The Eleventh Annual Southern California Linux Expo
February 22-24, 2013
Hilton Los Angeles International Airport
February 22-24, 2013
Hilton Los Angeles International Airport
Christopher starting working in IT since 1994.
Sofia Kelly is an Orange County sixth grader. She has previously given presentations at her elementary school and has experience teaching her younger brother.
Dr. Zachary Peterson is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA.
While not a kernel hacker (yet), Eugene has participated to 10 of the 11 current SCaLE events.
He has managed a group of interested volunteers for more than 15 years.
Christian Einfeldt is a simple end user who has used free software since 2000 in his law practice.
Keila Banks is an 11 year old web designer, programmer, videographer and publisher of content making use of mostly open source software.
LINUCITY.COM, established in 2007, is a leading provider of Linux and Open Source based systems to government, businesses, non profits and private people all over the US.
I am 11 years old and live in Santa Barbara. I have participated in the Open Source community for several years.
Jon Erdman began using Postgres heavily around the release of 7.4 as a backend for a medical billing company called Progressive Practice.
I am the lead consultant for Command Prompt, Inc.. I am also a Director for United States PostgreSQL and Software in The Public Interest.
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph is an Automation and Tools Engineer at HP working on the OpenStack Infrastructure team.
Jim Mlodgenski is CEO and co-founder of StormDB.
Christophe has been working with PostgreSQL since 1997. He consults through PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.
Kirill Kolyshkin was named leader and project manager for the OpenVZ project in 2005 to further the adoption of containers virtualization for Linux.
My name is John Kim, a 17-year old Korean American and a regular contributor to the Ubuntu community. After finishing homework, I usually learn Java, Vim, and bash on my Ubuntu 12.04.
Philip Ballew is an active Open Source advocate in the greater Open Source community.
Philip Ballew is an active Open Source advocate in the greater Open Source community.
Brendan Gregg is the lead performance engineer at Joyent, where he analyzes performance and scalability at any level of the software stack.
Dave Jones is the Fedora kernel team lead, spending most of his time buried alive in bugs. When he occasionally comes up for air, he finds time to write programs to find more bugs.
Francesca is the Community Marketing Manager for MongoDB at 10gen. In this capacity she supports MongoDB User Groups along with a number of other MongoDB Community Programs.
A true Linux guy at heart. Linux has been a hobby and true passion of mine for over 10 years now. I enjoy learning something new about Linux each and everyday.
A true Linux guy at heart. Linux has been a hobby and true passion of mine for over 10 years now. I enjoy learning something new about Linux each and everyday.
Hands-on experience in all roles of software development and delivery, enables effective management and mentoring of development teams.
Jordan is a hacker in San Jose who has been doing operations and software engineering for 8 years. He practices hate-driven development and gives out hugs upon request.
Robyn Bergeron is currently the Fedora Project Leader, and has done many tours of duty for Fedora, including organization of FUDCons and other numerous events, managing the project schedule, contri
Carlo Flores loves nerdery and co-founded LA DevOps, js.la, and the Downtown Los Angeles Chess Club. Carlo works for EdgeCast Networks.
Richard Elling is CTO of DEY Storage Systems.
John started working with GNU Press and the Free Software Foundation in 2003 and then became the FSF's first Campaigns Manager, working on outreach efforts like Defective by Design, BadVista,
Once upon a time, a lot longer ago then he wished Mark Hinkle was born in a small Pennsylvania town and through the most unlikely sequence of events ended up as a technologist involved in the devel
Once upon a time, a lot longer ago then he wished Mark Hinkle was born in a small Pennsylvania town and through the most unlikely sequence of events ended up as a technologist involved in the devel
Thomas is the creator of the Salt infrastructure management system, one of the largest and fastest growing open source projects today.
Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, engineering manager, consultant and author.
Jono Bacon is a leading community manager, engineering manager, consultant and author.
Mike Day is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is the Chief Virtualization Architect for IBM's Open Systems Group.
Eco serves as the technical liason to the Gluster community on Red
Hat's Open Source and Standards Team. Prior to the company's
Prior to co-founding Piston Cloud Computing, Christopher was an early employee of Slicehost before its acquisition by Rackspace in 2008.
Thomas Cameron is the chief architect for the central US region at Red Hat. He has been in the IT industry since 1993, and started using Linux in 1995.
James has been a user and enthusiast of the GNU and Linux projects since 1997.
As a 13+ year veteran of technical recruiting in the Los Angeles area, Todd “geekhunter” Cranston-Cuebas has unique insight into the LA job market.
Steve is a PaaS Dust Spreader (aka developer evangelist) with OpenShift. He goes around and shows off all the great work the OpenShift engineers do.
Since 2000 Karsten has been teaching and living the open source way (http://TheOpensourceWay.org).
Richard Gaskin is the owner of Fourth World Systems, a software design and development consultancy in Los Angeles.
Richard Gaskin is the owner of Fourth World Systems, a software design and development consultancy in Los Angeles.
Roy Sutton is the community manager for HP's Open webOS. He supports developers in porting Open webOS to new platforms and is a contributor to the Enyo project.
Roy Sutton is the community manager for HP's Open webOS. He supports developers in porting Open webOS to new platforms and is a contributor to the Enyo project.
I am a Principal Software Engineer for AOL's Network Architecture & Automation team.
Ruth Suehle manages the Community Leadership team in Red Hat's Open Source and Standards group, which supports upstream open source software communities.
Jeffrey Bianchine has had a career with personal computers for about as long as there have been personal computers.
Greg leads a breakthrough technology team working on cloud and high performance computing solutions at Mirantis, the largest OpenStack® systems integrator.
Aleksey has been a UNIX/Linux system administrator for 16 years.
Aleksey has been a UNIX/Linux system administrator for 16 years.
Stephen is a principal engineer at Vyatta, a Brocade company. He is involved with Linux kernel networking and maintains Ethernet bridging and iproute utilities.
Joe Brockmeier is on the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat. Brockmeier is an Apache CloudStack PMC member and recovering technology journalist.
Joe Brockmeier is on the Open Source and Standards (OSAS) team at Red Hat. Brockmeier is an Apache CloudStack PMC member and recovering technology journalist.
Dennis Kibbe teaches Linux Operating System and Linux System Administration at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona. Dennis has been a Linux user for well over a decade.
Mario Obejas started as an Air Defense programmer in 1980, performing final acceptance tests in a war zone on his very first program. In the early 1990s he switched to sysadmin work.
Antony Curtis is an advocate of Open Source software and long-time user of alternative operating systems.
Jonathan Thomas is the CEO of OpenShot Studios, LLC, and is the creator and lead developer of OpenShot Video Editor, one of the leading open-source video editors available on Linux.
Bruce Momjian is a co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996.
Bruce Momjian is a co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996.
Nathen Harvey is a Technical Community Manager at Opscode (http://www.opscode.com), the company behind Chef (http://www.o
Co-founder at AppScale Systems, Inc.
Jason Brooks is a software analyst with Red Hat, in the company's Open Source and Standards group.
Kohsuke is the creator of Hudson, later renamed Jenkins. He wrote the majority of the Hudson/Jenkins core single-handedly.
Caryl Bigenho was born 30 years too soon.
Boyd is an executive at Omnibond and also has an appointment as Software CTO at Clemson University.
David is a long time advocate, entrepreneur, and author of all things open source. For more than a decade he has been involved with health care and technology.
ohn Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years. Currently he is VP of Customer Service and Enablement at enStratus.
ohn Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years. Currently he is VP of Customer Service and Enablement at enStratus.
Eric's a programmer. He's also a longtime advocate of alternative storage mechanisms (especially the distributed kind), and loves to write and talk about them.
Lance Albertson is the Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) (http://osuosl.org) and has been involved with the Gentoo Linux (
Lance Albertson is the Director for the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) (http://osuosl.org) and has been involved with the Gentoo Linux (
Bradley M. Kuhn is President and Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy and on the Board of Directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF).
Max Mether, a native of Finland received his M.Sc (Eng) in Physics and Maths from Helsinki University of Technology.
Sage Weil is the creator of the Ceph project. Sage originally designed Ceph as part of his PhD research in Storage Systems at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Deb Nicholson works at the intersection of technology and social justice. She has been a free speech advocate, economic justice organizer and civil liberties defender.
In a former life, Dane Copeland was a mainframe COBOL programmer.
Phil Dibowitz has been working in systems engineering for 12 years and is currently a production engineer at Facebook.
Jenn Greenaway is an early education specialist and open source enthusiast who studied child development at Moorpark College and The University of La Verne.
Christopher Webber has been a systems administrator since 2005. He has worked in academia, supporting California State University, Fresno and the University of California, Riverside.
Ron Toland has been building websites since 2007. He's worked the entire LAMP stack, from configuring servers to working in Zend to building user interfaces in HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
Jérôme Petazzoni works for Docker inc (formerly dotCloud Inc.), where he juggles between evangelist and devops duties.
Jorge O. Castro currently works on the Community Team as Cloud Community Liaison for Canonical Ltd, sponsors of the Ubuntu project.
Jorge O. Castro currently works on the Community Team as Cloud Community Liaison for Canonical Ltd, sponsors of the Ubuntu project.
Solomon is a MySQL certified DBA and a former director of LAMPSIG.
Solomon is a MySQL certified DBA and a former director of LAMPSIG.
As Development Community Advocate for SoftLayer, Mr. Jackson is the lead customer contact for SoftLayer’s robust API.
Lars Kurth joined Citrix in 2011 where he works as community manager for Xen.org.
Casey Marshall began his software development career in semicondutor test & manufacturing. More recently, he has been building products at Austin, Texas startups.
Dave Stokes is a MySQL Community Manager for Oracle and previously was the Certification Manager for MySQL AB.
Dru Lavigne is the Community Manager of the PC-BSD project and the lead documentation writer for the PC-BSD and FreeNAS projects.
Josh Berkus is a database geek, best known as a Core Team member of the PostgreSQL Project.
Joseph Guarino is a Senior Consultant/Owner at Evolutionary IT, which provides IT solutions, Healthcare IT, Information Security and Marketing solutions.
Chris Turra is a web operations engineer at Mozilla who is a passionate technologist and open source enthusiast.
Brandon Burton is a member of the Mozilla web operations team and has a passion for all things devops, unix and animated gifs.
Brandon Burton is a member of the Mozilla web operations team and has a passion for all things devops, unix and animated gifs.
I'm a free software advocate who recently graduated University and was thrust into the exciting world of MediaWiki development.
Stephen is the technical director of the Outercurve Foundation. Prior to that he consulted on software business development and open source strategy.
An incredibly handsome open-source software engineer that has contributed to well known projects like KDE and PC-BSD.
Kris Moore is the founder and lead developer of the most popular BSD based desktop, PC-BSD.
Matthew Garrett is a Linux kernel developer, specialising in low level interactions between the kernel and firmware.
David is a Senior Software Engineer at Google working primarily on Linux kernel development and specializes in memory management. He is the author of the SLAM allocator.
Nathan has been working with the XBMC community in one form or another since 2008.
I have extensive knowledge and skills in many Linux and UNIX-like environments. Such skills include programming, kernel hacking, network administration, and DB administration.
Kyle Rankin is the System Engineering Lead for Artemis Internet, Inc.; the author of DevOps Troubleshooting, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, Knoppix Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference, Linux Multimed
Sheeri K. Cabral has a master's degree in computer science specializing in databases from Brandeis University and a background in systems administration.
Mr. Hoffman , AKA “The Engineer That Can Talk,” helps organizations select, develop and deploy the right technology, at the right time to deliver business solutions with measureable ROI.
Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric and a member of the ARIN Advisory Council. Owen brings more than 25 years of industry experience.
I have been involved with open source since the early 90s, and spend my days showing companies how to integrate open source solutions into their network infrastructure.
