Karthik Sethuraman is a Principal Software/SDN Architect at NEC, setting direction for SDN Control and Service Orchestration systems. He has extensive experience in architecting, designing and hands-on coding of control and management software systems for TDM, WDM and Packet transport networks. He has been active in SDN field since its early days as co-editor of ONF Openflow Optical extensions and is actively involved in the standardization of the technology in the industry. Karthik is a co-chair of the MEF LSO Committee and an editor/co-lead of the MEF LSO Legato & LSO Presto IPS, IM & SDKs projects. Karthik also leads the ONF Transport API (TAPI) project, is a TST member of ONF OTCC & OIMT projects and an active participant in the ODTN project.  Karthik has a degree in Computer Science and spent his early career in AI systems research.