Ravi Potluri is an Associate Fellow in Verizon's Technology Planning & Architecture organization, responsible for the planning of orchestration, automation, and closed-Loop service assurance for Verizon’s Virtual RAN Network Functions (VRAN NFs). He began his career as a software engineer at GTE two decades ago and held roles with increasing responsibilities in Product Engineering, Systems Architecture, End-to-End Technology Planning and Orchestration Planning. Ravi holds a MS in Computer Science from University of Minnesota at Duluth.