Ildikó started her journey with virtualization during the university years and has been in connection with this technology different ways since then. She started her career at a small research and development company in Budapest, where she was focusing on areas like system management and business process modelling and optimization. Ildikó got in touch with OpenStack when she started to work in the cloud project at Ericsson in 2013. She is one of the co-leaders of the OpenInfra Edge Computing Group and a Community Manager for the StarlingX project, active participant in communities such as Anuket (formed by the merger of OPNFV and CNTT) and State of the Edge and she is also very passionate about on boarding and training activities, which is one of her focus areas within the Open Infrastructure Foundation (formerly known as OpenStack Foundation).