Paul Carver has been involved in AT&T's cloud architecture since 2012. Paul has been active in Open Source communities including OpenStack, OpenContrail/Tungsten Fabric, and Akraino. Prior to it being called "cloud" Paul designed, deployed and supported datacenter and WAN IP networks for a cloud-like interactive voice response system called VoiceTone. And before that Paul worked on central office telemetry hardware and call center software. Paul has been the PTL of the Akraino Radio Edge Cloud blueprint since it was created in 2019.