EXECUTIVE BIOGRAPHY & PROFILE
About Ghislain Nkeramugaba
Ghislain Nkeramugaba works on Internet exchange point infrastructure, peering and interconnection at the Internet Society. His experience includes technical and management roles with Internet service providers and Rwanda’s .rw country-code domain registry. He supports the development of local Internet infrastructure and technical capacity, with an interest in the economic and financial models behind Internet services. His background brings practical knowledge of network interconnection and domain registry operations.
MENTORSHIP & TECHNICAL ADVISORY MANDATE
Role at the Uganda DNS Hackathon
Lead Technical Mentor for Track 3 (Anycast & Latency Optimization), assisting builders with BGP peering telemetry, RIPE Atlas measurement analysis, and local resolver performance tuning.
TECHNICAL & POLICY SPECIALIZATION
Domain Expertise & Focus Areas
CREDENTIALS & ECOSYSTEM IMPACT
Key Career Highlights & Contributions
- IXP Development & Interconnection Specialist at the Internet Society (ISOC)
- Extensive hands-on experience deploying Anycast DNS nodes and local peering infrastructure in East and Central Africa
- Trainer in BGP routing security (MANRS), RPKI, and DNS resolver hardening
- Advisor on keeping local internet traffic and DNS resolution local within African IXPs
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