Flanders, Belgium – Freelance Linux consultant • Doing Linux and Open Source since 1994 • Working for various companies (IT, Finance, Telco, Gov) – IBM, HP, EMC, Cisco, Punch; Euroclear, AXA, BNP Paribas, ING, KBC – Proximus, Telenet; Belgian Federal Police, Belgian Constitutional Court • Mostly as engineer/architect, but prefers hands-on too – The past 6 years this involved Ansible in various ways • Started developing Ansible from the very start (early 2012) • Wrote core functionality and basic modules: debug, fail, set_fact, mail, ... – Maintainer of: unarchive, xml, filetree, dense, hpilo, vmware_guest, Cisco ACI, IMC, … – Involved in: Core, Windows, VMware and Network/ACI communities