This election and nomination process is for those individuals who have committer rights on one or more OpenDaylight Projects and Active Community Members (ACM). All OpenDaylight Committers and ACMs can nominate themselves, run for election, and vote in the election for the Committer-At-Large seats on the TSC. 

• A Committer is a contributor that has the authority and responsibility to submit changes to an OpenDaylight software repository.

  • 5 seats

• Active Community Members: Anyone from the OpenDaylight community with twenty (20) or more measurable contributions during the previous 12-month period, inclusive of code merged, code reviews performed, wiki page edits, or JIRA activities.

  • 2 seats

Details on the election process may be found here.

Dates to Remember

Nomination Period: will run from Jul 25, 2024  to Aug 15, 2024 

Information on Candidates

When self-nominating, please provide the following:

@Candidate Name

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Committer / ACM seat designation

Statement of Intent

@Ivan Hrasko

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Biography

Ivan has been involved in OpenDaylight since 2016. He has contributed to several projects including: netconf, controller, yangtools, mdsal, sxp, docs, integration/test. Currently the majority of his contributions are targeted to netconf project. In addition he is also interested in yangtools and mdsal.

His activity consists not only of code contributions but also of code reviews for other ODL contributors.

Ivan has been the project lead of the former self-managed SXP project in 2018 and 2019 and had successfully integrated it with Fluorine ODL release.

As an netconf committer has successfully helped netconf incomers to be productive in the project.

Committer / ACM seat designation

both

Statement of Intent

Help to maintain ODL codebase

Help incomers to get oriented in ODL (code reviews, etc.)

Help to drive technical evolution of the ODL platform

@Robert Varga

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Robert has been involved in OpenDaylight from its start, having co-authored the MD-SAL architecture and designing major portions of its implementation.

He is the overall top contributor on OpenDaylight and has contributed ~16% of all patches merged, touching majority of projects. He is a committer of a wide range of projects — odlparent, yangtools, mdsal, bgpcep, controller, aaa, netconf, vbd, infrautils and coretutorials.

His contributions tend to center around maven build system, overall architecture and high-level design (BGP, PCEP, OpenFlow Boron design, Virtual Bridge Domain), performance/stability-critical pieces of infrastructure and high availability.

His current focus is platform core use cases and related development.

Committer / ACM seat designation

Committer

Statement of Intent

• Drive technical evolution of the OpenDaylight platform

• Make more progress on trimming down autorelease

@Venkatrangan Govindarajan 

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Biography

• Have been involed in Opendaylight community since the Hydrogen release

• Worked on various projects like Int/Test, Releng/Builder, VTN, Openflow, ovsdb, Netvirt, SFC, NIC, BGPCEP anf Netconf

• Focus has always been to serve more customer use-cases using Opendaylight and Promoting it.

Committer / ACM seat designation

Both

Statement of Intent

• Be more involved in use-case documentation

• Try to work on more container based ODL deployments.

@Anil Belur

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Anil is a seasoned Open Source contributor with a deep-rooted passion for technology and innovation. His journey began in the late 90s with Linux, and he has since amassed a wealth of experience in diverse domains, including Security & Identity Management, Networking, Storage/File Systems, Systems/DevOps, and Release Engineering.

Since joining the OpenDaylight project in 2016, Anil has been a cornerstone of the release management and engineering teams. As a dedicated maintainer of the LF/releng* repositories, he has fostered a strong working relationship with the developer community, ensuring timely releases, maintaining project infrastructure, and providing essential support.

Anil’s career trajectory includes significant roles at industry leaders such as Novell, Goldman Sachs, HP, and Red Hat, where he honed his skills and gained invaluable insights. His continuous pursuit of knowledge and experimentation in areas like Open Source Software, security, and AI make him a versatile and adaptable asset to any team.

Committer / ACM seat designation

Either

Statement of Intent

• Streamlining Contributions: Architecting a seamless workflow integration between GitHub and Gerrit to facilitate contributions from the GitHub community.

• Modernizing CI/CD: Migrating existing Jenkins jobs to GitHub Actions to improve efficiency and reliability.

• Process Optimization: Enhancing project workflows and promoting best practices across the larger LF ecosystem.

• CI Infrastructure Optimization: Improving CI/job performance, emphasizing quality, metrics, and minimal downtime.

• Release Management: Ensuring timely OpenDaylight releases.

• Developer Support: Encouraging new contributors and providing the necessary resources.

• Community Engagement: Improving documentation and knowledge sharing.

@Daniel De La Rosa 

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• Daniel has been involved in Opendaylight community since the Hydrogen release, while doing technical demonstrations for Brocade customers. 

• Opendaylight Release manager since Sodium, Feb 2019

• Focus has always been on managing project deadlines, schedules, communications and collaborate with the whole community.

Committer / ACM seat designation

Active Community Member

Statement of Intent

I plan to continue to collaborate with whole opendaylight community on maintaining release schedule on time, improve collaboration with other projects and promote the expansion of opendaylight use cases with new features. 

@Gilles Thouenon

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Gilles has always worked on optical transmission and transport networks at Orange, occupying different jobs and working on different technologies (SDH, WDM, Ethernet, IP/MPLS, Network architecture optimization) before evolving towards the development. Gilles has been involved in OpenDaylight through his contributions to the TransportPCE project since the beginning of this project (2017). His contributions to TransportPCE are his early experiences in development, as well as with the development of an opensource project.

Gilles is currently the PTL of the TransportPCE project and also its associated dedicated model project (transportpce-models'), and therefore the majority of his contributions are related to these projects.

He managed the integration of TransportPCE as a "managed project" from ODL's Chlorine distribution.

Committer / ACM seat designation

Committer

Statement of Intent

- promote the use of ODL for network management applications within Orange and in the operator ecosystem