The OpenStack Technical Committee provides technical leadership for OpenStack as a whole. Responsibilities include enforcing OpenStack ideals (such as Openness, Transparency, Commonality, Integration and Quality), deciding on issues that impact multiple programs, providing an ultimate appeals board for technical decisions and general oversight. It is a fully-elected Committee that represents the contributors to the project, and more details about membership and programs may be found in its charter.
I served as the IBM Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Cinder from early January 2014 until January of 2017. As the Cinder SME I earned Cinder Core status during the first half of 2014. I also took the opportunity to be Cinder's Oslo Liaison. Two roles which I continue to fill today.
In January of 2017, I took the opportunity to act of the Cloud Storage Lead for Lenovo's Cloud Technology Center. In this new role I am working to develop Lenovo's storage offerings and how they can best integrate with OpenStack. Through this new role I am working to increase Lenovo's presence in the OpenStack community and looking to continue to enhance enterprise adoption of OpenStack as a cloud solution.
Slawek is open source enthusiast with over 8 years of cloud experience, currently working as senior software engineer at Red Hat, where he contribute to the networking solutions for OpenStack. He is fan of SDN solutions.
Before joined Red Hat, he was DevOps and one of the architects of networking solutions in OVH Public Cloud service based on OpenStack.