Icehouse Design Summit

Das Kamhout is a Senior Principal Engineer in the Intel Cloud Platforms Group, he is one of the key leaders for the software defined infrastructure (SDI) engineering and industry efforts for Intel. He brings many years of experience as the engineering and architecture leader for the Intel IT Cloud efforts as well as extensive experience running the large scale Intel design grid. Known as a pragmatic disruptor, Das seeks to drive focused change in the industry and help fellow peers work through the transformation towards SDI and cloud computing.

Arkady has been a member of OpenStack since Grizzly. He is director of engineering leading a team of developers responsible for development of DellEMC OpenStack solutions.  Arkady has PhD. in CS from UIUC.  He straddled academic, research, architect, developer, and product owner roles.  Arkady roles included  but not limited to, research publications and Program committee member for various conferences like FAST (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/fast11/organizers.html), Chair or board member  of several standard activities, like DAT (http://www.datcollaborative.org),  OpenFabric (htt

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Sukhdev Kapur is part of SDN Engineering team at Arista Networks - pioneer of software driven cloud networking. He has been actively contributing to the development of Neutron.
Sukhdev is a networking veteran with over 20 years experience in highly available distributed systems, cloud computing, virtualization, disaster recovery, policy based mobile workloads management, and software defined networks. He has held architectural positions in Cisco, F5, NET, and others.
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Open Clouds for all!

Alan possesses over 15 years R&D experience in the Telecom Networks, Mobile networking and Fixed Broadband network technologies. Alan graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1998 with a double Degree BA, BAI Hons in Computer Engineering and Mathematics and immediately started working for Ericsson. Prior to Alan’s current role as Cloud Architect, System Design and Product Strategy he worked at Ericsson Berkeley Research labs on GPRS and Mobile Packet Backbone Networks inventing several first major network features and pioneering products which are used in many large 3G mobile Provider networks... Read more

"Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something" -Proverb

Pradeep Kilambi is part of the Engineering team working on OpenStack at Red Hat, Inc. His interests span across various aspects of OpenStack including Cloud Metering, Monitoring, Containers Management, Deployments and Networking. He is a Core reviewer for Ceilometer Project and an Active Technical Contributor in various other projects in OpenStack and actively works with the community. Prior to Red Hat, Pradeep was working on OpenStack at Cisco Systems.

OpenStack Ambassador, founder of Hungarian OpenStack user group, co-organizer of OpenStack CEE Day event and active contributor of multiple OpenStack projects. Marton have a background in the telecommunication sector, he was a CTO for a Telenor owned company and managed the operation and development areas in Central Europe and Asia. He successfully managed some government related projects, including the development and operation of EU Presidency website of Hungary.

I am a Keystone and Oslo core reviewer and have been working for IBM on OpenStack since November 2012. My primary focus is on stability, usability, and security to make IBM's cloud portfolio more robust.
Previously I worked on IBM Blue Gene supercomputer system, which was the fastest supercomputer in the world for 3 1/2 years.

Gary is a core Neutron developer working at VMware who also spends a lot of his time these days writing + reviewing code for Nova. Prior to working at VMware Gary worked at Red Hat, Radware and at Algorithmic Research. Gary holds a Bs.C in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Ms.C in Computer Science from the Tel Aviv University

I am a Principal Engineer in the Noiro Networks group in Cisco, working on OpenStack Neutron, particularly the ML2 plugin, and on Group Based Policy. Throughout my career, ranging from developing digital audio processors to large defense systems, I've been a strong advocate of and contributor to open standards and open source.

Hugo Kuo is a Customer Engineer at SwiftStack. SwiftStack is a technology innovator of private cloud storage for today’s applications, powered by OpenStack Swift. Hugo has been working in OpenStack projects around compute and storage in Taiwan while with AMI and Cloudena. Hugo is active in Swift deployments and supporting SwiftStack customers worldwide.

Jonathan has been programming from a young age, finessing his way through many programming languages. After cutting his teeth with several smaller jobs and personal projects, Jonathan joined VertiSoft Corp. in 1997, catapulting him into the culture of "software as a service" well before it became an industry buzzword. Jonathan harnessed his passion for user experience in the computer science program at Georgia Tech by taking courses in psychology, cognitive science, and education. Armed with this interdisciplinary experience, Jonathan is keenly aware of how people learn and solve problems. When... Read more

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Dane is a Technical Leader in the Cisco’s Office of the Cloud CTO. His work has included developing broadband software for routers, and more recently adding IPv6 support to Openstack, Kubernetes, and CNI network plugins. Outside of work, his hobbies include running ultramarathons and raising rescue dogs.

Dr. Craig A. Lee is a Senior Scientist in the Computer Systems Research Department of the Aerospace
Corporation. He has worked in high-performance parallel and distributed computing for the last thirty
years. This work has led to Dr. Lee's involvement in the Open Grid Forum (OGF) where he served as
President from 2007 to 2010. Dr. Lee served as the main liaison between OGF and the DMTF, SNIA,
TMF, the Open Cloud Consortium, Cloud Security Alliance, OMG, and OASIS. Dr. Lee is now on the
OGF Board of Directors and heavily involved with NIST, having contributed significantly to the NIST
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High performing, happy teams. Software that is a joy to use.

Frederic Lepied is managing the OpenStack Software Engineering team attached to Red Hat Cloud Innovation Practice.

Guang Ya Liu is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Technical Function Manager in IBM RTP and now focusing on cloud computing, data center operating system and container technology, he is also a Member of IBM Academy of Technology. Starting from 2013, Guang Ya act as an OpenStack Active Contributor and contribute to many projects including Nova, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, Magnum etc and he used to be the Core Member of Magnum. Starting from 2015, Guang Ya act as a Mesos Active Contributor and mainly focusing on allocator and container part for Mesos and he is currently the Apache Mesos PMC & Committer... Read more

Interested in telco, NFV, microservices and containers.

Emilien Macchi is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat, who has contributed to several OpenStack projects but mostly to Puppet OpenStack Project, on which he's the current Project Technical Leader. When he isn't working to make OpenStack deployement simpler, faster, stronger, he's improving his running stats, doing some winter sports or traveling.

Christian is a Principal Engineer and Director of Telecom Systems Research in Intel Labs working on platform and communications research in Software Defined Network (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Christian is Intel’s alternate board member to CORD/ONOS and is also Intel’s Principal Investigator of an Intel and AT&T co-funded research center at UC Berkeley (http://span.cs.berkeley.edu) with co-PIs at Stanford, CMU, Princeton, and EPFL. Previous work included wireless communication, system energy efficiency, media streaming and IP telephony, DTV data broadcast, and optical networking, as well as representing Intel in standards organizations like the IETF, ATM Forum, and ATSC. Christian has 51 patents granted, on-going patent applications, co-authored 30 publications including three best paper awards, and received two Intel Achievement Awards, Intel’s highest award. He earned a Diplôme d’Ingénieur - Ecole Spéciale de Mécanique & Electricité – Paris... Read more

Stefano is an experienced leader of open source organizations, from non-profits advocacy groups and trade organizations to business ventures and community projects across countries. With a proven track record in community building, he’s also an active contributor to open source projects. When not basking in front of a monitor, you’ll find him teaching sailing or perfecting his pizza technique.

Edgar is an emerging leader who has specialized in Cloud Computing, Network Virtualization, Software-defined Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), OpenFlow and OpenStack. He has developed excellent software development skills and outstanding customer and business driven experience. Currently, he is core member of the Neutron OpenStack development community. Edgar has strong experience in fully automated Cloud Computing deployments by means of puppet and chef orchestration languages. He has lead OpenStack development, third-party integration and deployment teams for over the... Read more

Hello there! I'm an Engineering Manager at Microsoft helping customers build cloud applications using Azure, Helm, Kubernetes and other container technologies. I was previously one of the founders of the OpenStack Trove project. My main areas of expertise are databases and IoT, but off late I've been more heavily involved with Helm and Kubernetes. Having spent previous lives working on Software Update intelligence, geo-local systems, and mobile applications, I'm pretty well versed with C++, go, and Python. On occasion, I have also been known to indulge in some machine learning.

In my spare time you will likely find me assiduously trying to beat that new adventure game that just came out. And when I've had enough of that -- I often retreat to my desk where I like to craft verse and short stories... Read more

Chris has been in the networking industry for more than 20 years in a variety of development, marketing, strategy and administrative roles. Chris began his career at Bell Labs where he designed interface cards for the 5ESS digital switch. Chris was the founder and CEO of Resonate, an early pioneer of L4-7 load balancing solutions. Chris joined Cisco through the acquisition of vCider, a provider of virtual network overlay solutions for the public cloud where he was co-founder and CEO. Chris holds a BS/EECS from Columbia, an MS/EECS from Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford.

Steve Martinelli is an OpenStack Active Technical Contributor and a Keystone Core Contributor. He primarily focuses on enabling Keystone, which is OpenStack's Identity Manager, to better integrate into enterprise environments. Steve was responsible for adding Federated Identity and OAuth support to Keystone and was one of the leading contributors to Keystone to Keystone federation support for interoperable hybrid cloud enablement. In his spare time he also contributes to OpenStackClient, pyCADF, oslo.cache and oslo.policy and is a core contributor in each of these projects. Steve received his B.ASc... Read more

Norifumi Matsuya is a Technical Director at Yahoo! JAPAN, responsible for strategies and planning of all Operations infrastructure (network, storage and server) and services including data centers.

Andy is a software developer at Rackspace working within the Rackspace Private Cloud team. Andy began his career as a Linux Systems Administrator after completing a Masters of Engineering (MEng) majoring Computer Science at University College London (UCL).
Andy specialises in Swift (Object Storage) and Ansible. Andy was previously a core reviewer on the openstack-chef project, and is now working as a core reviewer on the os-ansible-deployment project within OpenStack.

Software developer and technical trainer specializing in Containers and Kubernetes.

Mark McLoughlin is Technical Director for OpenStack at Red Hat and has spent over a decade contributing to and leading open source projects like GNOME, Fedora, KVM, qemu, libvirt, oVirt and, of course, OpenStack. Mark is a member of the OpenStack Foundation board of directors, and a former member of OpenStack's technical committee. He created the Oslo project and contributed heavily to Nova.

Colin McNamara is a seasoned leader with 18 years experience with network, systems and application technologies.

I am a firm believer in the evolving role that community, educational and corporate Open Source contribution have to play in todays technology marketplace. Through his efforts in his own company, the community and projects like OpenStack, OpenDaylight and others my goal is to define what next generation DevOps organizations look like.
I can be found on linkding http://www.linkedin.com/in/colinmcnamara and occasionally posting my thoughts on things at http://www.colinmcnamara.com as well as posting pictures of my son and having adventures across Austin and the world via his twitter account - @colinmcnamara... Read more

Ryota Mibu has been working on integrating cloud technologies to telecommunication platform form 2012 in NEC. He has been contributing OpenStack projects, including Neutron, Ironic, Ceilometer and Aodh. He is the former Project Lead of OPNFV "Doctor" which is focusing on building a framework for fault management for high availability of Network Services on top of virtualized infrastructure. He is OPNFV Ambassador from 2017.

Go, Python, Kubernetes, OpenStack, photography, Volleyball, Soccer, and BMWs.

Armando Migliaccio is the PTL for the Mitaka, Newton and Ocata releases of the OpenStack Neutron Project. He has been involved in the OpenStack community since its early days, and has dealt with a number of OpenStack projects, and solutions in various capacities. Most recently he has been working in various open source projects, like OpenDaylight and Open vSwitch to help the industry usher in a new era of networking.

Belmiro Moreira is an enthusiastic software engineer passionate about the challenges and complexities of architecting and deploying Cloud Infrastructures in very large-scale environments. He works at CERN and during the last two years his main role was to design, develop and build the CERN Cloud Infrastructure based on Openstack. Previously he worked in different virtualization projects to improve the large batch farm at CERN.

Daisuke Morita is now interested in test and operation of commercially-sized OpenStack Swift. He contributes Swift and Tempest projects for three years.

Satoru is a Researcher of Cloud management at Hitachi. Satoru has 10 years experience in software industory from hypervisor, linux kernel to OpenStack. Satoru currently focuses on improving bare metal server management in OpenStack, in particular, Ironic and Cinder integration to support boot from volume in Ironic.

Sam Morrison is the Technical lead for the NeCTAR Research Cloud, which spans 9 different datacentres across Australia. In this role he is responsible for coordinating the technical team's activities in each location, in addition to OpenStack customisation work. As happy managing government funding milestone expectations as diving into python code, Sam is a contributor to nova, horizon, cinder, keystone, glance, ceilometer and trove. His latest hobby is migrating nova-network clouds to neutron.

Scott Moser is a software engineer on the Ubuntu Server team working for Canonical. He is the creator of cloud-init and the curtin linux installer and CirrOS a tiny cloud used for testing. He has lead talks at multiple OpenStack Summits and OLS.

Dirk Mueller is a Senior Software Engineer working at SUSE currently focusing on Cloud, OpenStack, SUSE's deployment and OpenStack distribution. He's being developing for and using Linux for more than 15 years and is doing Software packaging, distribution and software development for more than 10 years. 
Dirk has a masters degree in Computer Science and has been participating in the Intel Ruler of the Stack contest since the beginning and submitted a winning entry each time. 
 
 

Shaun Murakami is a Senior Cloud Architect and Technical Lead for the IBM Cloud Performance team located in Silicon Valley, California. As part of the Cloud Performance team, Shaun has worked with many customers, helping them transform their business using Cloud Computing technologies and IBM integrated solutions. Shaun has helped influence the evolution of IBM Cloud technologies including the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, IBM CloudBurst, IBM Workload Deployer, and IBM PureApplication System. He is currently working with various open source technologies such as OpenStack, Docker, and Cloud Foundry... Read more

Sumit Naiksatam is a Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems. He has been involved with Neutron as a core developer since it's inception. He is actively involved in driving and implementing the Group Policy model. He is also driving the efforts around Group-based Policy, integration of L4-7 services, and Firewalls in Neutron.

Jun Jie has rich experiences on: 1. Enterprise software developing, testing and configuration, 2. Application pattern engines on cloud Now his work is to make use of OpenStack heat to help enterprise application deployment and configuration.

Henry works at IBM as CTO Advocacy, Hybrid Cloud, and has been a core contributor and author to number of open source projects (e.g. OpenStack Keystone). He has a long history in the creation of enterprise software & breakthrough emerging technology, having founded 5 venture backed startup companies in Europe and USA, finally coming to IBM via acquisition in 2009. Among the awards these companies have received are both The Queen’s Award for Technology and The Queen’s Award for Export. He holds a 1st class honours degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southampton, UK

Takashi Natsume has been working in the IT industry for about 15 years and has been working for NTT corporation since April, 2013.He is engaged in system design of public cloud systems based on OpenStack and functional verification of OpenStack.Prior to joining NTT corporation, He was engaged in performance analysis and performance troubleshooting for systems.He was also engaged in performance verification and functional verification about Linux and middleware on Linux.He has a Master's degree of Engineering in Information and Communication engineering from University of Tokyo in 1999.
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