Lawrence Lai

Head of Global Alliances and Business Development for Storage, Futurewei

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.

Shane Wang

Engineering Director of Cloud Infrastructure Software at Intel
Individual Director of Open Infrastructure Foundation

Shane Wang joined Intel in 2004 after he received his PhD degree on computer science from Fudan University. He has participated in or led the team to develop a few open source projects such as Xen, tboot, the Yocto project, and OpenStack. Currently, he and his team are actively working on cloud computing, cloud native, edge computing, networking and storage, covering OpenStack, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Ceph, Akraino, ONAP, OPNFV, etc. He has been an individual director of Open Infrastructure Foundation (a.k.a OpenStack Foundation) since 2015, and been committed to community development of cloud computing for many years.

Brad King

Field CTO, Scality

One of Scality’s founders, Brad is responsible for the design of the largest systems. Scality is deploying around the world. These include multi-petabyte, multi-site systems, with hundreds of servers. Having begun his multifaceted career as a naval architect with the French navy, performing numerical simulations of ship capsize and waves around large ships, he and a partner started the Paris office of Software.com a provider of email software including Post.Office, in 1999. After a merger with Phone.com created Openwave, Brad continued there, working with fixed and mobile operators throughout Europe. He joined Bizanga Labs in 2008 as an architect, designing messaging security systems and large distributed storage systems. Brad holds a PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Noel MacLochlainn

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.

Krishna mKumar

CNCF Ambassador + Cloud Architect 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.

Shane Wang

Engineering Director of Cloud Infrastructure Software at Intel
Individual Director of Open Infrastructure Foundation

Shane Wang joined Intel in 2004 after he received his PhD degree on computer science from Fudan University. He has participated in or led the team to develop a few open source projects such as Xen, tboot, the Yocto project, and OpenStack. Currently, he and his team are actively working on cloud computing, cloud native, edge computing, networking and storage, covering OpenStack, Kubernetes, Istio, Envoy, Ceph, Akraino, ONAP, OPNFV, etc. He has been an individual director of Open Infrastructure Foundation (a.k.a OpenStack Foundation) since 2015, and been committed to community development of cloud computing for many years.

Pierre Zhang

R & D Director at China Unicom.

6 years of experience in communication system development and solution, 7 years of experience in cloud computing product planning and architecture, in-depth research in ICT product planning and cloud computing solution architecture. Deeply participate in Huawei’s public cloud work, and lead the work of LETV public cloud.

Xion Lai

Technology Platform Department PaaS Director, China Construction Bank Fintech

Responsible for establishing the container-cloud PaaS platform of china construction bank currently . Have many years of cloud computing experiences due to in charge of building cloud platforms for many Fortune 500 companies . Also dedicated great efforts in promoting the production and application of open source technology in the financial banking field .

Hang Geng

Community Manager of CESI
Community Manager of Ceph Chinese Community

Hang Geng is the community manager of CESI (China Electronics Standards Institute) and the most valuable expert of Tencent Cloud. Since 2015, he has been the head of the Ceph Chinese community and has been committed to community development and construction for many years. Currently, he focuses on software-defined storage (SDS) technology, community governance, open source standards, open source education, and open source-related fields, including OpenStack, Ceph, SODA, CHAOSS, etc., and has won multiple open source field contribution awards.

Pradipta Banerjee

Architect & Engineering Lead – Cloud Native Computing Platform, IBM

Pradipta is the Architect & Engineering Lead for Cloud Native Computing Platform at IBM. His current focus areas are OpenShift and Kubernetes and leveraging the same for hybrid multi-cloud solutions. He is an open-source enthusiast, innovator and mentor.

Anvith K.S.

System Architect, Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

Anvith KS is an architect, developer, community builder, Quizzer, Baker, Dancer, photographer, MC and an open source champion. Having worked as a full stack developer for most of his career, he now works at Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd, on the SODA Foundation projects (A sub foundation of The Linux Foundation).

He currently leads the ecosystem and community building activities at the SODA Foundation and is the maintainer for the Installer & Dashboard project, website, blog and the documentation.

In the past he has contributed to the Kubernetes website and documentation projects, KubeEdge project (CNCF incubated) website and documentation, Apache ServiceComb Transaction Management project, Mr Redis and consulted with other open source projects.

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.

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.

Ayshwarya Baburan

Professor of Computer Science department at Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore

Ayshwarya B is a professor of Computer Science department at Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore and also her research works are related to Lung Cancer predictions in the field of Data Mining. She has more than a decade of teaching experience from Kristu Jayanti College, Bangalore with subjects such as python, mobile application development, data visualization, .NET Technologies and other web development technologies. She Published papers in more than 20 international and national journals. She acted as a review member for international journals and various National and International conferences.

Shinya Hamano

Manager, Fujitsu

I have developed storage management software around 10 years, and now I’m in charge of manager of planning/development for lean service towards DX. My motivation to contribute the SODA is simplifying storage management that has been very complex over many years and accelerating our DX related business. I’m also a SNIA-Japan technical committee. Please feel free to contact to me.

Kei Kusunoki

Technology Development, Storage Engineer, NTT Communications

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.

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.