2024-10-22 –, Grote Zaal
Running a large network for events can be a big challenge. In this panel discussion, three experienced operators share their insights on the challenges they faced and how they solved them.
Ondřej Caletka works as a systems engineer in the Learning and Development team of the RIPE NCC. His main responsibility includes developing and operating the lab environment for training courses and online learning. He is also part of the RIPE Meeting tech team, a group of people responsible for taking care of the technical aspects of RIPE Meetings.
Ondřej graduated from Czech Technical University in Prague and worked as network services administrator and developer for the Czech national research and education network CESNET before joining the RIPE NCC. He is also active in local IT communities around open source/free software, and acts as an IPv6 and DNSSEC ambassador, delivering talks and trainings at various events.
Andrew Yourtchenko works as a Principal Engineer in Cisco, in his day job contributing as a committer and a release manager to VPP (http://fd.io) and running the continuous release operations infrastructure internally for the projects that depend on it. He started his Cisco career in TAC in 2000.
You may also know him by his work on RFC6555 (“Happy Eyeballs”), or, the video at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v26BAlfWBm8 . He might be blamed for the idea of FOSDEM main WiFi being unapologetically IPv4-less (and for dual-stacking WiFi at some other large events), which resulted in RFC7772.
Network automation for event networks is a 10-year long passion - it gives an opportunity for “just in time coding extreme” in Rust, hands-on work, and great friendships!
He is CCIE#5423 Emeritus in Routing&Switching and Security.