Speaker Details

Principal, Luth Computer, a telecom and product strategy consultancy.  Previously senior product strategist at Verizon.  Launched many successful virtualized networking and security products and services: Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI), Virtual Network Services, 100% based on OpenStack Infrastructure, Application Edge, a Kubernetes edge application service,  Trusted Connection, a Zero Trust service. 

Member of the OpenInfra community since 2010. Helped architect some of the earliest large deployments, writing the documentation and designing the architectures. Co-author of the original OpenStack Architecture Design Guide. Currently active in the OpenStack Community as a member of the Edge Computing Work Group.  Continue to work on Edge computing and Telco Infrastructure supporting VNF and CNF type workloads.  More generally on the Open Source community side, Founding member and Chair of the Anuket Telco NFV infrastructure project.