Toni de la Fuente is a Senior Solutions Engineer for Americas at Alfresco Software Inc. The highlight of his career is the more-than-14 years' experience he has in Systems Administration, Networking, and Security. He also has the LPI Linux and ITIL v3 certifications and is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE); recently, he has been certified as a AWS Technical Professional and AWS Business Professional.
He is an open source enthusiast, having founded different open source projects in previous years. He has participated in other open-source-related projects, such as Madrid Wireless, Fedora Linux, and OpenSolaris Hispano, and been referenced in books on network security. He is into teaching and regularly takes lectures, courses, and conferences at different events in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. He has also been contributing to the world of open source for more than 10 years with his blog http://blyx.com and through Twitter (@ToniBlyx).
Naoya Hashimoto has been working on Linux system integration and system and operation maintenance, both on premises and public cloud, for years. He has experience in planning, designing, and developing a new service to manage, maintain, and monitor a system on public cloud for 1-2 years in Japan.
His company is going to release a new service called Grow Cloud to manage, maintain, and monitor a system on Amazon Web Services this fall or winter in Japan. The customer support center supports Chinese, English, and Japanese. You can contact Naoya without hesitation if you have any question or are interested in our new service.
He has worked on books such as Icinga Network Monitoring and OSS DB Standard Text – PostgreSQL (http://www.oss-db.jp/ossdbtext/text.shtml) and was also involved in the translation of some chapters from Japanese to English.
Jaime Soriano Pastor was born in Teruel, a small city in Spain. He has always been passionate about technology and sciences. While studying Computer Science at the university in his hometown, he had his first contact with Linux and free software, which has deeply influenced his career. Later on, he moved to Zaragoza to continue his studies and there he worked for a couple of companies on quite different and interesting projects, from operative systems in embedded devices to the cloud, giving him a wide view of several fields of software development as well as opportunities to travel around Europe. He currently lives in Madrid. Configuration management and continuous integration form part of his daily work as a tools engineer in a well-known Internet company.
Norbert Varga has over four years of experience in the software and hardware development industry. He is responsible for embedded software development, hardware-software integration, and wireless telecommunication solutions at his current employer, BME-Infokom.
He has extensive experience in networking and hardware-software integration and has engineered advanced systems, including wireless mesh networks and smart metering solutions. He also has a strong background in Linux system administration and software development.
Previously, Norbert worked as a software developer on various projects at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Department of Telecommunications), which is the most renowned technical university in Hungary. Norbert played a key role throughout all the development processes, ranging from initial planning through implementation to testing and production support.
Kelli Waxman is a high-tech crime investigator, adjunct faculty for Texas A&M TEEX, instructor at Homeland Security Defense Coalition, and President of National Security Consulting & Investigations PLLC. Kelli's background includes being a sociologist, criminolgist, MBA, private investigator, and former 100-mile endurance horse racer. She is an avid Grand Canyon hiker and advanced classical pianist. She is a US government contractor.