Joe Ghalam is a distinguished engineer/architect at Dell EMC. Qualification for achieving distinguished engineer at Dell EMC was working across business lines with a broad technical reach and impact for which Joe is recognized.

Joe was lead architect for Dell EMC’s next generation open networking platform operating system OS10. He has worked with Dell EMC networking customer advisory members and partners, and networking product line management, plus the CTO office in chartering and implementing the open networking strategy. Joe was technical lead in delivering the SONiC Open Source project under OCP. He is very familiar with demands of the open source community and has a broad reach within Dell EMC networking engineering to marshal resources required to addressing the technical challenges that face the OpenSwitch community.