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Dreambig Semiconductor, General Member Rep.

Asim Usman
Marvell

Chetan Sehgal
Nvidia

Dror Goldenberg
ZTE

Hao Chen
F5

Joel Moses
Arm

Marc Meunier
Intel

Michael Lynch
Red Hat

Rashid Khan
Dell Technologies

Shekhar Mishra
Keysight, Chairperson

Venkat Pullela

Dreambig Semiconductor, General Member Rep.

Asim Usman

Asim Usman is working as Director of Software Engineering at DreamBig Semiconductor. Asim has more than 18 years of experience in different Ethernet related technologies. Ranging from real time stock feed handler, protocol accelerators, automotive Ethernet and now SmartNIC, he brings a diverse Ethernet experience with him. He was part of AUTOSAR standardization body while at Mentor Graphics (SIEMENS). He has delivered multiple successful projects and has great team-building skills. At DreamBig Semiconductor, he looks after software modeling with special focus on RDMA, OVS, eBPF and QUIC.

Marvell

Chetan Sehgal

Chetan Sehgal is a Distinguished Engineer at Marvell, leading the Compute Solutions team in the Custom Compute and Storage (CCS) BU. He has been with Marvell for more than 19 years. He is currently leading projects focused on DPU infrastructure, Compute security solutions, and Automotive Compute Software.

Nvidia

Dror Goldenberg

Dror is currently the Senior Vice President of Nvidia Networking Software Architecture. He leads Nvidia’s DPU, NIC and Switch product lines architecture. His focus is on software strategy and enabling networking innovation through software stacks and APIs, strategic partnership, open source strategy and hackathons. Prior to that, Dror served as Senior Vice President of Software Architecture at Mellanox Technologies.

ZTE

Hao Chen

Hao Chen is a marketing director of Cloud Infrastructure and DPU working for ZTE.  He has worked in ZTE  over 16 years. Now he also works as a board member of OPI. He lives in Nanjing, China.

F5

Joel Moses

Joel Moses is currently serving as the domain CTO for Systems & Platforms at F5, as well as attaining the rank of Distinguished Engineer. He has over 30 years of industry experience in cybersecurity and networking fields.

Prior to joining F5, he designed large scale security and infrastructure architectures for consulting clients and served as the lead US Security and Infrastructure Architect for one of the largest accounting/consulting firms in the world.

At F5, he is a founding member of the Office of the CTO, and is principally responsible for advanced research, intellectual property, proof-of-concepts, and strategic studies related to security, hardware, and cloud technologies. He holds several US patents related to encryption techniques.

Arm

Marc Meunier

An engineer at heart with a passion for innovation, Marc is never far from a soldering iron or a pile of design books. After years of leading engineering teams in live-video production, mobile devices, and Fintech, Marc gravitated towards intercompany leadership roles that focus on common architectures to accelerate high tech innovation. As the Director of Ecosystem Development, Marc leads projects in security and networking as part of the Infrastructure line of business at Arm. To nurture a global framework for these projects, Marc sits on the governing board for the Confidential Compute Consortium and the Open Programmable Infrastructure project.

Intel

Michael Lynch

Mike Lynch is a Senior Director in Intel’s Network & Edge Cloud Networking Group. He is currently responsible for building networking solutions and ecosystem scale for Intel’s Infrastructure Processing Units (IPUs) across Cloud, Enterprise and Telco market segments. He was previously Director of Strategy & Business Development for Networking & 5G in Intel’s Data Center & AI group, and over the last 10 years has held senior positions in Product, Program and Engineering Management supporting Intel’s networking business.  Prior to Intel, Mike held several technical and managerial roles in Ericsson, across multiple product lines.

Red Hat

Rashid Khan

Rashid Khan is Senior Director Networking at Red Hat. He is also the Board Chairman for DPDK. He has 25+ years of networking development industry experience. Recently he has been focusing on Telco 5G, Smart Nics, Security, Ebpf, DPDK and Upstream kernel. More about him at Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theman)

Dell Technologies

Shekhar Mishra

Shekhar Mishra is the Director for the Emerging Networking business unit at Dell. As part of this role, his team drives the strategy and roadmap for Dell’s networking business for core datacenter, cloud and Edge. He also leads the SONiC strategy and roadmap. Before Dell, Shekhar was the Director &GM for the Lenovo Software Defined Business unit. He was responsible for the Strategy and roadmap of the Lenovo Software Defined portfolio. Shekhar managed the portfolio strategy and roadmap to drive Lenovo’s success in Hyperconverged and Hybrid / Private Cloud segment. Before this role, Shekhar was responsible for driving the product strategy for Flex System, Solutions and Systems management for Lenovo.
Prior to Lenovo, Shekhar managed the Blade portfolio at IBM – BladeCenter and Flex System. Shekhar joined IBM in 2008 and he was responsible for the overall product portfolio roadmap and strategy for Flex System and BladeCenter. Previously Shekhar was working for Verizon where he managed a Software development team. Shekhar has over 20 years of datacenter experience across compute, network and storage. Shekhar earned his MBA from Kenan Flagler Business School (UNC) and holds a BS in Computer Science.

Keysight, Chairperson

Venkat Pullela

Venkat Pullela is currently the Chief of Technology, Networking for Keysight Technologies, responsible for Strategy and Emerging Technologies. His current focus is on open networking, and evolving testing architectures. He was previously Co-Founder at OpenNets, a company that develops tools for programmable networks and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions. He has also worked at Broadcom as a Distinguished Engineer and at Cisco as a Sr. Director of Engineering. His areas of interest include efficient switching architectures, pipeline description languages, hardware abstraction and interfaces. He has been an invited speaker at ONF Connect, OCP, Supercomputing, Linux Foundation and SIGCOMM events. He holds 25 patents. He earned an MS in CS from IIT, Kanpur and MBA from ISB, India.

Technical Steering Committee

Intel

Dan Daly
ARM

Dong Wei
Dell Technologies

Joseph White
Marvell

Satananda Burla
Red Hat

Simon Horman
ZTE

Songming Yan
F5

Tim Michels
Tzahi Oved
NVIDIA

Tzahi Oved
Keysight

Venkat Pullela

Intel

Dan Daly

Dan Daly is a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel focusing on software architecture for enabling programmable infrastructure spanning across cloud and edge deployments. With a background in programmable switching since the beginning of P4, Dan currently works on software within IPDK and OPI that can enable programmability across switches, IPUs, and software dataplanes including DPDK and eBPF.

ARM

Dong Wei

Dong Wei is an Arm Fellow and Lead Standards Architect of the Architecture and Technology Group in Arm Limited. Dong joined Arm in 2016. He leads the Arm SystemReady certification program with definitions of the hardware, firmware requirements for the Arm-based systems in the cloud data center, industrial edge and IoT markets. He also leads the system manageability and security requirements for these systems. In this standards-based effort, he covers industry standards such as PCI Express, Trusted Computing, CXL, UCIe, UEFI/ACPI, DMTF, OCP and OPI. 

Dong has been involved with the PCI-SIG for over 16 years and is a Board member. He is a Board member of the CXL Consortium as well as the UCIe Consortium. He is the Chief Executive and a Board member of the UEFI Forum.

Before joining Arm, Dong was a VP and Fellow at HPE for a year and a VP and Fellow at Hewlett-Packard Company for over 20 years where he worked to design the system architecture for the PA-RISC, Itanium, x86, x64, RISC-V, Arm AArch32 and AArch64 systems. Dong has earned Executive MBA, MSEE and MS in Physics. He lives in Los Altos, CA.

Dell Technologies

Joseph White

Dr. Joseph L. White is currently a Fellow with Dell’s CTO office focused on NVMe-oF, DPUs (Data Processing Units), networking, and disaggregated infrastructure. Previously Dr. White has worked for Juniper Networks, NetApp (Decru), McDATA, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), and as a co-founder of Nishan Systems which was the first company to champion IP storage within the industry to deliver enterprise quality multi-protocol SAN switches, routers, and gateways. Dr. White has a PhD in High Energy Particle Physics from Rice University.

Marvell

Satananda Burla

Satananda Burla is a Senior Principal Engineer at Marvell, he has over 14+ years of industry experience, architecting and developing PCIe Networking and NVMe storage solutions for Marvell Octeon SoCs. He is a key contributor and maintainer of PCIe drivers for Marvell Octeon SoCs for Linux kernel, DPDK. He also represents Marvell at OPI, OASIS virtio and IDPF technical committees

Red Hat

Simon Horman

Simon is a Member of Technical Staff at Red Hat where he works on the Networking Services team. He has 25+ years of industry experience and is a long term contributor to the Linux Kernel, Open vSwitch, and other Open Source software projects. Simon enjoys working on projects at the intersection of open and networking as they facilitate bringing people together, the sharing of information, and the building of knowledge.

ZTE

Songming Yan

Songming Yan is a Chief DPU Acceleration Engineer working for ZTE. He has worked in openstack and DPDK over 3 years. Now he also works as a TSC member of OPI. He lives in China.

F5

Tim Michels

Tim is a Distinguished Engineer at F5.  He works closely with both the F5 Systems Group and the Office of the CTO. Tim has 30 years of design and product experience with network appliances including switches, routers, and Application Delivery Controllers.  His focus over the last decade has been on the integration of hardware acceleration components (ASIC, FPGA, ASSP) with software stacks to achieve optimal system design.  Tim is a key member of the F5 team creating a path-finding vision for the use of SmartNIC technologies by F5 and the industry at large.

Tzahi Oved

NVIDIA

Tzahi Oved

Keysight

Venkat Pullela

Venkat Pullela is currently the Chief of Technology, Networking for Keysight Technologies, responsible for Strategy and Emerging Technologies. His current focus is on open networking, and evolving testing architectures. He was previously Co-Founder at OpenNets, a company that develops tools for programmable networks and software-defined networking (SDN) solutions. He has also worked at Broadcom as a Distinguished Engineer and at Cisco as a Sr. Director of Engineering. His areas of interest include efficient switching architectures, pipeline description languages, hardware abstraction and interfaces. He has been an invited speaker at ONF Connect, OCP, Supercomputing, Linux Foundation and SIGCOMM events. He holds 25 patents. He earned an MS in CS from IIT, Kanpur and MBA from ISB, India.

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