2023 Board Elections: Candidate List

About Julia Kreger

I started my working career in technology close to twenty years ago. It has surely not been an average career, but a career where I've continually learned and evolved to fulfill the need. In a sense, it all started with Linux and answering some questions about installing Linux. This started a journey into computer networking and eventually shifted to a systems engineering focus with a stop-over in data center operations.

The DevOps movement lead me more into software development and the operationalization of software due to the need to automate large scale systems deployments. This required bringing an operational perspective while bridging to the requirements, and often required digging deep into the underlying code to solve the problem of the day.

In a sense, I found a home in OpenStack in 2014 and the Ironic project in 2015 because of many years spent working with physical hardware in data centers. 

I presently work for Red Hat as a Principal Software Engineer, where my upstream focus has been Ironic for the past few years, and my downstream focus has been on helping lead adoption and use of Ironic. 

 

About Allison Randal

Allison is an open source software/hardware developer and strategist. She is a board member of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, chair of the board at the Software Freedom Conservancy, a board member of Open Usage Commons, and co-founder of the FLOSS Foundations group for open source leaders. She previously served as chair of the board at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, president of the Open Source Initiative, president and board member of the Perl Foundation, board member at the Python Software Foundation, chief architect of the Parrot virtual machine, chair of the board at the Parrot Foundation, Open Source Evangelist at O'Reilly Media, Conference Chair of OSCON, Technical Architect of Ubuntu, Open Source Advisor at Canonical, Distinguished Technologist and Open Source Strategist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Distinguished Engineer at SUSE. She participates in the Debian and RISC-V projects.

About Amy Marrich
Amy has been involved in Open Source since its early years as both an Operator and as an Open Source Software Development Manager. She joined the OpenStack community with the Grizzly release in 2013 while operating a private cloud and started contributing patches during the Mitaka release while at Rackspace. Over the years she has become a Core Reviewer on several projects and has held various leadership roles. She currently serves on the Open Infrastructure Foundation Board of Directors and is Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Finance Committee. In addition, she is a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee, chair of the OIF Diversity and Inclusion Working Group, and previously served as the chair of the OpenStack User Committee. Amy is currently employed at Red Hat as an Open Source Evangelist and Principal Technical Marketing Manager while also serving as the Community Architect for the RDO Project.

About Arne Wiebalck
With a degree in physics and a PhD in Computer Science, Arne joined the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) as a system engineer more than 15 years ago. Initially working on distributed file systems and the low-level tape infrastructure, he moved to the cloud team in 2014 and eventually became responsible for the operation of CERN IT’s OpenStack based private cloud infrastructure. Currently, he acts as the lead for the Cloud and Linux teams in CERN IT. He contributed upstream to various projects over the years (such as Cinder, Manila, or Ironic), is a regular speaker at OpenInfra events and an Ironic core member,  has joined the Technical Committee and acts as the chair of the OpenStack Bare Metal SIG.

About Mohammed Naser

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.

About Shane Wang

Shane Wang is an Engineering Director of Cloud Software at Intel's System Software Products. He has participated in or led his team on research and development of open source software projects such as Xen, tboot, Yocto and OpenStack. He has been serving as an Individual Director of OpenStack Foundation Board since 2015, with years of commitment to community development and building. Currently he is focusing on software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) technologies, edge computing, and NFV-related domains, including OpenStack, Ceph, SODA (also known as OpenSDS), ONAP, Akraino, StarlingX, OpenDaylight, OPNFV, DPDK, and so forth. He is interested in edge computing much so he is engaged in other open source solutions such as EdgeX, CORD, OpenEdge, KubeEdge, and ioFog. Right now he is also chairing the APAC session of OSF Edge Computing Working Group.

He got his PhD degree on Computer Science from Fudan University at Shanghai in 2004, and joined Intel after graduating from the school.

About Belmiro Moreira

Belmiro Moreira is an enthusiastic mathematician and computer engineer passionate about the challenges and complexities of architecting and deploying large scale Open Infrastructures.

Belmiro works at ESA (European Space Agency) in the critical Mission Operations Ground Segment Infrastructure supporting all the agency spacecraft missions.

Previously, he worked at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). At CERN he was responsible for the design, deployment and maintenance of the CERN Cloud Infrastructure based on Openstack. He also worked in different virtualization projects to improve the efficiency of the large Batch farm at CERN.

Belmiro is from the beginning an active member of the OpenStack community. Currently, he is an individual director of the Board of Directors of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, and a co-chair of the OpenStack Large Scale SIG. Previously, he was also a member of the OpenStack TC (Technical Committee) and the OpenStack UC (User Committee).

Belmiro is particularly interested in the challenges that cloud operators face when maintaining large scale open infrastructures. He talks regularly about his experience in several conferences and events, (OpenStack Summits, OpenStack User Groups, OpenInfra Live, CentOS Dojo, ...) and helps in the organization of many other events.

Belmiro is committed to continue to support the OpenInfra community.

About Ghanshyam Mann
Ghanshyam is currently serving multiple roles in OpenInfra/OpenStack Community. He is the Individual Board of Directors in OpenInfra Foundation, Chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, Core developer in various OpenStack projects (Nova, QA and a few more), and also served as OpenStack QA project PTL. He started working in OpenStack with NEC in 2012 as a cloud support engineer, and since 2014 he has been involved in upstream development. His main upstream focus is on Nova, QA, API stability, and CI/CD. In addition, he is passionate about bringing more contributors to the Open Infra family and helping them in onboarding in the community via different programs like First Contact SIG, Upstream Institute Trainings, and mentorship. Before OpenStack Upstream, he worked in different domains like Avionics, Storage, Cloud, and Virtualization. Ghanshyam started his career in technology as a C++ software developer to automate the flight management system which reduces flight operating costs as well as the pilot workload. He has also been a frequent speaker in various Open Source events such as OpenStack summit, Open Infra summit, Open source summit, Open Infra Days, and LinuxCon on various topics like RESTful API, QA, Cloud Backup, Open Source Community Building, Open Source Governance. In addition, he has been actively involved in various PoC and solutions designs around Cloud OSS and currently serving as Cloud Consultant in NEC. More Details: https://ghanshyammann.com/

About Rico Lin
Rico Lin, Board of Director for OpenInfra Foundation, Heat PTL, char for Multi-arch SIG, OpenStack Cloud Engineer at Vexxhost. Experienced in OpenStack development (infra and app), Cloud architect, Container(docker and k8s), community(contribute and event host), and customer tech consults and supports. Goals in OpenStack: * Improve experiences of Cloud-native application on top of OpenStack(by improving infra and user experiences).* Blending OpenStack with other cloud solutions to make it become one indispensable layer.* Leverage the community differences across global (Include let Asia community get more actively join to others).

About James Denton

James Denton is Principal Architect for Rackspace. He has spent almost 8 years building OpenStack-based private clouds as part of the Rackspace Private Cloud group, and has been involved with OpenStack since the Essex release. James is an active participant in #openstack-ansible on IRC, and has released numerous books related to OpenStack Networking and other OpenStack projects.

About Jean-Philippe Evrard
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 was member and chair of the OpenStack Technical Committee, and core reviewer on multiple projects. He was also an OpenStack release manager. He owns his own company, TLaaS, advising companies on their open-source strategies and providing leadership services. He worked for City Network (an OpenStack Super user award recipient), now named Cleura, as CTO. Jean-Philippe (JP) 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.

About Kurt Garloff

I'm currently working on a building a European Cloud initiative - this will be my professional focus starting 2020 after leaving SUSE following their change in direction.

Dec 2018 - Dec 2019, I was responsible for the Cloud and Storage Departments in SUSE R&D.
SUSE builds and maintains the SUSE and Helion OpenStack Cloud Products, is a platinum member of the Foundation and a strong upstream contributor.

Before SUSE, I was leading the architecture, community and consulting teams in Deutsche Telekom's Open Telekom Cloud Team.

DT has been a vocal supporter of OpenStack since I joined in early 2012 -- we have been able to run several OpenStack projects. We have participated in most OpenStack Summits and are active in a few working groups. I personally support the InterOp Workig Group, a key area for OpenStack's success given the centrifugal forces in such a large project. DT has become gold member of the OpenStack Foundation in 2016 and has been headline sponsor for a few summits (Barcelona, Boston, Berlin). I was serving in the board in most of 2018 until I handed over to Clemens Hardewig.

Before joining DT end of 2011 I was a long-time contributor to the Linux kernel, which also gave me the privilege of building up and leading SUSE Labs and work with a number of great engineers in- and outside my company, contributing to the success of the Open Source technology.

About James Blair

James is a core member of the OpenStack project infrastructure team. As a sysadmin and hacker he gets to write elegant code and then try to make it work in the real world. He has been active in free software for quite some time, and has previously worked for UC Berkeley and the Free Software Foundation.

 

About Vipin Rathi

 Vipin Rathi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi. He is  Vice-Chair and Individual Board of Directors at OpenInfra Foundation. He  is Chairperson of Linux Foundation Hyperledger Telecom SIG. He is Vice  President of the Emerging Open Tech Foundation. He is the organizer of  Openstack India, Magma India, CNCF Delhi, Open Edge Computing,  Hyperledger Meetups. His research interest focus on 5G networks,  Multi-Domain Orchestration, Blockchain Defined Networking. He is guiding  the Research team to develop a Kubernetes-based Cloud-Native OpenStack  named as KupenStack. He is an active member of Anuket, Magma Core. He  attended and delivered presentations at various Open Source summits.