Philip Paeps is an independent consultant and contractor based in
Belgium. He provides research and development on low-level software and
operating systems, particularly in an embedded or real-time context.

His main interests are bootloaders, device drivers and high-performance
networking. He can also be convinced to teach courses and workshops on a
variety of networking-related topics.

In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer contributing
mainly to the kernel and a member of the FreeBSD security team. He was
one of the main organisers of FOSDEM, the largest annual open source
software conference in Europe, from the early 2000s until 2015. He
denies having any involvement with amateur radio or tabletop role
playing games.