Anvith KS

System Architect, Huawei Technologies,
Maintainer, SODA Foundation Projects

Anvith KS is a system architect, community builder, Quizzer, Baker, Dancer, photographer, MC and an open source champion. Having worked as a full stack developer for most of his 10 year career, he now works on the SODA Foundation projects(A sub foundation of the Linux Foundation). He is currently working on the Frontend dashboard, website, blog and the documentation site for SODA Foundation core projects.
In the past he has contributed to the Kubernetes projects documentation, KubeEdge project (CNCF sandboxed) website and documentation, Apache ServiceComb Transaction Management project.
He has also been a community manager for Google Developers Group Belgaum, Bengaluru WordPress, the official WordPress meetup in Bangalore and currently volunteers with the local GDG chapters in Bangalore.
When not at work you’ll find him either quizzing, hosting quizzes, cooking, baking or photographing all of the above.

Steven Tan

VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei

Chair, SODA Foundation Governing Board

Steven Tan is VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei where he is responsible for open source strategy and collaboration. Steven brought together leaders across industries, and founded the SODA Foundation which he currently serves as chair. SODA Foundation is a transformation of the Linux Foundation OpenSDS project which he initiated previously. Steven’s career brought him across Singapore, US, China and Taiwan, and includes roles as founder and CTO at Cloudena, VP Engineering at ProphetStor, and VP Engineering and Technology at CipherMax. Steven is an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore.

Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam

Principal Engineer and Chief SDS Architect, Intel’s Data Center Group
Member, SODA Foundation Governing Board.

Anjaneya “Reddy” Chagam is a Senior Principal Engineer and Lead Cloud Storage Architect in Intel’s Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Group. He is responsible for developing software-defined storage strategy, architecture, and technology initiatives. He was a member of the Technical Steering Committee for the OpenSDS Project and he represents Intel on the Ceph board. He is a Chief Architect responsible for delivering software optimizations in Ceph via Intel upstream contributions. He is a regular speaker at major industry conferences, including Storage Developer Conference, OpenStack, CloudNativeCon and Red Hat Summit, has published several white papers on flash-optimized storage solutions. He earned an MS in computer science from Arizona State University.

Yoshiya Eto

Principal Architect at Fujitsu and a Linux Foundation Fellow
Advisor, SODA Foundation Governing Board.

Yoshiya Eto is a Principal Architect at Fujitsu and a Linux Foundation Fellow. He also served as Fujitsu’s representative to The Linux Foundation Board of Directors.
He has been involved in operating systems at the company, including development and management of Fujitsu’s proprietary operating systems and Linux. For more than 10 years, he led Linux community engineers in Fujitsu in working with the Linux community. Under his leadership, his team was one of the largest contributors to the Linux kernel and continuously contributed patches to improve features and the stability of Linux for enterprise use.

Yuji Yazawa

Principal Engineer / Group Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation
Vice-chair, SODA Foundation Governing Board.

Responsible for researching & designing hybrid cloud infrastructure (including datacenter itself, cooling mechanism as well) which is dedicated for Connected vehicle & Autonomous vehicle.

Zhong Xin

CTO, China Unicom Cloud Data Company
Treasurer, SODA Foundation Governing Board.

Zhong Xin got his Masters Degree from Tsinghua University in 2003. He has nearly 20 years of open source related experience. He is an expert in Linux OS, distributed storage and cloud computing. He has been involved in development and operation of several large-scale internet and enterprise cloud platform as technical director or chief architect.Currently, he is the CTO of Wo Cloud for China Unicom. He is in charge of the development team with nearly 200 engineers who are working for public cloud, private cloud and multi-cloud management products.

Dr Zia Saquib

Senior Vice President- Technology Innovation & Development at Reliance Jio

I worked for Centre for Development of Advanced Computing as Executive Director.

In the last several years I have worked in areas of Cyber Security (specifically of SCADA systems), Adaptive Signal Processing, Machine Learning and its applications. For the last 3 years, I have ventured into 3D Computer Vision with applications in Face Authentication, Visual Perception in Autonomous Vehicles and SLAM.

Ryan Lian

Director of Product Management Team

15+ years IT\Cloud\Server\Storage industry experience, he has an intercultural communication capability, mainly was engaged in product strategy planning, business mode design, product and solution go to marketing and technical consulting.

Lawrence Lai

Head of Global Alliances and Business Development for Storage, Futurewei

Chair of Outreach Committee, Soda Foundation.

He is a business development professional with many years of experience in business development, alliance partnership building and management. He has extensive experience in cloud storage, mobile and embedded software development, project management.

He is highly recommended by executives as dependable, with can-do attitude, excellent technical and business skill, and proven record of success.

Tathagat Varma(Moderator)

Head, Technology Strategy & Business Operations, and Chief of Staff at Walmart Global Tech India

✪ Software executive, product leader, technology strategist and innovation evangelist with over 29+ years experience building organizations ground-up and shipping multiple “1.0” products (revenue impact over several US$$ Billion+) with American, European and Chinese Fortune 1-500 companies and Silicon Valley unicorns. Currently heading Technology Strategy and Business Operations at Walmart Global Tech, and additionally playing role of Chief of Staff.

✪ Played significant technical and leadership roles in establishing and growing organizations, including Country Head / Head of Business Operations / GM (NerdWallet, ChinaSoft, Yahoo!, NetScout, Network General), VP for Strategic Process Innovations (24[7] Innovation Labs), Director of Engineering / Group Head (McAfee, Huawei), Product Management (Network General, Huawei, Philips), Software Architect / Tech Lead (Philips, Siemens), Computer Scientist (DRDO) and Process Coach / Agile Transformation Leader (Yahoo!, NetScout, Huawei and Philips), and my own solopreneurial gig as a strategy and management consultant during 2014-17.

✪ Well-rounded professional with M.Sc (Computer Science); B. Sc (Statistics); Exec MBA in (Human Resources); Certificates in Business Leadership, Executive Leadership and Financial Management from Cornell University; Digital Business Strategies from Columbia Business School; and Post-Graduate Diploma in Innovation and Design Thinking offered by MIT Sloan, Columbia Business School Executive Education Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Currently pursuing PhD from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

✪ Highly sought-after public speaker, accomplished thought leader, agile transformation leader, published author and startup mentor and have trained over 5000+ professionals, published 1000+ blogs and articles, delivered 500+ public talks and conference papers, mentored over 100+ startups, and published a book (“Agile Product Development”, 2015). Also delivered two TEDx talks.

✪ Possess advanced certifications in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Program Consultant 4.5, CSP, CSM, CSPO, PMP, PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner and Management 3.0

Shane Wang

Engineering Director, Cloud Infrastructure Software at Intel
Individual Director of Open Infrastructure Foundation Board.
Vice Chair of Outreach Committee, Soda Foundation.

Shane has been participating in or leading the team to develop on Xen, tboot, Yocto, OpenStack and many others. Currently, he and his team are actively focusing on cloud computing, edge computing, networking and storage, cloud native, covering OpenStack, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Ceph, Akraino, ONAP, OPNFV, etc. The team has established a good cooperative relationship with the industry over the years and plays a leadership role in open source cloud software.

Wei Luo

Director, Data Management Dept.

He has worked for Huawei storage more than 12 years, proficient in storage product and solution, rich experience in storage management and O&M.

Ravi Sudhakar Kambhampati

Director , Azure Product Management, Microsoft Corp (I) ltd.

Ravi has been associated with customers & partners in their digital success through technology for over 19 years. He has spectrum of experiences in product management, business development, sales, delivery, consulting, product engineering & support across diverse industry verticals such as financial services, transportation, telecom, IT services.
As part of his charter, Ravi leads the Azure Cloud business group. A key solution area where he is responsible for promoting, long range planning, positioning of Microsoft Azure cloud platform, Microsoft data services, analytics and intelligence solutions across customers, partners in India.
Ravi has graduated with a Bachelor of Computer science and Engineering from Amravati University and has general management credentials from IIMB. Prior to Microsoft, Ravi has been with Tata Consultancy Services.

Ichiro Shimada

Senior manager of business planning, Optical Disc Archive Business Dept., CPBS, Sony Imaging Products & Slutions Inc.

Studied computer science at the university. My business career start from software engineering mainly for media & entertainment industry, and then experienced storage system engineering and management for a long time.
Recent 10 years, I changed my career from engineering side to marketing/business side, and have been experiencing product planning, solution planning and business development of storage industry.
During Sony’s career, I went to master course of MBA and got MBA title in 2011.

Ashit Kumar

Lead Architect (Huawei technologies), Maintainer SODA Foundation Projects
SODA Foundation India OC member

Ashit Kumar is Senior System Architect at Huawei with over 13 years of experience. He has done his Post Graduation from Computer Science Department, Pune University (PUCSD). He currently works on Linux Foundation project, OpenSDS. Before joining Huawei, Ashit worked with Veritas Technologies, where he has worked on developing products in multiple domains such as SRM, DRaaS and Replication.

Najmudheen CT

Architect (Huawei technologies), Maintainer SODA Foundation Projects

Najmudheen is currently working as Senior System Architect at Huawei. He has 12+ years of industry experience. He has done his Masters from BITS Pilani. He currently works on Linux Foundation project, OpenSDS. Prior to Huawei he has worked with DELL EMC for around 9 years on SRM products.

Noel McLoughlin

SRE, GBE Technologies, Ireland

Noel McLoughlin is an accomplished computer systems engineer. His career spans roles in R&D/Telecom management R&D, Production Engineering, and Financial Services – previous employers include Credit Suisse, Oracle, Ericsson, Overstock, GBET. In the Storage domain, Noel was Technical Lead for a Telecoms O&M Backup and Restore Solution from 2005-2010 and involved in Storage management solutions in the past decade. Noel is an Open Source Enthusiast contributing to the SODA foundation and Saltstack Formulas. He is a specialist in Infrastructure as Code, Storage management, and IoT/Edge use cases. Noel is currently Lead SRE at GBE Technologies.

Saurabh Gupta

Click2Cloud

3+ year of experience in IT industry ,Currently working on Cold storage module also worked on Object Migration and other features in Storage Domain of cloud provider(AWS ,Azure ,Alibaba) technologies used {Golang, postgres ,Mongo dB , GORM, microservices, git, GitHub, docker and K8s} knowledge of other technologies like (Java ,Spring ,Hibernate).Also Cloud Certified(HCIA)

Sushantha Kumar

SODA Maintainer

Sushantha Kumar is a System Engineer at Huawei Technologies India, contributing towards various SODA foundation projects which focuses on storage integration challenges with heterogeneous storage platforms. He has worked on several projects at PaaS layer. He has good exposure towards kubernetes, CNI, Helm and few other CNCF projects. He is the Maintainer of an opensource project “CNI-Genie”. Prior to working on PaaS technologies, he has worked on several user access protocols such as snmp, ssh, telnet etc.

Mohammad Asif Siddiqui

SODA Maintainer

Mohammad Asif Siddiqui is System Engineer at Huawei Technologies. has over 6+ years of experience in Cloud and MicroServices Domain. He has been working on developing ServiceMesh and Kubernetes Native systems for HPC workloads. His focus area lies on servicemesh, resource management, resource scheduling and microservices for distributed system and hybrid cloud solutions. He is one of the core member of development Team for Mesher(A ServiceMesh Implementation of Huawei). He is a member of an Apache IPMC(Incubator Project Management Committee) and a member Apache ServiceComb PMC. He is the project owner for Service-Center(Huawei Service Registry). He was the core member for ServiceComb and has helped ServiceComb project from Incubation to Graduation as a Top Level Project in ASF. Asif has worked in multiple Huawei Cloud Products like Cloud Application Engine, Cloud Container Engine, Cloud Service Engine, ServiceStage, Cloud Application Services, ROMA

Zheng Liang

Technical Architect, Intel

Zheng Liang is a technical architect involved in the architecture, design and implementation of distributed storage system. He has been in the storage software industry since 2004 and has significant experience and expertise in filesystem, network, high performance computing, and distributed system architecture.
Zheng Liang was one of the lead engineers of Lustre distributed filesystem, he is currently the technical architect of Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage(DAOS). DAOS is an open-source software-defined object store designed from the ground up for massively distributed Non Volatile Memory (NVM), it is the foundation of the Intel exascale storage stack.

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Fangchen Sun

Senior Engineer, China Unicom

Fangchen Sun is a senior software engineer at China Unicom Cloud Data Company, where he is responsible for designing and developing of object storage system. He has contributed to radosgw, and now he is a major contributor in YIG community, and also made a lot of contribution to SODA.

Paul Speciale

Chief Product Officer at Scality

• Over 20 years of experience in Technology Marketing & Product Management. Key member of team at four high-profile startup companies and two fortune 500 companies.
• Expert in Cloud Computing, Object Storage, NAS & file systems, data management and database technologies.
• End-to-end Product Management and Marketing experience from conception to commercial delivery and revenue.
• Experience in several rounds of venture fund raising and development of go-to-market strategies.
• Strong communication skills from board level to developer level. Comfortable presenting to business and technical audiences.
• Identification & evaluation of new technologies, markets and market strategies.
• Product launch and marketing plan development and execution experience.

Nicolas Trangez

Principal Architect at Scality

Passionate about software, huge interests in general IT, and (if time permits) interested in about everything there is to know: history, politics, music, general culture,…

Trust, team play, high quality and community spirit are key capabilities in any working environment.

Specialties: Software development, research, design

Xiaocui Lee

Senior Software Engineer, NetEase Digitalsail

Xiaocui Lee is a senior software engineer at Netease Digitalsail, which is providing basic software and service for enterprise-digitalization. She has years of experience in distributed storage system research and development, participated in the construction of Netease File System and Curve design and development, and now responsible for the development and operation of Curve, committed to providing high availability, high performance and low cost data storage services.

Yusuke Sato

Engineer, Yahoo! JAPAN

Yusuke Sato is responsible for private cloud compute and storage at Yahoo Japan Corporation. He has been engaged mainly in verification of server hardware, operation of storage systems, and establishment and operation of virtual environments. He led the server and OS team from 2013 to 2016, and started leading the storage team for private cloud environment in April 2017. Yusuke Sato graduated from Kyushu Institute of Technology with a master’s degree in Life Science and Systems Engineering and is a member of the OpenSDS End-User Advisory Committee since July 2017.

Rei Kawai

Storage Engineer, Yahoo Japan

Rei Kawai is a storage engineer at Yahoo Japan Corporation.He is in charge of designing and operating storage system.He is also a developer of in-house storage management system.

Sunil Govindan

Engineering Manager,  Cloudera

Contributing to Apache Hadoop project since 2013 as Hadoop Committer, and a member Project Management Committee (PMC). Majorly working on scheduling improvements and serving in Apache YuniKorn (incubating) for Kubernetes as PMC member & Committer.

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Anvith KS

System Architect, Huawei Technologies,
Maintainer, SODA Foundation Projects

Anvith KS is a system architect, community builder, Quizzer, Baker, Dancer, photographer, MC and an open source champion. Having worked as a full stack developer for most of his 10 year career, he now works on the SODA Foundation projects(A sub foundation of the Linux Foundation). He is currently working on the Frontend dashboard, website, blog and the documentation site for SODA Foundation core projects.
In the past he has contributed to the Kubernetes projects documentation, KubeEdge project (CNCF sandboxed) website and documentation, Apache ServiceComb Transaction Management project.
He has also been a community manager for Google Developers Group Belgaum, Bengaluru WordPress, the official WordPress meetup in Bangalore and currently volunteers with the local GDG chapters in Bangalore.
When not at work you’ll find him either quizzing, hosting quizzes, cooking, baking or photographing all of the above.

Steven Tan

VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei

Chair, SODA Foundation Governing Board

Steven Tan is VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei where he is responsible for open source strategy and collaboration. Steven brought together leaders across industries, and founded the SODA Foundation which he currently serves as chair. SODA Foundation is a transformation of the Linux Foundation OpenSDS project which he initiated previously. Steven’s career brought him across Singapore, US, China and Taiwan, and includes roles as founder and CTO at Cloudena, VP Engineering at ProphetStor, and VP Engineering and Technology at CipherMax. Steven is an alumnus of Nanyang Technological University and National University of Singapore.

Kei Kusunoki

Innovation Center, Manager, NTT Communications
TOC Co-chair, Member Governing Board, SODA Foundation.

Kei Kusunoki has worked on the storage service/solution for telecom carrier’s cloud service since 2012. He has joined OpenSDS Project since 2018, showed the pain point of storage management from Service Provider’s perspective and proposed use-cases/demands of　Japanese end-user community.

Jin Deng

Storage Service Architect at China Mobile Cloud Capability Center

10 years experience in distributed storage products. He participated in many successful public cloud storage projects and now is leading the next generation storage service at China Mobile.

Xion Lai

 Cloud Platform R&D Department, General Manager
China Construction Bank Fintech

Xion Lai is currently responsible for the construction of Cloud PaaS in China Construction Bank, which focused on cloud native components, cloud database and edge computing. He leads his team towards the objective of building financial-qualified technology base, and pushing CCB business’s cloud implementation.

Yousheng Wang

Director of Huawei Open Source Developer Dept.

He has worked in multiple fields of Huawei and is now responsible for building the open source strategy management system, managing the company’s open source strategy, and developing developers. He has led the product and solution cooperation, investment, M&A, and other businesses in the network domain.

Richelle Ahlvers

STORAGE MANAGEMENT ARCHITECT, INTEL CORPORATION

BOARD ADVISOR, SNIA

Richelle has spent over 25 years in Enterprise Storage R&D teams in a variety of technical roles, leading the architecture, design and development of storage array software, storage management software user experience projects including mobility, developing new storage industry categories including SAN management, storage grid and cloud, and storage technology portfolio solutions.
Richelle has been engaged with industry standards initiatives with SNIA and DMTF for many years. She served as the SNIA Technical Council Chair and has been engaged across a breadth of technologies ranging from storage management, to solid state storage, cloud, and green storage. She is on the SNIA Board of Directors and leads the SSM Technical Work Group developing the Swordfish Scalable Storage Management API.

Cheryl Hung

VP Ecosystem, CNCF

Cheryl is the VP Ecosystem at the CNCF. Her mission is to make end users successful and productive with cloud native technologies such as Kubernetes and Prometheus. In addition to being a prolific public speaker, she founded and runs the Cloud Native London meetup.

Previously Cheryl led product management and the DevOps engineering team at a container storage startup. As a software engineer at Google, she wrote backend and search infrastructure for Maps. She holds an MA in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge.

Chengappa M.R

NFV R&D & IEEESM, HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE

Chengappa is associated with HP/HPE for a decade and is currently associated with Compute Business Group, catering to the requirements and solutions for telco on NFV Infrastructure. From an early career as an intern software engineer, his current focus areas have moved him into defining, building, and delivering NFV-based telco solutions bringing together technologies that form building blocks integrating Cloud-native applications / VNFs on NFVi platforms. Being IEEE Senior member, he also plays a key role in being part of IEEE Bangalore Section initiatives around Industry engagement, Professional Activities.

Sanil Kumar D

Chief Architect, TOC, ArchWG Lead, SODA Foundation

Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd

Sanil has over 20 years of Industry experience in Linux, Open Source, ARM Ecosystem, Cloud and Emerging Technologies(like Edge Computing, Blockchain, Distributed Computing). He holds multiple patents, published papers & presented sessions and keynotes in international conferences, was Linux Foundation Yocto Project Advisory Board member, collaborates with IEEE(Roof Computing), CCICI, blockchain groups, Organizer of CNCF and SODA Foundation meetup groups. He is an awardee of Zinnov Senior Technical Role Model in 2020 . Keen to work with developers and enable their careers through open source. Currently focusing on Ecosystem, Technology Roadmap for SODA Foundation on Data Management Domain

Jean-François Marie

SNIA EMEA, Board of Directors
Chief Solutions Architect – Datacenter Business, Kalray

Jean-François has more than 30 years of experience in the high tech industry. He started his career dealing with real time systems, before joining Sun Microsystems as a data center architect, then EMC² and finally NetApp in 2006, where he had various roles in a 13-year career. He held various roles, from Chief Technologist and Product Marketing Director for EMEA, to French Expert team manager to handle new technology introduction. He also managed global and regional accounts, alliances and partners.

Jean-François was also an active SNIA member for 10 years and French SNIA President for 2 years. He has a Masters degree in Electronics, specialized in microprocessor design and embedded systems.

On a personal note, he has been a Basket Ball player, a coach and head coach for 25 years.

Krishna Kumar M

CNCF Ambassador + Technology Architect Cloud at Accenture

Developing cloud native technology solutions for large Enterprise Customers. Vast expertise in the areas of Kubernetes, Helm, Envoy, Istio, Multi cloud, Edge Computing, Big Data on Containers. He the Secretary of Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India and Executive Member IEEE Bangalore Section Industry Relations Chair. Very active engagement with technical community and contributions. Experienced speaker in national and international conferences. Holds multiple patents and published papers.

John Bent

Chief Architect, Seagate

John Bent, Chief Architect for Seagate Government Solutions, has been working on storage systems for over 20 years. After completely his data-aware scheduling dissertation at Wisconsin in 2005, John spent the next 10 years working for Gary Grider at LANL designing, maintaining, and measuring some of the world’s largest parallel storage systems. Now at Seagate Gov, John helps design and map Seagate storage products, both hardware and systems, to emerging workloads in both Enterprise and Extreme IO.

Some of John’s more influential research has been the Parallel Log-structured File System and the DOE sponsored FastForward project prototyping an exascale storage system with Intel and The HDF Group. John is a former anthropology major who spent two years spearfishing on the equator while working as a Peace Corps volunteer.

Shashidhar Soppin

DMTS Senior Member , Wipro

Shashidhar Soppin, DMTS (Distinguished Member of Technical Staff) Senior-Member, having 20 years of experience in IT industry. Currently working in Wipro as a DMTS senior member and part of I&ES (Industrial & Engineering Services). He specializes in Advanced Storage, Virtualization, Docker, Cloud, AI-ML, Deep learning & OpenStack areas. He has several patents on his name, written papers and articles and presented in open source conferences.

Yusuf Yildiz

Solutions Architect, LinBit
Member, SODA TOC.

He aims to work for the upkeep, configuration, and reliable operation of computer systems; especially multi-user / multi-tennant cloud systems, such as servers & storage systems. He seeks to ensure that the uptime, performance, resources, and security of the systems are all well balanced. He is currently focused on Storage as a Service, Software Defined Storage, virtualization technologies, storage systems in general and also public clouds.

https://www.yusufyildiz.com.tr/

Brian Rosmaita

Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat

Brian Rosmaita is a core contributor to Cinder, Glance, and Searchlight. He’s the Cinder PTL for Wallaby (and was PTL for Victoria and Ussuri). Previously he was the Glance PTL for the Ocata, Pike, and Queens releases. He’s a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat.
Brian formerly worked as part of the now defunct OpenStack Innovation Center. For a while he was a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Verizon Wireless. He’s been an active technical contributor to OpenStack since the Folsom release and was a software developer on the Rackspace first generation cloud. He’s also spent some time in product management, where among other things, he was instrumental in the launch of Cloud Images, the Rackspace Public Cloud offering built on OpenStack Glance. He’s also a Certified OpenStack Administrator. Brian is a recovering philosopher who spends his spare time reading, listening to music, walking the dog, and doing family-type stuff with his family.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosmaita/

Shuoran Liu

Technical Lead of distributed file storage at OPPO Cloud

Maintainer of the ChubaoFS project. Before joining OPPO, worked as a software architect and developer in the storage team at JD.com, where ChubaoFS was born and first used in production. Currently, he is responsible for the technical development of OPPO cloud’s file storage product.

Umasankar Mukkara

Co-Founder, COO, MayaData

Passionate about solving user’s problems. Love building great teams. Working on cloud native data management.

Sanil Kumar D

Chief Architect, TOC, ArchWG Lead, SODA Foundation / Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd

Sanil has over 20 years of Industry experience in Linux, Open Source, ARM Ecosystem, Cloud and Emerging Technologies(like Edge Computing, Blockchain, Distributed Computing). He holds multiple patents, published papers & presented sessions and keynotes in international conferences, was Linux Foundation Yocto Project Advisory Board member, collaborates with IEEE(Roof Computing), CCICI, blockchain groups, Organizer of CNCF and SODA Foundation meetup groups. He is an awardee of Zinnov Senior Technical Role Model in 2020 . Keen to work with developers and enable their careers through open source. Currently focusing on Ecosystem, Technology Roadmap for SODA Foundation on Data Management Domain

Kiran Mova

Chief Architect, MayaData

Kiran Mova is a Passionate Technologist with 19 years of extensive experience working for product companies like Cisco, Lucent, Novell. Kiran has led efforts in performance engineering, simplifying the products in terms of usability, operation, and deployment complexities. Introducing multi-tenancy and enabling SaaS services in domains like IP/Optical Networks, Storage, and Access Management.

At MayaData, Kiran leads overall architecture and is responsible for architecting solution design, and customer adoption of OpenEBS and related software. Kiran evangelizes open culture and open source execution models and is a lead founder, maintainer and contributor to the OpenEBS – CNCF project.

Pravin Ranjan

System Architect, Huawei

Pravin Ranjan is currently working as System Architect at Huawei. He has done his master from NIT Trichy and has 5+ yrs of experience in storage domain. Prior to Huawei, he has worked with IBM software lab in filesystem team. He currently works on the SODA Foundation projects. He has participated and published couple of IEEE papers. Very much interested in OpenSource solutions, Kubernetes, Docker and containers etc.

Himanshu Varshney

SODA Maintainer

Himanshu Varshney is currently working as Senior Technical Project Leader at Huawei Technologies India, contributing towards OpenSDS, an open source community to address storage integration challenges with heterogeneous storage platforms. He has worked on Multi-Cloud solutions, VMware plugin, Orchestration Manager, Workflow Manager etc. for OpenSDS. He has worked as Software Developer at DELL-EMC Corporation for 2 years in Data Protection and Backup/Restore Products, Management Server for Multi-Cluster Management. He was a Research Associate for 2 years in IIT Delhi and completed M.Tech from IIIT Delhi. He has an IEEE publication as White Space Detection and Spectrum Characterization in Urban and Rural India, 2013 IEEE 14th International Symposium. Apart from his work, he explores and contributes to the cutting edge technologies, emerging standards, tools and best practices.

Lin Xu

Architect Huawei, Maintainer SODA Foundation

He is a senior architect at Huawei, where he is responsible for designing and developing the management of software-defined storage(SDS). He is also active in the SODA community as one of the contributors to SODA Controller project, Delfin and Multi-Cloud. He is an enthusiast of data and storage standard and orchestration.

Takagi Tsuneo

JDSF Board Vice Chairman
Director, Global Business Developing Department, Uniadex Ltd.

Kinya Saito

Expert Engineer, Fujitsu,
Expert in Storage Hardware Developmen

Prakash Ramachandran

Member – Advisor, CCICI

39+ years ICT experience. Current Independent Member BoD Open Stack Foundation (Open Infra Foundation). Industry Speaker on Cloud Infra and Industry solutions for Digital, Operation and Knowledge transformation. MS(EE)-Comm. IITB-80 batch. Industry Standards, Software & Infrastructure, Strategy and Intelligent Innovation in service of Global community drives him and his pet topic has been emerging technologies for emerging generation to accelerate new markets and solutions. He is well known for his out-of-box thinking and driving road-map in several open source communities, Telco, ICT and Networking Industry. Sr member IEEE CS,Comm, VTS, INGR & ACM

Liyun Yang

Director of the Research Office, CESI

Director of the Cloud Computing Research Group, Software Application and Services Research Center of China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI), Deputy Secretary-General of the China Open Source Cloud League (COSCL). Experienced in standardization in the field of cloud computing, leading and participating in more than 20 national standards in cloud computing and other areas. Ms. Yang is the core initiator of the Mulan Open Source Community, an independent Chinese home-grown open-source community. She is also the core contributor of MulanPSL License, which is the first license in Chinese and English certificated by OSI.

Rupal Shirpurkar

Business Head (Cloud BU – APAC), Click2Cloud

As the business head (APAC region), Rupal is leading the global business relationship with top cloud providers includes; Alibaba, SoftBank, Huawei, Microsoft, IBM and Redhat.
She is one of the earliest OpenSDS (SODA) member & active contributor for enterprise adoption and key partnership building with storage vendors /cloud providers. In India, she helped conducting hackathons, GDG (google development group), opensource India and various initiatives to grow & expand the global footprint of OpenSDS community, as well as drive more companies to join and participate.
Currently, she is working on “SODA Test Labs” concept, where users will have frictionless (without any installation) SODA trial & upcoming technologies.
She was a co-organiser for the India OpenStack User Group. She has been awarded as Alibaba cloud most valuable professional (MVP), also ‘Indian opensource hero’s’ for helping start-ups to understand opensource technologies/ solutions with collaboration of Openstack ecosystems. Rupal is as community representative and speaker in several conferences across the globe; Linux foundation, Google, TiE, Alibaba submits, Openstack, AWS women leadership, global submit, Huawei connect, OpenInfra etc. Rupal is B.E – Computer science from Nagpur university.
Since beginning, she led the marketing team through several marketing strategies, large successful events and solidifying their brand within the region.

Olga Buchonina

CEO and Founder, ActionSpot Corp

Olga Buchonina is an experienced executive leader, engineer, and manager in the technology industry. She founded ActionSpot with the vision to build an environment for entrepreneurs focused on Data Science, Data Security, and Data Engineering for blockchain technology. She has presented on blockchain at several conferences including BlockChain Developer Conference and Block World. She has over 20 years of professional experience and holds several patents. She earned an MS in computer engineering from the University of Houston and has worked for Viavi Solutions, Teledyne LeCroy, AMCC, and IBM.