Gold Director Selector Candidates
"The candidates on this list are the intended Gold Directors from the Gold Member companies who are running for election as Gold Director Selectors."
Brin Zhang
Brin Zhang, who works in Inspur, is mainly responsible for the work of OpenStack community. I am mainly responsible for open source project promotion, team building and new feature contributions. I am a PTL on Cyborg project and one of founder of Venus projects. I have been granted "Team Contribution Award (Venus Team)", "2020 Open Source Infrastructure Community - Individual Achievement Award", "CSDN Community Star", "Cloud OS Lead Award", and "Community Leadership Excellence Award" etc. honors by OIF and CSDN opensource organizations.
Jean-Pierre REN
Jean-Pierre REN Zhongping, head of Tencent TStack Architect, General Engineer of Ecole Centrale of Paris, Master of Tsinghua University. He started Private Cloud business since year 2011 and had participated in the cloud architectural design of CNPC. He joined Tencent Cloud TStack (an OpenStack distribution) team in year 2018, and is now in charge of the architectural solution for software and HCI in the TStack product line, an OpenStack distribution.
As the Chief Architect of Tencent Cloud TStack, I am specialized in providing open-source-based infrastructure architectural consulting services to business customers, let it be government, education, healthcare, finance, energy, transportation, or industry. If you would like a bottle of fine wine on any occasion, I am also the guy you come to. JP the WSET-3 certified personnel, at your service.
Mohammed Naser
Over the past 10 years, I’m happy to have watched the hosting industry transform and be part of the transformation process as it evolved from traditional physical hardware to cloud-native infrastructure, powered by OpenStack. Since the creation of VEXXHOST, I have had the chance to work with different sorts of customers, ranging from growing small businesses to helping architect solutions for large Fortune 500 companies, based on OpenStack. I've helped integrate other open infrastructure projects into our commercial offering.
By fostering OpenStack at it’s early days in 2011, it has helped improve the project and our service as a whole. I’ve been a contributor to the project since and I have contributed code to almost every release of OpenStack since then. I've also served as PTL for Puppet OpenStack, continue to serve as a PTL for OpenStack-Ansible and serve on the technical commitee, chairing tthe commitee for a term.
Sebastian Wenner
I started my careen in 1997 at IBM Germany, when I came across a new open-source operating system called Linux which drew a lot of my attention and continued to do so until present time. Over the time the scope grew larger, and I followed the open-source path to the cloud world and got part of the OpenStack (back then) and now OpenInfra family.
Since 2012 I'm with T-Systems in different leadership roles and in 2014 we started a project to launch a public cloud for T-Systems/ Deutsche Telekom. This was the start of Open Telekom Cloud (OTC)!
As the infrastructure lead and chief engineer, I am responsible for everything between the upper edge of double floor in the data center and the upper edge of the operating system. Open Telekom Cloud is by now one of the largest OpenStack-based clouds in Europe, providing full GDPR-compliance and the full stack of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings.
Apart from doing all that computer stuff, I am married, have a son, and enjoy a lot doing some cooking & baking, spending time with my family and travelling throughout the world.
