Pandora FMS team

Meet our team! More than 50 people from twelve different countries and four continents have been involved in the development of Pandora FMS for the last eight years. This page pays tribute to all those who have been involved in the project.

Team leader

Sancho Lerena (@slerena at twitter)

He is the original author of Pandora FMS who started coding Pandora FMS in 2003. He is currently coding PHP, Perl and shellscript, he is more focused on the project roadmap, product marketing and team management though.

He is 36 years old and lives in Madrid (Spain). He speaks English and Spanish. He likes photography, science fiction, and sports like fencing and kickboxing.

Developer Team

 

Ramon Novoa

Ramon is one of the lead developers. He has been working on Pandora FMS since 2006. He develops in Perl, PHP and C++. He is one of our senior developers and has exceptional skills in Pandora FMS, especially in the server code.

He is 31 years old and lives in Madrid (Spain). He speaks English, Spanish and a little bit of Korean and Japanese.

 

Miguel de Dios (@tres14159 at twitter)

He has been working on Pandora FMS since 2008. He mainly develops in PHP and Javascript. He is also a senior developer, one of our Javascript masters :)

He is 31 years old and lives in Madrid, Spain. He speaks English and Spanish.

 

Sergio Martin Zarzuelo

He has been working on Pandora FMS since 2009. He loves filmmaking, that is why he has made most of our videos!  He also loves developing and coding Perl, PHP and Javascript, paying special attention to the user interface.

He is 29 years old and lives in Madrid (Spain). He speaks English and Spanish. Check his blog out: http://www.noparar.com

Dario Rodríguez (@dariorode at twitter)


He started working as a developer in 2010, but he quickly stood out as the best bug tracker and user-focused problems. He codes in PHP, Perl, C and Open Office ;)

He is a member of the Artica's marketing team and one of our best testers and an excellent technical writer among other things.

He is 25 years old and lives in Mostoles (Spain). He speaks English and Spanish.

 

Juan Manuel Ramón

Juanma has been working on Pandora FMS since 2010. He is a PHP and Perl developer. He loves improving the user experience with attractive custom interfaces. He is the main author of the Oracle/Postgres compatibility code. He loves immersing himself and diving in the code.

He is 26 years old and lives in Mostoles. He speaks English and Spanish. He loves cultivating his own vegetables and owns a organic veggie garden without bugs ;)

 

Vanessa Gil

Vanessa is the latest addition to our development team. She works with PHP, Perl, Javascript and C++, mostly with the user interface. However, her code can be found everywhere in Pandora FMS.

She is 26 years old and lives in Madrid. She speaks Spanish and English and loves cats.

Junichi SATO

Pandora efforts: Committer (Perl, PHP, Shellscript), Japanization, Japanese manual, bug finding and FreeBSD adaptation. Junichi speaks Japanese and English.

He loves skiing,  motorcycle touring (Aprilia SL 1000 Falco), drinking like a fish, traveling abroad and decoding Morse code. His favorite film is Matrix.

Koichiro KIKUCHI

Committer & support. Finding bugs and add-on design. His favorite programming languages: The best, lisp, better Ruby, Perl, Java. Dislike: PHP, Visual Basic. His favorites OS are FreeBSD, OpenBSD. He speaks Japanese and has IT Technology proficiency.

Interests: Playing musical instruments, particularly percussion.  He has various orchestral percussion instruments like drums, cymbals, tambourines, etc. Favorite Music: Classical, Orchestra Percussion Ensemble and KOKIA. Striking Facts: He has his own SmartUPS 2200 and also 12U rack.

Hirofumi KOSAKA 

Pandora Efforts: Committer. Processing inquiry from both existing and potential clients, at all levels of Pandora. Programming language: C/C++, Perl, php, shell, LISP, Java, Ruby, Assembly Language. Favorite OS: BSD derivatives. 

Language Skills: Japanese and English – IT technology proficiency-. Interests: Learning English with KINDLE (love Ross Thomas crime fictions) and making dumplings every weekend. His son loves it!

Javier Lanz

Javi worked mostly in PHP development, doing code in the Metaconsole, reporting and other parts of the console. He speaks Spanish and he has an excellent command in English with a thick Scottish accent ;)

Pablo Concepción

Pablo worked mostly on GIS development, contributing with Perl code for GIS (3.0 version).

He lives in Madrid (Spain) and is 33 years old. He speaks English, Spanish and Greek.

Esteban Sánchez (@esanchezm at twitter)

He was one of the first committers to the project, contributing with PHP and Javascript in 1.x and 2.x versions. Developer of the first versions of the C++ Microsoft Windows agent.

He is 29 years old and lives in Madrid (Spain). He speaks English and Spanish.

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Evi Vanoost

Former developer from the United States. He helped us developing 1.x and 2.x, mainly with the console (PHP code).

 

Raúl Mateos

Former developer. He helped us at the very beginning of the project with some PHP and HTML code as well as with testing and documentation.

He lives in Madrid (Spain) and is 37 years old.

 

Marketing and sales.

David Villanueva

David has been involved in the project from the very beginning. He mainly works with customers. His vision helps us improve Pandora and find problems before customers do.

He is 38 years old. He has got two girls. He speaks English and Spanish.

Kana TAKARA.


Sales & Marketing. She designs the strategic partnership relation. 

She speaks Japanese and she is fluent in English. She loves skiing, traveling abroad, drinking like a fish and going to the cinema. Favorite Celebrity: George Clooney. Favorite Scenery:Okinawa beaches.
Susumu OSHIBA


Large-scale enterprise sales, channel distribution. 

Language Skills: Japanese and English -social proficiency-. Interests: Golf, Fishing.
Yutaka IKEDA

Overall administrative operations including corporate direction, finance/accounting & HR management. Orchestrating Pandora team meetings after hours SAKE entertainment. He speaks an osaka-taste Japanese, and perfect American English.

Interests: skiing, playing tennis, surfing, chess, backgammon, drinking, Art museum visit. His favorite Quote:  “Don’t think, Feel.” – Bruce Lee   “Good artists copy.  Great artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso. Favorite Film:  "The Godfather".

System engineers

Arturo Llamas

Heavyweight champion on system trashing. We love his passion to discover the way to hack any server or any hardware. If there is a way to fix a problem, he will find it, otherwise, you have a bug. He likes whiskey and motorbikes. He is 36 years old and lives in Madrid

 

 

Tomás Palacios

Tomás is our youngest team member. He is 20 years old, lives in Fuenlabrada (Spain) and speaks English and Spanish.

He is one of our finest testers, he works hard testing all the small things that developers just ignore. He is also an excellent documentation writer and support engineer.

 

Luis Miguel Puerta

Luismi is our training master. With more than twenty trainings on his back, he has a wide experience with customers, support and documentation.

He lives in Madrid and is 29 years old. He speaks English and Spanish.

 

Mario Carranza

Mario is a System Engineer. He works with customers on site setups, helping them design the final solution and providing support. He contributes with plenty of bugs and suggestions coming from the end user experience.

He is another motorbike freak. He owns a small collection of classic motorbikes, tinkering with them whenever possible :-)

He is 34 years old and lives in Madrid. He speaks English and Spanish.

 

Ignacio Herreros

He is one of our final user Support Engineers in community forums and Enterprise support. He has got a good eye for catching bugs. He works very close to the development team to improve the features and the user experience.

He is 24 years old and lives in Madrid. He speaks English and Spanish.

Mario Pulido

Mario is a support engineer. He is well known as "the quiet man".  With his infinite patience, he brings peace and serenity to our office. Developers thank him for his bug reports and, above all, for the fact that he doesn't yell at them when something goes wrong.

He lives in Leganés (Madrid) and is 25 years old. He speaks Spanish and English.

Yasuyuki TANAKA

Oversee client system, HR (Engineers) management, training, internal communication, Recruiting, and Sales & Marketing. 

Favorite programming language:  Shell Script. Favorite OS: CentOS.

Language Skills: Japanese and English – IT technology proficiency (Just started learning English). Personal Motto:  “Go For It” Interests: Skiing, Futsal,  traveling abroad and drinking like a whale. Favorite Celebrity:  Robert De Niro

 

Masaki YAMADA

Installation, operations. 

Favorite Programming language:  Shell Script. Favorite OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Language Skills: Japanese and English – IT-related & social proficiency-.

Interests: Futsal, raising child. Favorite Team: Yomiuri Giants, Tokyo-based professional baseball team and Real Madrid CF. Favorite Film: The Shawshank Redemption 

 

Tamiya OZAKI

He is the man who discovered Pandora FMS in Japan. He provides technical support for the sales team and customer. Media Exposure (Promoting Pandora FMS awareness).

Favorite programming language: C, PASCAL, Perl. Language Skills: Japanese and English (reading and writing). 

Interests: Car driving (SUZUKI Grand Vitara), biking, game, science museum visit, KARAOKE. Favorite Music: Instrumental. Favorite Film: WarGames.

 

Manuel Aróstegui

He worked for almost 3 years at Artica ST deploying PandoraFMS across lot of their costumers. He left the company in pursuit of new adventures and he currently holds a Systems Engineer position at Tuenti.com, the largest Spanish social network.

The first thing he did in Tuenti was to deploy PandoraFMS as its internal monitoring system. Now he spends most of his time trying to get the best performance out of MySQL. When he's not with a Linux terminal, he loves flying small planes and swimming.

 

He is 28 and lives in Madrid.

 

Documentation, translation and design

Julia Lerena

She started working with documentation in 2007. She helps also with the translation, working with our Wiki and translating funny text chains at Launchpad ;-). She is also a member of the Sales Team at Artica.

She is 40 years old and lives in Madrid (Spain). She speaks English and Spanish, and she does her best on French. She has a cuddly big cat named Oreo, who loves scratching with her laptop :-).

 

Carla Andrés

In 2012, she started helping us with the design, and since then, Pandora FMS documentations, graphs, and visual styles have considerably improved. She produces most of visual art for website, marketing and documentation schemes. 

She is 27 years old and lives in Madrid. She speaks English and Spanish. Check her blog out! nomoretelevisionshows.blogspot.com.

 

Victoria Molina

She was born in Malaga 26 years ago, where she studied Media Studies. 
She is the one who gives voice to what we do. She got an award in the Sitges Intenational Film Festival, not with a video about Pandora, but with a short-movie. She is able to make our mothers understand what we do.


 

Jorge González

He is a former system engineer and tester of Pandora FMS. He contributed with 2.x and 3.0 documentation and started the Internationalization of the team for the localization. He also committed some code for v2.0 console.

He is 31 years old and lives in Prague (Czech Republic). He speaks

Spanish and English (German and Czech on their way). He works for an

international telecommunications company. Check his blog out!

Google GSOC 2012 Students

Mark Holland
(Universidad de Valencia, España)

He was working on "Pandroid", the Android agent for Pandora FMS. This agent can get information about GPS positioning, battery status, and lots more from any android device and then send it to Pandora.

He is 24 years old, born in the U.K. But now lives in Valencia, Spain. He likes skateboarding, music and solving problems.

 

Santiago Munin
(Universidad da Coruña, España)

Santiago was working on the Pandora Event viewer for Android. This is a tool for operators. They can leave the operation room and carry on their mobile almost real time information by using the event system in Pandora FMS. They can filter, review, accept and work with the system. They even can be redirected to the Mobile Console (also part of the project) to allow working with Pandora anywhere.

 

Hareesan R.
(University Of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)

He is working on an extension for Chrome and for Firefox to show information about Pandora FMS: events and other important information (mostly tactical) by using a browser to get the information to the user, by using the Pandora API.

He is 23 years old, lives in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He speaks English and Tamil. He is currently working as an intern at WSO2, a lean enterprise middleware company. Interested in problem solving, android applications and music.

  

Other contributors

Packaging

  • Sancho Lerena, RPM packages.
  • Miguel de Dios, DEB packages for 3.x (Debian,Ubuntu).
  • Pablo de la Concepción, RPM packages for 3.x (SUSE).
  • Manuel Arostegui, RPM (SuSe, OpenSuSe, Fedora, RedHat). Shellscript (some).
  • José Ángel de Bustos, DEB (Debian)

Contributors

  • Antonio Dos Santos. SAP R/3 agent.

  • LFC. SAP R/3 agent.

  • Evi Vanoost. MAC Agent.

  • Eric Ross, server and console code contribution and several patches.

  • Reiner Dassing, server code patches.

  • Jonathan Barajas. Database agent (not included in trunk yet!).

  • José Navarro. Additions to graphic engine for 1.2.

  • Leandro Doctors. console contribution.

Translation team

  • Igor Zubiaurre (German)

  • Alejandro Arnal (English for v1.1 documentation)

  • David Muñiz (Bable-Asturian)

  • Rodrigo J. Dutra (Brasilian Portuguese)

  • Hugo Vázquez (Catalonian)

  • Aline Jorand (French, Latin American Spanish)

  • Roberto Pauletto (Italian)

  • Santiago Rodríguez Collazo (Galician)

  • Jelon Zawodowiec (Polish)

  • Claudio Arseni (Italian)

  • Marcin (Polish)

  • And many many other translators from Launchpad

Betatesting and powerusers

  • Enrique Mendoza. betatester and power user.

  • Javier Corona. betatester and power user.

  • Enrique Verdes. betatester and power user.

Security advisories

  • SuperAl. report security vunerability about blind SQL attack on URL passing.

  • Global Evolution, report security vulnerabilities related with Cross Side Scripting and other problems in the Web Console in development version (3.x).

Unofficial Windows Installation Guide

Sorry if we forgot someone, and of course, many thanks to many other people who help us in older versions !!!