Like you, Chris likes digging into packet captures to figure out how things work. When he is not teaching people the art of packet analysis in live courses, YouTube videos, or at conference seminars, you can find him in the packet trenches with clients from all over the world. Chris has been attending and speaking at Sharkfest since 2011 and enjoys learning new things right alongside attendees of all experience levels.

I'm a geek and not afraid to wear my propeller hat in public. Started programming at age 12 (1976) taking a community college course on Fortran IV programming punching cards and found I just 'got it' ... to the point I was spending a lot of time helping the other "kids" in the course with their machine problems. At one point I asked my professor "Do they actually pay people to do this?" to which he replied "Oh yes!"... "I'm going to do this for the rest of my life!" and have.

I am originally from Mexico, I have a bachelor degree in Industrial Electronics Engineering. My background is in mainly in medical imaging technologies. I've been using wireshark for packet analysis for over 20 years to troubleshoot and resolve issues in the medical imaging (PACS and DICOM) space. I currently work in L4 support in sustaining engineering department where I provide global support and do regular trainings in packet analysis to my peers . I enjoy hiking, road biking, SUPing and anything nature related.

Josh has both academic and real-world experience in the world of protocol analysis. He holds an M.S. degree in Computer Engineering with a focus in network engineering and has spent the past 8 years designing, troubleshooting, and optimizing networks and applications. He is a Wireshark Certified Analyst.

Kevin Tobin has 40 years of experience in the IT industry and has worked with Wireshark from its inception. Kevin has twenty years of public speaking experience and has presented at several IBM conferences worldwide. He is currently employed as Chief Engineer at Westpac Bank in Australia and regularly called upon by the NOC to lead root cause analysis of incidents and outages. Wireshark is his first-choice troubleshooting tool when dealing with hard to find, intermittent failures.

Megumi Takeshita, packet otaku, runs a packet company, ikeriri network service in Japan. Ikeriri offers services such as packet analysis for troubleshooting, debugging, security inspection. Ikeriri is also a reseller of wired/wireless capture and analysis products. Megumi has authored 10+ books about Wireshark and packet analysis. She also instructs Wireshark for Japanese companies, including the Japan Self-Defence Forces and Chuo University, as a lecturer. She is one of contributors to the Wireshark projects including Japanese localization.

Roland Knall is a seasoned software developer and systems architect based in Salzburg, Austria, with over 25 years of experience . He has extensive expertise in network technology, focusing on network analysis and packet capture . As a core developer of the Wireshark network analyzer, Roland has contributed to its open-source development for nearly a decade, including six years on Wireshark’s core team . He is also a member of Wireshark’s Technical Steering Committee , helping shape the project’s direction. He is active in the open-source community and regularly shares his knowledge through conference talks and panel discussions, including Wireshark’s SharkFest user conferences .

Ross has had a diverse career in engineering, beginning as a structural engineer, then project engineer for a gas utility, Ross was always quickly
assigned the de-facto network administrator, typically after no one else was brave enough to break, and later fix, the network. This lead to working as a network engineer designing and implementing enterprise networks for a major university hospital. Here he worked with
Extreme Networks, HP, Cisco, Tipping Point, among other network technology, as well as honed his Wireshark and protocol analysis skills. Ross
spent 7 years teaching data networking at Madison College, and in 2017 started authoring and producing IT training videos in Wireshark/Protocol
Analysis, Cisco, and general networking topics for www.Pluralsight.com. In his free time, you'll find Ross and his dog at the beach swimming and
surfing, traveling, hiking, or snowboarding somewhere in the western US.