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I have many years of successful experience working in a different standardization groups and organizations. I truly believe collaboration and joint work are key to success, and have a proven record of accomplishments in building industry wide consensus among different companies and different cultures.
Amdocs is committed to provide me with all needed resources to succeed in this position, if I get elected.
I am asking for your support in these elections. If I get elected, it will be a great honor and responsibility to support TSC chair and to serve the whole ONAP community from my perspective.
Rajesh Gadiyar
Biography
Rajesh Gadiyar is the Sr. Director of Architecture & Systems Engineering in the Network Platforms Group at Intel. He is focused on driving a scalable and efficient architecture for next generation communications platforms. He leads the architecture efforts to accelerate Network Function Virtualization (NFV).
Since joining Intel in 1996, he has held several positions in Engineering, Professional Services, Strategic Planning and Architecture. Prior to joining Intel, he led various engineering teams at Trillium Digital Systems and Wipro Ltd. He brings several years of experience in networking products, architecture, protocols, standards and software development for Voice over IP, cellular, broadband, mobile telephony and data networks. He represents Intel in standard committees such as ATIS TOPS council and TIA and is a TSC member of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) initiative under Linux Foundation. He is a regular speaker at industry events and forums. Rajesh has a B.S. in Electronics and Telecommunications engineering from National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Statement of Intent
I am interested in serving as the ONAP TSC Vice Chair and I request your support. As the vice-chair, I will focus on the following priorities and work closely with Mazin Gilbert and the TSC members:
- Focus on Deployments – I will take a pragmatic view and look to prioritize ONAP features & capabilities that drive real deployments. I believe that, ensuring small successes quickly, will go a long way in motivating the community and driving business success.
- Build a strong ONAP Ecosystem – My key focus over the next few months will be to help recruit other Service Providers, OEMs, VNF vendors and System Integrators to make ONAP the defacto standard for Service Orchestration.
- Drive Synergy with Open Source Projects – I will promote collaboration and alignment with other communities such as OPNFV, ETSI-NFV, DPDK, FD.io, Openstack, ODL and TOSCA.
I have over 25 years of experience in the Telco industry. At Intel, I have led the creation of a strong networking capability on standard server platforms. My team and I have played a key role in creating the NFV vision in the industry and bringing it to fruition; This includes significant contributions to open source projects such as Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), FD.io, ODL, OPNFV, ETSI, IETF, Openstack, Open VSwitch and others. I am excited to be a part of the ONAP project, which I believe is a critical element for fueling business growth by creating a nimble and efficient services infrastructure of tomorrow.
Chris Donely
Biography
Over the past year, I have served as OPEN-O’s TSC Chair. I know what it takes to build and lead an open source community and to release on time, having delivered two on-time releases in 11 months. Also, I can devote about 90% of my time to ONAP, and I am committed to its success.
I have over 20 years’ networking experience, including 6+ years’ experience leading open source SDN/NFV development teams using Agile and Lean methodologies. I have also been active in open source leadership for several years:
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