Ajay Lotan Thakur brings over 19 years of extensive experience in datacom and telecom software development, specializing in core network development for 3G, 4G, and 5G technologies. As a speaker at conferences and a TST member in Open Networking Foundation's Private 5G project, Ajay actively contributes to advancing telecommunications. He serves as an IEEE senior member, part of the editorial team at IEEE ComSoc Techblog site, and collaborates with researchers at universities while excelling as a Cloud Software Architect in Intel's Edge Platform product.