxhost. Experienced in OpenStack development (infra and app), Cloud architect, Container(docker and k8s), community(contribute and event host), and customer tech consults and supports. Goals in OpenStack: * Improve experiences of Cloud-native application on top of OpenStack(by improving infra and user experiences).* Blending OpenStack with other cloud solutions to make it become one indispensable layer.* Leverage the community differences across global (Include let Asia community get more actively join to others).

About Sean McGinnis

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.

About Armin Ranjbar

Armin was a Coder before going to school, ran multiple companies, running OpenStack and other opensource platforms for large scale/mission-critical customers across the world, fascinated by the future of the community.

During the past decade, Armin has been Instilling the whole concept of open infrastructures with the highest government and corporate levels in Europe, including Telcos, Banks, Research institutes, federation (Such as GAIA-X), and large corporations, and that experience is something that I can bring to the table.

Hybree has been actively seeking the goal of helping larger scale companies switching to Open Infrastructure by addressing their concerns, helping them with training and hand-holding, as well as providing a robust hybrid cloud alternative.

About Prakash Ramchandran

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.

About Ghanshyam Mann

 Ghanshyam is currently serving multiple roles in OpenInfra/OpenStack Community. He is the Individual Board of Directors in OpenInfra Foundation, a Previous Chair and current member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, a Core developer in various OpenStack projects (Nova, QA and a few more), and also served as OpenStack QA project PTL. 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 onboard in the community via different programs like First Contact SIG, Upstream Institute Trainings, and mentorship. Before OpenStack Upstream, he worked in different domains like Avionics, Storage, Cloud, and Virtualization. Ghanshyam started his career in technology as a C++ software developer to automate the flight management system, which reduces flight operating costs and the pilot workload. He has also been a frequent speaker at various Open Source events such as OpenStack summit, Open Infra summit, 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.  

About Rupal Shirpurkar

As a Business Head at Click2Cloud, Rupal is leading the global business relationship in China, Japan, Hongkong, USA & other Asia Pacific Regions. She has collaborated with top Cloud providers (Alibaba, Baidu, Softbank, etc.) with Migration technology, Multi-Cloud Management & Assessment platform.

Her focused area is Go-To-Market Strategy and joint cloud solution/service offerings based on Openstack with Huawei, T-Systems, Telefonica, Orange & Non-Openstack cloud provider includes Alibaba, SoftBank, Ant Financial, Microsoft China, and RedHat.

•                 Rupal is a foundation Member at OpenStack since 2016; As OpenStack Foundation member she is helping to achieve the OpenStack Mission through technical contributions and community building efforts. Click2cloud has been part of the development/ support of Open Infrastructure Foundation's though Huawei, which is world class software that is leading organizations to have a clear transition from IaaS to Cloud Native Infrastructure.  

•                 She along with her team at Click2Cloud, is building the migration platform to move the workload from on prem to Openstack. They are also running the OpenStack cloud to deploy the products (CloudsBrain + Cloud Intel) which has been in production since July 2017

•                 She is passionate about strategies and OpenSource community. She is  one of the earliest SODA foundations (under Linux Foundation) member & active contributor for enterprise adoption and key partnership building with storage vendors /cloud providers.

•                 She is Alibaba’s MVP, responsible to manage and grow their Cloud business with click2cloud product & strategy; working with Alibaba leadership & Product Leads for building end to end technology solutions in cloud computing, data platforms and DevOps with key focus on hybrid workloads.

•                 She is early member and representative at Centaurus platform for building a unified and scalable distributed cloud infrastructure.

•                 She is OC at openGauss community for helping enterprises to migrate the workload from Oracle to OpenGauss/ PGSQL.

•                 She is part of Azure Migrate Program (AMP) - Working with Microsoft Data & AI engineering & product management team for building Industry Specific end-to-end use case for field. Also, labs for partners to easily deploy and configure demo on customer’s Azure Subscription. (Azure Migrate private/DMA/DMS/ SSMA)

 

She has been a speaker in more than 25 technology conferences across the globe; Linux foundation, Google, TiE, Alibaba Submits, Openstack, AWS women leadership, Global Submit, Huawei Connect, Baidu ABC, OpenInfra, Inspire, Student empowerment and many more sharing the stage with full of incredible speakers & leaders.

Personally, she is big promoter of OpenSource ecosystem includes Openstack foundation, OpenSDS, CNCF, Linux Foundation. Apart from my professional career, she along with my team is pushing the boundaries, to make a difference in youth empowerment and women in tech– the upcoming Leaders in India. She is excited and looking forward to challenges and more learning experiences!

 

 

 

 

 

 

About Prashant Mishra

About Kurt Garloff

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.