Lawrence Lai

Head of Global Alliances and Business Development for Storage, Futurewei

He is a business development professional with many years of experience in business development, alliance partnership building and management. He has extensive experience in cloud storage, mobile and embedded software development, project management.

He is highly recommended by executives as dependable, with can-do attitude, excellent technical and business skill, and proven record of success.

Brad King

Field CTO, Scality

One of Scality’s founders, Brad is responsible for the design of the largest systems. Scality is deploying around the world. These include multi-petabyte, multi-site systems, with hundreds of servers. Having begun his multifaceted career as a naval architect with the French navy, performing numerical simulations of ship capsize and waves around large ships, he and a partner started the Paris office of Software.com a provider of email software including Post.Office, in 1999. After a merger with Phone.com created Openwave, Brad continued there, working with fixed and mobile operators throughout Europe. He joined Bizanga Labs in 2008 as an architect, designing messaging security systems and large distributed storage systems. Brad holds a PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Shane Wang

Engineering Director of Cloud Software, System Software Products, Intel

Shane Wang is an Engineering Director of Cloud Software at Intel’s System Software Products. He has participated in or led his team on research and development of open source software projects such as Xen, tboot, Yocto and OpenStack. He has been serving as an Individual Director of OpenStack Foundation Board since 2015, with years of commitment to community development and building. Currently he is focusing on software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) technologies, edge computing, and NFV-related domains, including OpenStack, Ceph, SODA (also known as OpenSDS), ONAP, Akraino, StarlingX, OpenDaylight, OPNFV, DPDK, and so forth. He is interested in edge computing much so he is engaged in other open source solutions such as EdgeX, CORD, OpenEdge, KubeEdge, and ioFog. Right now he is also chairing the APAC session of OSF Edge Computing Working Group.

He got his PhD degree on Computer Science from Fudan University at Shanghai in 2004, and joined Intel after graduating from the school.

Pierre Zhang

R & D Director at China Unicom.

6 years of experience in communication system development and solution, 7 years of experience in cloud computing product planning and architecture, in-depth research in ICT product planning and cloud computing solution architecture. Deeply participate in Huawei’s public cloud work, and lead the work of LETV public cloud.

Xion Lai

Technology Platform Department PaaS Director, China Construction Bank Fintech

Responsible for establishing the container-cloud PaaS platform of china construction bank currently . Have many years of cloud computing experiences due to in charge of building cloud platforms for many Fortune 500 companies . Also dedicated great efforts in promoting the production and application of open source technology in the financial banking field .

Pradipta Banerjee

Architect & Engineering Lead – Cloud Native Computing Platform, IBM

Pradipta is the Architect & Engineering Lead for Cloud Native Computing Platform at IBM. His current focus areas are OpenShift and Kubernetes and leveraging the same for hybrid multi-cloud solutions. He is an open-source enthusiast, innovator and mentor.

Rupal Shirpurkar

Business Head (Cloud BU – APAC), Click2Cloud

As the business head (APAC region), Rupal is leading the global business relationship with top cloud providers includes; Alibaba, SoftBank, Huawei, Microsoft, IBM and Redhat.

She is one of the earliest OpenSDS (SODA) member & active contributor for enterprise adoption and key partnership building with storage vendors /cloud providers. In India, she helped conducting hackathons, GDG (google development group), opensource India and various initiatives to grow & expand the global footprint of OpenSDS community, as well as drive more companies to join and participate.

Currently, she is working on “SODA Test Labs” concept, where users will have frictionless (without any installation) SODA trial & upcoming technologies.

She was a co-organiser for the India OpenStack User Group. She has been awarded as Alibaba cloud most valuable professional (MVP), also ‘Indian opensource hero’s’ for helping start-ups to understand opensource technologies/ solutions with collaboration of Openstack ecosystems. Rupal is as community representative and speaker in several conferences across the globe; Linux foundation, Google, TiE, Alibaba submits, Openstack, AWS women leadership, global submit, Huawei connect, OpenInfra etc. Rupal is B.E – Computer science from Nagpur university.

Since beginning, she led the marketing team through several marketing strategies, large successful events and solidifying their brand within the region.

Shinya Hamano

Manager, Fujitsu

I have developed storage management software around 10 years, and now I’m in charge of manager of planning/development for lean service towards DX. My motivation to contribute the SODA is simplifying storage management that has been very complex over many years and accelerating our DX related business. I’m also a SNIA-Japan technical committee. Please feel free to contact to me.

Kei Kusunoki

Technology Development, Storage Engineer, NTT Communications

Kei Kusunoki has worked on the storage service/solution for telecom carrier’s cloud service since 2012. He has joined OpenSDS Project since 2018, showed the pain point of storage management from Service Provider’s perspective and proposed use-cases/demands of　Japanese end-user community.

Yusuke Sato

Engineer, Yahoo! JAPAN

Yusuke Sato is responsible for private cloud compute and storage at Yahoo Japan Corporation. He has been engaged mainly in verification of server hardware, operation of storage systems, and establishment and operation of virtual environments. He led the server and OS team from 2013 to 2016, and started leading the storage team for private cloud environment in April 2017. Yusuke Sato graduated from Kyushu Institute of Technology with a master’s degree in Life Science and Systems Engineering and is a member of the OpenSDS End-User Advisory Committee since July 2017.