Jian Li
Principal Research Engineer at Open Networking Foundation (ONF)
Seongnam-si, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolJian Li is a Principal Research Engineer at SK Telecom with 14 years of experience building cloud-native AI and edge infrastructures, currently leading development of the in-house Petasus AI Cloud platform and xPU virtualization for GPU/DPU/NPU/HPU. He combines deep research pedigree (PhD) and academic roles with hands-on engineering across SDN/NFV, Kubernetes, and network acceleration, having led EdgeStack, Singulus Network, and SONA-K8S projects. An active ONF/ONOS contributor and technical steering member, Jian has applied his expertise to open-source networking (ONOS/CORD) including fixes and multi-node networking improvements in a widely used ONOS repo. Known for bridging programmable dataplane research and production-grade automation (Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm), he excels at turning advanced networking concepts into scalable platforms for AI and edge use cases. Based in Seongnam-si, South Korea, he brings a rare mix of academic rigor and product-focused delivery within telco-scale systems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Division of IT Convergence Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Division of IT Convergence Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology
Chinese, Korean, English, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
javas10
openstack10
arp10
network-protocol10
networking10
java10
vxlan8
vlan8
testing7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opennetworkinglab/onos
Nov 2015 - May 2022
Open Network Operating System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1411 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jian was primarily focused on improving the OpenStack networking Open Network Operating System (ONOS). Their contributions include fixing exceptions in Tempest integration tests by resolving issues in ARP handler. Additionally, they implemented improvements to the service IP to pod IP translation feature utilizing a combination of enhancements related to SNAT and addressing the issues within the multi-node and VLAN typed environments.
operating-system
petasus-ai/edgestack-image-builder
Aug 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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