A self-taught software engineer. Interested in low-level and embedded programming. Working at Red Hat Common Logging team. Founder of the DIGImend project. Born in Russia, living in Finland.

Iago brought his relaxed Spanish demeanor to Berlin a few years back. Since then, he’s been diving and swimming around the internals of various Linux flavors; Android, embedded and Cloud. He’s a top contributor to the rkt project and for the past year he was pushing the limits of eBPF to get runtime statistics. Although he once got distracted by functional programming, his daily tasks see him working mainly in Go and C.

Michael is a Software Engineer from Berlin where he works on low-level Linux software at Kinvolk GmbH, a Linux development company. Before that, he was working as a Backend and Operations Engineer for a Swiss Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider.

Sylvain is a principal software engineer at Red Hat. His main interests are networking and SDN solutions.

Stef is an avid open source hacker. He's contributed to over a hundred open source projects. He can be found preaching about continuous integration and working on the Cockpit Linux admin interface. He's a usability freak. Stef lives in Germany, and works at Red Hat.

Maxime Hadjinlian is an embedded Linux engineer at Devialet. He was involved in the creation of the current and future software stack running on Devialet’s product. He also contributes in his spare time to a few open-source projects, including Buildroot.

Stephen Hemminger is a Linux developer who specializes in networking. He is maintainer of the Linux bridging and the iproute2 utilities. Having been involved with TCP/IP since the early days of UNIX. He is a member of the DPDK Technical Advisory Board. Steve has written many network drivers for Linux including netem, vxlan, and Marvell sky2 Ethernet devices. Many of his contributions have involved integrating so many different networking pieces that he decided to give himself the title of Network Plumber.

Theresa is a PhD student and research assistant at the Internet Network Architectures (INET) group at TU Berlin. With a background in telecommunications and computer science, she is doing research in computer networking. Her PhD topic is about how getting information about multiple available access networks from a host perspective, and how to make useful choices between them.

Eric is a sneakernet advocate and general-purpose hopeful. His dream is for computers to A) work, B) work reliably, C) work over time and D) all of the above, anywhere, regardless of internet connectivity. Currently focused on: Reproducible builds -- making them not just possible, but in fact making them so easy and so natural that reproducible builds become the norm.

Holger Levsen has been a Debian user for 20 years and started contributing 15 years ago. He got involved in doing QA work on Debian in 2007 via first working on piuparts, which led him to start https://jenkins.debian.net in 2012. At the end of 2013 he had the idea to use this jenkins setup and a small script to build some packages twice and compare the results. That's how he got involved in Reproducible Builds.

Originally from South Korea, he settled in Berlin a few years ago. In the past he did mainly Linux system programming when working for a German IaaS provider. Recently he has been involved in open source projects such as systemd, fleet, rkt. He usually works in Go and C, and also likes to learn about fresh programming languages like Rust.

Max is a test engineer at CoreOS hacking on Kubernetes and Prometheus. Previously a frontend engineer working on ReactJS integrations and UI component testing, he decided to stop suppressing his interest for distributed systems at scale and joined CoreOS. Now he implements new testing infrastructures and development automations to support the Tectonic and the Prometheus project.

CTO of superscale networks.
15y into linux userspace in embedded devices.
Ex-Nokia/Trolltech