Cristian Mandras has been working for the last 20 years in the Telco industry, mainly on cloud architecture for radio and core network functions. In his previous role as Chief Architect at Nokia, he managed the architecture specification to build the cloud infrastructure with relevant telco grade features to support Nokia’s real-time radio and core network functions.

In his current role at Red Hat, Mandras works with network equipment providers (NEPs) to design, onboard, validate and certify their containerized or virtualized network functions using the Red Hat portfolio of cloud solutions. He also works with the global telco ecosystem to position Red Hat as a strategic vendor for NEPs.