João Damas

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Country: Spain
Email: joao [at] isc.org
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João Damas is currently Senior Researcher at APNIC. He is a member of ICANN's RSSAC, an RSTEP panelist and a root zone signing TCR. He participates in ISOC, RIPE, and ESNOG.[1] He is co-chair of the DNS wg at RIPE.[2]

João has contributed to RFC 4012 and RFC 5358. He can speak English, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch.

Industry Participation[edit | edit source]

Damas attends IETF,[3] ISOC,[4] and ICANN Meetings,[5][6] as well as other industry-related events.[7] He actively participates in ISC events.[8][9]

Career History[edit | edit source]

Previous to APNIC was Principal Architect at Dyn Inc. and Founder of Hivecast Inc (Acquired by Dyn). Before that he was CTO and VP Software Engineering at ISC. From 2009-2010, he was a Member of the CPR Group at Afilias. He became the Technical Contact of ISC in 2009, prior to which he was the Senior Programme Manager for ISC for 6 years. He worked at RIPE NCC from 1997 to 2002 in different capacities, ranging from Network Engineer, Database Group Manager, and CTO. He worked at Rediris as a Network engineer for 4 months in 1997. He started his career as a System Administrator at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 1995.[10]

Education[edit | edit source]

He holds an MSc in Quantum Chemistry from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and a BSc in Physical/Quantum Chemistry from the same University.[11]

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