Technical Committee

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 four 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. Belmiro also holds a degree in Mathematics.

Ghanshyam is currently serving as a member of OpenStack Technical Committee and as PTL of OpenStack QA. He is full-time upstream developer in OpenStack with an active contribution in many projects mainly in Nova, QA etc. He has worked in different domains like Avionics, Storage, Cloud and Virtualization etc. He started his Software career as software developer in Avionic domain with C++ for around 4 years and then started working as OpenStack upstream developer since 2012. 

He is also a frequent speaker in OpenStack summits and LinuxCon and presented talks in LinuxCon 2015, OpenStack Summit, 2015, 2016, 2017 on various topics like RESTful API, QA, Cloud Backup, Open Source Community Building etc. He has been actively involved in various PoC and solutions design around OpenStack.

More Details: https://ghanshyammann.com/

Graham is a previous PTL of Designate, and a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee.

Graham worked previously as part of the DNSaaS team in HP Helion, and the DNSaaS team in HP Public Cloud before that. As part of this team he was responsible for operating a publicly accessible deployment of Designate, while working on new features for Designate, and developing a Designate in a box product for private cloud use.

Graham then lead the Kubernetes HA, Scale, and Performance Team at SUSE.

He then worked for Verizon Wireless as a Distingushed Member of Technical Staff, leading the System Operations team running the Verizon Cloud Platform, a global OpenStack cloud used within Verizon for NFV telco apps.

He is currently a Principal Engineer in Microsoft Azure, working on a team dedicated to finding the limits of Azure and advocating on behalf of customers to internal product teams.

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.

Jean-Philippe Evrard is a learner, problem solver, solutions bringer.

He started to contribute in OpenStack in 2015. He was the PTL of OpenStack-Ansible during the Queens and Rocky cycle. He is member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, and core reviewer on multiple projects.

He is also contributing on projects where help is needed (so ping him if you want reviews or patches!).

He is a lover of open source software, and is involved or follows other open source communities when he can.

If you missed him in OpenStack events or meetups, you can still meet him every year at the FOSDEM, handling the openstack booth with fellow OpenStackers.

I am a software developer attempting to simplify and automate everything. I'm a dedicated husband, avid Soccer fanatic, beer lover, and fond of all things GNU/Linux.

I work at Red Hat in San Antonio Texas where I am a member of the Deployment Frameworks team. We're building enterprise cloud solutions and next generation Open Infrastructure platforms.

Over the past 10 years, I’m happy to have watched the hosting industry transform and be part of the transformation process as it evolved from traditional physical hardware to cloud-native infrastructure, powered by OpenStack.  Since the creation of VEXXHOST, I have had the chance to work with different sorts of customers, ranging from growing small businesses to helping architect solutions for large Fortune 500 companies, based on OpenStack.  I've helped integrate other open infrastructure projects into our commercial offering.

By fostering OpenStack at it’s early days in 2011, it has helped improve the project and our service as a whole. I’ve been a contributor to the project since and I have contributed code to almost every release of OpenStack since then.  I've also served as PTL for Puppet OpenStack, continue to serve as a PTL for OpenStack-Ansible and serve on the technical commitee, chairing tthe commitee for a term.

I have been working alternately as a developer, a system administrator, and a system architect since 1997.  I have been working on Openstack since September, 2014, with a focus on the Quality of Servce ("QoS") functionality within Neutron.  I have worked with Red Hat in the OpenStack Networking group since June 2018.

I am very excited to be a part of the Openstack community.  I believe strongly that the open source paradigm not only enables the enterprise, but that it enriches the entire technology community, and indeed all mankind.