DENOG14

Pushing Packets as Staff Engineer at Github.

Enabling people to get online and stay connected with Freie Netze München e.V. - https://ffmuc.net

Arnold Nipper is Chief Technology Evangelist (CTE) and Co-Founder of DE-CIX. Before that, he served as DE-CIX’ CTO/COO for more than 15 years. Since 12/2008 Arnold is involved in PeeringDB and has been a Director PeeringDB until 04/2019. Since 01/2019 Arnold is a Director of Open-IX. Until 11/2016 Arnold also was Director of Euro-IX. As of 02/2022 he is a Board Member of SwissIX as well.

Arnold is one of the Internet pioneers in Germany and has more than 30 years of work experience. He was instrumental in setting up one of the first commercial ISP in Germany, was involved in setting up the DE-NIC and co-founded RIPE in 1989.

Senior Systems Engineer for EMEA at EPS Global
Barry is based in Dublin, and provides the first layer of tech support to customers in EMEA. Barry works on POCs for Data Centre, Service Provider and Enterprise deployments and leads the adoption of new bare metal hardware for carrier and telecom solutions. Barry has in-depth expertise of the disaggregated networking landscape covering all of the open-source software and open and traditional hardware available. He has a BSc Networking Applications & Services from TU Dublin.

There will be 4 speakers on the day looking after their section of the PON network

EPS/Edgecore - Barry McGinley will introduce the history of disaggregation.

Radisys - Prathap Thammanna will speak about the ONT, OLT, and management aspects of the PON network.

RtBrick - Hannes Gredler will talk about the vBNG part of the solution.

IP Infusion - Lalit Kumar will take us through the software required for the aggregation, routing, and backhaul.

Network Architect at KIT

Bijal Sanghani is the Managing Director at Euro-IX based in London, UK.

Bijal’s experience includes DNS management for DEMON Internet, Provisioning Engineer at Level 3, Senior Operations Engineer at FLAG Telecom and Reliance Globalcom where she was involved from the beginning to build the FLAG IP network. In 2011 Bijal moved from an operational role leading Euro-IX. Euro-IX is a non-profit membership association for Internet Exchange Points (IXPs). In her role she brings the members together to share ideas and experiences on technical, commercial and regulatory matters, and works on other IXP related projects such as the IXP{DB} (IXP Database) and support programs to help IXPs in need. Bijal has grown the membership by over 90% since she started in 2011.

Bijal has been involved with the Peering and Interconnect Community since 2003, she’s been a RIPE NCC Services Working Group Co-chair since 2005 and served on the UKNOF Program Committee from 2006 until 2014. Bijal was elected on to the PeeringDB Board in 2017 where she currently serves as a Director.

Make Azure resilient as a Senior SWE, ensuring incidents only happen once and we learn from our mistakes.

Previously worked on protocol implementation for IPSec IKEv2 and operating small event networks with AS1312.

Privately mostly interested in Kubernetes and GoLang these days.

After being employed in various IT positions over the last 30 years, Christian actively brandishes the BCIX flag, almost preaching about the possibilities of internet peering in Berlins data centers.
Day to day he is a managing director for Campus Networks and serves the various customers of the company with the creation of network designs and implementations.
As an adventurous hobby diver, he travels as often as his company, family and two kids allow to see the wonders of the underwater world. Something he could talk about for hours, so be careful what you ask about, ... you migth get it...

Daniel joined BelWü in 2018 and has been working in a dual role between operations and development. As part of the bwNET research project he is responsible for monitoring and builds software that is immediately relevant to BelWü network engineers, as well as providing operational grounding to an otherwise academia-focused project.

Alter Sack und Mädchen für alles. Seit 1995 mit Unix unterwegs, ein paar Jahre später auf die dunkle Seite der Netzwerker gezogen worden. Mag IP Pakete. Macht was mit Menschen. Aktuell versucht er bei Northern Data als Tech Lead Global Infrastructure die Fäden zu ziehen.

Fiona works as a senior network engineer for AS9136 (Wobcom GmbH).

She is a board member at Denog e.V. and a member of the reverse engineering collective Zerforschung.

Florian joined Arista in 2017 and now leads the Systems Engineering team in Germany. Previously to Arista, over the course of 17 years he has held technical and management positions at a variety of SPs and IXPs with roles in engineering, architecture and strategy.

Freelance consultant, Linux user since last century (my first Linux distribution was shipped on 35 3.5" disks). Doing IPv6, DNS(SEC), Linux and Ansible.

Jonas is the Technical Sales Director for Nokia’s webscale business unit in Europe where he leads the technical sales team. Working with some of the largest internet exchanges and most sophisticated cloud providers, Jonas enjoys helping customers build next generation IP networks and data center fabrics.

My Name is Klaus Gretencord and working as an Sales Engineer at Opengear.

Leo Kirchner is a Network Automation Engineer at Network to Code.

After completing his bachelor's degree in computer science as part of a dual study program at CGI Germany, he continued working there as a network administrator for a couple of years before starting at Network to Code as a Network Automation Engineer in 2022.

Everything you need to know about me can be found using an ordinary search engine.

Mathieu Sueters is Corporate Development Director at the Circular IT Group, member of the Management Team Implementation Program Circular Economy of the Government of the Netherlands and a member of the Committee Circular Investments of the Central Bank of the Netherlands. Mathieu Sueters studied at e.g. Insead, Harvard and University of Groningen.

Maximilian (Max) Wilhelm is a Holistic (Network) Automation Evangelist, trying to bring software engineering methods to network automation, and helping to overcome the vendor lock-in.

Starting off with Linux and Open Source in the early 2000s, he developed a weakness for networking, IPv6 and routing which lead to him being an avid Open Source enthusiast ever since. As a result he is a co-founder, maintainer, and contributor of Bio-Routing and ifupdown-ng, and a regular speaker at Open Source and networking conferences. Max also takes part in the organization of the Free and Open Source Software Conference (FrOSCon) and founded the FrOSCon Network Track (https://myfirst.network). Furthermore he’s a Co-Host of the virtualNOG.net meetings (and would love to hear your ideas for further topics 😊).

He's currently working as a Network Automation Engineer at Cloudflare and does a little moonlighting as Senior Infrastructure Consultant. His second calling is acting as the lead architect behind the widely automated Freifunk Hochstift community network where he got his hands dirty with ifupdown2 as well as ifupdown-ng, VXLAN, Linux VRFs, BGP and OSPF, infrastructure automation with Salt Stack and is afraid of SDNs ever since.

In the residual spare time he likes playing piano and the organ and doing wood work to get away from IT.

Network Engineer

Michael has over 25 years of networking experience, and dedicates his time to architect and build reliable networks.

Nicol Nógrádi is the Founders Associate at Inter.link and has been an integral part of shaping the company's environmental and sustainability goals from its founding. In addition to overseeing business operations, Nicol is deeply committed to making Internet connectivity more sustainable for everyone. It's been her goal to ensure that environmental goals are not only approached strategically, but also implemented operationally from the very beginning of Inter.link.

Nina Bargisen is director of technical evangelism at Kentik, the network observability company. She has more than 20 years of experience as an active member of the global internet community. At Kentik, she focuses on supporting the company’s service provider users, drawing from her long experience as a peering coordinator and network planner/engineer. Nina has served on program committees and IXP boards, she is an active industry speaker, and she is co-chair of RIPE’s MAT Working Group. Prior to Kentik, Nina built the network for Subspace and played an instrumental role in securing the delivery of Netflix streaming traffic in EMEA.

Patrick is the Board Chairman of the DENOG e.V. foundation since 2017. He coordinates and leads a group of volunteers who are passionate about the German Network Community and invest plenty of their personal time to organise all DENOG activities including local and virtual meetups, the yearly DENOG Conference and several other activities.

In his day-job Patrick works as a Senior Manager - Product Management for Akamai Technologies and Heads the global Product Management division of Technology. His team is defining the long-term product strategy including all individual product life-cycle and yearly roadmaps for Akamai's Technology that powers the global cloud platform.

Find out more www.linkedin.com/in/pbussmann/ or talk to Patrick during DENOG14.

I'm software engineer with passion in computer networks. During my career I worked for domain name registrar, cloud hosting company, internet exchange and global cyber security company and I got solid understanding of networking industry and successfully delivered multiple deep tech projects for these companies.

I'm technical lead of FastNetMon project https://fastnetmon.com which has aim to deliver affordable DDoS detection and mitigation for all kinds of networks.

Pim van Pelt is known for SixXS, a global IPv6 tunnelbroker which ran from 2001-2017. In this journey, he found that IPv4/IPv6 routing at scale (many interfaces, many prefixes or many packets/sec) was better handled in user space rather than the kernel (both for FreeBSD and Linux). Today, Pim operates IPng Networks, a small ISP in Switzerland, using AMD64 based routers running VPP, which will give silicon-based routers a run for their money.

Born at the beginning of the 80s. "Fachinformatiker". Administration of mainly Linux servers from 2003 to 2010; network technologies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum NOC since 2010; Cisco certified on professional level with focus on Campus and Wireless; Data Center technologies since 2020. In my free time family, music and (hopefully soon again) sailing.

Rolf is a Professor of Computer Networks at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and co-founder of Conntac - the Self-Service Company. He also co-hosts the podcast "Neulich im Netz", an internet technology podcast.

Basti is currently a Senior IT Architect at a local ISP in Munich, building robust and resilient B2B Solutions. since 2007. Before that, he spent 10 years in InfoSec at a german bank, taking care of all the Unix things between the Uplinks and the Mainframe.

His prometheus journey started 2016 and has been a hell of a ride since then. Currently he's taking care of the implementation of the modbus exporter.

Susi is the Head of Careers at Into Games, a non-profit who aims to connect the UK Games Industry to educators and job seekers. Through 3 years of leading the grassroot DEI employee network at a well-known UK video games developer, she had the opportunity to grow her understanding of DEI topics, company culture, management & organisational psychology.

My name is Vincentz Petzholtz and I am working in the Network Industry since 2006. I always have been a Network Engineer and Architect through different positions and companies (Interoute/GTT/SysEleven/Inter.link). Main area’s of expertise have been BGP (Routing, Policies etc.), MPLS/Traffic Engineering, Network Security (especially DDoS Detection and Mitigation) and overall network design and architecture (Backbone and DataCenter fabrics).

Since 2017 I moved on to be the Head of Network at SysEleven (now Inter.link). Since 2020, I also spend more time contributing to the Berlin Internet Community for the BCIX (Berlin Internet Exchange) as member of the advisory board.

The community needs and is based on participation from its members. I’ve benefited and enjoyed community driven and organized events and services. I want to give as much time as I can to contribute back to the community.

My linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentz-petzholtz-73013848/
Xing Profile: https://www.xing.com/profile/Vincentz_Petzholtz/cv

After completing his degree at Karlsruhe University, Wolfgang started working as a network engineer in 1994. He went on to become head of network operations and peering manager at a range of ISPs.

In 2006, Wolfgang joined DE-CIX as Director Customer Support, a position he held for ten years. Since 2016, Wolfgang has been head of the DE-CIX Academy, making sure customers understand how BGP and other routing protocols work.