Monitoring Conference 2009 Speakers

Kristian Köhntopp

Kristian Köhntopp currently works on architecture and scaling projects at booking.com. His professional experience stretches from working at MySQL AB to being a Securityfuzzi at web.de and a builder of large mail systems at NetUSE AG. He is also to blame for various PHP extensions and libraries, Linux “how-to’s” and a few dangerous internet memes. His blog can be found at    http://blog.koehntopp.de

Kristian will present in English

Ton Voon

Ton Voon is the project lead for the  Nagios Plugin Development Team. He works for Opsera on the Opsview product, a monitoring solution based on Nagios. Although Ton is a core developer on the Nagios project, he will be concentrating on Nagios Plugin and Opsview at OSMC. Ton also has 2 children who like play Tanks on Wii Play.

Ton will present in English.

Wolfgang Barth

As author of the first Nagios handbook, Wolfgang Barth’s expertise covers VMS, Digital UNIX (Tru64), SunOS/Solaris, IBM AIX and HP-UX systems. For him Linux is the logical next-step in the development of UNIX.

Wolfgang will present in German.

Michael Lübben

Michael Luebben has been working with Open Source Monitoring and Nagios for more than seven years now at BTC AG in Oldenburg. In his spare time, Michael maintains the German Nagios-Portal and is one of the developers of NagVis and NagTrap.

Michael will present in German.

Michael Medin

Michael Medin is an open source developer and has written an agent for monitoring windows based servers from nagios (NSClient++ ) as well as various other open source projects. In his not-so-spare time he works as a consultant doing integration work on Java/Oracle and when he is not working diligently at his computer he is often found riding his mountain bike along some rocky single track in the glorious Swedish countryside.

Michael will present in English.

Tarus Balog

Tarus Balog has been involved in network management since 1988. Starting at Northern Telecom, he helped manage computers that were connected to the telephone switch, and later became fluent with HP OpenView, Micromuse Netcool, BMC Patrol and other network management tools. In 2002 he became the maintainer of the OpenNMS Project and since then he has worked to make OpenNMS the defacto enteprise-grade management platform.

Tarus will present in English.

Sven Velt

Sven Velt has been working with networks since the beginning of the 90s and started to work with Linux in 1994. He spent five years working for an ISP before he fully dedicated himself to Linux and Open Source. Since 2002, Sven has been a trainer and consultant for Linux, Apache, Samba and Nagios at team(ix) GmbH in Nuremberg.

Sven will present in German.

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest is a Systems Administrator at an advertising company in Canada. He has worked with Nagios since 2005 and his experience extends to various monitoring and graphing systems for both Linux and Windows servers. He joined the Nagios Plugins Development Team in 2006 to participate in an OSS project and improve his basic C skills. Outside of computers he loves spending time with his two kids.

Thomas will present in English.

Eric Pfaller

Eric Pfaller, born 1969, is working as a system programmer / IT-service responsible at the Audi AG since 2001. He is focusing mainly on administration of the monitoring solutions and their architecture.

Eric will present in German.

Icinga Team

The Icinga team consists of active members of the Nagios community and is working since May 2009 on the Nagios Fork. The team members are Hendrik Bäcker, Michael Lübben, Matthias Flacke, Marius Hein, Christian Döbler, Michael Friedrich, Bernd Erk, Lara Berdelsmann and Wolfgang Nieder.

The Team will present in German.

Lars Michelsen

Lars Michelsen has been working with Nagios and system monitoring since 2003. As of 2006, he has been active developer and maintainer of NagVis, a visualisation add-on for Nagios.

Lars will present in German.

Mathias Kettner

Mathias Kettner passed his diploma in computer science with distinction 1996 in Munich. Soon after, he worked for two years as a developer with SUSE in Nuremberg, where he was involved in the development of YaST2, among other things. Since 2000 Mattias has been self-employed and advises companies and governmental bodies over a variety of issues on Linux and open source, also providing training in the last two years. Mathias has also authored "Fehlerdiagnose und Problembehebung unter Linux" (Fault Tracking and Problem Solving in Linux").

Mathias will present in German.

Hendrik Bäcker

Hendrik Bäcker is working with Nagios as a monitoring system since 2004 and is an active member of the Nagios Community. He is a moderator of the german Nagios Forum as well as an active Nagios contributor and NDOUtils Release Manager. Since May 2009 Hendrik is also a team member of the Nagios Fork Icinga, where he is responsible for the Icinga core.

Hendrik will present in German.

Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff

Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff works at MultiNET Services GmbH as a consultant for IT security issues, high availability systems and network management. His Linux experience began in 1994 when he got hold of an Yggdrasil distribution. Besides consulting, Michael writes for Linux Magazine and shares his expertise by giving trainings and seminars.

Michael will present in English.

Jörg Linge

Jörg Linge has 10 years experience as a UNIX-System Admin at a large publishing house in Kassel. There, he is responsible for the operation of UNIX servers and system monitoring with Nagios. In his leisure time, he moderates the German Nagios forum, co-organises Nagios workshops and works on his grapher project- PNP4Nagios.

 Jörg will present in German.

Martin Hefter

Martin Hefter studied Computer Networking in Furtwangen. During his study time he planed and operaded two smaller Nagios projects for the university data center and a large project with more than 4000 services for hessian authorities.

He has also written his diploma thesis on "process monitoring with Nagios". After he finished his studies February 2008 he is now working for Schenken Deutschland AG in Friedewald as head of EDV.

Marin will present in German.

Frank Migge

As manager IT Security in a financial company I am working on translating abstract IT security policies and compliance regulations into real-world IT, using flexible open-source solutions such as Nagios.

Frank will present in English.

Bernd Erk

Bernd Erk started working at NETWAYS in October 2007. Here he holds the position of Head of Operations and is responsible for the units Managed Services, Consulting and Development as well as taking care for a smooth and perfect handling of customer projects. Formerly he worked at Quelle Schickedanz AG & Co. as a systems specialist, where he mainly worked on Solaris, HPUX and Oracle databases. Between these two jobs he started to work as a Business Unit Manager at ise-informatik, where he stayed 8 years working on service orientated architectures.

Bernd will present in German.

Angelo Gargiulo

Angelo Gargiulo is working within the IT business since 1998. After his apprenticeship as a systems technician with a focus on Linux server administration and engineering, LDAP, Monitoring and Radius. SInce 2004 he is working at a Swiss telecommunications company as a systems engineer. Beside that he spends his time as a web developer and designer as well as a maintainer of the  NConf project.

Angelo will present in German.

Daniel Borkmann

Daniel Borkmann is a student of Computer Science at the Leipzig University of Applied Science. Currently, he is working on his bachelor thesis at the Max Planck Institute for Cognition and Brain Science.

In his spare time Daniel is a enthused Debian user and also interested in the Linux kernel (filesystems, device-drivers, networking), robotics and mathematics. He is a member of a RoboCup team working on a software for letting humanoid robots play soccer.

His website:  http://www.imn.htwk-leipzig.de/~dborkman/

Daniel will present in German.

Martin Fürstenau

Martin Fürstenau is a Senior System Engineer at Oce Printing Systems GmbH in Poing near Munich with the main focus in systems administration Linux/Unix and system monitoring and reporting.

He has over 20 years of experience in data center automation, system- and database administration and as a consultant and trainer.

He has over 5 years experience with Nagios and has developed a lot of plugins and extensions (c2n,handle_td_incident,mail2eventdb) for Nagios.

He is also the author of the main concept for the timeperiods enhancements of Nagios 3. His projects are published on monitoringexchange.org

Martin will present in English

Benedikt Stockebrandt

Benedikt Stockebrand is a "Diplom-Informatiker" who works as a freelance consultant, trainer and author. Since 2003 his primary subject is the use of IPv6 in production grade environments. He is the author of "IPv6 in Practice---A Unixer's Guide to the Next Generation Internet" (Springer 2007).

Benedikt will present in English

Michael Streb

Michael Streb is Managing Consultant for Networking- and System-Management projects at the Nuremberg-based Open Source Specialist NETWAYS Gmb. He formerly worked at diverse ISP´s and Software Development Companies.

Alexander Schlüns

Alexander Schlüns, Jahrgang 1978, seit 2001 tätig bei der DeLaval Services GmbH als Teamleader IS TI Server Management zuständig für Server und Rechenzentren im DeLaval Konzern. Themenschwerpunkte: Serveradministration, Rechenzentrumsbetrieb, 2nd/3rd Level Support, Monitoring basierend auf Nagios (seit 2004).

Spike Morelli

As the Linden Lab Monitoring project leader Spike Morelli has spent the last year and a half redesigning the Lab's monitoring infrastructure to meet the ever growing demand for more control over our systems, migrating from a centralized to a distributed design, all based on freesoftware (primarily nagios, ganglia). Along with that he is involved with the systems and configuration management automation project, developing new solutions to aid with the deployment and maintenance of a large network (~10K nodes). Prior to Linden Spike spent 5+ years working on similar topics, but smaller scale, for a different number of customers across europe, carrying out several nagios deployments.

Rihards Olups

Having used Zabbix since it was released, Rihards Olups has had a chance to observe it evolve and use in various environments. With the hands-on experience for many years, he recently joined Zabbix company to see the other side of the story and help Zabbix grow.