Gerardo García de Blas

OSM TSC Chair at ETSI / Telefonica

Speaker

Gerardo García is Technology Expert in the Cloud & Infrastructure Area of Telefónica’s Global CTIO Unit. He elaborates PoC, recommendations and best practices oriented to support a multi-cloud multi-site infrastructure where both infrastructure and applications are managed in a cloud-native and declarative way.

He currently serves as the chair of Chair of Technical Steering Committee at ETSI Open-Source MANO. Prior to working in OSM, he was involved in the development of NFV ecosystem from its birth, contributing to the ETSI NFV ISG, with a particular focus on the data plane performance of Network Functions.

Areas of expertise include public and private clouds, multi-cloud tools and technologies, Kubernetes, GitOps, AI, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Open-Source MANO (OSM), orchestration and automation in the telco sector.