Oleksiy ("Alex") is a Senior Community Development Officer and Technical Advisor for the RIPE NCC. As part of the Community Development team, he helps lead the RIPE NCC's engagement with membership, the RIPE community, technical bodies, academia, law enforcement, and other Internet stakeholders. As a Technical Advisor, Alex also follows the Internet industry and government developments related to ICT, particularly in Ukraine, monitors and attends industry conferences and meetings, representing the RIPE NCC there, and works with internal stakeholders to enhance the RIPE NCC's training activities.Before his role at the RIPE NCC, Alex worked as COO at Qrator Labs, where he worked on providing DDoS mitigating solutions. Before that, he worked for Yandex Russia, supervising all network projects as the Head of Network Development and Operations. His professional background includes work in engineering positions in the telecom and enterprise sector, such as Megafon and the Russian branch of Deutsche Bank, where he participated in projects designing the internal and external network infrastructure, building multipurpose data centers, and creating layered security systems.