Piotr Strzyżewski

Piotr Strzyżewski is a Manager of the Security and Network Operations Department at the Silesian University of Technology, an active member of the PIONIER Consortium community (Polish NREN) and a member of Abuse-Forum, an informal community of Anti-Abuse teams in Poland.

Piotr has been co-chair of RIPE Database Working Group and member of the RIPE Anti-Abuse Contact Management Task Force and the RIPE NCC Charging Scheme Task Force. The latter has given valuable input into the process of creating crucial documents such as the Charging Scheme and Activity Plan. He has been an active member of the RIPE community for over a decade and has made several presentations on policy proposals and implementation.

In the past he was a pioneer in deployment of the eduroam project in Poland (one of the biggest world-wide roaming access services made for research and education users) and one of the core members of the Silesian Linux Users Group in 1990s. As an enthusiast of “open knowledge” he gives lectures on Linux, networks and security topics. Piotr brings to the board, his firsthand knowledge of member issues and his extensive professional experience, particularly in the area of security.

Piotr holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science and is a Board Member, Development Coordinator of Mensa Poland society. As of 2018 onwards, he also is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).