Omar Baldonado is part of Facebook’s networking software team, responsible for large-scale software systems that model, automate, monitor, and control Facebook’s network. The network domains include Facebook’s data centers; global transport and IP backbones; edge points-of-presence; and Connectivity Labs initiatives. The team also works on open networking systems, driving a set of disaggregated and fully open network hardware and software through the Open Compute Project (OCP) and projects such as FBOSS. A veteran of multiple startups, Omar has been developing networking software for over 20 years. He is the co-lead of the OCP networking project and on the board of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF).