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Loving the Open Source community. Trying my best to contribute to the development of Open Source software and communities.
I'm involved in the following OpenStack projects: Compute Service (Nova),Identity service (Keystone),Block Storage (Cinder),Placement service (Placement),The OpenStack Integration Test Suite (Tempest),The OpenStack RBAC Integration Test Suite (Patrole),Nova,Patrole,Keystone,Tempest
I have been engaged in OpenStack since 2012 as a support engineer and then full time upstream developer since 2014. Currently, I am serving as a Individual Board of Director, Member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, and Core developer in various projects for example Nova, QA, and served as PTL for QA projects.
Open Infrastructure Foundation plays a vital role in building this healthy community by connecting developers, users, providers, and organizations. In addition, it provides an excellent platform for every stakeholder to work on the open-source software for infrastructure building. To summarize, OpenInfra is a vital pillar to add business value to the Cloud Ecosystem.
My most significant contribution is to serve as an upstream developer since 2014 to improve the software quality by understanding the use case and requirements. Also leading in community-wide goals (common improvement in all the OpenStack Projects) for OpenStack projects, which help bring more consistency and improve usability and maintenance.
I have been serving as Board in OpenInfra foundation for last two years and contributing in multiple roles. In addition, being an upstream developer for many years, I completely understand the need and gap in the community to build or improve the software closer to the use case and requirements. I feel my close engagement with community and sharing the same in Board will help both groups to work more closely.
The board plays a vital role in any foundation. For OIF, it is also important to provide transparency and openness in the community, which helps attract more and more organizations to become members and help involve new contributors. It also supports and guides the OpenInfra foundation in various planning and activities with a wide range of experience and expertise, which provides a centric mission and motivation to be engaged together to build the open-source software.
Keep Driving the strategic planning for the foundation and community. It involves engagement and attracting more new members in the OpenInfra family and keeping track of all things/resources required by all the Open Infra projects like OpenStack, Kata Containers, Airship, Zuul, and StarlingX. Maintaining a healthy community is the overall goal and success for everyone. Nowadays, we need more contributors to help in the community, especially in OpenStack, not just in the projects used at production but also in the basic maintenance of community in support projects like CI/CD, QA, release. Therefore, strategic planning can be helpful to solve the current issues faced by the OpenInfra projects.
Collaborating around the adjacent technology and communities is much needed to build and grow together. Kubernetes is a good example of it. Having such communities more closure in governance and community work can help both communities solve their issues.
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