Technical Steering Committee

Andreas is an initial member of the ONAP project within Deutsche Telekom.

With more than 20 year experience as OSS Software/System Developer and Architect at Nokia/NSN,
He joined Deutsche Telekom 6 years ago as Senior Architect working in the “OSS Architecture & Innovation”
group of the “Technology Architecture & Innovation” department.

Located in Bonn, he is leading DT’s ONAP Labs, in which they are hosting multiple ONAP instances used within Proof of Concept projects as well as for automated installation and testing.

This year DT founded a development project, which focusses to create a DT Network Automation platform using ONAP as basis. Within this project Andreas serves as the lead system architect.

Catherine Lefèvre is an AVP in AT&T’s Network Cloud and SDN Platform Integration organization. She serves as ONAP TSC Chair since September 2018.

Located in Belgium, she is responsible for the software delivery of the Rules-Based Process Automation Platform, the Service Provisioning Platform (Voice, Network/Service Elements, etc.), TDM Network, System Impact Analyzer (RAN OpEx Savings) and AT&T SDN Platform (Application Controller, Policy Framework, Control Loop Automation Platform, Service Design & Creation, Master Service Orchestrator, Portal, Multi-Site State Coordinator Service, Virtual Infrastructure Deployment). She is also focusing on transforming BSS/OSS systems to Microservice Architecture and achieving data powered control loop automation. She leads AT&T Network Common Platform & Services Target State Architecture and drives ONAP/O-RAN (vRAN) SMO strategic alignment.

Catherine received a master’s degree in computer science as well as a qualified teaching degree in computer science in 1996 from the University Of Namur (FUNDP).

She joined AT&T in 2013. During her time with AT&T, she focused on software development best practices and early prototypes and proof of concepts of AT&T’s SDN technology, accelerating AT&T’s ability to move from concept to scaled production development, integrating the DevOps Culture for increased collaboration between the development and operations teams. In 2017, she co-led with AT&T Labs the open sourcing of the ECOMP Platform. She received several awards for her technical depth that provided a unique and significant contribution to AT&T (AT&T Science and Technology Medal; Technology Development President Award in 2016 and 2017).

Catherine is part of AT&T’s EMEA Women’s Network, mentoring young women about careers in STEM.

She is an avid horse rider and photography enthusiast.

Cedric has deeply contributed to make ONAP’s doc gates more deterministic by cleaning the Jenkins Jobs and by pinning our python dependencies.

• 9.78K commits in LFN
• LFN TAC member
• ODL TSC member
• Anuket TSC member
• First Committer Representative to LFN Board
• 6 OPNFV awards
• etc.

Chaker is an Independent Consultant focusing on the Opensource Technology, 5G Technology, Cloud Virtualization and future looking technologies.. He is currently the Chairman of the ONAP Architecture Subcommittee, ARCCOM, and has supported this position for the past 3+ years. He is also an active member of the 5G-super blueprint, LFEdge TAC, ONAP Enterprise Work Group, just to mention a few.

Up until 2016 he had spent over 30+ years with AT&T labs where he managed many development organizations responsible for developing large scale systems in support of the Advanced Network Services and customer facing services. He was also a key contributor to the SDN/NFV and the virtualization strategy within the AT&T Labs. To that end, he managed the development organization responsible for ECOMP, which, along with the Open-O Project, became known as ONAP.

Post 2016, Chaker held the positions of Technical Director of Virtualization and Opensource Strategy at Huawei and Futurewei.

Dan Xu has rich experience in CI/CD and Container-based servers and is familiar with several other projects under LFN, where she has been contributing in LFN for more than 6 years. Currently she is the PTL of the VNFSDK and CLI projects in ONAP and this year has been working in the Usecase-UI project in ONAP and designing and developing the Intent based server.

Dan was formerly the PTL of Anuket’s Dovetail Project as well as a member of OVP and CVC which collaborates with ONAP. Her work focused on OVP including developing its backend tool and frontend portal, selecting and integrating test cases, supporting and debugging tests of commercial products et al.

For the last 2 years, she has also been engaged in another open source community, EdgeGallery and established its Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines. She developed the Ansible-based automatic deployment scripts to install k8s and EdgeGallery Platform with helm on k8s.

Dr. Wang currently works as a research engineer at China Telecom Research Institute (Beijing). The research & development group focuses on the next generation network reconstruction of China Telecom, which is named the target of CTNet2025 whitepaper. Based on SDN/NFV technology, lots of outputs have been achieved by the team in the architecture, orchestration and full-stack solutions of 5GC, SD-WAN and so on.

Before Joining in China Telecom, he concentrated on his academic research at universities in the UK, where he received an M.Sc. by Research degree in telecommunications and a Ph.D. degree in computing (networks and communications). His research interests are around modeling and optimization of complex communication networks. Multiple emerging areas of communication networks have been touched, like 5G and beyond networks, large scale heterogeneous WSNs and IoT. Several academic papers had been published in academic conferences and journals including a top impact factor journal IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He also has rich experience in software development in the industry both in the UK and China. Based on the above experience in academics and industry, he has the potential to make more contributions to the next generation network reconstruction of China Telecom, as well as the development of ONAP.

Martial has worked in the telecommunications industry for 20+ years as 3rd party vendor then carrier. His experience in Software development includes API Monetization, Big Data Analytics, Smart Metering, Broadband Access Network Software, Location Based Service, Fault detection on Electrical Network. The past 5 years, have focused on SDN/NFV and Cloud Computing. He has also worked on bringing software into the network, building a scaled, reliable Network Automation platform, ensuring carrier grade requirements can be met.

An active member in ONAP since the beginning of the journey in 2017, He was the PTL of the CLAMP project since its inception and a committer of the Policy project. He was also an active member of the ONAP Control Loop Sub-committee while it was in existence.

He likes to develop Android mobile applications related to Sport Tracking and helps coach young people (Tennis, Mathematics)

Keguang He has more than ten years of working experience in the field of telecommunication, and my main efforts are in NFV and SDN technology and solutions, specifically in the E2E scenarios and Intent network solutions.

He has been an active member of the ONAP community since 2019, participating mainly in E2E Network Slicing use case, as well as the Test Topology Auto Design, general intent model and general intent interface use cases. He has contributed more than 20K lines of code to ONAP.

As the PTL of the ONAP UUI project, he is also responsible for the daily maintenance of UUI, and ensures that the operation of the UUI project meets the requirements of the ONAP community and contributes to the collaboration and alignment between ONAP and other relevant open source communities and standards organizations.

Magnus Buhrgard is an open-source and standardization manager and is responsible for coordinating Ericsson’s ONAP engagement. He is also Ericsson’s primary delegate to ETSI ISG ZSM.

With 30 years of experience in the telecommunication industry, his work has spanned a multitude of architectures and technologies, reaching from fiberoptic research to network and service automation. He has a long-term engagement in carrier-grade network architecture, previously serving on the boards of SA Forum and SCOPE.

Magnus is also engaged in the challenge of merging standardization, open source, and R&D ways of working.

He is the ONAP technical community coordinator in the area of Network Management, since 2019. In that role he has acted as the ONAP liaison officer in relation to SDOs, e.g. 3GPP, NGMN and TM Forum.
He has also been a speaker on ONAP related subjects in a number of conferences, e.g. Layer123 World Congress.

Magnus holds an M.Sc. in Engineering Physics from Lund University, Sweden.
He enjoys running and down-hill skiing.

N. K. Shankaranarayanan (Shankar) is a Senior Principal Architect with Sterlite Technologies Limited (STL) where he is responsible for architecture and strategy for ONAP/O-RAN product solutions. Prior to that he worked for 29+ years with AT&T Labs Research creating and delivering research innovations in wireless systems & networks, and providing leadership in wireless standards. His work has spanned diverse areas including: 5G/4G/3G/VoLTE, cloud-based radio network automation, ONAP-based RAN automation solutions, Near-RT RIC development, service and network quality management, radio propagation, full-duplex wireless, fixed wireless systems, and fiber/cable systems.

During 2018-2021, he led the development and production deployment of the first ONAP-based 5G SON solution in AT&T. Since 2018, he has served as the 5G SON Use Case Lead in the ONAP open-source forum,
leading the development of ONAP-based SON solutions and PoC demonstrations. During 2006-2008, he served on the WiMAX Forum (WMF) Board of Directors, and also as Chair of the WMF Service Provider Working Group and Chair of the WMF X.509 Task Force. He was part of the core team that deployed the first two-way broadband fixed wireless
Internet field trial in 1997.

Shankar has 85+ patents in his name and 50+ research publications. He has a Ph.D from Columbia University (New York), an M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), all in Electrical Engineering. He is senior member of the IEEE. He has served as a volunteer teacher for high-school students for 10+ years, and received the President’s Volunteer Service Award.

Pawel is a Product Manager at F5 for VNFM and NFV solutions. He’s been actively contributing to ONAP from its early beginning. For the last 3 years he has led the ONAP Security Subcommittee, focusing on building awareness among open source community on security and incorporating best practices.

He has 20+ years experience in the telco industry, 18 of which were at Orange/TPSA where he was responsible for testing and deploying aggregation and core networks for triple play services, dealing with building skill centers for BRAS/BNG, providing internal professional services in IP and transport domains and most recently creating strategy for operator’s IT and network operations convergence.

He received Master of Science in Telecommunications from the Warsaw University of Technology, and holds an Executive Master of Business Administration at Kozminski University.

Ram is a Senior Solution Architect engaged in building Bell Canada’s Network Service Orchestration & Automation platform which is primarily based on ONAP architecture principles. He is an open source enthusiast primarily contributing to the ONAP community. He has participated in many open source conferences and delivered talks & demos in them as well.

His primary interest is towards building policy based control loop automation of telecommunication networks and related devices, so that future networks can self heal, self optimize and self manage themselves. Ram has jointly published a paper in CNSM 2019 on the same topic. He has been an active member of ONAP since beginning, primarily contributing to the Policy & Control Loop domain and also, serving as a committer of Policy Framework project.

He has a rich telecommunication domain experience working In OSS, BSS & IoT areas, designing & building end to end software systems, which can be highly performant, scalable, resilient & future ready. Mentoring people towards the right goal is one of his greatest passions and he has been lucky enough to receive high accolades in return as well. Ram loves traveling and exploring new places a lot and is a “super foodie” person.

Seshu is an Opensource enthusiast, and tech savvy ONAP evangelist.

A hands-on Solution Architect and an experienced Techno Manager with demonstrated history of delivering solutions while leading Global Project Teams.

Skilled at providing and building E2E solutions, architecture, design and implementations for both commercial and open source projects, using various tools and technologies.

Seshu is one of the key contributors of the LF community, constantly striving to build an overall solution with the user centric designs. He has spoken at various global forums like the ONES, Kubecon, Open-infra, ETSi, LFN, on various topics including Orchestration, 5G, Slicing, NFV/SDN, PaaS, K8s, ETSi, Edge, Cloud native and many more. He has also been a guest lecturer to various reputed Universities (IIT-Madras, BEC-Bagalkot).

Timo is the Head of Open Source Network and Service Automation at Nokia, where he is responsible for driving Nokia’s overall engagement in ONAP. In this role Timo works across multiple industry organizations, both open source and standardization, engages with both customers and other industry players, as well as internally across all Nokia businesses.

Timo has over 25 years of experience in network systems, ranging from multivendor interoperability verification, systems architecture research, new business incubation, to network and operations systems standardization. In his current role Timo was instrumental in ensuring Nokia’s early commitment and platinum founding member engagement in ONAP.

Prior to joining Nokia Timo was a lecturer at his alma mater Helsinki University Computer Science department, where he focused on distributed systems and systems communications.