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VyOS Team

Meet the core leaders and advisors behind VyOS Networks. Our leadership and Board of Advisors drive innovation and strategic vision, shaping the future of open source networking.

Leadership

  • Yuriy Andamasov

    Yuriy Andamasov

    Chief Executive Officer

  • Daniil Baturin

    Daniil Baturin

    Chief Technology Officer

  • Jaime Botella

    Jaime Botella

    Chief Financial Officer

  • Elena Maznitsyna

    Elena Maznitsyna

    VP of Human Resources

  • Santiago Blanquet

    Santiago Blanquet

    Chief Revenue Officer

  • Taras Pudiak

    Taras Pudiak

    VP of Business and Integrations

  • Yaroslav Korotash

    Yaroslav Korotash

    Chief Operations Officer & VP of Legal

  • Evgeniy Bondarenko

    Evgeniy Bondarenko

    Chief Infrastructure Officer

Board of Advisors

  • Jacob Smith

    Jacob Smith

    Jacob's professional background centers around digital infrastructure, open source software, and marketing, with a detour into classical music. He was co-founder of bare metal automation company Packet — backed by SoftBank, Dell Capital, Samsung Ventures, Third Point Capital, and others — which was acquired by Equinix in 2020.

    At Packet and then Equinix, Jacob focused on product strategy, customer success, product-led growth, startups, developer relations, and open source. In addition to establishing the Developer Relations practice at Equinix, he also helped to roll out the company's first specialist sales organization and augment a scaled $8B sales-led revenue engine with PLG and self-service motions.

    A professional bassoonist by training, Jacob was principal bassoonist with the Academy of Vocal Arts Opera Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, and others for many years. He now lives in Vermont, USA.

  • Zachary Smith

    Zachary Smith

    Zachary grew up in Southern California and began playing the double bass in the local public school music program. During high school, Zac studied with Dennis Trembly of the Los Angeles Philharmonic before attending the Juilliard School in New York City.

    After graduating from Juilliard in 2001, Zac moved on to a career as an entrepreneur, building several companies in the cloud computing, payment processing and Internet infrastructure industries, including early Linux hosting company Voxel (acquired Internap) and bare metal cloud Packet (acquired Equinix). Zac is a committed champion of entrepreneurs, with over 50 investments via his fund Humans of the Internet (HOTI).

    Zac lives in Manhattan with his family, leads the Operating Board for Pursuit.org and continues to play the double bass in local community orchestras.

  • Chris Grundemann

    Chris Grundemann

    Chris Grundemann is a passionate, creative technologist and a strong believer in technology's power to aid in the betterment of humankind. In his current role as Managing Director at Grundemann Technology Solutions he is expressing that passion by helping technology businesses grow and by helping any business grow with technology.

    Chris has been using technology, marketing, and strategy to build businesses and non-profit organizations for two decades. He holds 8 patents in network technology and is the author of two books, an IETF RFC, a personal weblog, and a multitude of industry papers, articles, and posts. He is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for FullCtl, the interconnection automation company; as well as a co-founder of the Network Automation Forum, the organization behind the AutoCon series of events.

    Chris is the creator and co-host of The Imposter Syndrome Network Podcast, focused on encouraging the next generation of digital infrastructure engineers. He is also a co-founder, Director, and Chair Emeritus of IX-Denver and the Chair of the Board of Directors of OIX the global data center and interconnection standards body. He has held previous volunteer positions with CO ISOC (which he founded), ISOC-NY (Vice President), ARIN, NANOG, SANOG, AfPIF, CEA, UPnP, DLNA, RMv6TF, and several others.

    Chris has given presentations in 34 countries on 5 continents and is often sought out to speak at conferences, NOGs, and NOFs the world over.

What Our Customers Say

Over 1,000 businesses worldwide rely on VyOS

Tony Kairouz
Kevin Latimer
Muhammad Afdhal
Max Sörensen
Layne Jester
Pavlin Dulev
Head of IT
Paul Theodoropoulos
Dan Shechter
Simon Östling
Anthony Grevich
Reto Giezendanner
Tony Kairouz

I use VyOS for a virtual router solution. VyOS solutions are great, and flexible.Throughput was a key requirement and Vyos delivered 10Gbps easily!The ability for VyOS to easily perform VLXAN and BGP was astonishing with its effortless ability.The greatest part was the VyOS support team. Excellent skillset and knowledge for in-depth network knowledge and ability to support clients through the VyOS platform.

I highly rate Vyos technically and its ability to perform the most complicated of requirements.

Kevin Latimer

We’ve used VyOS for a decade now in all manner of applications, both physical and virtual. It powers everything from high-capacity LNS and Internet handoff with nearly a million BGP routes and multiple 10Gbps links to smaller virtualised instances right across the network.

Coming from a CLI background, the familiarity of its interface is a pleasant change from confusing GUIs, being simple to spin up an instance in just a few minutes but also able to create complex, yet easily understandable configurations. The guys at VyOS are a cut above and deserve a huge amount of credit for producing a best-in-class system that remains true to router-first principles while keeping clear from adding unnecessary bloat that plagues the current NGFW market. Looking forward to another decade with VyOS.

Muhammad Afdhal

I use VyOS as a high-performance networking solution, and it has exceeded expectations in every aspect. VyOS delivers exceptional stability and reliability, effortlessly handling 10G interfaces without performance bottlenecks. Its support for BGP, VPN, and firewall features makes it a versatile choice for enterprise networks. One of the best aspects is how VyOS remains bug-free in production environments, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted operations. Additionally, the support team is highly skilled and responsive, making implementation and troubleshooting seamless. VyOS is truly a top-tier open-source networking platform that I highly recommend.

Max Sörensen

As an ISP, one of our most important use cases is to be able to run full BGP tables without any issues. We have been using VyOS for this for years now and it has worked absolutely flawlessly. I don’t think we’ve ever had an issue with this, in fact.

We also use VyOS to host a couple of hundred server-networks and VyOS handles this with ease, even with some of our networks having crazy amounts of access-rules on them and often having consistently high throughput and burst rates.

Whenever we do experience issues or we simply have theoretical questions, it never feels like the support team is far away. We usually receive very quick and concise answers to our inquiries. It’s a very nice feeling to know that everyone that’s working on the VyOS project seem to be experts at it, it does a lot for our confidence in running VyOS as much as we do.

Layne Jester

I have nothing but good things to say about the VyOS Support Engineers. I think Dmitriy has owned our last 2 ticket, and the rest of the Support Team have all helped out. Taras, Yuriy, Jose, (and I hope I didn’t miss anyone) are quick to contribute and answer any questions I have. I believe it was Taras that even updated the VyOS/VMware doc to clarify a few things that I needed help understanding.

My boss just recently purchased a VyOS Subscription, or license, because we were experiencing a couple bizarre issues during our VyOS refresh of 30+ routers. We were struggling due to a single “show-stopper” issue, month after month, and not able to proceed with the rest of the refresh project. My boss, Daya Rajaratnam, decided we needed to get Commercial Support and open proper tickets and also to show our support of the VyOS Team.

Just hours after our Support PO went thru, I opened a ticket. I gave it a relatively low priority so I would know what to expect with future tickets. Its was great to see a response from an Engineer in just a couple hours. Fast forward a few days and the root cause was identified, I had a simple workaround in place and working in production(and had learned a lot from other Support Engineers that had contributed). What a HUGE load off my back to have that issue resolved with a reliable fix. 5 Stars for service, knowledge, and going above and beyond. (Hell, can I give them 10 stars?).

4 days later I opened a second ticket about an unrelated VTI issue that had also been plaguing us for many months. The experience was equally impressive and I again had a simple and reliable workaround.

Working with this group was a real pleasure.

Redshield
Pavlin Dulev

I use Vyos from the beginning and his predecessor Vyatta. I like platform because has own style of architecture and similar cli like cisco and juniper.

I use platform to make migration from site to site or hybrid migration with Cloud.

I’d like that platform has all ipv6 attribute and use it very much.

Head of IT

VyOS is the backbone of our company network since the early Vyatta 6.x days. It scales to meet your needs – from 256MB Alix-Board Low-Power Box for small branch offices to multi-processor rackmounted/virtualized network appliance – and is extremely easy to integrate with other systems like monitoring and configuration management. The excellent support from Sentrium turns it into a truely complete product that meets all our requirements.

Foxit
Paul Theodoropoulos

I’m happy to recommend VyOS/Sentrium. We first began using VyOS several years ago; we maintain a VPN from cellular vendor network to our infrastructure. Since moving our infrastructure permanently to AWS, we decided to sign up for Sentrium’s professional product and service.

I recently ran into a peculiar issue with the IPSEC VPN after a version upgrade – Sentrium staff worked with me to resolve it, and were very prompt in providing information and resolution. We are running two instances, a primary and a backup, and both are working splendidly, with seamless failover.

Autonet
Dan Shechter

Thank you for the prompt support. It is great to know that not only the product is a perfect fit for our needs, but also knowing that there is a professional support team we can rely on.

We use VYOS to connect distributed POPs to our data centers and provide secure Internet connectivity to the POPs.

Exponentialcom
Simon Östling

I think you have a great product. Actually I like promoting your product to other customers and using it for demo purposes.

You are one of a kind today to support almost all network protocols.

Anthony Grevich

You guys are great on support. Thank You.

Platform-9
Reto Giezendanner

We are very excited about VyOS and use it as part of our products. VyOS convinces as a complete product with REST API and Wireguard support. The support is very fast and extremely competent.