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Arpit Joshipura
GM General Manager of Networking, IoT & Edge
Arpit Joshipura
GM General Manager of Networking, IoT & Edge
Arpit Joshipura is an executive leader and open source software evangelist across carriers, cloud and enterprise IT – spanning networking, orchestrations, operating systems, security, AI, edge, hardware and silicon. He was recently voted among the Top 5 Movers and Shakers in the Telecom Industry. At the Linux Foundation, Arpit leads open source networking, orchestration & edge/IOT, including LF Networking projects (ONAP, OPNFV, ODL, FDIO, OvS, DPDK, OpenSwitch, Akraino/Edge/IOT, etc.) as well as major industry disruptions including VNFs to CNFs (Cloud Native Network functions), 5G, AI, etc.
Arpit brings 30 years of networking expertise and vision to The Linux Foundation, with both technical depth and business breadth. He has orchestrated and led major industry disruptions across enterprises, carriers, and cloud architectures, including IP, broadband, optical, mobile, routing, switching, L4-7, cloud, disaggregation, SDN/NFV, and open networking, and has been an early evangelist for open source. Arpit has served in CMO, VP, and Engineering roles within both startups and larger enterprises.
Casey Cain
Sr. Technical Community Architect
Casey Cain
Sr. Technical Community Architect
Casey is the Senior Technical Community Architect for the OpenDaylight, Tungsten Fabric, XGVela, and ODIM Projects under the auspices of The Linux Foundation, where he works on community development and all aspects of release management. His extensive background in Networking, Linux, and Open Source spans positions at companies such as Intel, where he was a Network Validation Engineer, to Google Fiber, where he owned all aspects of experimental programs. While at Google Fiber, Casey helped to develop and deploy the first HTML5 cloud-based UI and second-generation CPE hardware. Casey is a retired, disabled veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces. In addition, he is a recipient of several combat awards and Service medals for thousands of hours of community service. In his free time, Casey enjoys video games and physical fitness training
Jill Lovato
Director, Marketing Communications
Jill Lovato
Director, Marketing Communications
Jill leads marketing communications for LF Networking, LF Edge, and several other related projects at the Linux Foundation. As an experienced tech communications and marketing leader with nearly 20 years’ of experience across both open source and corporate environments, she brings a deep understanding of diverse global strategy.
Prior to joining the Linux Foundation, she worked as a vendor for Microsoft, managing strategic communications initiatives for Windows across crisis management, partner/ecosystem management,  reviews, and product launches. Before finding her passion in tech, she helped small businesses and nonprofits expand their voice, following a stint in radio as on-air talent. She holds an MBA in Marketing  and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University, and spent a year teaching English to French high school students outside of Paris.
When she’s not talking about open source, Jill spends time with her twin boys and advocates for special needs and accessibility rights between taking naps and watching Scandinavian crime dramas.
Louis Illuzzi
Sr. Technical Community Architect
Louis Illuzzi
Sr. Technical Community Architect
Louis is the Senior Technical Community Architect lead for L3AF, EMCO, and 5G Super Blueprint. Louis led the on-boarding of several new projects into the LF Networking umbrella, and led the Value of Open Source Software study for LFN. He began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories and was on the team that developed early IP telephony systems, and the 1st in-building wireless telephone system for enterprise. After many years in R&D, he accepted positions in services and operations where he became PMP and SCRUM Master certified, and led many high profile programs for AVAYA, Siemens, VMware.
In his free time Louis enjoys family time, bicycling, hiking, kayaking, and is an accomplished fly fisherman.
Ranny Haiby
CTO Networking, Edge and Access
Ranny Haiby
CTO Networking, Edge and Access
Ranny is in charge of driving technical innovation further, creating opportunities for synergies among open source projects, and identifying emerging trends and projects.
Ranny is a software veteran who has been focusing on pushing the envelope in open source innovation in recent years. Prior to joining the Linux Foundation Ranny was a director at Samsung Research America, leading the open source group. He provided leadership and guidance for engineering teams across Samsung who were actively contributing to open source projects such as ONAP, CNCF, ROS, and Matter (CHIP).
Prior to that Ranny served as a Principal System Architect in the Nokia CloudBand product group where he led the design of network automation systems serving the telecom industry. His previous positions include technology leadership roles in the domains of cloud computing, networking, and multimedia broadcasting. In addition to his corporate roles, Ranny has been elected by LF open source communities to the role of technical committee member and technical advisory council vice-chair.
Sridhar Rao
STCA, Networking and Edge.
Sridhar Rao
STCA, Networking and Edge.
Sridhar is the Senior Technical Community Architect lead for DENT, eBPF and ORAN-SC projects.
Sridhar received his Ph.D degree in computer science from National University of Singapore, in 2007. He has worked as Post-doctoral fellow at Microsoft Innovation Center, Politecnico Di Torino, Turin, Italy, senior researcher with NEC Technologies, research fellow at Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Singapore, and as senior architect at Spirent Communications.
He was a Member, TSC at LFN Anuket and PTL of Anuket-ViNePerf and Anuket-Thoth. Sridhar’s research interests are mainly in the domain of next-generation wired and wireless networking, and use of Machine-Learning in Networking.
He has been working on Software-Defined-Networks since its inception. He has worked on various opensource (ODL, ONOS, RYU, OVS etc) and commercial (NEC) SDN controllers and switching-platforms. He is certified in Next-generation Datacenter Networking, Openstack, Docker containers, Kubernetes and Machine Learning (MLSS).
Sridhar’s real passion is Teaching. He spends his Saturdays teaching at a Rural Engineering college. In his free time, he enjoys watching football (strong Liverpool FC supporter) and reading books (non-fiction).
Sunny Cai
Marketing Manager
Sunny Cai
Marketing Manager
Sunny leads marketing and communications for multiple LF projects, including LF Edge, SONiC and LF Networking, at the Linux Foundation. Her expertise spans content creation, marketing analytics, and automation, enriched by hands-on experience in creative domains such as graphics design and video production.
Before joining the Linux Foundation, she led the marketing team at the Open Infrastructure Foundation, where she managed marketing campaigns and channels for OpenStack and Kata Containers projects. Outside of work, she enjoys cycling, hiking and language learning.
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