Arch Linux

Arch Linux Support Staff

These are the unheralded people that keep the distribution and community running smoothly from behind the scenes. These include forum moderators, wiki administrators, IRC moderators, bug wranglers and security team members.

Alad Wenter Aleksander Arun Bahl Alexander Schnaidt Andrea Denisse Gómez-Martínez Andrei Korshikov Andrey Kashlak Anton Hvornum Arne Christian Beer Bastien Traverse BrainDamage Christian Rebischke CodingKoopa Daniel Girtler Dario Giovannetti David Thurstenson Det87 Eric Waller Feng Chao Flyingpig Frederik Schwan Gordian Edenhofer Ingo Albrecht Ionuț Mircea Bîru Jakub Klinkovský Jordan Beaver Kewl Kristian Klausen Levente Polyak Mantas Mikulėnas Mario Oenning Mark Hegreberg Mauro Santos Maxwell Anselm Morgan Adamiec Rafael Epplée Remi Gacogne Robin Candau Santiago Torres Sebastiaan Lokhorst Vincent Dahmen Vladimir LAVALLADE Wiktor Kwapisiewicz WorMzy Tykashi Xiao Guo nl6720 tigrmesh

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Alad Wenter ¶

Alias:	Alad
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat:alad
PGP Key:	DBE7D3DD8C81D58D0A13D0E76BC26A17B9B7018A
Roles:	Wiki Admin, IRC Op
Website:	https://pkgbuild.com/~alad
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	Arch, Debian

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Aleksander Arun Bahl ¶

Alias:	pitastrudl
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	742602B95E90F65F054E6EFCCBFBB9EDE65866F5
Roles:	Arch mirror admin
Website:	https://chaos.social/@pitastrudl
Social:
Occupation:	Dev/Ops Engineer
Birth Year:
Location:	Koper/Ljubljana
Languages:	slovene,german,english
Interests:	DevOps, hiking and baking
Favorite Distros:	Arch

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Alexander Schnaidt ¶

Alias:	namarrgon
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	055445861B485461CF7B0658601B35CA1000E4E9
Roles:	IRC Op
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Andrea Denisse Gómez-Martínez ¶

Alias:	denisse
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat:denisse
PGP Key:	3DFF9745BCDE5F4FF3AABE0E13DD4991DD98B648
Roles:	Security Team, AUR Packager
Website:	https://denisse.dev
Social:
Occupation:	Site Reliability Engineer
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	ES/EN/中文
Interests:	Security, dogs, cryptography, cycling, math, kawaii things
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux, TAILS

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Andrei Korshikov ¶

Alias:	andrei-korshikov
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	-
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	ArchWiki Maintainer
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	Network Engineer
Birth Year:	1983
Location:	-
Languages:	English, Python, a bit of C
Interests:	-
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux, Junos OS

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Andrey Kashlak ¶

Alias:	andreymal
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	Russian, English
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Anton Hvornum ¶

Alias:	torxed
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	8AA2213C8464C82D879C8127D4B58E897A929F2E
Roles:	Trusted User, Mirror List Admin, Package Maintainer
Website:	https://archlinux.life/
Social:
Occupation:	CTO
Birth Year:	1987
Location:	Stockholm
Languages:	Swedish, English
Interests:	Programming, Manufacturing, IT-Security
Favorite Distros:	None

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Arne Christian Beer ¶

Alias:	nukesor
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	3051329B47B855C4F888F975CC9408F679023B65
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Bastien Traverse ¶

Alias:	neitsab
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	ArchWiki Maintainer
Website:	https://bastientraverse.com/
Social:
Occupation:	Linux trainer
Birth Year:
Location:	Nice
Languages:	French, English, Spanish
Interests:	FOSS, yoga, hiking, reading, traveling
Favorite Distros:	Arch

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BrainDamage ¶

Alias:	BrainDamage
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat:BrainDamage
PGP Key:	D09901B80224D4A9B2BD7F22A18784DD4F02E538
Roles:	Irc Op
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Christian Rebischke ¶

Alias:	shibumi
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	https://twitter.com/sh1bumi, signal: shibumi.01
PGP Key:	6DAF7B808F9DF25139620000D21461E3DFE2060D
Roles:	Package Maintainer
Website:	https://shibumi.dev
Social:
Occupation:	Senior Software Engineer
Birth Year:	1992
Location:	None
Languages:	German, English
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	ChromeOS and Arch Linux

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CodingKoopa ¶

Alias:	CodingKoopa
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	ArchWiki Maintainer
Website:	https://koopa.sh
Social:
Occupation:	Embedded Software Engineer
Birth Year:	2003
Location:	None
Languages:	English
Interests:	Systems programming, reverse-engineering, web development
Favorite Distros:	None

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Daniel Girtler ¶

Alias:	svartkanin
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Dario Giovannetti ¶

Alias:	Kynikos
Email:	info at dariog dot net
Other Contact:
PGP Key:	C78078C6B3D653F0430DE15A22DCE1679E7C33B7
Roles:	ArchWiki Administrator
Website:	http://dariog.net
Social:
Occupation:	Systems Analyst, Programmer
Birth Year:
Location:	Perth, Western Australia
Languages:	Italian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Interests:	Programming, linguistics, cycling, guitar
Favorite Distros:	Arch

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David Thurstenson ¶

Alias:	thurstylark thursdaylark matrixlark
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	https://wiki.thurstylark.com/about/contact/
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	Bug Wrangler, Matrix Moderator
Website:	https://wiki.thurstylark.com
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	English
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Det87 ¶

Alias:	det87
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Eric Waller ¶

Alias:	Eric
Email:	ewwaller+arch at gmail dot com
Other Contact:
PGP Key:	ACE0A7F513946B0EE4666B89BB013C6B8FA274C9
Roles:	Forum Administration and Moderator
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	Electrical Engineer
Birth Year:	1961
Location:	California, United States
Languages:	English
Interests:	Linux, Embedded systems, General science, Avid Skier
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux, Gentoo

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Feng Chao ¶

Alias:	Fengchao
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	Wiki admin
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	Shanghai
Languages:	Chinese
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Flyingpig ¶

Alias:	flyingpig
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat:flyingpig
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	ArchWiki Maintainer
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	🇨🇦 Canada
Languages:	English
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux

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Frederik Schwan ¶

Alias:	freswa
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	05C7775A9E8B977407FE08E69D4C5AA15426DA0A
Roles:	Developer
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	Germany
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Gordian Edenhofer ¶

Alias:	edh
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	[email protected]
PGP Key:	8B971DF25EC895F9B2CC337A63E508E6D763DE4A
Roles:	ArchWiki Maintainer
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	PhD Student
Birth Year:	1997
Location:	Munich
Languages:	English, German, French, Spanish
Interests:	Running, Tennis, Skiing, ML, Python, Arch
Favorite Distros:	None

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Ingo Albrecht ¶

Alias:	Indigo
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	ArchWiki Admin
Website:
Social:
Occupation:
Birth Year:
Location:
Languages:	English, German
Interests:	Jazz/Rap/Indie, Kitesurfing, Travelling
Favorite Distros:	debian, Arch Linux

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Ionuț Mircea Bîru ¶

Alias:	wonder/ioni
Email:	ibiru.archlinux.org
Other Contact:	irc://irc.freenode.net:wonder/ioni
PGP Key:	F4DDD6DDCEC320B665F502AAE8F18BA1615137BC
Roles:	Developer
Website:	http://archlinux.me/wonder/
Social:
Occupation:	Student
Birth Year:	1986
Location:	Bucharest, România
Languages:	Romanian, English
Interests:	Networking, Programming, Computers, Music
Favorite Distros:	Arch, Debian

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Jakub Klinkovský ¶

Alias:	lahwaacz
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	109415E692007609CA7EBFE4001CF4810BE8D911
Roles:	Wiki Admin, Package Maintainer
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:	1993
Location:	Prague, Czech Republic
Languages:	Czech, English
Interests:	Mathematics, programming, rock climbing
Favorite Distros:	Arch

Jordan Beaver ¶

Alias:	gehidore
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	Near the fir trees
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Kewl ¶

Alias:	kewl
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	CA60573A7DA29F99B59496B9AF3132BA1A171108
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	London
Languages:	English, French
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Kristian Klausen ¶

Alias:	klausenbusk
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	DB650286BD9EAE39890D3FE6FE3DC1668CB24956
Roles:	DevOps, arch-boxes maintainer
Website:	https://github.com/klausenbusk/
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	Denmark
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Levente Polyak ¶

Alias:	anthraxx
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.freenode.net:anthraxx
PGP Key:	E240B57E2C4630BA768E2F26FC1B547C8D8172C8
Roles:	Developer, Trusted User, Security Team
Website:	https://leventepolyak.net
Social:
Occupation:	Software Engineer
Birth Year:	1986
Location:	Hamburg
Languages:	English, German, Hungarian
Interests:	Security, Reverse Engineering, Programming, Anime
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux

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Mantas Mikulėnas ¶

Alias:	grawity
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	2357E10CEF4F7ED27E233AD5D24F6CB2C1B52632
Roles:	None
Website:	https://nullroute.eu.org/~grawity/
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Mario Oenning ¶

Alias:	moson
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	D5AD89388A7C6C9C22E790994A4760AB4EE15296
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	NRW, Germany
Languages:	German, English
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Mark Hegreberg ¶

Alias:	mark
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	matrix://@mark:rootaccess.org
PGP Key:	37A82CE7A9778806C74EB5B6A38EECB0C7FD0BB7
Roles:	WSL Project Maintainer
Website:	https://hegreberg.io
Social:
Occupation:	Computer Engineer
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	English
Interests:	jazz, hiking, selfhosting
Favorite Distros:	Arch, Debian

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Mauro Santos ¶

Alias:	R00KIE
Email:	registo.mailling+arch at gmail.com
Other Contact:
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	Forum Moderator
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	Student
Birth Year:
Location:
Languages:	English, Portuguese
Interests:	Electronics, Security, Computers, Photography
Favorite Distros:	Arch, Arch ARM, CentOS

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Maxwell Anselm ¶

Alias:	silverhammermba
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Morgan Adamiec ¶

Alias:	Morganamilo, Lu
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat/morganamilo matrix://@morganamilo:archlinux.org
PGP Key:	F850562FCDA369F80D33000AE48D0A8326DE47C5
Roles:	Pacman Developer, TU, Bug Wrangler
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	Software Engineer
Birth Year:
Location:	United Kingdom
Languages:	English
Interests:	Rollerblading, Cows
Favorite Distros:	None

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Rafael Epplée ¶

Alias:	raffomania
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	AAE2599CE2DFD58B8E884726B4EFE6DC59FAE118
Roles:	Arch Projects Developer
Website:	https://www.rafa.ee/
Social:	https://mstdn.io/@raffomania
Occupation:	Freelance computer person
Birth Year:	1994
Location:	Hamburg
Languages:	English, German, Spanish
Interests:	Game dev, computer stuff, doggo stuff
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux

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Remi Gacogne ¶

Alias:	rgacogne
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat:rgacogne
PGP Key:	1F7156C2AD7D3B15873C5E2940825C6BDD1A4146
Roles:	Security Team, Packager
Website:
Social:	https://mamot.fr/@rgacogne
Occupation:	Software Engineer
Birth Year:
Location:	Paris, France
Languages:	French, English
Interests:	Running, Hiking
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux

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Robin Candau ¶

Alias:	Antiz
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat:Antiz
PGP Key:	262A58EC6C51F7EA395B2E2DFDC3040B92ACA748
Roles:	Package Maintainer, DevOps, Reproducible Builds, Tester, AUR Moderator, Mediator, WSL image maintainer
Website:	https://antiz.fr
Social:	https://fosstodon.org/@Antiz
Occupation:	Linux System & DevOps Engineer
Birth Year:	1996
Location:	Rouen
Languages:	French, English
Interests:	Music, skate, cycling and Linux!
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux, Alpine Linux, Debian

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Santiago Torres ¶

Alias:	sangy
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat:sangy, twitter:torresariass
PGP Key:	903BAB73640EB6D65533EFF3468F122CE8162295
Roles:	Security Team, Tester, Trusted User
Website:	https://badhomb.re
Social:
Occupation:	Security Researcher
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	Spanish, English, French
Interests:	cryptography, reverse engineering, guitar
Favorite Distros:	Arch, Debian

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Sebastiaan Lokhorst ¶

Alias:	lonaowna
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	Wiki Administrator
Website:
Social:
Occupation:
Birth Year:	1991
Location:	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Languages:	English, Dutch
Interests:	Physics, programming
Favorite Distros:	Arch, Arch ARM

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Vincent Dahmen ¶

Alias:	wahrwolf
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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Vladimir LAVALLADE ¶

Alias:	Erus_Iluvatar
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat:Erus_Iluvatar
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	Wiki Administrator & Translator
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	Regular Archer
Birth Year:	1991
Location:	Paris
Languages:	English, French (native), some Ger., Rus., Ita.
Interests:	Dated hardware, YouTube bingewatching
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux

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Wiktor Kwapisiewicz ¶

Alias:	wiktor
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	[email protected]
PGP Key:	653909A2F0E37C106F5FAF546C8857E0D8E8F074
Roles:	Signstar Developer
Website:
Social:	https://metacode.biz/@wiktor
Occupation:	Software engineer
Birth Year:
Location:	🇪🇺 🌍 ☀️ 🌌
Languages:	English, Polish
Interests:	All
Favorite Distros:	Is this a trick question? 😏

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WorMzy Tykashi ¶

Alias:	WorMzy
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	DA3BF911567FD27FCF60BE0313625A597F2E3E3B
Roles:	Forum Moderator
Website:	https://wormzy.com
Social:
Occupation:	Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer
Birth Year:
Location:	Scotland
Languages:	English
Interests:	Heavy Metal Music, Fantasy Novels, Computer Games, Baking
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux, Arch Linux ARM

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Xiao Guo ¶

Alias:	skydiver
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	None
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	None
Favorite Distros:	None

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nl6720 ¶

Alias:	nl6720
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	None
PGP Key:	BB8E6F1B81CF0BB301D74D1CBF425A01E68B38EF
Roles:	ArchWiki Administrator
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	None
Birth Year:
Location:	None
Languages:	None
Interests:	Delegating responsibilities
Favorite Distros:	None

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tigrmesh ¶

Alias:	tigrmesh
Email:	[email protected]
Other Contact:	irc://irc.libera.chat:tigrmesh
PGP Key:	Unknown
Roles:	IRC Op
Website:
Social:
Occupation:	Bearer of bad news
Birth Year:
Location:	Florida
Languages:	English
Interests:	Boring girly stuff: crochet, cross stitch, operating systems, and encouraging other female Arch users to come out of hiding
Favorite Distros:	Arch Linux