About
Hi, I’m Manuel and I like distributed systems.
I’m currently researching for Nokia Bell Labs on cool platforms and how to make them more autonomous and intelligent when serving applications.
I have the best wife of all™ and two wonderful sons.
Projects
Serverless Workflows (2019-ongoing)
https://www.github.com/cncf/wg-serverless-workflowCreate a commonly understood Serverless workflow model language
The CNCF working group is seeking standardization of how serverless applications are modeled that are loosely coupled event-based, demand-scaled to zero, and interact on a global scale.
Cloud network virtualization (2011-2015)
SDN for distributed clouds, OpenStack, IETF ALTO, Netconf/Yang, Nuage, TOSCA
Several years of SDN research including controllers, WAN virtualization, intent-based networking, application-layer transport optimization and lots of making OpenStack more network-aware.
IRMOS (2008-2011)
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/214777Enable 'real-time' interaction between people and applications over a Service Oriented Infrastructure
We’ve developed the Intelligent Service-Oriented Network Infrastructure for this project to orchestrate machine and network virtualization, which is what you’d call a Cloud infrastructure today. It features distributed transactions to deploy and maintain application declarations (cmp. Kubernetes declarative resources) and supports performance SLA for real-time workloads.
IMS (2005-2008)
https://www.3gpp.org/technologies/keywords-acronyms/109-imsBuilding a distributed IMS with border nodes
We unified session border controller and border gateways on common off-the-shelf hardware to run a distributed IMS on a scalable set of IP multimedia exchanges up to deploying OSA applications at the domain edge of the provider network.
Experience
I worked on the IP Multimedia Subsystem, fixed mobile access network convergence, Cloud infrastructure, network virtualization, Cloud networking, Software-defined networking, Big data analytics, Container orchestration and I’m currently working on the Serverless paradigm.
Education
MSc Distributed Computing Systems Engineering
Brunel University
2016 - 2018
Taking an MSc after 10 years of work experience while building a house and awaiting my second son was a wonderful experience, not only because it was such a busy time, but because I got taught by Prof. Kyberd, Prof. Khan, Prof. Li and other great personalities. And I got to wear a gown and mortarboard, which is an extraordinary experience for a German.
BSc Information Technology
Berufsakademie Baden-Württemberg
2002 - 2005
This cooperative programme and my supervisors at Alcatel SEL AG gave me a great start into applied research and international collaborations.