Cédric Ollivier is a network automation expert in Orange. He is involved in new network architectures around network programmability, global orchestration and network disaggregation.

He also acts as a network automation evangelist within Orange and he is very involved in the network transformation programme towards automation.

He contributes to multiple opensource projects in relation with Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV): OpenStack, OpenDaylight, OPNFV, ONAP, etc.

He currently leads OPNFV Functest and is committer in OpenDaylight TransportPCE and OPNFV Releng.

He was elected as OPNFV Technical Steering Committee (TSC) member in 2018 and awarded several times as best OPNFV community developer.