About the Speaker
Alexander Krizhanovsky is the CEO of Tempesta Technologies and the architect of Tempesta’s open-source full-stack DDoS protection and bot management platform, including Tempesta xFW for high-performance L3/L4 DDoS mitigation, Tempesta FW for L7 DDoS protection and web security, and WebShield for advanced bot management.
Alexander has designed and led the development of high-performance network traffic processing systems, including a Web Application Firewall mentioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, as well as highly scalable S3 and NFS servers with a focus on network I/O, multicore scalability, and efficient data processing.
He has given talks at CppCon, Netdev, SCALE, Linux Conf Australia, All Things Open, FOSDEM, SeaGL, Percona Live, IBM CASCON, and many other conferences. Alexander is also the author of a high-performance lock-free MPMC ring buffer queue published by Linux Journal.
