Mario Angelic works at Ericsson as an Expert for Middleware Architectures, and a System Architect for Ericsson’s common software infrastructure components. He has a strong background in middleware and availability technologies, and has worked with most Ericsson platform products. Mario has been a member of the OpenSAF Project since its inception, and he previously served as the Technical Co-Chair of the OpenSAF Technical Leadership Council. In his various roles, Mario has presented on availability at industry events. He is also one of the contributors to the Service Availability:
...Matt is the Vice President, Corporate Strategy at 10gen. Matt was SVP of Business Development and Interim CEO at HTML5 platform provider Strobe, which was acquired by Facebook in 2011. Previous to this Matt served as the COO at Canonical and GM of Alfrescoâs Americas business, helping both to significantly grow revenues. Matt serves as an advisor to several open-source companies, founded the Open Source Business Conference, and writes a regular column for The Register.
Vijay Bellur works as a Senior Principal Engineer with Red Hat. He is a co-maintainer for the upstream GlusterFS project and was an architect at Gluster before its acquisition by Red Hat in 2011. He has been involved with building enterprise storage and scalable distributed systems over the past decade. Vijay works out of the Red Hat office in Bengaluru and his topics of interest include disk file systems, virtualization technologies and Big Data.
Dustin is a Red Hat Certified Architect and a senior member of Red Hat's Global Support Services group. He has more than a decade of experience in engineering complex systems to meet stringent business requirements. He fully believes that his biggest assets are the smart people he surrounds himself with, and he loves a good failure as an opportunity to learn. As a TAM, Dustin provides semi-dedicated support for open source technologies to some of Red Hat's most demanding customers in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries. There's little he loves more than a creative
... Read moreJames Bottomley is CTO of Server Virtualisation at Parallels and Linux Kernel maintainer of the SCSI subsystem, PA-RISC Linux and the 53c700 set of drivers. He has made contributions in the areas of x86 architecture and SMP, filesystems, storage and memory management and coherency. He is currently a Director on the Board of the Linux Foundation and Chair of its Technical Advisory Board. He was born and grew up in the United Kingdom. He went to university at Cambridge in 1985 for both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He joined AT&T Bell labs in 1995 to work on Distributed Lock Manager technology
... Read moreGustavo Brand is engaged on a PhD within the European Scalus project, focused on how applications get impacted when being used over multiple sites running Distributed File Systems. He likes to code in C and C++ and previously worked as a storage firmware engineer at Hewlett Packard Brazil.
After several years in the Unix business, Alfonso joined Microsoft 17 years where we worked on server technologies like Windows Server and Exchange. He spent the past 6 years in working exclusively on Open Source, contributing to Microsoft's Openness by connecting with customers and Open Source communities and vendors like SUSE in which partnership he is very much involved.
Mr. Christofferson has over 30 years experience in software development for deeply embedded telecom or networking systems. He spent the first 8 years of his career in the defense industry in SIGINT/COMINT systems. That was followed by 8 years in the Telecom market working with such technologies as packet switching, SS7, SONET, fiber in the loop, and DSL. For the past 16 years, Mr. Christofferson worked in product management, marketing, and business development for leading industry RTOS, embedded development tools, and middleware providers such as Microtec, Mentor Graphics, and now Enea for whom
... Read moreHoward is the CTO of Symas Corporation and also currently Chief Architect of the OpenLDAP Project and has spoken at conferences across the US and Europe including Usenix/LISA events, UKUUG, Samba XP, LDAPCon (including LDAPCon 2009 which was co-sponsored by LinuxCon), etc. Howard is a prolific contributor to multiple open source projects, and has been writing free software since the early 1980s.
Jonathan Corbet is a Linux kernel contributor, co-founder of LWN.net (and the author of its Kernel Page), and the lead author of Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
Sebastian Dröge is working on GStreamer since early 2006 and nowadays is one of its main developers. He also works on other open source projects in his free time and is working for Collabora on GStreamer and related technologies since 2008. Sebastian has a master's degree in computer sciences.
Pavel Emelyanov is a principal engineer at Parallels working on server virtualization projects. He holds a PhD degree in Applied Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. His speaking experience includes the talk on network namespaces at LinuxCon 2009 and the presentation of the Virtuozzo resource management at the joint memory management, storage and filesystem summit in April 2011.
As Vice President of Engineering for SUSE, Ralf Flaxa is responsible for leading the team of engineers that develop SUSE Linux solutions.
Flaxa joined and contributed to the Linux community since late 1991 and has over 15 years of international management experience working for global organizations building Linux products. In 2002 he joined SUSE and later Novell where he held various engineering management roles related to the delivery of SUSE Linux solutions such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and openSUSE.
He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
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Long time Linux kernel hacker with embedded background and a strong affinity to impossible missions.
(Co)Maintainer for x86, everything timers, generic interrupt subsystem and some more in the Linux Kernel. Desperately keeping the real-time preemption patch in shape and merging it piecewise into the mainline kernel.
Sebastien is a cloud computing evangelist for Citrix working in Europe. He has worked on virtualization systems for the last 10 years with a focus on grid computing and high performance computing. Before working with CloudStack, he was part of the OpenNebula community and designed the CERN Lxcloud infrastructure. After 12 years in academic research he joined Citrix in July and takes part in the Apache CloudStack project.
Victor Gonzalez is a Principal Engineer and Team Lead at Intrinsyc Software International, Inc., and has been with the company for over 7 years. He is focused on software architecture for mobile and embedded platforms with specific emphasis in OS, driver, and board support package porting for ARM-based systems. He continues to lead software development teams at Intrinsyc to implement and deliver innovative technologies and solutions for Intrinsyc's customers. With more than 20 years of wireless and embedded engineering development expertise, he has played a leading role in development
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Lenz does product management for Oracle Linux. He is located in Hamburg, Germany and joined Oracle via the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010. Lenz has been a member of the MySQL Group for 9 years. He came to MySQL AB as a release engineer in 2002 and then moved to the MySQL Community Relations team in 2005. Prior to MySQL AB, he worked at SuSE Linux AG in Nuremberg for four years, as a distribution core developer and evangelist. He started working with Linux and free software during his computer science studies in 1995 and has been using it as his primary operating system since then.
... Read moreFlorian is a Linux high availability and storage specialist, experienced technical consultant, seasoned training instructor, and technical writer.
Florian has previously presented at LinuxCon North America and Europe, linux.conf.au, the OpenStack Design Summit and Conferences, and many other events. He has authored several technical articles on the Ceph stack.
Armijn Hemel is a long time open source user (since 1994). Since 2005 he is part of the coreteam of gpl-violations.org. Armijn is the owner of Tjaldur Software Governance Solutions and the author of the Binary Analysis Tool.
He is a computer science engineer by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He has been working over 15 years on the IT services sector providing indepth support on a wide range of technologies. He's specialized on low level systems knowlegde and development. Currently he's working in the I+D department at Datalab.
Dirk Hohndel, Chief Linux and Open Source Technologist, Intel Corporation Dirk Hohndel has been an active developer and contributor in the Linux space since its earliest days. Among other roles, he worked as Chief Technology Officer of SuSE and as Vice President of The XFree86 Project, Inc. Dirk joined Intel in 2001. He works in the Software and Services Group and focuses on the technology direction of Intel's Open Source Technology Center and guides Intel's engagements in open source. He is an active contributor in many open source projects and organizations, various program committees and advisory
... Read moreMichael Holzheu is a Linux kernel developer at the IBM lab in Boeblingen, Germany. He studied computer science at the University of Erlangen and has worked for IBM since 1998. After a start in the z/OS UNIX Systems Services environment, he joined the Linux for System z team in 2000. His main focus is kernel dump, dump analysis, and device driver development.
Yasuaki Ishimatsu has been working for Fujitsu since 2006. He had worked as Linux kernel support engineer for several years. And now he is working for development team, focusing on dynamic partitioning.
Dmitry Komissarov is a CEO and co-founder of ROSA and PingWin Software companies focused on FOSS products development and support. Dmitry has extensive IT experience (CIO of IBS, Mandriva VP and member of Board). He orchestrated Russian National Software Platform concept development and keeps pushing for FOSS deployment in large federal projects.
Ryan Kuester is an independent consultant working in Linux kernel--platform integration and operating systems for embedded devices. When not writing code for one of the many circuit boards on his desk, he teaches classes and mentors development teams. His current projects include some recognizable Android mobile devices and an embedded Linux distribution named Pragmatux.
M. Mohan Kumar is an open source developer working at IBM Linux Technology Center, India. He has contributed to various components of Linux ecosystem including kexec (fast boot), kdump (kernel crash dump mechanism) for PowerPC, 9p file system and QEMU. Prior to IBM he has worked on various SCSI and Fibre Channel related Linux projects.
Mohan obtained his Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Bharathiar University, TamilNadu, India. He has 11 years of experience in Linux area.
Lars has worked for SUSE since 2000 in a variety of roles and is currently employed as architect for storage and high-availability, focused on the SUSE Linux Enterprise High-Availability Extension as well as distributed cloud storage.
His current Open Source projects include the Linux Foundation HA working group which he helped found, and various other High Availability projects.
Marten Mickos builds global disruptive businesses. As CEO of MySQL AB for seven years, Mickos grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After the acquisition by Sun Microsystems of MySQL AB for $1bn, he served as Senior Vice President of Sun's Database Group.
Previously, Mickos held multi-national CEO and senior executive positions in his native Finland. He is a member of the board of Electrosonic. Mickos holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology. In 2006 he received the Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Awar
... Read moreRubén S. Montero, PhD is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Architecture and Systems Engineering at Complutense University of Madrid. He is also co-founder and Chief Technology Advisor at C12G Labs. In the past, he has held several visiting positions at ICASE (NASA Langley Research Center, VA). Over the last years, he has published more than 80 scientific papers in the field of High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing, and contributed to more than 20 research and development programmes. His research interests lie mainly in resource provisioning models for distributed
... Read moreAndoni Morales has been an active member of the Open Source community for a long time. In 2008, he got involved with GStreamer when he had to choose a multimedia backend for LongoMatch, a free software project of his creation designed to analyze sports performance with video. Andoni holds a master degree in Telecommunications Engineering by the Polytechnic University of Madrid and currently he is a senior multimedia engineer with Fluendo, working in the design and development of the company’s multimedia solutions, as well as the development of the GStreamer SDK. Prior to joining Fluendo
... Read moreTimo is a Software Engineer at BMW Car IT GmbH.He has a background in mobile networking technologies, and is currently working on In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) systems. His interests include the broad use of Open-Source solutions in the automotive domain, where he is active by contributing to projects such as Yocto.
Thomas Richter is a software developer at the IBM Research and Development Laboratory in Boeblingen, Germany. He studied Business Mathematics at the University of Ulm and joined IBM in 1989. For the last 18 month Thomas Richter worked in the Data Center Networking team and specialized in open-lldp/lldpad and networking. His previous focus area was the design and implementation of firmware for IBM zSeries Mainframe.
Dr. Udo Seidel would have been a teacher for mathematics and physics if he would not have been infected by the Linux virus in 1996. After his PhD he worked as Linux/Unix instructor, sysadmin and senior solution engineer. Now he is leading an international team of Linux/Unix sysadmins at the Amadeus Data Processing GmbH near Munich supporting a highly diverse environment with 24x7 HA requirements.
He is a telecommunications engineer by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He is one of the founder partners of Datalab S.L. 32 years ago, and currently he holds the CEO position. He has a broad knowledge about state of the art software and hardware solutions and a good background on the theoretical principles of current technology.
Deepak C Shetty is working with IBM's Linux Technology Center (LTC), Bangalore, India, in the area of Open Virtualization. Earlier he has worked in area of Virtualization aware File Systems. Prior to being part of LTC, Deepak worked in the areas of Platform Management and Hardware Validation of IBM Power systems, in IBM . Deepak holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from Pune University, India and Diploma in Advanced Computing from C-DAC, Pune, India.
Mark founded the Ubuntu project in 2004 and continues to serve as an active member of the Technical Board and the Community Council. He works with product teams at Canonical on strategy and user experience.
Mark studied Finance and Information Technology at the University of Cape Town, and went on to found Thawte, a company specialising in digital certificates and Internet privacy. He sold Thawte to US company VeriSign in 1999, and founded HBD Venture Capital and The Shuttleworth Foundation.
He moved to London in 2001, and began preparing for the First African in Space mission, training in S
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Imad Sousou is the Director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center (OTC), which is chartered with driving Linux and Open Source strategy and execution across Intel platforms and technologies. Imad manages the technology aspects of Linux and Open Source software, including leading Intel's presence in the Linux and open source communities, driving engineering enabling programs, products and relationships, leading industry standards and initiatives, and owning Linux architectural influence with core silicon teams. Under Imad, the OTC is responsible for Intel's major open source initiatives like
... Read moreBrian Stevens joined Red Hat's senior management team in 2001 and has been critical to the company's enterprise operating system, storage, and virtualization strategies. As CTO and Vice President, Worldwide Engineering, Stevens has responsibility for Red Hat engineering globally, encompassing Linux, virtualization, middleware, and cloud.
Stevens began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he was a developer on the first commercial release of the X Windows System. During his 14 years at Digital, he became a senior member of technical staff, where he was responsible for the arch
Monty Taylor runs developer automation for the OpenStack project, including the developer tooling, continuous integration and automation systems. Monty is also a core developer on the Drizzle project and was a Senior Consultant for MySQL, Inc. before they got gobbled up. Heâs an expert in distributed systems and will bend your ear with stories of Burning Man if you let him.
Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel and oversaw open source development of the widely-used Linux operating system.
Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland. Torvalds enrolled at the University of Helsinki in 1988, graduating with a master's degree in computer science. His M.Sc. thesis was titled Linux: A Portable Operating System.
An avid computer programmer, Linus authored many gaming applications in his early years. After purchasing a personal computer with an Intel 386 CPU, he began using Minix, an Unix-inspired operating system created by Andrew Tanenbaum for use a
... Read moreTheodore Ts'o is the first North American Linux Kernel Developer. He is one of the core maintainers for the ext2, ext3, and ext4 file systems, and is the primary author and maintainer for e2fsprogs, the user space utilities for the ext2/3/4 file systems. At IBM, Theodore served as the architect for the Real-Time Linux development team. Theodore is currently a staff engineer at Google, where he works on file system and storage issues, including ext4.
Peter brings over 20 years experience in marketing and executive management developing new markets and building brands. Prior to joining Black Duck Software, Peter was VP/GM of the Enterprise Business and VP of Marketing at Cantata Technology. Cantata was a leading provider of enabling communications technology formed in the acquisition of Brooktrout Technology by Excel Switching and was itself acquired by Dialogic in 2007.
Before Cantata Technology, Peter was Director of Marketing at Compaq Computer (before the acquisition by Hewlett-Packard) responsible for product marketing and market deve
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