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.

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.

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.

N. K. Shankaranarayanan (Shankar) is an Affiliate Research Scientist with Rutgers WINLAB, with research interests covering wireless networks and technologies, wireless standards and open-source solutions. Prior to this, he worked at AT&T Labs Research and STL Access Solutions. His work has spanned diverse areas including network automation solutions, wireless field trials, service and network quality management, radio propagation, full-duplex wireless, fixed wireless systems, and optical fiber/cable systems. He led the development and production deployment of the first cloud-based 5G SON solution in AT&T. He serves on the ONAP TSC and LFN TAC Committees, and has served on the WiMAX Forum Board of Directors. Shankar has 95+ patents in his name and 50+ research publications. He has a Ph.D. from Columbia University, an M.S. from Virginia Tech, and a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, all in Electrical Engineering.

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).