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.

Senior Technical Program Manager at AVEVA
TAC Vice-Chair

Daniel Lazaro

Daniel currently serves as a Senior Technical Program Manager at the CTO office at OSIsoft, focusing on technology, research and innovation projects related to IIoT, Open Source and Energy (Distributed Energy Resources). Daniel acts as technical liaison for strategic partners and represents OSIsoft at the Industrial Internet Consortium. Prior to joining OSIsoft in 2010, Daniel collaborated in various international research and development projects related to both edge and cloud.

Daniel holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from Valladolid University (Spain) and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Aalborg University (Denmark).

Vice President Software Applications
Emerson Automation Solutions

Dave Denison

Vice President Software Applications at Emerson Automation Solutions

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.

Software Architect
Huawei

Jianguo Zeng

Currently serves as Software Architect in Cloudify Network OSDT (Open Source Develop Team) at Huawei, focusing on architecture and technical planning for Open Ecosystem in Autonomous Driving Networks. 15+ years of experience in Transport network management solution.

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.

CTO
Flexnode

Tarif Abboushi

Tarif is a veteran of over two decades in the data center space, with extensive experience in the design, development, construction, commissioning, deployment, maintenance and operation of data centers. Prior to becoming Flexnode’s CTO, he was VP of Data Center Infrastructure at NTT Ltd. (Americas), where he deployed ground-breaking technologies in data centers to improve efficiencies and reduce carbon footprints, including the first use of solid oxide fuel cells running on biogas from cow manure to produce electricity at a data center, and the implementation of virtualized cooling, a project that won the Uptime Institute Green Enterprise IT award. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from the University of Manchester and a Master’s in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford. Having built a solid core, he now gets his kicks living on the edge.

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.

Software Engineer at Intel

Randy Templeton

Software Engineer at Intel

Senior Director Software Communities & Fellow at Arm

Andrew Wafaa

Andrew leads Arm’s Open Source Office, encompassing internal and external open source engagements. As a member of Arm’s Software leadership team, he is responsible for building the relationships between Arm and key open source projects.

With nearly 20 years of experience in the Open Source space working for the likes of Fujitsu, EMC, Sun Microsystems as well as local government IT teams. He has held and continues to hold numerous Board positions in various Open Source projects and Foundations, including Xen, the Yocto Project, FreeBSD Foundation, Zephyr and openSUSE. Prior to the technology world, Andrew spent over a decade in the aviation space and is slowly returning to it as a private pilot.