Network Operations

Anastasiya Pak

Based in Amsterdam

Anastasiya Pak is a Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. Before joining the RIPE NCC, Anastasiya led the Communications Department at an international NGO and worked as a TV journalist in Uzbekistan, covering international politics, diplomacy, and global affairs. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations … More

Anastasiya Pak

Based in Amsterdam

Anastasiya Pak is a Senior Marketing and Communications Officer at the RIPE NCC. Before joining the RIPE NCC, Anastasiya led the Communications Department at an international NGO and worked as a TV journalist in Uzbekistan, covering international politics, diplomacy, and global affairs. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in International Relations … More

Leo Vegoda

Based in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Leo Vegoda is PeeringDB’s Product Manager. He was previously responsible for organizational planning and improvement in ICANN’s Office of the COO, and Internet Number Resources in the IANA department, as well as running Registration Services at the RIPE NCC. More

Alun Davies

Based in Amsterdam

Hailing from a research background in philosophy, linguistics and computer science, I came to the RIPE NCC back in 2016 and took on the role of RIPE Labs Editor in 2020. More

Hisham Ibrahim

Based in Dubai, UAE

Hisham Ibrahim is the Chief Community Officer at the RIPE NCC. He leads the RIPE NCC's engagement efforts to foster a dynamic, inclusive RIPE community. He is responsible for engagement with RIPE NCC members, the RIPE community, Internet governance and training services. Hisham is active on several committees in various … More

Roland Bless

Based in Karlsruhe, Germany

Dr. Roland Bless is Associate Professor and senior researcher at the Institute of Telematics at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in Germany. He studied Computer Science at the University of Karlsruhe until 1996 and got his PhD in the area Quality-of-Service Management in 2002. In 2009 he finished his Habilitation … More

Qasim Lone

I am a research engineer in the R&D department at RIPE NCC. I am interested in internet measurements, internet outages, data analysis, and cybersecurity. Prior to joining RIPE NCC, I defended my Ph.D. in cyber-security at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands. More

Tiago Heinrich

I am a Post-Doc researcher at the Max-Planck Institut for Informatics. I am mainly interested in security and Internet measurements. More

Leo Vegoda

Based in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Leo Vegoda is PeeringDB’s Product Manager. He was previously responsible for organizational planning and improvement in ICANN’s Office of the COO, and Internet Number Resources in the IANA department, as well as running Registration Services at the RIPE NCC. More

Wido den Hollander

Based in Venlo, Netherlands

I am the CTO of Your.Online, with more than two decades of experience in the hosting industry since 2004. I have deep expertise in networking and protocols like BGP, and I’m passionate about IPv6 and the future of internet connectivity. Beyond software, I have a strong interest in Open Source … More