Biographies

 

Osama I. Al-Dosary – MENOG Representative

Osama, formally a consultant at Cisco Systems, is currently an independent ICT consultant. He is also part of the Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG), an international forum dedicated to the education and raising awareness of Internet best practices. Additionally he serves in the RIPE Program Committee. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Networks from the University of Southern California. He has over 14 years of industry experience across various roles in the field of Computer Networking and Communications.

The roles he has undertaken during his career have ranged from Business Development; Research and Development; Network Engineering and Administration; System Administration; Service Provider Network Operations and Network Planning; to Technical Marketing.

Osama is also affiliated with many industry institutes and associations such as the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers); ISOC (Internet Society); APIA (Asia Pacific Internet Association); COMPSOC (Computer Society); SANOF (Saudi Arabian Network Operators Forum).

Cristóbal López Cañas – RIPE 73 Host Representative (ESpanix)

I have been the manager of ESpanix for the past 15 years, taking the organization from an informal group of about 20 friends (of whom five disappeared during the post 2001 techno bubble bust) to a working organization with more than 75 members and four Points of Presence (PoPs).
This is the first time I am involved in any RIPE Meeting committee.

Leslie Carr

Leslie CarrLeslie Carr is a Devops Engineer at Clover Health and a Board Member of SFMIX.

In her past life, Leslie most recently worked at Cumulus Networks in devops, helping to push automation in the network world. Prior to that, she was on the production side of the world at many large websites, such as Google, Craigslist, and Wikimedia.

Leslie is a lover and user of open source and automation. She dreams of robots taking over all of our jobs one day.

João Damas

Leslie CarrI am a member of the RIPE 73 Programme Committee as ESNOG’s host representative. I am also one of the organisers of ESNOG, and a Senior Researcher at APNIC.

I am also the founder and Chief Engineer of the services and consultancy company Bond Internet Systems. Previously, I worked at the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) in a variety of roles where I was responsible for the expansive anycast deployment of the DNS F-root server, and managed the evolution of BIND and the startup of the BIND 10 project.

Earlier, I served as Chief Technical Officer at the RIPE NCC. While there, I worked on the redesign and implementation of the RIPE Database, analysed and updated internal systems, worked to define RIPE Policies together with the RIPE community, and designed and started implementation of the RIPE NCC LIR Portal (now in production).

I work on several working groups within organisations and forums such as RIPE, IETF, ISOC, APNIC, etc; including chairing the RIPE Routing Working Group.

For around seven years, I was a main organiser the RIPE Plenary programme and launched
the current RIPE Programme Committee.

Peter Hessler

Peter HesslerPeter Hessler currently works as a Network Administrator for Hostserver GmbH. He is also a developer with the OpenBSD project, and is involved with OpenBGPD.

Working with computers for 20 years, Peter comes from helpdesk and Unix System Administration. He has been involved in most aspects of the networking industry since 2008, including technical support, vendor and operations.

Peter’s interests include BSD-licensed open source, urban exploring, and combining protocols in unexpected ways.

Mike Hughes

Mike HughesMike is a freelance consultant with over 15 years of industry experience, specialising in areas of multi-stakeholder relations, peering and interconnect, and technical evangelism.

Despite having a degree which has nothing to do with computing, Mike’s technical skills were forged in the fires of dial-up ISP tech support and network ops in the mid- to late-1990s, having to do mighty hacks to make things work, and the power of asking someone to /”Reboot and if it still doesn’t work, phone back”/.

Mike also serves on the Board of Directors and Programme Committee of UKNOF, and is Chair of the Board of Trustees of University of Greenwich Student’s Union.

Jelte Jansen

Jelte_JansenJelte Jansen is a research engineer at SIDN Labs, the R&D team of SIDN. His research and development topics include the domain name system, Internet protocols, and privacy/identity management.

Jelte has made several contributions at the IETF on the topics of DNS and DNSSEC, and worked as a software engineer on DNS implementations such as BIND, NSD, Unbound and ldns.

Jelte holds an M.Sc. (2004) in computer science from the Radboud University.

Shane Kerr – PC Vice Chair

Shane Kerr is the Chief Architect at the BII (Beijing Internet Institute) Lab.

Shane started his involvement with Internet organisations when he worked at ARIN as a Software Engineer. While there, he helped to implement ARIN’s first IPv6 registry. Shane then moved to the RIPE NCC, where he began working on the RIPE Database and eventually managed the RIPE NCC Software Engineering Department. Following this, Shane joined ISC – best known for making the BIND DNS server – to work on the team that added DHCPv6 support to the ISC DHCP server. He led the BIND 10 project at ISC, spent time as the Director of DNS Software and helped build the software for Dyn’s Hivecast system.

In his current role at the BII Lab, Shane works on researching alternate models for DNS root server deployment, DNS standards and Open Source DNS software development.

Shane served as a RIPE IPv6 Working Group co-chair for several years and has been on the RIPE Programme Committee for the past four meetings.

Brian Nisbet – RIPE Working Group Chair Representative

Brian Nisbet is the RIPE Working Group Chairs representative on the RIPE Programme Committee. He has been active in the RIPE community since RIPE 48 and he currently co-chairs the Anti-Abuse Working Group. His day job is Network Operations Manager for HEAnet, the Irish NREN, where he mostly makes sure the packets are flowing in the right direction.

Benno Overeinder – PC Chair

Benno Overeinder is a Senior Research Engineer at NLnet Labs. NLnet Labs is a non-profit research lab whose mission is to build a bridge between academic results and practical deployment of new technology in our networks. As a research engineer, Benno is particularly interested how results from research have practical and operational implications on how we run our networks.

Before joining NLnet Labs in 2007, Benno obtained his MSc. and PhD. in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Until 2001, he was a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and from 2001 to 2007, he worked as an assistant professor at the VU University Amsterdam. His topics of interest were parallel & distributed computing, run-time support and middleware systems, grid computing and resource management, intelligent autonomous systems and autonomic computing.

At NLnet Labs, Benno’s topics of interest are inter-domain routing (BGP dynamics, stability, and scalability – measurement and analysis), routing control plane configuration and management, inter-domain routing security, IPv6 deployment, and Internet measurements at large. He is also active in a number of IETF working groups.

Alex Semenyaka – ENOG Representative

Alex has more than 20 years of industry experience, from extra large operators to startups. He currently operates as Global Network Strategist for Qrator Labs, in addition to being External Relations Officer for the RIPE NCC with a mandate to focus specifically on the former Soviet Republics.

Alex is a member of the RIPE Programme Committee as ENOG representative.
He is also Vice-Chair of ENOG PC.

Marcus Stoegbauer

Marcus is a network architect and CEO at man-da.de GmbH which operates a small regional research and education network in Germany.

He is also active in the networking community and, as one of the main organisers, helps to arrange meetings of the German network operators group, DENOG.

Ondřej Surý

Ondřej Surý is a Technical Fellow at CZ.NIC, the .CZ domain registry. He focuses on the domain name system, Internet protocols andsecurity. He is currently responsible for Knot DNS and Knot Resolver projects (free-software DNS servers). He previously held the position of CTO at CZ.NIC where he helped build and launch Fred, the new registration platform for .CZ. He also founded and led CZ.NIC’s R&D department. and founded and led the R&D department.

Ondřej is one of the RIPE NCC Arbiters and a member of ICANN’s RSSAC Caucus and Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel. He also participated in the first ICANN KSK Ceremony as one of the seven Recovery Key Share Holders for DNSSEC Root Zone Key. Ondřej is a free-software enthusiast promoting use of free software, contributing to many free-software and open-source projects himself.

Ondřej holds a BA degree in psychology/sociology.

Jan Žorž – SEE Representative

Jan Žorž started his professional career in the RS-232/VAX VMS world in 1992 and continued through Novell and Windows environments all the way to Solaris and other UNIX derivatives that represent the native environment for the majority of his projects.

Jan is one of the pioneers of SiOL, the Slovenian national ISP, and has been involved in the organisation from the beginning. Among other activities, he began experimenting in 1997 with Internet streaming multimedia content. Based on these experiments, he successfully accomplished projects such as “Dhaulagiri ’99 Live” (an Internet multimedia transmission of Tomaz Humar’s solo climb of the south wall of Dhaulagiri (called Death Zone) in the Himalayas), “Ski Everest Live 2000″ (an Internet live-video transmission and monitoring of extreme skiing from the summit of Mt. Everest by Davo Karnicar) and other similar projects. Together with two other members of team “Dhaulagiri ’99 Live”, Jan received a media award/statue “Victor” for special achievement.

For the last seven years, Jan has been working as a consultant in the IT field, specialising in IPv6. He co-founded the Go6 Institute (not-for-profit), a Slovenian IPv6 initiative whose main objective is to raise IPv6 awareness in Slovenia and alert the community to the fact that we are approaching extensive changes on the Internet.

Due to the Go6 Institute, Slovenia is currently leading the EU as the country most prepared for IPv6 (according to the RIPE NCC’s IPv6 RIPEness study). Jan has been invited to present around the world on his work, the model of the Go6 platform, and IPv6 awareness raising and deployment at the national level. These speaking engagements have included conferences such as many RIPE Meetings and the Google IPv6 Implementors Conference 2010, Internet Governance Forum meetings, World IPv6 Congresses in Paris and London as well as national forums in Germany, Greece, Norway, Macedonia and many others.

Jan is also primary co-author of very successful procurement (specification) paper, published as an official RIPE Best Current Practice document RIPE-501, entitled “Requirements For IPv6 in ICT Equipment”. This document is translated into more than 10 languages and is used around the world by enterprises and governments when requesting IPv6 in ICT equipment purchases. RIPE-501 was recently replaced by RIPE-554, also co-authored by Merike Kaeo and Sander Steffann.

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