Vincent Sesto, when changing skill sets and moving from business into the information technology field 10 years ago, saw the potential of doing things via technology and has continued to follow his passion to find better ways of doing so. Vince has worked with Splunk for the past 4 years, developing apps and reporting applications around Splunk, and now works hard to advocate its success. He has worked as a system engineer in big data companies and development departments, where he has regularly supported, built, and developed with Splunk. His LinkedIn profile is at https://au.linkedin.com/in/vincesesto. Onur Ylmaz is a senior software engineer in a multinational enterprise software company. He is a certified Kubernetes administrator (CKA) and works on Kubernetes and cloud management systems. He is a keen supporter of cutting-edge technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applications. He has one master's and two bachelor's degrees in the engineering field. Sathsara Sarathchandra is a DevOps engineer, experienced in building and managing Kubernetes based production deployments both in cloud and on-premise. He has over 8 years of experience working in several companies ranging from small start-ups to enterprises. He is a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) and a certified Kubernetes application developer (CKAD). He holds a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in computer science. Aric Renzo is a DevOps engineer based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is a fan of all things geeky and open source. He has experience working on many open source and free software project deployments for clients based on OpenStack, Ansible, Docker, Chef, SaltStack, and Kubernetes. Aric is a member of the Ansible community and teaches courses on basic and advanced Ansible concepts. His past projects include work on data center deployments, network infrastructure automation, MongoDB NoSQL database architecture, and designing highly available OpenStack environments. Aric is a fan of anything to do with DevOps, automation, and making his workflow more efficient. Aric is a lifelong geek and a graduate of Penn State University in the information sciences and technology program. He is married to Ashley Renzo, an incredibly beautiful and talented science teacher in Gaston County, North Carolina. Engy Fouda is an author, freelance engineer, and journalist. Currently, she teaches SAS, Docker Fundamentals, Docker for Enterprise Developers, Docker for Enterprise Operations, and Kubernetes at several venues as a freelance instructor. She works as a freelance journalist and publishes her work at various media outlets. She holds two master's degrees, one in journalism from Harvard University, Extension School, and another in computer engineering from Cairo University, Egypt. Moreover, she earned the Data Science Professional Graduate Certificate from Harvard University, Extension School. She has taught academically as a teacher assistant at the German University in Cairo and the American University in Cairo. She volunteers as the team lead for Momken Group (Engineering for the Blind), Egypt Scholars Inc. Also, she volunteers as a member-at-large and the newsletter editor of the IEEE Mid-Hudson Section. Ankit Mishra is a Senior Software Engineer with extensive IT experience in mission-critical development projects and architecture designs. He has worked for giants such as Ericsson, Fidelity, and others.He has more than four years' experience in managing and delivering Spring MVC and Spring Security projects, Cloud deployment, and PaaS cloud administration. Currently, he is working on Spring microservices, Spring Security, cloud deployment, and tuning.* Specialties: Red-Hat Certified engineer* Functional domains: Retail and Banking* StackOverFlow Profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/5850195/ankidaemon* GitHub: https://github.com/ankidaemon/ Fiodar Sazanavets is an experienced lead software developer. His main areas of expertise are ASP.NET, SQL Server, Azure, Docker, Internet of Things, microservices architecture, and various frontend technologies. Fiodar built his software engineering experience while working in a variety of industries, including water engineering, financial, railway, and defense. He has played a leading role in various projects and, as well as writing software, his duties have included performing architectural tasks. Fiodar is passionate about teaching other people programming skills. He has published a number of programming courses on various online platforms. 14/6/2019 - Contacted for ElasticSearch Earl Waud is a virtualization development professional with more than 20 year's experience developing customer-facing, enterprise-grade software for VM, and works with container provisioning, management, and automation. Earl has a proven track record of delivering on-time solutions that significantly impact business results; solutions that align engineering strategies with organizational vision. Recently, Earl has been creating AWS-based container solutions for enterprises using Docker, Kubernetes, Artifactory, Xray, and Twistlock. Currently, Earl is a senior software engineer with Intuit Inc. Other books by Earl include Mastering Chef Provisioning and Chef: Powerful Infrastructure Automation. Earl can be found online at SanDiegoEarl (dot) com.
