Olivier Smith has been an active member of the CVC starting with the former OPNVF program, and later helping to launch the Anuket Assured program.  Olivier is engaged across multiple open source communities including Linux Foundation for Networking, the CNCF, and the Telecom Infra Project where he is focused on developing and promoting cloud native best practices for the telecom industry.  He has over 20 years of telecom software development and leadership experience.  He has held senior management positions at leading telecom companies, worked as a telecom strategy consultant, and held numerous technical roles during his time at a global systems integration firm. 

Olivier has both the experience and collaborative spirit to help drive the next phases of the Anuket Assured program.  Anuket Assured has made inroads, but the journey has just begun.  Now more than ever, there is a need for better collaboration and coordination across Linux Foundation communities to bring meaningful results to service provider and vendor communities, to enable the industry to confidently adopt cloud native solutions and practices while transitioning from older technologies.

Olivier is the right person to lead the CVC in this next phase, coordinating across LF communities to bring further clarity and focus towards adaption of verified cloud native infrastructure and workloads.

Kanag have been collaborating  with CVC team and contributed in various part of OVP includes OVP badging requirements, OVP VNF certification framework, test case requirements, test tool implementation, integration of ONAP for VNF badging, NFVI and VNF test tool alignment with OVP portal, integration of Doveatil, Test result modelling, etc. Also co-leaded CNTT reference certification (RC) work stream and authored VNF testing framework, test case requirements chapters. And in ONAP, he have established VNF Test Platform (VTP) and leveraged it in OVP for VNF compliance and validation testing by using ONAP as MANO along with required Vendors/Community OpenStack. Also he have collaborated with networking industry includes 3+ operators 2+ vendors and 1+ partners & OVP lab providers and demonstrated the OVP values in 3+ ONS conferences & DDF events, which help to create awareness and importance of OVP.

Currently he is working as Lead Architect in Huawei and PTL ONAP VNFSDK/VTP and ONAP CLI projects, which would help in Anuket assured program (AAP) ONAP badging process. He is also participating in CNF support and VNF/CNF Test automation support in ONAP CNF Task force group, which would help in OVP 2.0 for CNF badging.

Earlier he was working as committer in OpenStack HEAT (Cloud Orchestrator) and Tacker(ETSI NFV Orchestrator) projects. And in total, he is  having 18 years of domain experience in management and orchestration (MANO) of ICT industries includes Datacenter, virtualization, Cloud, container, NFV and SDN.

He also standardized the Test automation (brought up as part of CNTT RC test framework) in TMForum OpenAPI specification 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709 and 710

Considering all these rich experiences of Kanaga, I would like nominate him for CVC leadership position, to work towards making AAP to next level of industry acceptance and adoption.

Thank you.