Mourik Jan C Heupink, a Dutch National, is the Network Administrator at UNU-MERIT. As such, he is responsible for designing, setting up, maintaining and supporting UNU-MERIT 's IT infrastructure.

UNU-MERIT uses Open Source components and Open Standards if possible. (*bsd/linux, samba4 AD, ceph storage, dovecot/postfix, OpenVPN, proxmox virtualization, graylog log aggregation, etc)