Since graduating with a Master's degree in Mathematics and Systems Programming in 2010, Töma has worked for over 11 years in different areas of software engineering, starting as a third-level support engineer at a 3G equipment vendor and then moving on to the greener pastures of the Internet. Töma served as the Chief Technology Officer of Qrator Labs, a Czech-based Internet connectivity and DDoS mitigation provider, between 2015 and 2021. He is now the Product Director of Servers.com, an infrastructure-as-a-service company with data centres in Europe, USA, and Asia. Töma is a frequent speaker at Internet conferences, network operator group meetings, and a regular guest speaker at universities, covering the aspects of network protocol implementations, large scale infrastructures, continuous delivery, policy making process, technical debt, and the impact of the latter on information security.

Vitaly has more than 22 years of experience as a developer and manager. He is a quality enthusiast and loves helping people happily build great products.

Full-time software developer since the late nineties. Was involved in such software projects as Radmin, Advanced IP Scanner, NPTV, Voximplant. A frequent conference and meetup speaker with main areas of interest in software development management and cross-platform development. Works full-time as a DevRel at Evrone, a custom software development and digital artworks company.

The Ænix founder. Cloud and Kubernetes Solutions Architect. Expert in SDS, SDN, and data center automation. Developer Advocate and active member of the community. Over 15 years of IT experience.

Alik is a passionate technical leader with more than 20 years of IT/Telco experience. He worked at several systems integrators as a Lead Project engineer focused on the deployment of large IT and SP networks in Russia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan. Since 2005 he has been at Cisco leading various engineering teams, responsible for Service Providers, Partner Support, etc. Passionate about outdoor activities and music.

Ignas Bagdonas has been involved in the network engineering field for the last two decades, covering operations, deployment, design, architecture, development, and standardisation aspects. He has worked on multiple large SP and enterprise networks worldwide, participated in many of the world's first technology deployments, and has been involved with building community awareness via conferences, seminars, and workshops. Ignas is currently co-chair of the RIPE Routing Working Group. His focus covers end-to-end network architecture evolution and new emerging technologies.

I love to communicate, architect, integrate, debug and, finally, launch everything and everywhere. In other words, I do my best to make things work perfectly and seamlessly. There is nothing better than a high-load project with a limited set of resources of any kind.

Nick Shadrin is a Software Architect for NGINX. Nick has over two decades of web application technology experience, including Product Management, Professional Services, Solution Architecture, and Engineering. He presented at dozens of events all over the world, including HighLoad++ since 2008. His main interests are HTTP protocols, Linux distributions, and application servers.

Vasily is an IT veteran with 24 years in the industry. He went through an exciting path from Unix Admin to CTO in various companies, including Amazon, EMC, and Gcore. Vasily is a passionate speaker at international conferences and a brain-friendly knowledge-sharing evangelist.

Misak Khachatryan is Network department manager in GNC Alfa, one of the biggest ISP in Armenia. He had rich background in IT, especially networking technologies, also he is technical contact for .am and ․հայ ccTLD's and IT consultant at Digitain.

Jérôme was part of the team that built and launched Docker. He worked there for 7 years. These days he teaches Kubernetes at Enix, a French Cloud Native shop. When he's not busy with computers, he collects musical instruments. He can arguably play the theme of Zelda on a dozen of them.

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