Speaker Interview: Marek Vasut

Submitted by Hannah Anderson on Wed, 2017-03-01 23:33

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

A: Hi! I'm Marek Vasut and I work as a contractor for some years already, mostly for DENX S.E. GmbH in Germany. I do U-Boot/Linux/OpenEmbeeded work for living and I actively participate in those projects even outside of my work. I play around with FPGAs in my free time a lot, but it's nothing big and professional :) I'd love to talk about any of these things to whoever is interested, so please do come and talk to me anytime!

Speaker Interview: Peter Czanik

Submitted by Hannah Anderson on Wed, 2017-03-01 23:27

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

A: I am a system engineer working as community manager at Balabit, the company behind the syslog-ng logging daemon. I help distributions maintain the syslog-ng package, follow bug trackers, help syslog-ng users and talk regularly at conferences (SCALE, FOSDEM, Libre Software Meeting, LOADays, and so on). In my limited free time I am interested in non-x86 architectures, and work on one of my PPC or ARM machines.

 

Speaker Interview: Nina Kaufman

Submitted by Hannah Anderson on Wed, 2017-03-01 23:25

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

A: Hello! My name is Nina and I've been working at Procore Technologies for three and a half years. I'm a senior site reliability engineer, and I help manage the performance, scalability, and reliability of our many services and applications. I also enjoy mentoring engineering college students through programs at universities like UC Santa Barbara. I'm really interested in networking and security, and I'm currently taking the OSCP certification course.

 

Speaker Interview: Keith Fiske

Submitted by Hannah Anderson on Wed, 2017-03-01 22:37

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

A: I'm a Database Administrator with OmniTI, Inc. I've been working in IT since 2000 and been working with databases for the last 10 years. I specialized in PostgreSQL when joining OmniTI 5 years ago. Since then I've written some popular third party tools for it (pg_partman, pg_extractor, mimeo).

 

 

Speaker Interview: Kir Kolyshkin

Submitted by Hannah Anderson on Wed, 2017-03-01 22:25

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

A: Hi, my name is Kir Kolyshkin, I'm originally from Russia but live in Seattle nowadays. The company I work for, Virtuozzo, works on Linux containers since about 2000, and I am mostly known within the Linux community for my role in OpenVZ project.

 

Speaker Interview: Phil Dibowitz - Building Better FLOSS Community Relationships at Facebook

Submitted by Hannah Anderson on Wed, 2017-03-01 12:34

Q: Could you please introduce yourself and tell us a little about your background?

A: My name is Phil Dibowitz. I'm a Production Engineer at Facebook and I'm a tech
load on the Operating Systems team. I have a passion for figuring out scaling
systems - particularly as it relates to the people managing them, and open
source software.

In addition to technology I spend my time riding my Harley or following
Metallica around the world.

Game Night

Join your fellow SCALE attendees for drinks, games, food and fun at SCALE's 7th Annual Game Night on Saturday.  Here's a lineup:

 

Brand new, and totally fascinating:  The VR Realm

Enter the VR Realm in one of our back rooms, and find out how open source opens up the third dimension.

 

It's baack, and gigantic:  Laser Tag

Play all night.  Just don't get run over by a tank.

 

What About the Nerdy Museum?

SCALE 15x – is “N6S” On the Air!

Once again, SCaLE is sponsoring a Special Events Amateur Radio Station, operating under the temporary, event-specific, call sign “N6S” (November-Six-SCaLE).  The station will be operating live, from the front lobby of the Conference Center (i.e., the east-most building) at the Pasadena Convention Center.  Stop by and check out how Linux and the open-source community support various aspects of the Amateur Radio hobby; including Emergency Services, world-wide communications, radio-contesting, and the development of new radio and communications technology.