Armin Roehrl is a highly experienced and accomplished professional in the field of technology, with over 20 years of experience in parallel computing projects and online advertising. He is a co-author of two IT books and has published over 100 articles on a wide range of subjects, from extreme value theory to open-source software. Holding a Ph.D. in Statistics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a BA in Maths and Computation from the University of Oxford, Armin has specialized in linux, ruby, very large scaling projects, text classification, high performance computing, FPGAs, statistics, extreme value theory, monte carlo, artificial intelligence, deep learning, and more. He has good connections to the open-source world, having co-organized the first 4 European ruby conferences.

Armin is a founder and board member at Approximity, a former chief designer at Simpli.fi, former senior developer and architect at Collective Media, former investor and board advisor at MySites, former senior developer and architect at Personifi, former co-founder and board member at RMA e.V. and a former ex-student at University of Oxford Computing Laboratory.