2025 OpenDaylight TSC Election
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 Nov 6, 2025 to Nov 20, 2025
Information on Candidates
When self-nominating, please provide the following:
@Candidate Name
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Biography
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.
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.
His activity consists not only of code contributions but also of code reviews for other ODL contributors.
As an netconf committer has successfully helped netconf incomers to become productive in the project.
Recently, he has helped to drive efforts such as subscribed notifications, ROBOT framework to PyTest migration, SSH configuration, implementing new integration tests and keeping ODL codebase up-to-date and secure.
It also worth to mention Ivan’s work on ODL’s docs project to reflect and highlight recent OpenDaylight releases and achievements.
Committer / ACM seat designation
Committer
Statement of Intent
Help to drive technical evolution of the ODL platform
Bring ODL users' desired use-cases to life
@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 project also constituted his very first experiences of development and participation in an open-source 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.
As the maintainer of TransportPCE, he ensures that the codebase keep updated while integrating new business functionalities.
Committer / ACM seat designation
Committer
Statement of Intent
promote the use of ODL for network management applications within Orange and in the operator ecosystem
@David Arjona
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Since July, 2023, David has been contributing and maintaining code that is bringing back the l2switch project to OpenDaylight's main distribution.
He has also written a beginner's guide on how to start using ODL with Mininet, which is freely available at the following page:
https://repositorioinstitucional.uaslp.mx/xmlui/handle/i/8772
Committer / ACM seat designation
ACM seat designation
Statement of Intent
Encourage academics and engineers to learn how to use OpenDaylight and eventually join as contributors to this project.
Contribute to the analysis of OpenDaylight's current functionality and performance as an SDN controller.
@Venkatrangan Govindarajan
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Been a contributor to Opendaylight since Hydrogen release.
Played various roles Committers, TSC Member.
Worked in Organizations that shipped ODL to customers.
Committer / ACM seat designation
Committer
Statement of Intent
Looking to work on new use-cases and possible new deployment scenarios especially in containerized environments.
@Anil Belur
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Anil has nearly three decades of Open Source and enterprise infrastructure experience. Since joining OpenDaylight in 2016, he has managed 15+ releases and maintains critical LF/releng* repositories and infrastructure. His career spans Novell, Goldman Sachs, HP, and Red Hat, giving him deep expertise in systems, security, DevOps, AI and release engineering. For the TSC, Anil brings a grounded voice that connects operational reality to strategic direction.
Committer / ACM seat designation
Either
Statement of Intent
Modernizing ODL's infrastructure for contributor growth:
CI/CD Modernization and Optimization: Migrate Jenkins to GitHub Actions, reliable builds, and AI integration.
Release Excellence: Streamline processes and establish predictable release cycles, ensuring timely OpenDaylight releases.
Developer Support: Improve documentation and mentorship to accelerate contributor onboarding.
Community Engagement: Improving documentation and sharing knowledge and best practices.
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 a committer of a wide range of projects — odlparent, yangtools, mdsal, bgpcep, controller, aaa, netconf, openflowplugin and infrautils .
His contributions tend to center around maven build system, overall architecture and high-level design (BGP, PCEP, OpenFlow Boron design), 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 continued development of Kernel project
reduce reliance on Karaf
improvements to YANG Tools, Distributed Datastore and NETCONF/RESTCONF use cases
Drive switchover to the Tip-and-Tail release model
@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.