Technical Steering Committee (TSC) 2021-2022

Enterprise Architect, Arm;

TSC Chair, Akraino;

Akraino Voting Representative, Arm Alternative Voting Representative, TAC, LF Edge

Tina Tsou is an Enterprise Architect at Arm, where she is responsible for designing and implementing robust strategies to establish first tier status for Arm architecture within open source communities and projects. In this role, Tina employs a comprehensive knowledge of relevant NFV/SDN collaborative open source initiatives, open source development tools, processes, build systems, packaging, continuous integration, and test methodologies. Recognized as a thought leader, she forges powerful partnerships with open source communities in support of multiple architectures, while prioritizing requirements for open source enablement in collaboration with Arm key stakeholders and relevant ecosystem partners. Tina also drives and empowers Arm’s Edge Computing Team.  

Currently, Tina is Chair of the Technical Steering Committee for Akraino.

Prior to joining Arm, Tina excelled as the Digital Domain Expert for Connectivity at Philips Lighting, where she championed the company’s first NB-IoT solution, and facilitated the company’s transition from conventional lighting to LED and digital lighting technology. Additionally, she was employed by Huawei for 16 years in Technical Lead and Principal Engineer roles, where she led network architecture design, new product definition, product marketing strategy, and technology research—and developed the company’s first IPv6 network migration professional service product.

Tina has been awarded 100+ patents and 15 IETF RFCs. She earned her Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Xi’an University of Architecture and Technologies in China.

Haruhisa Fukano has been working for Fujitsu over ten years.
Currently,he focuses on architecture designing and buisiness planning for IOWN/6G era in 2030 based on his experience about FPGA development in conputing area.

Before that, he worked for FPGA development for Network equipment and various devices for ten years.
Especially, he is expert of acceleration using FPGA.

• Kuralamudhan Ramakrishnan is working as a Technical lead in Intel, Oregon has specialized in the field of Networking, worked in storage and data management and Telco industries.
• His area of interest is in container networking, Cloud Native Application networking. Currently contributor in CNI (Container Networking Interface ) and in Kubernetes Networking and Compute.
• He created a Multi Network plugin in CNI called "Multus" CNI to support Multi-Homed pod in Kubernetes and DPDK CNI and Userspace working in Kubernetes Networking in Intel, worked on Kubernetes compute on power management
• With work experience in Embedded software development and Chipset programming
• Graduated in Information and Communication Systems, TUHH, Hamburg, Germany and specialized in the fields of Networking, Embedded system, and Software Engineering.

Sukhdev Kapur is Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He is part of CTO organization and is driving the Contrail architecture, 5G, Edge, and Cloud Native initiatives.

He is on the TSC (Technical Steering Committee) of Akraino Edge Stack as well as TSC of Tungsten Fabric. He is active contributor in CNTT (Cloud Infrastructure Telco Taskforce), active participant in TIP (Telecom Infrastructure Project) , and CNCF TUG (Telecom Users Group).  He was active contributor to the development of Neutron, Ironic, and other OpenStack projects as well. 

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 Arista Networks, F5, Cisco, Alteon, and others. 

Sukhdev holds several patents in cloud computing, hierarchical data center deployments, cloud based disaster recovery, high availability, data center fabric automation,  etc.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sukhdev-kapur-9ba996/

Principal Architect and CTO

Leo Li, Principal Architect and CTO of Socnoc AI Inc. 

Dr. Li has great experience in HPC,GPU and networking architecture for more than 15 years. Dr. Li developed the world fastest CPU and GPU-based named data networking (NDN, or ICN), the next-generation decentralized network architecture. 

Now Dr. Li start new journey with data switching processor (XPU) to consolidate the network protocol with PCIe and CXL to provide the best solution for composable and networked infrastructure.

Oleg Berzin graduated from Technical University of St. Petersburg, Russia with the MS degree in Computer Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Oleg worked at Verizon for 20 years, where he held various technology leadership and development roles, including development of enterprise mobile private networking and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services on the 4G LTE network. He is currently a Technology Innovation Fellow at Equinix where he is responsible for development of innovation strategies and prototypes in the areas of Mobile and Fixed Edge Infrastructures, Internet of Things, Next Generation Interconnection, Virtualization, and Network Automation. Oleg has extensive expertise in complex multi-protocol, multi-technology network and infrastructure products and services, and he is proud to hold the Lifetime Emeritus status for his three CCIE certifications (R&S, WAN Switching, SP).

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