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: Jun 23, 2023 to Jul 14, 2023 to account for the holiday.

Information on Candidates

When self-nominating, please provide the following:

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Committer / ACM seat designation

Statement of Intent

@Anil Belur

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Biography

Anil has been an integral part of the OpenDaylight project since 2016, actively contributing to release management and engineering tasks. As a dedicated maintainer of the LF/releng* repositories, he collaborates closely with the developer community, providing support for projects, ensuring timely releases, and maintaining project infrastructure.

Anil's journey with Linux began in the late 90s, and he kick-started his career at Novell, where he had the opportunity to contribute to Open Source, specifically with MIT Kerberos. Over the years, he has gained extensive experience in various domains, including Security & Identity Management, Networking, Storage/File Systems, Systems/DevOps, and Release Engineering. His expertise has been honed through valuable experiences at firms like Goldman Sachs, HP, and Redhat.

Anil's passion for learning and experimentation drives him to explore new technologies continually. He has a particular interest in Open Source Software, security, and deep learning, making him a versatile and valuable asset to any team.

Committer / ACM seat designation

Either

Statement of Intent

• The primary objective is to migrate the existing CI / CSIT freestyle jobs to Github Actions.

• The focus is on enhancing processes and workflows within OpenDaylight, and promoting the sharing of best practices across LF projects.

• The goal is to optimize ODL's CI infrastructure, ensuring improved CI/job performance with a strong emphasis on quality, metrics, and minimal downtime.

• The aim is to maintain timely OpenDaylight Simultaneous Releases.

• A key role is to support new developers in contributing to ODL by automating the infrastructure.

• The objective is to enhance documentation to benefit the larger developer community.

@Ivan Hrasko

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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 (mostly) first-time 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.

During the last year he has become to be a netconf committer and has successfully helped netconf incomers to be productive in nectonf 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

@Venkatrangan Govindarajan (gvrangan)

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I have been involved with Opendaylight, since the "Hydrogen" release. I have worked extensively with the int/Test and Builder projects. I had been involved with VTN, BGPCEP, Netconf, ODLMicro, ODL NIC and so on. 

I have also worked on many customer deployments with ODL as part of my employment with Lumina Networks and HCL Technologies. I am currently involved in a couple of projects that use ODL NEtconf for various use-cases.

I also frequently work with academic projects to use ODL for various new use-cases.

Committer / ACM seat designation

Committer

Statement of Intent

• Participation in activities that can help in deploying ODL features as container.

• Work on new SDN use-cases for ODL.

• Work on maintaining existing 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

- get involved in other community projects, may be in the integration/distribution project in order to better understand and develop skills in this area

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

@manoj chokka 

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I have been working in Verizon since 2019 in the SDN planning department.

We have been working on enabling Verizon's network to migrate to SDN enabled networks. 

Committer / ACM seat designation

ACM seat

Statement of Intent

• There are a lot of problems that need to be sorted out. Some of which can be sorted by aligning ODL to latest deployment methodologies.

• I intend to help ODL be adopted by more and more companies. 

• I also intend help the community grow in terms of participation and contribution.