Russ White has more than twenty years' experience in designing, deploying, breaking, and troubleshooting large scale networks. Across that time, he has co-authored more than forty software patents, spoken at venues throughout the world, participated in the development of several internet standards, is currently co-chairing the I2RS and BABEL IETF working groups, helped develop the CCDE and the CCAr, and has worked in Internet governance with the ISOC. Russ is currently a member of the Architecture Team at LinkedIn, where he works on next generation data center designs, complexity, security, and privacy. His most recent works are The Art of Network Architecture, Navigating Network Complexity, and the Intermediate System to Intermediate System LiveLesson.

MSIT Capella University, MACM Shepherds Theological Seminary, PhD in progress from Southeastern Theological Seminary

CCIE #2635, CCDE 2007:001, CCAr

Daniel Dib is a Senior Network Architect at Conscia Netsafe. He works with creating scalable, modular and highly available network designs that meet business needs. Daniel started out in implementation and operations and got his CCIE in 2012. In May 2016 he became the second person in Sweden to get CCDE certified.

He often acts as a subject matter expert for his customer with deep expertise in routing, switching, multicast and fast convergence. Daniel has designed and implemented some of the most demanding networks in his country where both people’s lives and large amounts of money can be lost when the network is down. He firmly believes in giving back to the community and mentoring up and coming engineers. For his efforts he has been designated a Cisco Learning Network VIP and a Cisco Champion.

Daniel writes a blog about networking but has also been published in Network Computing, Cisco’s official blog and various training sites.

University Diploma with specialization in Computer Networking Technology from School of Engineering, Jönköping University

CCIE #37149, CCDE 2016:0011