Rainer Gerhards' is rsyslog's main author, and also heavily involved in logging standardization and normalization. He was first introduced to the logging world around 1995 and has sticked to it until today. He has done consulting and created quite some applications on various platforms. He is involved in standardization inside the IETF and Mitre/CEE and is an active founding member of project Lumberjack, an open source effort for structured logging.