Open Networking Foundation Leadership

Engineering leader with deep experience in open source, distributed systems, networking, security, software development. I am passionate about building exceptional teams who make a difference. My broad operational experience running all aspects of technical organizations gives me the background to build strong organizations or fix ones that are broken.● Delivery experience with a range of products from cloud native to embedded.● Team building and fixing across the range of new startup to public corporation.● Operations leadership in software and hardware development, QA, product management, data center operations, IT, customer support, professional services, strategy, research, and security.

Larry L. Peterson is a noted American computer scientist, known primarily as the Director of the PlanetLab Consortium, co-author (with Bruce Davie) of the networking textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach," and for his research on the TCP Vegas congestion control algorithm and the x-kernel operating system.

I am currently the Vice President of Research & Development at Open Networking Foundation where I lead the service provider-driven mobile platform, built on the pillars of open source, SDN, NFV, and cloud, aiming to drive the transformation of wireless network infrastructure and carrier business models on the path towards 5G. In this capacity, I lead the Aether, OMEC, SD-RAN, and COMAC EP projects as well as the multi-site Pilot Network operation of the Aether Network. Prior, I served as the Chief Architect for Mobile Networking at ONF. Before joining ONF, I was the Chief Technology Officer at Argela-USA where I was the innovator of a Programmable Radio Access Network Architecture (ProgRAN) for 5G that enabled the world's first dynamically programmable RAN slicing solution, allowing for programmatic end-to-end slicing for different use cases (see the article, "Argela brings 5G slicing a step closer using M-CORD" below). In my capacity as the CTO, I have led the efforts in architecting and developing PoCs for ProgRAN, including PoCs for enterprise use cases (see the article, "Netsia’s Platform Lets Operators Slice and Dice the RAN"). I have also held prior positions at Nokia Research Center and Bell Laboratories where I conducted and managed research on 3G, wireless packet data and wireless location technologies. I have also extensively participated in various 3GPP committees during this time. I hold over 30 US and European patents on various aspects of 3G, 4G and 5G. In addition, I have authored over 15 patent applications on various aspects of the ProgRAN architecture since 2015. Areas of expertise include:- Mobile Networks (5G, LTE, 3G)- SDN for Wireless- Mobile Edge Cloud- Software-Defined Networking (SDN)- Virtualization - NFV and Network Virtualization- Research Leadership

Thomas Vachuska is a Chief Architect at ON.Lab; Alumnus at Charles University, Prague; and Chief Architect at Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and is based in Menlo Park, California. He has worked as Software Architect at HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE CO, Software Engineer & Lead at HP Server & Workstation Manufacturing, and Software Engineer at HP Workgroup Network Division (today’s HP ProCurve). Thomas studied at California State University Sacramento between 1984 and 1994 and Charles University between 1981 and 1982.