Andrew McNabb

Provo, Utah

Research Assistant/Grad Student

Josh Simpson

7500 feet above sea level

Working Full Time

Senior Developer

Ex Army 19D / Pathfinder, now a security consultant / pen tester and developer.

Hans Fugal

Las Cruces, NM

Students

PhD Student

Linux Sysadmin, Ruby (on or off Rails), VoIP (Asterisk, SER, etc) contractor available for small jobs.

Field of research is Computer Music.

Linux user since 1999.

Derek Carter

Tallahassee Florida USA, Earth, Solar System, Sector 001, Alpha Quadrant, Milky Way, Universe, Prime Dimention

Linux Support Analyst

Jason Hall

Eagle Mountain, UT

Working Full Time

Sr. Billing Operations Engineer

Plug President
Perl Developer with Financial focus.
Enterprise performance tuning, scalability, security and co-branding experience.
Contributor to the Freeside ISP billing system.
Experienced with MySQL, PostgresQL, Oracle, sqlite
Presenter on Perl (many aspects), mod_perl, Regular Expressions, Caching, Memcached, mod_security, and more.

Levi Pearson

Lehi, UT

Working Full Time

Programmer and Student of Computer Science

A connoisseur of programming languages, Levi is perpetually programming for work, school, and fun. He has been using Linux since the days of kernel version .99 and Debian for almost as long. Currently employed with Harman Pro Group developing software for audio/video networking and taking evening classes in Computer Science at UVSC.

Ryan Byrd

Salt Lake City

Chief Information Officer

I have consulting and teaching experience in IT infrastructure (server setup/monitoring, load balancing, routers/firewalls), enterprise PHP/Java/C++ programming, embedded systems, mysql/oracle databases and project management

Paul Seamons

Pleasant Grove UT

FastDomain Solitary Employee

Orem, Utah

Working Full Time

Senior Linux System Administrator

Ryan Simpkins began using GNU/Linux in critical production environments in 1998. He is currently a Sr. Linux System Administrator working with fortune 500 companies and over 10,000 production Linux servers. Currently the system he administers receives more than 7 billion front-end transactions daily. Ryan also administers one of the ten largest MySQL installations in the world handling over 300 billion queries daily.

With a deep understanding of POSIX systems, the Linux kernel, and GNU tools Ryan has been able to provide professional level services to many businesses. As a programmer Ryan has worked with Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, and C/C++ to create countless business critical applications. Ryan currently resides in Lehi, Utah with his wife and five children.

Please click on Ryan's profile for additional information, or visit his LinkedIn profile.

Thayne Harbaugh

American Fork

Senior Software Developer

Original co-founder of PLUG. I've been involved in Linux and F/OSS for twelve years and have done embedded systems, super computers, high-volume Internet servers, network administration, security, etc..