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👤 Name/Nickname - Bob Harold “DNSBOB”

📍 Where I’m based out of - Ann Arbor, Michigan (near Detroit)

💼 Current job title or roles - officially “CS Programmer Sr” but really “DNS+DHCP”

⏲ Years in the industry - about 25, planning to retire “in the next 10 years”

🔎 What DDI topics are you currently most interested in?  - Automation

👤 Name/Nickname - Adam Augustine

📍 Where I’m based out of - Riverton, Utah

💼 Current job title or roles - Network Engineer with DDIT focus (the “T” is for Time, NTP, PTP, etc)

⏲ Years in the industry - ~32 years, depending on how you count.

📈 What do you hope to gain from this community? Learning, problem solving mostly. I love hearing how other people are doing it.

😂 Your best DDI-related joke or pun: “This is a UDP joke. You might not get it, and even if you do, you won’t acknowledge it. And I won’t even care.”

👤 Name/Nickname - Amarbir (Amar) Sidhu

📍 Where I’m based out of - Toronto

💼 Current job title or roles - Principal Product Manager

⏲ Years in the industry - 12

📈 What do you hope to gain from this community? - Engagement with customers and sharing ideas/feedback about upcoming product features

😂 Your best DDI-related joke or pun: I am always on the Edge.

👤 Kelly Arrey (Kel)

📍 BlueCat Galactic HQ, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

💼 Director, Engineering Operations (including Product Docs & Program Management, and then some)

⏲ In software since 1988, at BlueCat since 2012

📈 Hoping to learn and help where I can.

😂 There’s a new competitor in the DHCP space - it comes in a flatpack and you assemble it yourself with a little Allen key!

👤 Mark Barrow

📍 KENT, UK

💼 Solution Architect @ BlueCat

⏲ A long time…..

👀 I started my career as a Network Engineer before moving to become a UNIX admin. One day I was asked to install and configure BIND on a Solaris box. So that started my journey on the’D’. Then fast forward a few years I became a consultant working with VitalQIP and Infoblox, completing the DDI… I’m now really enjoying working in the Micetro team.

🔎 The thing I love most about DDI is that there’s always something new to learn. Micetro is such a cool product and orchestration is the way to go for modern networks using disparate DNS and DHCP infrastructure. Helping customers get Micetro integrated and talking to all their various infrastructure gives me a buzz and also plenty of homework 😁

📈 Hopefully share some knowledge and learn a bit on the way

😂 The problem with jokes about DNS is that it can often take 24 hours before you get it

Hmm.. Thought I did this already.

Bob Lutinski - Bob

Yale University

Senior Network Engineer /DNS Wrangler

Paid for work since the 90’s  I’ll leave the math to someone else.

Back in the Bluecat Forum Days I was a supposedly Trusted Tiger. Still not sure what that meant.

I don’t Emoji well, but I am fine with Ascii Emoticons =) 

👤 Scott Penney

📍 Grand Rapids, MI

💼 VP, Product Management (Edge & Micetro)

⏲ 32?!!?!??!

👀 I was tricked into it by ​@andrew 

🔎 Cloud managed DDI platforms - let’s go!

📈 Feedback from our customers

😂 My brain has a TTL of 0 for DNS jokes.  There.

👤 Marius Galm

📍 Germany

💼 DDI, exConsultant now Customer

⏲ 15+

👀 Made my IT hobby the profession and stumbled into consulting, end up sticking there and with BCN for 10+ years

🔎 Automation, Security, Cloud integration (nice template 😅)

📈 Feedback to BCN

😂 Your best DDI-related joke or pun: more general *nix:
 unzip strip touch grep finger mount fsck fsck fsck more yes fsck fsck umount sleep

👤 Name/Nickname -- Z, ZBadge, Badge, and my favorite, Dad. 

📍 Where I’m based out of - Raleigh, North Carolina - LETS GET COFFEE 😁

💼 Current job title or roles - Sr. Demand Generation Manager 

⏲ Years in the industry - I’ve been working in various tech organizations for 11 years

📈 What do you hope to gain from this community? - Supporting the community, learning more what the community struggles with (and thrives on), and most of some personal interaction and fun! 

😂 Your best DDI-related joke or pun: I used to have a joke about DHCP, but the lease expired (Thanks Reddit!) 

👤 Robert Barnhardt.  “Robert,” but I’m not precious about it.  I’m just grateful when people talk to me.

📍 Toronto, Canada.  Hooray for local sports teams and national cultural touchstones.  

💼 Senior VP, Engineering.  Mostly responsible for Integrity.  Mostly responsible.

⏲ 18 years in DDI, 25 years in technology.  Concurrent sentences, not consecutive.

👀 Joined BC in PS because I wanted to travel.  Found out I hated travel but loved BC.  Stayed as a coder.

📈 Learning from the community, possibly adding a bit of value.  Hopefully staying out of trouble. 😒 

😂 I am not a dancing monkey to perform for your amusement.  Or maybe I am.  But I don’t have any DDI jokes.