Anil has been doing research, design and development of software networking products for more than 15 years at RedHat and his prior employers. Most of his career he has been working in Software Defined Networks, Data Center Networking, Network Virtualization and Cloud Networking domain. He has been an active contributor to various open source projects like OpenDaylight, OpenStack and recently CNCF projects. He is contributing to open source projects for more than a decade now in various roles like project maintainer, project chair, technical oversight committee member, and community elected board member. He has been a frequent speaker at various research conferences, summits and local meetups. His research work can be found here (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y0iwRTYAAAAJ&hl=en ). He is passionate about disruptive networking technologies and prefers to contribute to these technologies in Open Source way. He has a masters in computer engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani-India​.