One of the original authors of OpenBSC and OsmocomBB, both of which turned into Osmocom later on. Also co-founder of sysmocom, the leading company for professional R&D around many osmocom projects and largest contributor to Osmocom.

In previous lives, I hacked [among other things] on netfilter/iptables, OpenMoko and did a lot of work in terms of legal compliance to Open Source licenses at gpl-violations.org

Officially technology coordinator at Rhizomatica since around 2016.
Unofficially co-"founder" of said organisation since 2011.

These days, More interested in the social effects of technology and digital networking than the technology itself.

Most of my career happened in FLOSS.
sysmocom employee since 2015.

I wrote a large portion of Osmocom's CNI code in osmo-bsc, -msc, -hlr, -hnbgw...
Currently mostly busy in the realms:
- negotiating voice codecs in osmo-msc, -bsc, -sip-connector
- PFCP and UPF (osmo-upf, gtp-load-gen, ...)

Rafael Diniz is a computer scientist working Rhizomatica, in the HERMES project.

Longtime member of the CCC and one of the founders of the Munich CCC group.
Working on reverse-engineering iridium since 2014.
Other hobbies include security, perl and the game of go.

Sukchan Lee is the founder and lead developer of the open5gs project

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