[ixpmanager] Welcome to our new developer to the IXP Manager community

[Barry O'Donovan (INEX)]

Dear IXP Manager Community,

We are delighted to introduce and welcome Thomas Kerin to the IXP 
Manager project as a full-time senior PHP developer.

Thomas is a seasoned PHP developer with over a decade of experience 
building robust, security-focused applications. After graduating from 
Trinity College Dublin with a degree in science, Thomas gained 
experience through several PHP development roles, which included 
leadership and security responsibilities. He has worked in diverse 
industries from educational startups to digital currency service 
providers.

Of particular note for our project, Thomas is well-versed in open-source 
software, best known for the Bitcoin-PHP project, as well as a number of 
other open-source PHP libraries and extensions in the security and 
cryptography space.

While Thomas only joined the project at the start of March, he has 
already jumped into fourth place 
<https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager/graphs/contributors> with ~100 
commits on GitHub’s contributor stats. In particular, he devised a 
unique approach to identifying potential XSS weaknesses following the 
ENISA pen-test, which forms part of the iminent v7.2.0 release.

Thomas’ role is fully funded by sponsors of the IXP Manager Sponsorship 
Program <https://www.ixpmanager.org/sponsors>, and we’d like to extend 
our gratitude to BCIX, NIX, INX ZA, LONAP, GRIX, InterLAN and SLIX.

🚨  We need more sponsors. If you are an IXP using IXP Manager, and it 
is within your means to sponsor the project, please contact us 
<https://www.ixpmanager.org/sponsor-now>.

Thomas is on this mailing list and looks forward to meeting and 
collaborating with our IXP Manager community.

  - Barry

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Kind regards,
Barry O'Donovan
INEX



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