Nominee’s bio

I am Jian Li from Seoul, South Korea, currently working as a manager at SK Telecom (SKT). Jian received his Ph.D degree from POSTECH in 2016. His research is in the area of Software-Defined Networks (SDN), mainly focuses on control plane management. Jian started his career with ON.Lab through his internship in November 2015. After finishing his internship, he started working as an open source developer for ON.Lab during 2016 - 2017, and the same period he worked as a Post-doctoral researcher and research assistant professor at POSTECH. In ONOS, he designed and implemented various features on top of Open Network Operating System (ONOS) such as Control Plane Manager (CPMan), Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) mapping system support and gRPC northbound interface. Jian Li has participated various conferences and workshops to present research papers. In addition, he has organized various ONOS events to promote ONOS to Korean SDN community.

How long have been working in the Ambassador Program?

Jian has been working in the Ambassador program since Q1 2016. He was elected as a member of the first A-team.

What contributions have you made in the past to the Ambassador Program?

Followings are the contributions made for Ambassador program.

1. By being part of A-Team, Jian helped A-Team to draft the governance model of Ambassador program.
2. As an Ambassador mentor, Jian regularly hold the conference call/meeting with his mentees, guide them to perform a set of activities like holding events and promoting ONOS/CORD project locally.
3. Jian has organized a set of ONOS/CORD events during 2016 - 2018. Being a chair of ONOS/CORD Working Group Korea and also an Ambassador, Jian organized 9 ONOS/CORD Developer’s Meetups in the past two years with the help of Korean Ambassadors (Sangho Shin, Daniel Park, DongKyun Kim, and Sangyun Han). Moreover, as a part of A-Team, Jian helped ON.Lab/ONF to organize ONOS Build 2017. The more detailed information about events organized by Jian can be found in following link. (Note that the events should be filtered by selecting Korea in Country field) https://ambassadors.opennetworking.org/past-events/
4. As an ambassador, Jian also gave several ONOS related talk in several conferences and workshops (e.g., SDNFV conference, KNOM, APNOMS, Openstack Day Korea, SOSCON, ONOS Build, etc.).

What are you actively working on in the Ambassador Program?

Jian is currently mentoring 10 Ambassadors mostly in Asian region. Moreover, he is actively engaging with local ONOS/CORD community members, organizing ONOS/CORD meetup in Korea.

Why do you feel you would be a good candidate for this position?

I think I can be a good A-team candidate, because I do not only have the technical background of ONOS/CORD project which makes me confident to promote and discuss about ONOS/CORD project, but also I have good connections in Asian community which makes me easily reach out to community members and promote ONOS/CORD project. 

Are there any changes you would like to bring to the community if elected into this position?

I think our program has a good start and I believe the community will grow even bigger in near future. To be a member from service provider, I think I would promote this program internally, and make this program more transparent and open to the people from service provider.

By far the brigade model and Ambassador program is detached from each other. By working as a brigade lead as well as an Ambassador, I realized there were many chances that we can align the two program and make the two program even better. In my point of view, many Ambassadors have good connections with their local community; however, they do not have tight connection with core/brigade team. This makes Ambassadors feel difficulties to get updated with new features from core/brigade team, and there might be high chance that Ambassadors speak out stale information in their community. At another hand side, brigade lead also feel difficulties on promoting cools features that his/her team has developed and made available through open source. If I was elected as an A-team member, I would like to make contributions to the direction of harmonizing the two programs.