Balaji Ethirajulu is a senior director of product management at Ericsson, driving technologies in the areas of open source, automation, orchestration, NFV, SDN, 5G, cloud-native, edge computing, networking, and IoT. He has more than 25 years of experience in product management, technology strategy, marketing, engineering, and professional services covering telecom, enterprises, and other vertical industries. For the past several years, he has been serving the Linux Foundation open source projects in various industry elected leadership roles.