Collaborative Project Updates (Automotive Grade Linux, Node.js, Open API, ODPi, Zephyr, CII)

Collaborative Project Updates (Automotive Grade Linux, Node.js, Open API, ODPi, Zephyr, CII)



About Dan Cauchy, Automotive Grade Linux
Dan Cauchy is the General Manager of Automotive at Linux Foundation. He is responsible for the overall management and execution of the Automotive Grade Linux collaborative project, an industry effort to build an open source automotive reference platform backed by leading car manufacturers around the world.

Dan has over 22 years of experience spanning the automotive, telecom, networking and mobile business verticals. Prior to his current position, Dan was the Vice President and General Manager of MontaVista’s Automotive Business Unit (acquired by Mentor), responsible for P&L and worldwide execution of MontaVista’s automotive software strategy, sales, marketing, products and services. During this period, Dan served on the Board of Directors of the GENIVI Alliance and was responsible for the creation of the GENIVI Compliance Program, a group that he chaired for its first three years, which led to the release of the GENIVI Specification, a widely adopted standard in the automotive industry. While at MontaVista, Dan previously held the position of VP of Marketing and BD where he was responsible for the development and execution of MontaVista’s global marketing strategy, which led to an acquisition by Cavium.

Based in Silicon Valley, Dan has extensive startup experience. He was the Director of Product Management at Atrica (acquired by Nokia-Siemens Networks), a carrier Ethernet equipment provider startup. Prior to Atrica, Dan was the Director of Architecture and Strategy at BlueLeaf Networks, a tunable laser optical networking startup (now Picarro). He also previously held senior management positions and engineering leadership positions at Cisco Systems, Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel) and Nortel.

Dan earned a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (with a Computer Engineering major) from the University of Ottawa. He holds three patents in the areas of routing and networking with several others pending.

About Mikeal Rogers, Node.js Foundation
Mikeal Rogers is the Community Manager for the Node.js Foundation.

About Jeff Borek, Open API Initiative
Jeff Borek (WW Program Director for Open Technology & Partnerships, IBM) is a senior technology and communications executive with over twenty years of leadership and technical experience in the Software, Telecommunications, and Information Technology/Consulting industries. He is currently the business development lead for the Open Technologies and Partnerships team – working with clients, business partners, leading industry analysts, and various open source community initiatives including; the Linux Foundation, the OpenStack cloud software project, and the Cloud Foundry Foundation. He also represents IBM as the current Chair on the Docker Governance Advisory Board.

About Roman Shaposhnik, ODPi
Roman Shaposhnik is a Director of Open Source @Pivotal. He is a member of Apache Software Foundation, committer on Apache Hadoop, founder of Apache Bigtop and, as of late, a man behind ODPi curtain. Roman has been involved in Open Source software for more than a decade and has hacked projects ranging from Linux kernel to the flagship multimedia library FFmpeg. He grew up in Sun microsystems where he had an opportunity to learn from the best software engineers in the industry. At Pivotal, among other things, he was leading an overall open source effort of Pivotal Data products in 2015.

About Kelly Hammond, Zephyr Project
Kelly Hammond is Technical Assistant & Chief of Staff, Open Source Tech Center, Intel.

About Nicko van Someren, Core Infrastructure Initiative
Nicko van Someren is The Linux Foundation’s chief technology officer focused on the Core Infrastructure Initiative and other security-focused efforts at the organization. van Someren has extensive experience across the security and networking industries. Most recently, he was the chief technology officer of Good Technology where he oversaw future technology strategy and research. Prior to joining Good he served as chief security architect at Juniper Networks where van Someren was responsible for leading the technology and design direction for the company’s Network Security products, as well as promoting Juniper’s security solutions to industry and government sectors. Before joining Juniper, he was founder and CTO of the security technology company nCipher Plc. van Someren holds a doctorate and First Class degree in computer science from Cambridge University in the UK. He is a fellow of both the Royal Academy of Engineering and the British Computer Society.

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