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

[Thomas Kerin]

Hello everyone,

It’s nice to be introduced to you all, and thank you Barry and Eileen 
for the kind words!

I am delighted to be a part of the IXP Manager open source project, and 
to help support the ecosystem of IXP’s around the world.

Since I joined in March I’ve been able to contribute some improvements 
so far, and I look forward to collaborating on here as I become more 
familiar with the project.

I hope to meet some of you soon!

Kind regards,
Thomas Kerin

Island Bridge Networks Ltd
https://www.islandbridgenetworks.ie/




------ Original Message ------
>From "Barry O'Donovan (INEX) via ixpmanager" <ixpmanager at inex.ie>
To "INEX IXP Manager Users Mailing List" <ixpmanager at inex.ie>; 
"ixpmanager-announce at inex.ie" <ixpmanager-announce at inex.ie>
Cc "Barry O'Donovan (INEX)" <barry.odonovan at inex.ie>
Date 12/05/2026 10:58:51
Subject [ixpmanager] Welcome to our new developer to the IXP Manager 
community

>
>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
>
>--
>Kind regards,
>Barry O'Donovan
>INEX
>
>
>
>
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