David Guillen Fandos is a young Spanish engineer who enjoys being surrounded by computers and anything related to them. He pursued both his degrees, an MSc in computer science and an MSc in telecommunications, in Barcelona and has worked in the microelectronics industry since then.
He enjoys playing around in almost any field, including network security, software and hardware reverse engineering, and anything that could be considered security. Despite his age, David enjoys not-so-new technologies and finds himself working with compilers and assemblers. In addition to networking, he enjoys creating hacking tools to exploit various types of attacks.
David is now working at ARM after spending almost 2 years at Intel, where he does some hardware-related work in the field of microprocessors.
Mikael Kanstrup is a software engineer with a passion for adventure and the thrills in life. In his spare time, he likes kitesurfing, riding motocross, or just being outdoors with his family and two kids. Mikael has a BSc degree in computer science and years of experience in embedded software development and computer networking. For the past decade, he has been working as a professional software developer in the mobile phone industry.
Jaap Keuter has been working as a development engineer in the telecommunications industry for telephony to Carrier Ethernet equipment manufacturers for the past 2 decades. He has been a Wireshark user since 2002 and a core developer since 2005. He has worked on various internal and telephony-related features of Wireshark as well as custom-made protocol dissectors, fixing bugs and writing documentation.
Tigran Mkrtchyan studied physics at Yerevan State University, Armenia, and started his IT career as an X25 network administrator in 1995. Since 1998, he has worked at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)—an international scientific laboratory, located in Hamburg, Germany. In November 2000, he joined the dCache project, where he leads the development of the open source distributed storage system, which is used around the world to store and process hundreds of petabytes of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Since 2006, Tigran has been involved in IETF, where he takes an active part in NFSv4.1 protocol definition, implementation, and testing. He has contributed to many open source projects, such as the Linux kernel, GlassFish application server, Wireshark network packet analyzer, ownCloud, and others.
DESY is a national research center in Germany that operates particle accelerators used to investigate the structure of matter. DESY is a member of the Helmholtz Association and operates at sites in Hamburg and Zeuthen.
DESY is involved in the International Linear Collider (ILC) project. This project consists of a 30-km-long linear accelerator. An international consortium decided to build it with the technology developed at DESY. There has been no final decision on where to build the accelerator, but Japan is the most likely candidate.