This election and nomination process is limited to those individuals who have committer rights on one or more OpenDaylight Projects. Any OpenDaylight Committer can nominate themselves, run for election, and vote in the election for the Committer-At-Large seats on the TSC. Details on the election process may be found here.
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Abhijit K
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Biography
Abhijit is the current TSC Chair for OpenDaylight. As the OpenDaylight TSC Chair, he has presented OpenDaylight at various conferences including ONS, North America, ONS Europe and Linux Foundation's OSN Networking Day in the Bay Area. He was the project lead for the OpenDaylight OpenFlow plugin project since its inception till the start of the Oxygen release as well as a committer on the TTP project. He was elected to the TSC in both the 2016 and the 2017 committer-at-large TSC elections. During the 2017 TSC term - he came up with and evangelized the idea of calendar based ODL release schedules which is now being implemented in Oxygen and beyond. He is technical lead for Ericsson OpenDaylight efforts and works in the Technology department for Ericsson's Cloud unit. In the past he had been an active member of the Forwarding Abstractions Workgroup (FAWG) at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and has contributed to and evangelized the main example table type pattern at the FAWG meetings/ONF member workdays. He has around 20 years of experience in networking software development as well as leading teams toward successful outcomes. Prior to joining Ericsson he led a 100+ person software development team at Blade Network Technologies into a successful integration into IBM via acquisition. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.
Statement of Intent
As a member of the TSC, Abhijit is intending to drive the following issues:
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- Continue to Work on delivery of different projects
- Add more use cases involving multiple projects in test jobs and help improve quality
- Participate with various other communities and help plan the integration with Opendaylight
- Help improve overall documentation
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Biography
Tejas Nevrekar is a Principal Engineer/Manager at Lumina Networks. He has been working on the OpenDaylight controller and applications since its inception - first from IBM and later as a part of Nuviso Networks Inc where he was a Principal Architect for the product portfolio. Prior to this he has spent more than a decade on development/architecture of service assurance and service provisioning for Tier-1/2 service providers from Infosys and Centina Systems (recently acquired by Ciena).
Tejas started working in the first AD-SAL based ODL for a flow management service in IBM's OpenFlow SDN controller based on Hydrogen. He also developed the service chaining feature including integration with IBM's Dove controller. During his work at Nuviso, he developed a traffic engineering application for OpenFlow to be deployed in clustered mode. Thereafter he moved to doing more non-ODL projects for Nuviso mostly on Spring and the Nefflix OSS microservice platform. These were a NFV orchestration and a common device abstraction platform compliant to ETSI NFV architecture & interface specifications. In Lumina, Tejas has been working on multiple projects in the area of Software Defined Core (SD-Core) that enables programmable traffic engineering for packet and openflow networks. He also has a keen interest in making ODL work in more micro-service and scale-out infrastructure like kubernetes. In the past few months he has been actively trying to expand ODL Simple to other southbound protocols and applications in ODL in an attempt to make it more nimble to deploy.
Tejas has participated/spoken in multiple industry events like the TMForum Digital World, TMForum Catalyst, Cisco Live, Open Networking Summit, Open Source Summit, OpenDaylight Summit, OpenDaylight Forums.
Projects
- Shadow PTL: NETCONF
- Committer Plastic
Statement of Intent
- Contribute to enabling micro service roadmap for ODL
- Improve the developer experience with ODL. I find information is often hard to find and sometimes not presented in a way that is directly usable.