An executive leader & open source software evangelist in carriers, cloud and enterprise IT – networking, orchestrations, operating systems, security, AI, Edge, IOT, hardware and silicon (voted top 5 movers and shakers in telecom industry). Arpit is currently open source networking, orchestration & Edge/IOT executive leader across Linux Foundation projects & ecosystem, including LF Networking – ONAP, OPNFV, ODL, FDIO, OvS, DPDK,OpenSwitch, Akraino/Edge/IOT, as well as major disruptions including VNFs to CNFs(Cloud Native Network functions), 5G and AI.