I am an initial member of the ONAP project within Deutsche Telekom.
Last year DT joined the Linux Foundation Networking Fund as platinum member to push ONAP forward,
helping to shape an excellent platform for managing 5G and cloudified network services.

My colleagues and I are looking forward to collaborate on our joint goals for network and service automation.

With more than 15 year experience as OSS Software/System Developer and Architect at Nokia/NSN,
I joined Deutsche Telekom 3 years ago as Senior Architect working in the "OSS Architecture & Innovation"
group of the "Technology Architecture & Innovation" department.

Located in Bonn, I am leading DT's ONAP Labs, in which we are hosting multiple ONAP instances used within
PoC projects as well as for automated installation and testing. 

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing Deutsche Telekom AG.

Since 2 years I am member in DT’s ONAP evaluation and PoC projects acting as DT’s ONAP Lab manager.
During this time I focused on ONAP’s operational aspects (installation and test automation) as well as E2E orchestration functionality.

I contributed to the ONAP releases in testing ONAP and reporting issues during our ongoing projects,
but also by supporting the Documentation and CDS projects to improve the overall documentation quality with focus on the End-User experience.
In addition I am actively contributing to the ONAP testing framework used by the Integration Project to extend the automated E2E testing.

I believe I can help ONAP to become the standard automation platform for service providers by focusing on its production readiness and E2E usability.
Therefor I look forward to the opportunity to continue to work in the TSC.

Biterg.io link: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/99851edb92063dbf9d9e583f742872ee

Best regards,

Andreas

Ciaran is Chief Architect for Ericsson’s OSS Product Development Unit, with responsibility for the end-to-end implementation architecture of Ericsson’s portfolio of network management, orchestration, assurance and analytics products. Based out of Athlone, Ireland, Ciaran works with a globally distributed development organisation to drive the adoption of new technologies and industry best practices in software development.

Ciaran has worked for Ericsson for 19 years, starting out as a software developer and working on many different products in the OSS space. He transitioned to an architecture role 6 years ago, and worked on the architecture of the end-to-end CI pipeline infrastructure for the OSS Portfolio. He has subsequently worked as a deployment architect, focussing on evolving products to virtualization and cloud native architectures, before transitioning to his current role three years ago.

Ciaran has been representing Ericsson on the ONAP architecture subcommittee since January 2019. He has attended and presented at a number of community events in 2019, and demonstrated Ericsson’s orchestration capabilities (partially based on ONAP components) at ONS in the US and Europe. He has also served as a proxy on the TSC several times and has supported the community as an occasional stand-in for the architecture sub-committee chair.

Ciaran works together with Ericsson’s community of ONAP developers, to ensure that development work we engage in is of high quality and can be adopted in our own products.

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing Ericsson.

I have 19 years’ experience in OSS software development and architecture, encompassing all aspects of the software delivery pipeline for large scale management and orchestration systems, including software development, architecture  and customer engagements. I have been involved in the ONAP community, primarily through the architecture sub-committee, since January 2019. During this time I have proxied for Stephen Terrill on a number of occasions on both the architecture subcommittee and the TSC, and Stephen is supporting my nomination. I have also attended and presented at two ONAP events.

Internally in Ericsson I am responsible for the overall definition and governance of our OSS product portfolio architecture, encompassing orchestration, management and assurance. In this role I work closely with our ONAP developers as we contribute code to, and adopt code from, the ONAP community.

As ONAP transitions from an incubating project into an industrialized platform capable of mainstream adoption and commercialisation, it is critical that a strong focus is given to quality control, modularity, interface definitions and clearly defined scope for each project and the overall platform. To that end, if I am selected to the TSC, I would focus on promoting the improvement of these aspects of the platform.

Biterg.io link: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/909096cad83ec2cca6f3e76ee11a1d4d

Thank you for your consideration.

Regards,

Ciaran

I have been working on ONAP and related areas since September,2017 when I started my current role as ONAP chief architect in Intel.  I have been technically/strategically leading group of ONAP engineers within Intel to contribute to ONAP releases. Some of my contributions include architecture of

• Policy based HPA feature in OOF, Multi-Cloud & A&AI.
• Automation of testing (using CLI, but not Robot) as a true north bound entity of vFirewall with & without HPA, vIPSEC with/without HPA and vCPE-TOSCA with/without HPA.
• CA Private key security using PKCS11 with Hardware root of trust.
• Kubernetes plugin to do LCM of containerized VNFs and orchestrate both VMs & containers.  Proven using vFirewall and EdgeXFoundry use cases.
• ISTIO based Service mesh technology for ONAP4K8S
• Many edge automation activities : ONAP offload to regional controllers,  Secure connectivity via IPSEC between ONAP and Edge locations and Aggregation of node statistics to site granularity.
• Support for Geo-Distributed network functions & applications

I have led many big technical projects in my career and had been working in NFV/SDN world for last 6 years. ONAP success is major goal of my current role. With my experience in open source, networking , security, edge, micro services and service mesh technologies, I am confident that I will contribute/collaborate technically/strategically with rest of the community and be a constructive technical contributor/architect to the ONAP project.

In addition, Intel ONAP lab has been running from the inception of ONAP and only lab during R4 time.  Many of us in Intel are ensuring that this lab is continue to be made available to the community.

https://onap.biterg.io/goto/a69f2f9c7f8c7df152692a041ccd8b1d

Bin Yang is a solution architect from Wind River and dedicated to support ONAP community. He has more than 14 year experience in software design & development for Telecom industry. He has solid knowledge and skill for OpenStack, Operating System, and Silicon. He demonstrated his expertise and passion for Open Source community with the success of OPEN-O MultiVIM/Cloud project as PTL, ONAP Multi-VIM/Cloud as core committer and PTL. He loves this ONAP community since he can not only have achievement with the success of this community, but also make many friends who are great and talent persons.

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing Wind River.

I have been participating ONAP since its inception and engaged in various community activities. I have been contributed to the success of ONAP five Releases with the contributions to Multi-VIM/Cloud project development, Pair-wise testing, Integration Testing, Wind River/Intel Integration Lab supporting, CMCC and China Telecom Open Lab supporting. I have been developing demos with ONAP and showcasing them during various events including ONS, MWC 2018. with these experience, I identified generic functional requirement referred as Centralized representation and consist ID of cloud regions which has been one of ONAP functional requirements in Casablanca and Dublin Releases. I also shared my experiences and best practices of using ONAP through ONAP wiki, email list, and hotline meetings.

To make ONAP cloud-agnostic, Multi-VIM/Cloud project plays important role in enabling ONAP to orchestrate workload over various infrastructures. If I am elected to the TSC, I will focus on exploring the best approach to this goal.

My Bitergia Stats can be found at:
https://onap.biterg.io/goto/5c1337373096a9b4a3b6b1a95d7352ca

Thanks for your support.

Best regards,

Bin Yang

Recognized by Light Reading as one of the industry’s best Female Tech Pioneers (2018), and with multiple patents to her name, Alla Goldner is the Chair of Linux Foundation's ONAP Use-Case Subcommittee, as well as of its ONAP Technical Steering Committee (TSC). She also leads all ONAP activities and internal decision-making at Amdocs where her responsibilities include defining and implementing Amdocs’ ONAP strategy, working directly with ONAP members from service providers, vendors and partners, and leading Amdocs’ internal Technical Steering Committee. Her current focus is NFV and SDN network evolution, and in particular, the standardization and open-source domains.
With close to 25 years of experience in developing technology strategy and system architecture at global companies including Alcatel, Motorola, and Intel, Alla also has extensive experience in leading standardization efforts in 3GPP, IETF, ETSI NFV, BBF, ETSI and MEC – examples of standards she has created include TDF (Traffic Detection Function) into 3GPP Packet Core Architecture, Network Congestion handling into 3GPP architecture, and also traffic-steering architecture.

A key member of the group-defined service-functional chaining in IETF, she is also a leading contributor of multiple work items in the areas of 5G, Policy Control and Charging, NFV, SDN, control-user plane split and congestion management. She has also served on the program committees of several conferences including IEEE ICC and IEEE CSCN.

Recently Alla was awarded as the "Best Women in Network Orchestration" by Capacity Media.

Alla holds an MSc in Technology Management from NYU and a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.

Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP community representing Amdocs.

I have been heavily involved in ONAP since its launch in 2016 and have contributed to ONAP since day 1, being a TSC member and also Usecase subcommittee chair.

Additionally, I led several task forces related to improvement of ONAP quality and Release life cycle efficiency.

Recently I was also elected as ONAP representative to SPC (Strategic Planning Committee).

I lead Amdocs effort in ONAP since day 1 and passionate in continuing doing that!

I participated in several international conferences events since 2017 to evangelize ONAP and explain about ONAP, including ONS (2017, 2018, 2019, both North America and Europe events), ONLS (2017, 2018), SDN NFV World Congresses (2017 and 2018), Zero-Touch Congress (2019), NFV Europe Congress (2018), DT conference on Open Source and Standards (2019); I also gave many interviews and provided several newspaper articles promoting ONAP activities and ongoing community efforts.

 Additionally, I have served as a member of Open Networking Summit Program Committees (North America and Europe) since 2017.

I strongly believe and promote collaboration between Service Providers and vendors in ONAP, and going to continue doing so, if elected by you.

Biterg.io link: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/9b33609d0fb414f1139a50e7ac544df0

Best Regards, Alla

15+ years of IT experience involving both product and service based organizations. Senior system architect from Huawei Technologies  India  pvt.,Ltd.  handling the Project Technical Leader (PTL) role of ONAP Service Orchestrator project from its incubation.

Hands-on technical Architect with multi-tasking capabilities with a strong track record on defining architecture and solutions for technical research and commercial projects involving open source software,  handling global teams and bringing in value to the stake holders on what they needed the most.
Apart from leading the SO project also involved in various sub-committees of ONAP.
He has been speaker on various open source forums on the NFV, ONAP and Orchestrator, also been a guest lecturer to multiple including IIT Madras .

Seshu is a full stack developer awarded with multiple accolades both in commercial and open source projects he was responsible. the best contributor for OPEN-O, SDN-O, GSO, UI platform project and recipient of the Gold award the highest individual award of Huawei for technical contributions.

Some of the key rewards and recognition in ONAP:
Elected as the Best Committer for twice across ONAP releases,
Lead the SO project as the best project for ONAP Casablanca release.

A ardent freestyle dancer, Seshu has performed on multiple stage shows and is ever ready to any beats.

Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member for ONAP community representing Huawei.

An evangelist of ONAP, I have been involved with ONAP right from its incubation and have been leading the Service Orchestrator project since then.

Lead, contributed, assisted and helped in defining the architecture, solutions, implementation and roadmaps for various usecases and functional requirements of ONAP. 

Provided demos on ONAP in ONS NA, ONS EU, MWC and other key forums to promote its platform capabilities.

I would like to bring in my energy, enthusiasm and experience to help the TSC deliver a production ready ONAP adopted by operators, focusing on building a strong community and supporting our developers through improvements to our development processes and tools, if elected by you. 

I wish with all your support we could make ONAP a commercial success.

Bitergia Stats :

https://onap.biterg.io/goto/f908308c3112bbf17ca20dfc2f29bb1d

Best Regards,

Seshu

Ranny Haiby is a director in Samsung Research America, leading the open source group. He leads a group of engineers who are actively participating in various open source communities . A key part of his role is providing leadership and guidance to many engineers across Samsung who are actively contributing to open source projects such as The Linux Foundation Networking and its sub-projects, CNCF, ROS, EFL and Tizen. Ranny is in charge of new collaboration opportunities in open source communities. His role involves identifying such opportunities as well as leading the execution of the collaboration. 

Prior to joining Samsung in early 2019, Ranny was a Principal System Architect in the Nokia CloudBand product group. he served as a member of the Technical steering committee of the Linux Foundation ONAP project on 2017-2018.

Ranny is dealing with transitioning network functions to the cloud and is constantly seeking creative ways to make this experience smoother. He has been involved in NFV for several years, leveraging his twenty year experience from previous roles in his carrier in various telecom equipment vendors and startup companies. Ranny is always striving to think out of the box in order to make the impossible happen.

Ranny holds a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Technion – Israel Institute of technology.

Dear ONAP Community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP Community representing Samsung.

My dedication to ONAP needs no further proof other than the fact that even through a change of employers, I remained loyal to ONAP. Since joining Samsung earlier this year, I have worked diligently and persistently to bring the company to become the number 2 contributing company to the project.

With over 25 years of overall experience in architecting software systems, out of which the recent years spent on NFV orchestration, I will continue driving ONAP towards being the de-facto standard in our industry.

As a member of the original TSC, I have been involved in several multi-party initiatives for simplification and unification of the ONAP architecture.   I believe the key to ONAP’s success will be its usability and simplicity and intend to work closely with the operator and vendor community to continue driving these principals. Moving forward I will strive for more alignment in the community through continued work under multi-party initiatives.

Bitergia stats:

https://onap.biterg.io/goto/d69f76bfee7d317ca692b9a579dceadf

Regards,

Ranny.

Timo is the Head of Open Source Network and Service Automation at Nokia, where he is responsible for driving Nokia’s overall engagement in ONAP. In this role Timo works across multiple industry organisations, both open source and standardisation, engages with both customers and other industry players, as well as internally across all Nokia businesses.

Timo has over 25 years of experience in network systems, ranging from multivendor interoperability verification, systems architecture research, new business incubation, to mobile network and operations systems standardisation where he most recently headed Nokia engagement in Network Functions Virtualisation – or Telco cloud – standardisation. In his current role Timo was instrumental in ensuring Nokia’s early commitment and platinum founding member engagement in OPNFV, ensuring Nokia commitment with OpenStack, as well as Nokia being platinum founding member in ONAP.

Prior to joining Nokia Timo was a lecturer at his alma mater Helsinki University Computer Science department, where he focused on distributed systems and systems communications.

Dear ONAP community,

I would like to nominate myself as a TSC member of the ONAP Community representing Nokia.

I have been an active member of the ONAP community since its inception mostly involved in architecture, use cases, and documentation, currently a committer in Documentation project. I am excited of the opportunity to help ONAP become successful in the industry and to accelerate its adoption. I’m looking forward to making it easier to deploy ONAP and for new people to get involved in the ONAP community. Further, I intend to help fostering fruitful industry collaboration between ONAP and other relevant open source communities and standards organisations.

Bitergia stats: https://onap.biterg.io/goto/aa994954977cbe28a38e74de2d9bf1c1

Best Regards,

Timo

ONAP Community,

I would like to humbly self-nominate for the ONAP TSC election.  I have served on the ONAP TSC since the founding of the community.  I contributed to the original architectural principles and have led coordination of the S3P/Platform Maturity Requirements for the past few releases.  I am also the acting chair for Linux Foundation Networking’s Technical Advisory Council and represent the TAC on the LFN Governing Board and Strategic Planning Council. I lead IBM’s open source networking efforts and thus support IBM’s consistent ONAP contributions.  I have also represented the community, previously presenting at industry conferences (KubeCon, SDN/NFV World Congress, and ONS) on ONAP and related topics. 

I would enjoy the opportunity to continue working in the ONAP community as a TSC representative.  If re-elected, I would focus on refining the platform maturity requirements to ensure they are achievable while meeting the needs of operators’ production deployments. I would also promote the themes of simplicity & modularity in ONAP, which may require a tighter focus on core functionality.  Finally, I would continue to encourage the community to leverage existing cloud-based technologies and platforms, allowing the ONAP community to focus on their specialty areas of networking and automation.

Bitergia stats:

https://onap.biterg.io/goto/6473b7edaef2593a4d9fd5c1a9f0488a

Milind has over 19+ years of IT experience with the blend of both Telecom domain and technology.

Milind has been in Telecom domain as an active participant of transformation in the industry from the SS7 / Intelligent Networks (IN) days till date as we are witnessing another big transformation in the telecom industry. Through Tech Mahindra, Milind has been instrumental in assisting various telecom operators successfully reap the benefits of the transformation at the respective stages of evolution.

Milind is a co-author of patent claim titled “System and methods to achieve interworking between RCS and non RCS networks” which has been granted by USPTO (Patent No: US 10,284,640 B2). He has also show-cased Tech Mahindra solutions at industry events such as Mobile World Congress.

He holds a bachelor degree in computer engineering and is currently leading SDN and NFV initiatives within Tech Mahindra.

Hello ONAP community members,

In the community endeavor to make ONAP adaptable by telecom
operators of all sizes, I would like to nominate myself for
the ONAP TSC seat and contribute in making ONAP a preferred
open source choice for operator’s automation of SDN / NFV solution.

We have come a long way in the ONAP journey but still need to
cover ground to make it a platform that truly supports the zero touch operations mode.

I am leading Tech Mahindra’s vision to maximize and get closer
towards a complete E2E automation by eliminating several manual
touch points. The various PoCs that we did and our learnings were
presented during the Paris F2F meet. Please refer to the presentation at the following location –

ONAP – Road to Complete Automation

I have been leading contributions by Tech Mahindra in the
following focus areas –
K8s multi-cloud plug-in for CNF support, SO and CDS integration
for VF and VNF lifecycle operations and VES mapper in the DCAE
framework.

For detailed contributions by Tech Mahindra in the last year,
please refer to below bitergia link –

https://onap.biterg.io/goto/1710ebeea97dd6287231fefb412d775a

For the upcoming year, me and my team shall focus and complement the ONAP community efforts in the areas of edge orchestration, automations in the VNF / CNF instantiations and related LCM, BSS E2E  automation for service order and the extending ONAP to perform dynamic service creation for realizing 5G network slicing use cases.

Looking forward for your support!

My bitergia stats –

https://onap.biterg.io/goto/d55e5f88ed13833d93166cfa1910a1f1

Thanks!