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Anil has been serving the OpenDaylight project since 2016 (since the Boron SR2 release), with by contributing to release management and engineering activities, and is an active maintainer of the LF/releng* repositories.
He works closely with the developer community supporting projects, performs timely releases, and maintains the infrastructure for the project. During the late 90s, he began his journey learning Linux,
started his career with Novell, and got an opportunity to contribute to Open Source (MIT Kerberos). He's has worked in the areas of Security & Identity Management, Networking, Storage/File Systems,
Systems/DevOps and Release engineering with firms like Goldman Sachs, HP, and Redhat. He is always inclined to experiment and learn new technologies and has a keen interest in OSS, security, and deep learning.
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* Migrate existing CI jobs from Jenkins freestyle jobs to Jenkins pipelines.
* The previous Last year, I have led spearheaded the work on containerizing ODL using docker/K8S pods/clusters. This gives an opportunity for new developers to deploy/test ODL as a container. There are more
There is scope to add more use-cases that could be added and with potential for migrating CSIT jobs to start using ODL on potential opportunities to migrate some of the CSIT jobs onto the K8S environment.
* Improve processes and workflows within OpenDaylight, ensuring best practices are shared across LF projects.
* Optimize ODL's CI infrastructure to improve CI/job performance with a focus on quality, metrics and minimize downtime.
* Continue making OpenDaylight Simultaneous Releases in a timely manner.
* Facilitate new developers to contribute to ODL and automate the infrastructure.
* Improve documentation that would benefit the larger developer community.
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