Technical Advisory Council (TAC)

Principal Engineer, Office of CTO (Networking)
RedHat

Anil Vishnoi

Anil is part of the Network Team at the Office of CTO, RedHat. He has been doing research, design and development of software networking products for more than 15 years at RedHat and his prior employers. Most of his career he has been working in Software Defined Networks, Data Center Networking, Network Virtualization and Cloud Networking domain. He has been an active contributor to various open source projects like OpenDaylight, OpenStack and recently CNCF projects. He has contributed to open source projects for more than a decade now in various roles like project maintainer, project chair, technical oversight committee member, and community elected board member. He has been a frequent speaker at various research conferences, summits and local meetups. His research work can be found here. He is passionate about disruptive networking technologies and prefers to contribute to these technologies in Open Source way. He has a masters in computer engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani-India.

Chief Architect, ZEDEDA
TAC Voting Representative, LF Edge

Erik Nordmark

Erik is a member of the LF Edge Technical Advisory Committe, a member of the Internet Architecture Board, and the Chief Architect at ZEDEDA. He has designed and implemented substantial parts of the EVE implementation in LF Edge. He is an expert on architecting and implementing secure large scale software systems, with a deep understanding of the implications of the Internet on system design. Prior to joining ZEDEDA he was developing software at Arista Networks, architecting the evolution of core software as a Cisco Distinguished Engineer, and earlier had a long and varied career as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. Erik has been involved in standardization in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since the very early days of IPv6 and continues to drive IoT-related issues in the IETF and IAB. Erik holds over 29 US parents, and has a Technical Licentiate degree from Uppsala University and a MS from Stanford University.

Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM
TAC Chair

Joe Pearson

Joe is an Edge Computing and Technology Strategist at IBM.

Chief Technology Officer
Equinix

Justin Dustzadeh

Coming Soon

Principal Architect
AMD

Keesang Song

Keesang Song is located in Bay Area, working at AMD Santa Clara HQ, leading Telco Ecosystem SW Engineering projects for Enabling and Optimization

Chief Software Architect
Dianomic Systems

Mark Riddoch

Mark Riddoch is the Chief Software Architect at Dianomic Systems.

Senior Architect
Fujitsu

Toshimichi Fukuda

Toshimichi Fukuda is a Senior Architect at Fujitsu.

Chief Technology Officer at IOTech Systems

Brad Corrion

With an eye towards solving future problems that are hidden in the implications of today’s investments, Brad leads a strategic architecture team in Intel’s Retail, Banking, Hospitality and Education Division. In particular Brad and the team focus on edge compute use cases, emerging technologies and the new experiences defining the next generation of customer interactions.

Brad also chairs the Vertical Solutions Working Group within EdgeX Foundry, an IOT middleware platform, in order to improve market adoption with particular verticals.

Over 22 years at Intel Brad has engineering software for manufacturing, print imaging, consumer electronics and retail security applications. He has spent the last ten years in retail markets, working with vendors, venture capital backed startups, and internal collaborators. Brad has 14 patents in these areas.

AI Software Engineer at Intel

Martin Kronberg

AI Software Engineer at Intel

HUAWEI ICT Infrastructure Open source Software Industry Development Expert

Albert Wang

HUAWEI ICT Infrastructure Open source Software Industry Development Expert

Specialist Solution Architect Lead at Vodafone

Natalia Gorokhova

Natalia Gorokhova is a Specialist Solution Architect Lead at Vodafone and an active contributor to LF Edge’s InstantX project. With deep expertise in service-oriented architecture and solution design for telecom and fintech domains, Natalia plays a pivotal role in shaping Vodafone’s edge computing strategy. She is a voting member of the InstantX Technical Steering Committee and a maintainer of the project’s core repository. Her work focuses on enabling real-time data exchange through edge computing and MEC, supporting use cases such as autonomous systems, industrial IoT, and connected mobility. Natalia has led architectural initiatives within Vodafone’s STEP programme and contributed to multiple endorsement frameworks across markets. She is passionate about open-source collaboration and advancing scalable, secure edge solutions that meet the evolving demands of global connectivity.