This election is to fill a seat of the Technical Committee that has been vacated.
Nomination period will close on Feb 14th.
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Name: Rupam Choudhury
Short Bio:
I am a Lead Network Engineer supporting “Network Cloud” at AT&T. My role is to define the network architecture including Overlay and Underlay for AT&T Cloud offerings (AIC and NC). I am currently leading the design of 5EC/Network Cloud platform which will support 5G control plane and user plane applications and IP Services vNFs.
My career started as a Unix Systems administrator working for New York Stock Exchange and later joined AT&T. As my career progressed in AT&T, I made multiple skill pivots supporting AT&T’s Broadband services, Cable ISP customers and VoIP ENUM solutions as a Network Engineer specializing in Datacenter networking working on Cisco/Foundry switching routing and load balancing gears. I was an integral part of the design team that developed anycast routing DNS model to support uVerse/MIS customers supporting 6 million+ queries per sec. I led the design of Network Virtualized Platform (NVP) which drive the architecture of various cloud offerings within AT&T.
In addition, I am a research oriented engineer. During 2015-2018 I authored 3 US Patents in the area of mobility and SDN.
Statement of Intent:
I want to shape Tungsten Fabric to support features that meets Telco needs and also meets Edge use cases. I want to develop community support to enhance TF to be meet resiliency, performance, security and feature needs by closely working with the community and communicating effectively the real need of the business.
Name: Zhaoyan Chen
Short Bio:
Zhaoyan Chen is a senior software engineer in Intel for 6+ years, working on Tungsten Fabric performance test and analysis. Besides Tungsten Fabric, Zhaoyan is also responsible for analyzing DPDK performance on Intel x86 platform and test automation. He is the CI expert and also contributed to DPDK community lab setup last year. Before joining Intel, Zhaoyan worked for Marvell on mobile industry.
Statement of Intent:
Have been worked for Tungsten Fabric over 1 year, delivered pure software performance suite for Tungsten in community, and drove the 1st Tungsten open lab online, which was announced in KubeConf 2018 in PRC. I want to continue to drive a better CI for community, analyze and optimize Tungsten vRouter performance, and show Tungsten performance improvement with optimization/new hardware platform/new NIC in open lab.