SouthEast Linux Fest 2025

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Adam Kennedy

Just your average IT nerd trying to survive

  • A Journey Through Time and FOSS
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Alexander Rubin

Principal Security Engineer at AWS

  • Atomic Honeypot: A MySQL Honeypot That Drops Shells
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Aly Raffauf

Coder, cyclist, GNU/Linux girl, and keyboard snob.

  • Stop Breaking Things: A Gentle Introduction to NixOS in the Homelab
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Andrew Miller

Founder and CEO of QuCelerate

  • Breaking Down Data Warehouses: What to Know Before You Choose
  • Choosing the Right Master Data Management Solution: Benefits, Challenges, and Insights
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Benjamin Van Houten
  • Cloud CI/CD is Your New Single Point of Failure — Here's the Escape Plan
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Brad Whitehead

Brad Whitehead is Chief Scientist for Formularity.

  • Pascal - The Once and Future Programming Language
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Bruce Momjian

Bruce Momjian is PostgreSQL core team member.

  • Databases in the AI Trenches
  • Fundamentals of Modern Cryptography and TLS
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Cameron Conn
  • Build Your App with Zig
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Cornelius Koelbel

Multi-Factor-Authentication Expert

  • Your Open Source replacement for Okta and DUO
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Dan Good

Principal Engineer, Linux Systems Group, Microsoft

  • The Two Greatest Lost Programming Languages
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Daniel Colson

Security Engineer, Python/Automation/LLMs

  • MCP tools for your Homelab: Building LLM Sysadmins
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Dwain Sims

Recently retired Sales Engineer at SUSE.

  • Digging into the Flash-Friendly File System (F2FS)
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elrey741 (Alex R)

I love automation and linux: elrey.casa/links

  • "Hey Mycroft" v1.5-popey
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Eric S. Raymond

You don't know who I am? what are you doing here?

  • Geopolitics for Geeks
  • Programming Languages: The Long View
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Ihar Hrachyshka
  • Nix* on MacOS
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Issac Merkle

A public-interest technologist and maker.

  • Makerspace BoF
  • Open House
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James T

Trying to make things work....

  • OpenSource for Media at Church
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Jason Franklin

A humble programmer in search of wisdom.

  • Boost your Recall with Anki
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John Franklin
  • DevSecOps with DNSSEC & DANE
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John Scott Hood

Linux user and promoter. Cybersecurity Analyst.

  • What Linux offers
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Josh Clark

Josh is a performance engineer and Wireshark guru.

  • Meet Stratoshark: Wireshark's Baby Brother
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Josh Lee

Open-Source Advocate @ Altinity

  • My My NixOS-Powered Homelab
  • Modern Application Debugging: An Introduction to OpenTelemetry
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JT (q5sys)
  • Anatomy of a Telegram Crypto Scam
  • AI VibeCoding in 2025 for Fun and (no) Profit
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Leander Hutton

Astronomer, photographer from WNC.

  • Photography on Linux with Darktable 5
  • Astronomy on Linux
  • Technology and Hurricane Helene
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Louis Abel
  • RISC-V Architecture Bootstrapping: An Enterprise Linux Story
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Lyle Evans

Former Multics systems Administrator (current Unix

  • The Roots of Linux
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Mathias Palmersheim

I work Victoriametrics and maintain Shiftmon

  • Automating Observability with Shiftmon
  • Who will be your Ruler
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Michael Fox
  • Bootable Containers: Build Your Own Immutable Distro
  • Podman + Quadlet + Ansible: Rootless Service Management
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Michael L. Young
  • Secure Boot: Getting to know your frenemy
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Mike Ralph

A geek with security as a hobby.

  • Secret Recipe: How FreeIPA Serves Up Zero Trust with a Side of Security!
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Neil Hanlon
  • A Very Serious Talk About a Very Silly Paging System
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Noah Chelliah

https://noahchelliah.com/about/

  • Data Center Hosting - What you didn't know you needed to know
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Patrick Emerson

IT Director of NewSpring Church

  • Scaling Up and Staying on Budget:
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Peter Misik

Systems Engineer at Palmetto Rural Telephone Coop

  • FOSS in a Small Town
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Russ Nelson

Creator of Freemacs & Clarkson Packet Drivers

  • Linux on a boat
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Ryan Marina

https://beepboop.systems/

  • NixOS or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Symlinks
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Shelby Palmersheim

Technical Marketing Manager, CEH & CISSP

  • Guarding Your Digital Treasure: A Quest for Secure Credential Management
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Steve Ovens
  • OpenShift 101:Kubernetes Fundamentals From A Red Hat Perspective
  • Adventures from the wild: Experiences Hiring for Red Hat
  • Data Center Hosting - What you didn't know you needed to know
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Thomas Cameron

Senior Principal Solution Architect at Red Hat

  • Getting started with Foreman/Red Hat Satellite Server
  • Getting started with OKD (the upstream for OpenShift)
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Tracy Homer

Find out more at tracyhomer.com

  • Makerspace BoF
  • Running an Open Source Hackerspace
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Tyler McAdams

President and Principal Consultant at Y337.

  • Elephants tap dance, penguins sing!
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Yulia Kuznetsova

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Flatiron Health

  • Forecasting the Future: Crowd Wisdom, Prediction Markets, and AI