From 9c7c4ba0cadb6f85aecaf42c5ccd9c605dab351d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Gu Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:12:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] James Gu self nomination for WC 2020 candidacy Add James Gu candidacy for WC 2020 Affiliation: Insight Global Change-Id: Iff2f4996fec7141a5c96d8a5cf31d861e7d8c1b1 Signed-off-by: James Gu --- candidates/2020/WC/james.gu@comcast.net | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 candidates/2020/WC/james.gu@comcast.net diff --git a/candidates/2020/WC/james.gu@comcast.net b/candidates/2020/WC/james.gu@comcast.net new file mode 100644 index 0000000..999265a --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/2020/WC/james.gu@comcast.net @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +Hello Airship community, + +My name is James Gu and I'd like to announce my candidacy for election to +the Airship Working Committee. I am currently employed by Insight Global. + +My journey with Airship started in late 2018 when working for SUSE as a +product owner/technical lead. I led a team effort of enabling multi Linux +distro's in Airship, with the goal to expand Airship's user base. +Collaborating with the OpenStack community, the effort had spanned many +Airship projects (Treasuremap, Armada, Shipyard, Deckhand, etc.) as well as +OpenStack Helm project. + +Prior to that, I had worked many years in technical leadership role in the +private cloud space, including workflow and orchestration, monitoring and +metering, HA and disaster recovery. Some work were directly contributed to +OpenStack, and other to proprietary technology. + +At the end of 2019, I became involved in OPNFV Airship project and was elected +the PTL in Spring 2020. I work with both the CNTT (Cloud iNfrastructure +Telco Taskforce) and OPNFV community to develop Airship Installer as a +Reference Implementation of cloud and NFVi, and support the CNTT Reference +Conformance Testing and Certification. Some example work includes Treasuremap +1.8 integration in the CNTT OpenStack Reference implementation and investigating +the Airship 2.0 POC for CNTT Cloud Native Reference Architecture. + +I am also involved in Airship 2.0 development when time allows. + +If I am elected, I would like to act as the bridge between the CNTT, OPNFV and +Airship community. CNTT represents the collective voice of the telco +operators and vendors. I want to help to feed their requirements and use cases +into the Airship community timely and regularly, and influence the Airship 2 to +better aligned with the CNTT direction. Some examples include K8s conformance +certification and gating, bring your own baremetal/k8s use cases. On the other +hand, Airship is AFAIK the only cloud technology designed for telco, supporting +both cloud native and OpenStack, and managing from baremetal and up. I want to +continue to be an adamant advocate of Airship in the OPNFV and CNTT community, +hoping that Airship will have a positive impact on the CNTT's technology direction. +I would also want to ensure Airship 2.0 conform to the CNTT Cloud Native reference +architecture and implementation specs, and contribute to the CNTT conformance +certification and testing. + + +Thank you in advance for your consideration. + + +James Gu