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