diff --git a/candidates/2019/TC/bluejay.ahn@gmail.com b/candidates/2019/TC/bluejay.ahn@gmail.com new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5becf2c --- /dev/null +++ b/candidates/2019/TC/bluejay.ahn@gmail.com @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +I would like announce my candidacy to serve as the Airship Technical Committee. + +As a strong advocate of OpenStack community, I have been involved in OpenStack +from 2010, founded OpenStack Korea Community in 2011, and been a coordintor of +the Korea community since then. I have devouted myself to build an open and +healty local community, in addiiton, I have always been trying to be a good +arbitrator between local and global community to embrace a diversity toghether. + +Here are articles about various events that I have been one of main organizers +and program chair of the events [1], [2], [3]. Please see the presentation [4] +I did with two other community leaders on how we have built community in Korea. +I also have been doing my best to promote Airship both internally in my company +[5] and to other companies and organizations in Korea. I believe that I can +bring more diversity into Airship community and lay a foundation to be a truly +open global community. + +From a technical point of view, I have been leading OpenStack dev team since +2010. I have switched companies during those years but was able to focus on one +thing: deployment automation & lifecycle management of OpenStack. Airship is +the most recent efforts on this line of work in my career. Here is my linkedin +profile stating my work during the last 10 years [6]. +In the previous company, I led a team to develop chef-based automation pipeline +and did openstack engineering for production deployment & operation. Now, I am +leading a develeopment/engineering team to work on openstack-on-kubernetes in +SK Telecom. I have made an architectural decision to levergae kubernetes for +openstack lifecycle management in 2016, that this decision eventaully led us to +collaborate with AT&T team. Since then, I led many architectural decisions +together with a team. Leveraging Armada (even before Ariship was born) was one +of them. Besides armada and openstack-helm, SK Telecom uses different toolsets +(ansible, ironic, kubespray with kubeadm) due to the different use cases and +environmental & technical requirements. As a result of community collaboration +with AT&T, my team has internally introduced a platform called “TACO” (SKT All +Container OpenStack). TACO is the foundation of SK Telecom's various cloud efforts +including private cloud service, VDI, big data and analytics cloud platform, and +most important network virtualization. + +I have recently decided to put our efforts on making everything cloud native by +adopting kubernetes cluster-api and operator concept. I believe that Airship 2.0 +is moving toward very similar design concept. With the direction Airship goes +with 2.0 design, I am confident that Airship will be a great place "likely-mined" +people gather together as community, and really start embracing diversity into +project itself. + +As a techinical commitee member, if I am choosen by the community, I am fully +committed to hear various different use cases, requirements, and design goals +from many community members, and do my best to collaborate with others to guide +Airship 2.0 toward a unified direction, in the same time, be more flexible +enough to deal with different use cases. In addition, from the community point +of view, I will devout my self to make this community more diverse in healthy +way so that Airship becomes a really succesful open source software project. + +Thank you for reading this, and hope everything goes fantastic with Airship. + +[1] https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/building-new-foundations-openinfra-days-korea/ +[2] https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-korea-days-2017/ +[3] https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-day-in-korea-2015-to-infinity-and-beyond/ +[4] https://www.slideshare.net/openstack_kr/boston-summit-what-makes-it-possible-to-run-openstack-community-for-three-generations +[5] https://www.globalskt.com/official.php/home/info/2313 +[6] https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsahn/ \ No newline at end of file