Alex Esplin

BYU

perpetual student

I'm a CS student at BYU, and I work in Computer Support for the Chemistry Department on campus. I'm a little bit of a non-typical computer geek (or nerd if you prefer) in that until about 4 years ago my knowledge of computers was limited to what I needed to play RPG games and some minor tinkering I picked up alongside some AutoCAD work in high school. I've been using Linux for 2 1/2 years now, mostly Ubuntu and Gentoo.

Andrew McNabb

Provo, Utah

Research Assistant/Grad Student

Chris Strieby

Provo, Utah

Students

Computer Engineering

Josh Simpson

7500 feet above sea level

Working Full Time

Senior Developer

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

Eric Wald

Provo

Database Administrator

Justin Findlay

(6372.371,40.244421,111.660804)

Students

programmer, eclectic IT errantry, theoretical and mathematical physics

Clint Savage

Springville, Utah or Anywhere in the USA

Instructor

Topher Fischer

Provo, UT

Pretentious KnowItAll

Jeff Jibson

Bangkok Thailand

Working Full Time

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.

Spencer Christensen

Salt Lake City

Engineering Infrastructure Team Leader, Backcountry.com

I've long been a programmer, but after getting an AS degree from SLCC in CIS I decided to go to film school at the U of U. I have been a perl programmer/web developer since 1997.

Jacob Fugal

Orem, Utah

Developer

I have been using F/OSS since 2000, when I returned from an LDS mission. My brother, Hans, introduced me to Linux at that time. I'm a pragmatist -- I use Windows and other commercial software when necessary -- but I do prefer F/OSS when available and appropriate.

I've worked professionally as a computer programmer for eight years, with a two year haitus from 1998-2000. I currently do internal systems development at Prosper, Inc. in Provo. I am most familiar with web applications programming. I have extensive experience with web services technology.

Peter Hunt

Sandy, UT

Working Full Time

Senior System Engineer

I am an Australian citizen working in Utah since October 2005. I graduated from University back in 1999 and quite accidentally fell into a career in Embedded Software Development, starting with an Australian Multiport Serial Card / Terminal Server manufacturer called Stallion Technologies. I've since worked for a number of appliance manufacturers including ePipe Inc, SnapGear / CyberGuard and my current employer Opengear LLC.

Opengear builds aggressively priced hardware based Remote Management appliances with a focus on security. Think Console Servers with value adds for remotely managing the rest of the equipment in the Data Center. Opengear is committed to releasing source and hardware specifications back to the community.

Peter McNabb

Next to Smith's in Provo

Student-like

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.

Shane Hathaway

Utah

Software engineer

John M. Anderson

Salt Lake City

Working Full Time

Lead Software Developer

John Anderson began using GNU/Linux in critical production environments in 2003. He is currently Senior Software Engineer and Architect at Orchid Event Solutions where he maintains many cross platform desktop applications (Linux, Mac, and Windows) written in C#/Mono and also maintains Cocoa, GTK, and Windows Form GUI's for the applications. Currently the applications he maintains receive more than 500,000 front-end transactions daily. John also contributes to many open source applications including Banshee, Tomboy, Mono, and is the maintainer of the Trac Peer Review Plugin

With a deep understanding of POSIX systems, the Linux kernel, GNU tools and Windows development environments John has been able to provide professional level services to many businesses in cross-platform development with both C#/Mono and Python. As a programmer John has worked with Perl, Python, PHP, C#, and C/C++ to create countless business critical applications. John currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Scott Paul Robertson

Menlo Park, CA

Working Full Time

R&D Software Engineer

Works for HP in the Bay Area. Former BYU-UUG officer. Enjoys hacking in Perl and Python. Maintains and develops the open source project Oggify

Michael Lovell

Provo, UT

Student Server Administrator

B. Payne

Provo, Utah

Students

Computer Engineering, Senior

I am here to hopefully get a chance to socialize with some peers. I have been programming, and using Linux for my primary workstation's operating system since 1996, and I'm curious to learn more. I hope to have that opportunity here.