F5 Networks TMOS Administration Study Guide

Philip Jönsson

Philip Jönsson was born in Malmö City, Sweden 1988 where he still lives with his family. He gained an interest in technology at an early age. When he was eight years old the family got a home PC, which was the first step in his career.

Since Philip had a big interest in technology, choosing his education was easy. His IT studies started at The Nordic Technical Institute (NTI) where he studied the basics of computer technology and eventually focused on network. Later on he studied IT-security at Academedia Masters.

Philip’s first job in the IT business was at a home electronics company in Sweden. He worked at the IT department and was responsible for managing and troubleshooting the sales equipment in the stores and managing the IT infrastructure within the organisation. This is where Philip first encountered a BIG-IP controller.

Philip eventually started working in a Technical Assistance Center (TAC) department at an IT security company. Now Philip works as a consultant focused on F5 products in a department at one of the largest IT security company in Europe and handles major projects and solves problems for Sweden's most well-known companies.

Steven Iveson

Steven Iveson, the last of four children of the seventies, was born in London and was never too far from a shooting, bombing or riot. He’s now grateful to live in a small town in East Yorkshire in the north east of England with his wife Sam and their four children.

He first encountered a BIG-IP Controller in 2004 and has been working with TMOS and LTM since 2005. Steve’s iRules have been featured in four DevCentral articles and he’s made over 3000 posts on the DevCentral forums. He’s been awarded MVP status three times in 2014, 2016 and 2017.

Steve’s worked in the IT industry for over twenty years in a variety of roles, predominantly in data centre environments. In the last few years he’s widened his skill set to embrace DevOps, Linux, Docker, automation, orchestration and more.

He also blogs on subjects including Linux, programming, application delivery and careers at packetpushers; a community of bloggers that contribute technical, work life, and opinion articles from the customer’s perspective.