Dhruv Dhody

My name is Dhruv Dhody and my pronouns are they/them. I am the chief architect at Huawei Technologies in Bangalore, India. I have been with Huawei for almost 20 years. I am currently working on research & standards for various technologies such as Path Computation Element (PCE), Segment Routing (SR), Network Slicing and SDN technologies. I have been an active IETF contributor since 2010 in the Routing area with a focus on Path Computation. I also co-chair the PCE WG and EO-DIR in the IETF. I am part of the Routing Directorate and Operations Directorate. In the past, I also served on the IETF list moderator’s team. I was recently selected to serve on the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) as well. 

I am the founding member of the INTC and have served as a board secretary since its inception. I am responsible for managing the meeting materials, minutes and general operation of the INTC. I have played a key role in the website design as well. One of the key missions of the INTC is to provide educational webinars and I have helped in the organizing, finding speakers as well as giving webinars myself. Some of this work was done in close collaboration with our partners – India Internet Engineering Society (IIESoc) and worked towards signing a MoU between the organizations as we work on the common mission. With IIESoc, we have organized multiple iterations of a successful annual event called Connections that has been very well received in the industry and helps bridge the gaps between under-represented industries and regions at the IETF. 

I have helped in finding a worthy partner in an educational institution in India, which sparked various projects, such as IPv6 deployment at the same institute, more in depth deployment focused webinars with a lab component, IoT and security webinars etc. I have played a key role in getting grants and these have helped us in preparing educational materials, recruiting students from Indian institutes to start working on internet draft, doing measurements, running Internet wide experiments and preparing interesting reports for the industry. These have been presented at the IETF. 

Apart from the technical work, I am also focused on increasing IETF participation from the Asia/Pacific and other under-represented regions and increasing diversity and inclusion in the Industry. 

I wish to continue on the role if the INTC members support the idea. I hope to see INTC achieve more in its mission, be more transparent and open, and try some new things apart from what’s already working. Even if I am not selected to be on the board, I hope I can help INTC in achieving its mission from the outside.