AsiaBSDCon 2026

IT Consultant and Lecturer with broad experience in software development, IT consulting, and academic teaching. Skilled in C++, Java, and SQL, as well as modern development tools and cloud technologies such as Docker, Terraform, and VMware ESXi. Brings a combination of technical expertise, structured problem-solving, and collaborative working style.

Balaje Sankar is an Enterprise Cloud Architect and long-time FreeBSD enthusiast. With a background in network programming and C, he focuses on systems virtualization and cross-platform compatibility. He is the author of the WSL-For-FreeBSD implementation.

Brooks Davis is a Principle Research Scientist at Capabilities Limited. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College (1998). Since 2012 he has worked on the CHERI project and leads the engineering effort for CheriBSD, a memory safe UNIX-like operating system. He has co-authored more than 15 papers on CHERI in contexts including security, operating systems, programming languages, and architecture.

Prior to joining Capabilities Limited in 2025, Brooks worked on CHERI and CheriBSD at SRI International and before that worked on high-performance computing and networking at The Aerospace Corporation. Brooks Davis has been a member of the FreeBSD open-source operating system project since 2001 and has served on the project's elected core team. He is also a Visiting Industrial Fellow at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology (Computer Laboratory).

A 4th grade NYCU CS student who mostly studies system administration, network and operating system.

Massimiliano "Max" stucchi is the main person behind Glevia, a Swiss organisation providing training and consulting on networking. In his past, he founded an ISP and WISP in Italy, worked at the RIPE NCC as trainer and subsequently as IPv6 Programme Manager and last at the Internet Society. He is involved in a number of programme committees and helps run a couple of Internet Exchanges. Max also runs his own autonomous systems - AS58280 - for fun, testing and research. He is based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Mateusz Piotrowski is a systems engineer based in Berlin, Germany. He has long contributed to open source, primarily to the FreeBSD and OpenZFS projects, and served on the FreeBSD Core Team from 2022 to 2024. Professionally, he consults for companies on performance engineering and open-source development. He received his ports commit bit in 2018 and has since helped maintain various ports, including Ansible, Samba, and the DTrace Toolkit.

Olivier has been continuously using FreeBSD on all his machines and those of some of the companies he worked with since the end of 2004. During this time, he has grown a set of private customizations including modifications to rc scripts and some kernel bits. After having worked for over 15 years in the CAD and finance sectors, he lately switched back to pure IT topics, and in particular operating system development. His main interests are centered around kernel development, with particular focuses on power management, security, scheduling, file systems and jails. He's currently a contractor for the FreeBSD Foundation.

Chief Technical Specialist at Tieto Tech Consulting. Author of The Book of PF (https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition), occasional blogger (https://bsdly.blogspot.com) and lecturer on IT security with a strong preference for OpenBSD.

Pierre Pronchery is a NetBSD developer since 2012, FreeBSD developer since 2025, and currently serving on the Board of Directors for the NetBSD Foundation. He regularly contributes to different sides of either projects, from kernel patches to software packaging, or contributing to public events. His passion for Operating System development took shape with the DeforaOS Project since 2001, which led him to research the Future Internet as well.
As founder and CEO of Defora Networks GmbH in Germany, he performs IT-Security consulting and development services around all of these projects, most notably with the FreeBSD Foundation since 2023.

Soma Sakaguchi is a graduate student at Future University Hakodate, Japan. His research focuses on container networking, virtualization, and operating system compatibility between Linux and FreeBSD. Currently, he is exploring Linux-compatible container networking for FreeBSD.

My professional background is diverse, stemming from my time as a research assistant and Ph.D. student at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava. My academic work, culminating in a 1991 thesis, involved solid-state physics, measurement, automation, data processing, numerical mathematics, and programming. I also served as an instructor for the "Operating System Elements" course, with engagement in VLSI technology design and testing, software engineering, and operating systems administration.

I have been a dedicated administrator of FreeBSD since version 4.3, supporting small and medium-sized businesses. My commitment to open-source extended to developing software for Novell SUSE Linux, including device drivers for networking, wireless LAN, and Bluetooth. I later managed the "SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service" product for the same company.

Currently, I operate as a freelancer specializing in FreeBSD and Ansible. My expertise is underscored by a decade-long commitment to maintaining Ansible roles for FreeBSD, all publicly accessible on GitHub. A key recent contribution is the development of the Ansible collection vbotka.freebsd, which has garnered over 5,000 downloads. This collection includes specialized plugins for iocage—a module, a filter, and an inventory plugin—with comprehensive documentation on essential jails usability.

Furthermore, I have significantly contributed upstream to the community.general Ansible collection, including 25 commits and 12k additions. This work encompasses numerous plugins, documentation updates, and bug fixes, notably the integration of the iocage inventory plugin community.general.iocage into the collection. I also contributed the "Setting the Python interpreter" section to the Ansible Community Documentation chapter, Managing BSD hosts with Ansible.

Wuyang Chung is currently working as a freelancer. Previously, Chung worked at Industrial Technology Research Institute as a Windows CE system integrator. After that he worked in ALi as a firmware engineer. His last work was in Hewlett-Packard Taiwan branch as a system software engineer and worked on writing test programs and helping to analyze product issues detected by those test programs.

Date Huang is a Solution Architect with 5 years of customer-facing experience in designing scalable cloud and datacenter networks. He is the creator and maintainer of STUNMESH-go, an open-source WireGuard helper tool for NAT traversal, and the maintainer of EZIO Project, a bare-metal server massive deployment solution.
His expertise includes AWS/Azure/GCP Cloud DataCenter Networking, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and SD-WAN. He has a strong background in networking, automation, and open-source development, with proven abilities in cross-team coordination and delivering high-performance solutions.
Speaking Experience: OpenStack Day Taiwan 2016-2017, Open Source Summit North America 2017, ISC High Performance Project Poster 2018, Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019, Open Source Conference Tokyo 2019 Fall, China Open Source Conference 2019, TWNOG 4.0, COSCUP 2021, COSCUP 2023, Kubernetes Community Day 2023, OSC Nagoya 2024, COSCUP 2024, Kubernetes Community Day Taipei 2024, ALASCA Tech-Talk #19, COSCUP 2025

Yuichiro Naito is a software developer at SOUM Corp. who runs FreeBSD as a daily driver for development.