Vishal Thapar is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat Inc. He is the Project Technical Lead for OpenDaylight OVSDB project and contributor to Netvirt, Neutron and Genius projects. He has more than 13 years of experience in networking. He has been working in SDN for more than 7 years now in various roles with HP and Ericsson prior to joining Red Hat. He has conducted workshops, tutorials and given presentations on OpenDaylight at various forum like OpenStack summit, OpenDaylight Summit and ODL User Group India events.