Tom Schwaller

is a Linux IT Architect at IBM Germany. He studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and was a Research assistant at the Technical University of Munich in the field of high performance computing.

From 1996 to 2000 he was editor in chief of the German Linux Magazine and site manager of linux community.de. He is also co-founder of the Linux New Media AG and joined IBM in 2001. He has worked with free software for more than 16 years and with Linux for more than 13 years.