Aaron Zauner is self-employed and primarily does engineering work, training,consulting and research on IT Infrastructure Architecture, Operations &Development, High Performance Computing and Information Security. He's beenworking in different corners of the IT-industry over more than 10 years, hasseen the fallacies of distributed computing - still enjoys working andresearching in the industry. Loves tuning, scaling and securing of distributedsystems - building on and contributing to great Free & Open Source Software.He has held talks on DevOps, HPC and Security related topics at various venues- from local meetups to internationally recognized conferences. In addition,he currently holds a research position at SBA-Research in Vienna where hefocuses on network security, applied cryptography, conducting Internet-widesurveys, attacking protocol implementations and proliferating strongcryptography.