Featured community contributor
Igor is employed with an IBM Business Partner company that does business mainly with aluminum companies. He has a university degree in business informatics and works mainly as a business intelligence specialist. He works with data warehouse, OLAP and analytics tools, but DB2 is centric in all of these products and tools, so he also has extensive DB2 knowledge.
Igor has passed Database Associate and Database Administrator certification as well as Business Intelligence Solution Designer certification. Igor's company is using DB2 on a variety of operating systems and he also works with DB2/VSE on System z, DB2/Linux on System z and DB2/Windows on System x. He has also installed and used DB2 on various Linux distributions including Red Hat, Suse and Ubuntu. Igor has also been working on a business intelligence project in the banking sector which involves working with DB2/zOS on System z and DB2/AIX on System p.
In his spare time Igor loves cycling and spending time with his shepherd dog. He also writes computer and finance articles for financial-business magazines.
You can see Igor participating in the DB2 Express forum under the alias “igorM”.
Your community team
Rav Ahuja
Rav Ahuja is a Worldwide DB2 Product Manager and is based at the IBM Toronto Lab. He has been working with DB2 since version 1 and has held various roles in DB2 development, technical support, marketing, and product strategy. Rav is a frequent contributor to DB2 papers, articles and books, and focuses on helping customers and partners around the globe benefit from DB2 and services based solutions. He holds a Computer Engineering degree from McGill University and MBA from University of Western Ontario. After his day job, Rav can be seen lurking around ChannelDB2
Leon Katsnelson
Leon Katsnelson has worked for IBM for 22 years, the last 14 in DB2 development. Leon initiated the Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails project and developed the installer.
He joined DB2 development organization in late 1993 and has held a variety of positions including developer, Development Manager, Product Planner, Manager of Product Management and most recently as Program Director in the DB2 Competitive Technologies area. Areas of interest include database connectivity and application development, and of course, DB2 Express-C.
Ryan Chase
I've been working with DB2 since 1997, but after spending the last 9 years building DB2, I'm excited to get on the other side and help people actually use this stuff! Most of my development work has been building and designing user interfaces, I've been called "the java guy" and "the usability guy", but now I'm going to be one of those "Express Community guys". Outside of the office I'm a DJ and occasionally an actor, and yes, that is my real hair.
Raul Chong
I'm delighted to be part of the DB2 Express Community Team and join a bunch of really smart and fun-to-work people!. I hope I can be of help in your DB2 Express endeavours, and make a difference. I've been working with DB2 for 8 years now (time flies!). In my spare time I enjoy practicing sports (Tennis and Basketball). I have Chinese background, but I was born in Peru, so my first language is Spanish. Feel free to communicate in that language to me!. My full bio is here. Saludos!
Ian Hakes
I've been involved in getting DB2 out to customers for the last 8 years, through technical documentation, development and now as a community facilitator for Express-C. I'm glad to be delivering a world-class database product onto the desktops of people who might otherwise consider DB2 to be too costly.
Most of my free time is spent fiddling with Macs, Linux, Perl, PHP, DB2 (of course), and virtualization technology. I have contributed to a number of Linux-related documentation efforts, including the DB2 HOWTO for Linux.
Boris Bialek
I am Boris. When I am not riding my motorbike or spending time in the kitchen I am actually working in the DB2 team in the Toronto Lab. Being a Linux fan since the nineties I needed to learn Windows again (was a little bit rusty lately) so bear with me. My background is different jobs at Digital Equipment, Compaq and Dell before joining the IBM DB2 team working in various functions.
Antonio Cangiano
Antonio Cangiano, part of the DB2 team at the IBM Toronto Software Lab, works on the Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails and other Ruby on Rails-related projects. He developed the IBM DB2 Adapter for ActiveRecord.
