Working on setting the strategic vision and technical architecture for product and service offerings in the areas of integrated systems and storage management of large scale data centers, including software defined environments, information lifecycle management, optimization of resources in cloud environment and disaster recovery. In addition, Cloud native application architecture and their high availability and disaster recovery, AI enabled cloud resources management and distributed application deployment and monitoring of IoT environments. Exploring and prototyping new product ideas.

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.

Vinod E is a Chief Architect, and Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, at Wipro Technologies. He has been working in system software development for server & storage platforms and involved in developing fault tolerant, and mission critical systems in open & proprietary architectures for past 22 years. He has led the architecture and design of several NAS and Hyper converged solutions as part of Wipro’s Industrial Engineering Solutions. In the current role he is focused on building solutions in Storage Domain in the areas of scalable file systems, hyper converged appliances, and working on new storage architectures for emerging digital workloads. Cloud native computing, storage for containers, software defined infrastructure are his area of focus.

Sheng-Lin Wu has more than 20 years of software engineering and management experience in enterprise network and storage system, cloud and Kubernetes industry. Experience includes networking protocol and product, enterprise storage system, storage area network, data protection, data deduplication, containerized microservices architecture development.

He is a software engineer at Fujitsu. Currently, he is in charge of planning and developing storage-related products. He has developed a storage management software, and device plugins for Docker and Kubernetes related products. In the SODA community, he has contributed to develop Fujitsu’s storage driver.

He has been in the IT industry roughly 20 years and has been working in mainly infrastructure level things, operating systems, cloud orchestrators etc. At TOYOTA, he is in charge of overall architecture of their near future systems supporting connected cars and autonomous vehicles. He is also involved in various open source software communities for more than 10 years.

Xin Zhong 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.

Sanil has over 19 years of Industry experience in Linux, FileSystems, Open Source, ARM Ecosystem, Cloud and Emerging Technologies(like Edge Computing, BlockChain, Distributed Computing). He holds multiple patents,published papers & presented in international conferences, core member in IEEE Roof Computing 1931.1 and represented Huawei in Linux Foundation Yocto Project Advisory Board. He is an Open Source enthusiast who likes to explore open ideas and technologies. Currently focusing on the technology and ecosystem development for SODA Foundation, a sub foundation under Linux Foundation.

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.

Prashant is a serial entrepreneur and tech-savvy innovator. His experience includes VP of Wells Fargo, EVP at Persistent systems, Development Manager at Microsoft. He has successfully built two companies that were acquired by Persistent System and HP respectively. Currently, he is founder & CEO of Click2Cloud Inc.
For more than a decade, Prashant is actively involved in Openstack, Openshift (Redhat), Linux Foundation and OpenSDS community, he is focused is to grow OpenSDS usage and involvement across the storage vendors and Cloud Providers. His ambition is to make Nagpur as Open Source hub and Cloud city of India. Currently his team runs Open Source India community from Nagpur. He has presented in global annual conferences with Microsoft, IBM, Alibaba, Huawei and other opensource events on various topics including Storage, Opensource, K8’s and many graduated OpenSource projects.
He is driving force for enterprise adoption for software-defined storage via community collaboration. He is in extending the OpenSDS capabilities for Data Storage and Migration for a Multi-Cloud Design and Multi-Cloud Providers mostly from Asia and North America by making key partnerships and contributing to next gen systems development. He is B.E – Electronics Nagpur and M.S computer Science from Seattle University.

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.

Sanil has over 19 years of Industry experience in Linux, FileSystems, Open Source, ARM Ecosystem, Cloud and Emerging Technologies(like Edge Computing, BlockChain, Distributed Computing). He holds multiple patents,published papers & presented in international conferences, core member in IEEE Roof Computing 1931.1 and represented Huawei in Linux Foundation Yocto Project Advisory Board. He is an Open Source enthusiast who likes to explore open ideas and technologies. Currently focusing on the technology and ecosystem development for SODA Foundation, a sub foundation under Linux Foundation.