Taras Chornyi is a Director of Open Networking Solutions and Strategy at PLVision, a software product development company focused on open networking. He is a General Member Governing Board Representative for the SONiC and DENT projects. Taras has dedicated 15 years of his career to embedded systems and networking. He identifies VoIP (voice over IP) as a particular interest of his. He holds a Master's degree in IT from Lviv Polytechnic University in Ukraine.