Sunku Ranganath is a Solutions Architect for Edge Compute at Intel. For the last few years, his area of focus has been on enabling solutions for the Telecom domain, including designing, building, integrating, and benchmarking NFV based reference architectures using Kubernetes & OpenStack components. Sunku is an active contributor to multiple open-source initiatives. He serves as a maintainer for CNCF Service Mesh Performance & CollectD Projects and participated on the Technical Steering Committee for OPNFV (now Anuket). He is an invited speaker to many industry events, authored multiple publications and contributed to IEEE Future Networks Edge Service Platform & ETSI ENI standards. He has been elected as senior member of the IEEE.