About Pingsta
Pingsta is a collaborative platform for the world's internetwork experts.
Pingsta was founded for two simple reasons:
- Grow mySolvr into the most comprehensive openly available repository of internetwork Intelligence.
- Celebrate and facilitate intellectual collaboration amongst all the experts that invented and continue to sustain the various components that make up the Internet.
Pingsta membership is by invitation-only, and its members are directly connected to one another. The current membership includes internetwork inventors, Fellows, Professors, Distinguished Engineers, Technical Leaders, CCIEs, JNCIEs, etc. from the US, UK, Australia, Japan, France, Belgium, Poland, Canada, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, South Africa, Israel, India, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bangladesh, Slovenia, Singapore, Ireland, Russia, Spain, Italy, Norway, Serbia, Croatia, Finland, Brazil, Kenya, and many more countries.
Team
Peter Alfred-Adekeye - Founder, CEO & CTO
Peter is the founder, CEO and CTO of Pingsta - He is responsible for the overall strategy and direction of the company and leads the core technology and infrastructure on which Pingsta is based. Prior to Pingsta, Peter founded Multiven and before Multiven, he spent five years at Cisco in various technical and non-technical leadership positions within Cisco's advanced engineering and technical services organization in the UK and in San Jose, California. Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Civil Engineering from the University of Ife and has completed several executive development education from Stanford University. He is a certified Kepner-Tregoe Program Leader, a master-troubleshooter and an internetwork expert. Peter enjoys running, martial arts and travel.
Deka Yussuf - VP of Marketing & Business Development
Deka is the Vice President of marketing and business development at Pingsta. She is responsible for overseeing Pingsta's monetization strategies, corporate branding and communications. In addition, Deka focuses on business development activities and strategic partnerships . She has over eight years experience in brand development, marketing and online business strategies for leading consumer companies ranging from Diesel jeans to Cisco. Deka holds a bachelor's degree with honors in marketing from San Francisco State University. To decompress, Deka enjoys working out, yoga and hiking.
Tobi Knaup - Lead Software Architect
Tobi is the lead software architect of Pingsta. He oversees the platform development and new product design and architecture. Tobi also guides the site's infrastructure to ensure seamless expansion and scalability. Tobi holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from Munich University of Technology (TUM) and is an author of multiple technical papers on Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Adaptive Encoding for VoIP. Tobi loves all kinds of music, skiing, mountaineering and traveling the world.
Social Responsibility
"You haven't lived until you've given back to humanity and help to make the world a better place" - Peter Alfred-Adekeye, 2008
At Pingsta, we are strong believers in the aforementioned. As such, we commit up to 1% of our resources towards charities and environmental issues within our local communities.
Pingsta also helps to empower the leaders of tomorrow via its Intern-to-Stakeholder internship program for students and graduates from Silicon Valley universities like Stanford, Santa Clara, Berkeley and other leading institutions from around the globe e.g. TU Munich, Oxford University, Imperial College and many more.