I was instrumental in helping develop Tungsten Fabric technical charter, as well as the blueprint process. I am, and have been, ATC (Active Technical Contributor) to several OpenStack projects. I have chaired and co-chaired multiple teams in OpenStack and have driven multi-project architectural integration – generally a huge challenge in Open Source world. I have been actively involved in Open Source world for 6+ years.
In the past life, I have worked for several successful startups which were either acquired or had successful IPOs. Additionally, I have worked for several large corporations in the architect role where I have driven architectures that resulted in multi-billion portfolios. Some of these names include Arista Networks, F5 Networks, Cisco, etc. I was winner of Pioneer Award in Cisco – highest technical achievement award, and several others.
I hold several patents in the area of Hierarchical Datacenter topologies, Hybrid Cloud, High Availability, Disaster recovery using distributed deployments, etc.