2019 Community Coordinator Election Candidates

Evil Galactic Overlord Industries

I like to serve as an example to others.

I have been with AT&T for more than 33 years, supporting OSS architecture work. I have been working with AT&T 5G Network Architects, Vendors, and external communities to define Management Architecture for 5G network including slicing for more than two years.  I actively participated with X-RAN and contributed in defining O-RAN network and management architecture.  I continue to actively participate in various O-RAN working groups, defining management and RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller) architecture.

I was the lead architect of AT&T ECOMP and have been active participation in ONAP architecture and use-case subcommittee. I worked with community members proposed 5G use in Beijing release and continue to lead that group.

I would like to coordinate and lead 5G work within ONAP by actively working with external communities such as O-RAN, 3GPP, and other committees with ONAP (Modeling, Security, etc.)

ramki krishnan

I have 20+ years of product strategy and architecture experience in Enterprise, Cloud & Telecom industry and in the last few years pioneered the Telco NFV movement chairing the NFV Research Group at IETF. I am currently at VMware where I lead ONAP strategy/architecture and Cloud Native/Edge technology strategy/architecture. I have a deep understanding of various technologies and I drove a differentiated SDN product initiative winning the ONS 2014 SDN Idol award for Brocade. I am a recognized innovator with 19 US patents, 8 IEEE conference papers with a best paper award.

I have been deeply involved in ONAP since its inception with key contributions in the following areas. First, Architecture, Use Cases and Functional Requirements for Cloud and Edge Computing. Next, external open source project representation for Edge Computing. Last, committer for OOF project.

Currently, I am leading the Edge Computing efforts in ONAP which includes working with ONAP subcommittees such as Use Case, Architecture and external open source projects such as Akraino etc. (Links: https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Edge+Automation+through+ONAP; https://wiki.onap.org/display/DW/Edge+Automation+through+ONAP+Arch.+Task+Force+-+Distributed+Management+%28ONAP+etc.%29+components). I would like to continue to coordinate and lead Edge Computing work within ONAP by actively working with external open source & standards initiatives such as LF Edge (Akraino etc.), ETSI MEC, Kubernetes IoT/Edge WG etc. and other committees within ONAP such as Architecture, Modelling, Use Case, Security etc.

I have worked in telco research, development and standards space over 20+ years. I have been involved in SDN and NFV space from the early days of their inception with the emphasis on network infrastructure cloudification and on providing network as a service capability in the mobile carrier space. I have also worked heavily on data-driven network management and optimization. I accumulated unique perspectives from my current and past employments on the vendor side (Huawei, Argela), carrier side (NTT DOCOMO) and academic side (Ozyegin University, The University of Maryland, The George Washington University).  

On the open source side, I have been an active participant in telco focused open source activities.  I am quite familiar with the community, processes and activities in LFN projects, particularly of ONAP and OPNFV projects. I have been involved in ONAP specifically on the 5G use case activities since early 2018. I have been leading the discussions on PNF software management with feature contributions to Casablanca and Dublin releases. I served as PTL for the OPNFV Domino project that focused on template distribution and translation services for network service and VNF descriptors. On the standards side, I work very closely with team members who are major contributors to 3GPP, IETF, ETSI and IEEE standards.

I have a track record of over 65 IEEE and ACM publications (with 2 best paper awards), 17 issued US Patents, 2 books and a book chapter on communication networks, cloud computing/storage and distributed systems. I served in organizing committees and technical program committees in flagship IEEE and ACM conferences including IEEE Infocom, IEEE NFV-SDN, IEEE ICC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE Globecom, ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, ACM Mobisys. I served in project review panels for NSF GENI. I am an area editor for Elsevier COMNET. I served as reviewer for various IEEE transactions and journals numerous times. I am a senior member of IEEE.