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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Statement of Intent
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:
- Improved usability & consumability of OpenDaylight
- Improved user as well as developer level documentation
- Focus by the TSC to improve the ease of new developer / user on-boarding
- API stability across releases and supporting design practices
- Maintain good release cycles and processes for the ODL simultaneous releases
- Apply his experiences as the OpenFlow Plugin project lead to facilitate discussions on how to introduce & handle major design changes in key projects with multiple dependencie
Faseela K
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Faseela is a current member of the OpenDaylight TSC, and a Platform Development Engineer at Cisco DNA Center.
Prior to Cisco, Faseela worked as Senior Technical Lead in the SDN Controller group at Ericsson R&D, and was an active participant of Ericsson contributions to the OpenDaylight community. Faseela joined OpenDaylight Community in 2014 and has been actively contributing to several of the projects since then.
Faseela started her journey in OpenDaylight with the vpnservice project, which further got split into GENIUS and Netvirt, where she eventually took up the responsibility of the PTL role for GENIUS and later Netvirt. Currently she is the PTL for two infra projects in ODL, ServiceUtils and InfraUtils. She is also an active contributor and committer at several other OpenDaylight projects. Faseela always tries to improve the quality of the services provided by ODL for all applications, and tries to improve the overall delivery of the project by giving constant support to the problems faced by users. Faseela is a mentor at the LFN Internships, also she coaches a lot of new comers including students to get started on OpenDaylight.
Faseela has been a speaker on various SDN, OpenFlow, Containers related topics at forums including OpenNetworkingSummit, MPLS & SDN World Congress, Opendaylight Summit, ODL Forum, OpenSource Summit etc. She has also successfully conducted several workshops based on OpenDaylight at GraceHopper Conference, ODL Forum India etc, with the aim of getting more traction for OpenDaylight among Networking Companies. She has also been visiting universities in India to give presentations on OpenDaylight and inform students about the various opportunities they have in OpenDaylight including internship opportunities.
Projects
- PTL: ServiceUtils, InfraUtils
- Committer COE, ODLTools, GENIUS, Netvirt, releng/builder and integration/test
- Ansible Roles Committer at LinuxFoundation IT
- Mentor at LF Networking Internships
Statement of Intent
- Drive better coordination between service/protocol projects and app projects, also improve the coordination with kernel projects integration
- Encourage more female contributors to OpenDaylight, as part of the “Women in Opensource” initiative of Linux Foundation.
- Improve the visibility of OpenDaylight among students of Indian Universities, and encourage more participation in LFN Internship Programme
- Continue to Drive successful delivery of the various OpenDaylight projects, with quality.
- Improve OpenDaylight Documentation