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Hans Petter Holen

Based in Amsterdam, Netherland

Hans Petter Holen is the Managing Director of the RIPE NCC. Before taking on this role in May 2020, he served as the RIPE Chair from 2014 and has been part of the RIPE community for over 30 years. He also serves as the chair of the Number Resource Organisation … More

Amanda Gowland

Based in Amsterdam

Amanda was Sr. Communications Officer and Change Officer for the RIPE NCC until 2020. More

Vesna Manojlovic

Vesna Manojlovic is Community Builder at RIPE NCC. Vesna joined the RIPE NCC as a Trainer in 1999. In 2003, she took responsibility for developing and delivering advanced courses, such as RPSL, Routing Registry, DNSSEC and IPv6. In 2008, she lead efforts to establish IPv6 RIPEness as a measure of … More

Claudio Jeker

Based in Zurich, Switzerland

Claudio Jeker is a long time OpenBSD developer doing mostly crazy networking stuff. Working on bgpd, ospfd, ospf6d and the MPLS framework in OpenBSD. Currently working full time on OpenBGPD. More

Mirjam Kühne

Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

I wrote the articles collected here during my time as community builder of the RIPE NCC and the maintainer and editor of RIPE Labs. I have since taken on a new role serving as the Chair of the RIPE Community. You can reach my new profile via the website link … More

Amanda Gowland

Based in Amsterdam

Amanda was Sr. Communications Officer and Change Officer for the RIPE NCC until 2020. More

Melchior Aelmans

Based in The Netherlands

I'm interested in internet routing, routing security (RPKI), peering, 'the good of the internet', quantum internet and quantum-safe communications. Writing blogs, RFCs, etc. More

Ahmad Alsadeh

Based in Birzeit University, Palestine

Ahmad Alsadeh is assistant professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Birzeit University. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering in Network Security from the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam in Germany in October 2013. Prior to that, he received his bachelor’s degree … More

Martine Sophie Lenders

Based in Berlin

I am a PhD student in Computer Science and a research assistant at Freie Universität Berlin, advised by Professor Matthias Wählisch. My primary research interest is in networking and programming for the IoT. I'm one of the maintainers in RIOT and responsible for the design and implementation of the RIOT … More