WG Chair Biographies

Ignas Bagdonas has been involved in the network engineering field for the last two decades, covering operations, deployment, design, architecture, development, and standardisation aspects. He has worked on multiple large SP and enterprise networks worldwide, participated in many of the world's first technology deployments, and has been involved with building community awareness via conferences, seminars, and workshops.

Ignas is currently co-chair of the RIPE Routing Working Group. His focus covers end-to-end network architecture evolution and new emerging technologies.

Ben Cartwright-Cox is a Systems Engineer in the day and bad-ideas-blogger on the side.

After building a WAF, helping operate a large CDN, and rejigging a Bank’s payment gateways, Ben is currently focused on making day-to-day BGP operations less awful with bgp.tools.

Sebastian Becker, born in 1976 in Berlin, Germany, has been working for Deutsche Telekom for over 22 years. He started in January 2002 at the 24/7 service desk and worked his way up to become the (only) peering manager for AS3320. Global routing has been his daily companion from the very beginning.

Since 2007, he has been part of the RIPE community, regularly attending NANOG meetings since 2011. He joined the GPF/EPF community in 2019 and became a part of the CoC Team of the RIPE community in 2023.

Since 2019 he is also an active member of the DENOG orga and member of the PC for the DENOG conferences.