Bernd Erk is co-founder and community manager of the Icinga Project which began as a fork of Nagios. With Icinga and Icinga 2, the Icinga Project currently maintains two branches in parallel.
In his day job he is CEO at NETWAYS, a German open source service company. His technical expertise stretches across systems management, managed services and software development. As contributor to Linux Magazine and Admin Magazine, Bernd regularly publishes articles and presents on open source topics ranging from monitoring, configuration management to various open source datacenter solutions. As a core member of DevOpsDays organizers, he tries to spread the DevOps spirit wherever and whenever possible.