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Oleksiy Alex Semenyaka

Oleksiy ("Alex") is a Senior Community Development Officer and Technical Advisor at the RIPE NCC. He supports the RIPE NCC’s engagement with the community, network operators, technical bodies, and academia. His work also includes Internet measurements and research into network stability, interconnectivity, and core infrastructure like BGP and DNS, particularly through RIPE tools. As Technical Advisor, Alex tracks industry developments, represents the organization at industry events, and works with internal teams to enhance technical training initiatives.

Robert Kisteleki

For many years I have been the leader of the Research and Development team at the RIPE NCC leading a dedicated team of thinkers to support the RIPE community by providing network research, data analysis and prototype tool development and services including RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat. As of 2023, I'm working as a principal engineer in order to assist the CTO and the RIPE NCC's information services.

Martin Pels

Based in The Netherlands

Martin is a specialist system engineer at RIPE NCC and co-founder of NLNOG RING.

Arman Obosyan

Based in Tbilisi, Georgia

I lead SkyTel, a telecommunications operator based in Tbilisi, Georgia. My focus is on telecom infrastructure, IP networks, cloud connectivity, and the strategic development of regional digital infrastructure in the South Caucasus and other emerging markets.

Silvan Gebhardt

Sebastian Kappes

Based in Germany

Sebastian Kappes is a researcher at the Internet Architecture Department of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics. His research centers around Internet measurements, network security, IPv6, and Internet topology.

Sid Mathur

Siddharth "Sid" Mathur is the founder and lead engineer at Fastah Inc., where he builds the IP geolocation data the rest of us depend on without thinking twice. With more than 23 years in the industry, including roles at Nokia and several scrappy startups, he’s a committed performance nerd who’s happiest when he’s optimizing a network, writing Go software, or hardening a system. He recently delivered technical talks at NANOG 96 in San Francisco and NANOG 97 in Seattle, and he’s eager to bring more conversations to the RIPE region around AI tools for IP geolocation feeds and best practices for network operators.

Julian Macho

Based in Wiesbaden, Germany

Julian is a working student in the R&D team at DE-CIX. Focusing on internet infrastructure and network technologies, he is on track to finish his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences.

Matthias Wichtlhuber

Based in Frankfurt Germany

Matthias is a computer networks researcher and currently serves as Team Lead for Research and Development at DE-CIX, one of the world’s largest Internet Exchange operators. In this role, he oversees DE-CIX’s research activities on Internet infrastructure measurement, security, and optimization, as well as community engagement and publicly funded projects in collaboration with partners from industry and academia. Over the past years, he has been a regular speaker at RIPE Meetings and other community events.

Seyed Pouria Mousavizadeh Tehrani

Based in Tehran

Pouria is a FreeBSD Source Committer, specializing in Internet and network protocols. He focuses on improving the quality of Internet connectivity and has spent nearly a decade working across datacenters, ISPs, and network development teams. He regularly contributes to the FreeBSD project, improving operating system's networking stacks, particularly for IPv6, and Routing. As an IRNOG Steering Committee member, he has organized and presented at seven IRNOG meetings, fostering regional technical collaboration and knowledge sharing.