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Anil has been serving the OpenDaylight project since 2016 (since the Boron SR2 release), with release management and engineering activities, and is an active maintainer of the LF/releng* repositories. He 's works closely with the developer community supporting projects, performs timely releases, and maintains the infrastructure for the project. During the late 90's 90s he began his journey learning Linux, and started his career with Novell, and got an opportunity to contribute to Open Source (MIT Kerberos). He's has worked in the areas of Security & Identity Management, Networking, Storage/File Systems, Devops Systems/DevOps and Release engineering with firms like Goldman Sachs, HP, and Redhat. He is always inclined to experiment and learn new technologies and has a keen interest on the developments in OSS, security, and deep learning.
Committer / ACM seat designation
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* Migrate existing CI jobs from Jenkins freestyle jobs to Jenkins pipelines.
* In the past The previous year, I have led the work on containerize containerizing ODL using docker/K8S pods/clusters. This gives an opportunity for new developers to deploy/test ODL as a container. There are more use-cases that could be added and with potential for migrating CSIT jobs to start using ODL on K8S environment.
* Improve processes and workflows within OpenDaylight, ensuring best practices are shared across LF projects.
* Optimize ODL's CI infrastructure to improve CI/job performance with a focus on quality, metrics and minimize downtime.
* Continue making OpenDaylight Simultaneous Releases in a timely manner.
* Facilitate new developers to contribute to ODL and automate the infrastructure.
* Improve documentation that would benefit the larger developer community.
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