Pethuru Raj, PhD, has been working as the chief architect in Reliance Jio Cloud and previously worked as a cloud infrastructure architect in the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE), IBM India, Bangalore for four years. Prior to that, he worked as TOGAF-certified enterprise architecture (EA) consultant in Wipro Consulting Services (WCS) Division. He also had a fruitful stint as a lead architect in the corporate research (CR) division of Robert Bosch, Bangalore. He has gained more than 17 years of IT industry experience and 8 years of research experience.

He finished the CSIR-sponsored PhD degree in Anna University, Chennai and continued the UGC-sponsored postdoctoral research in the department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Thereafter, he was granted a couple of international research fellowships (JSPS and JST) to work as a research scientist for 3.5 years in two leading Japanese universities. He has published more than 30 research papers in peer-reviewed journals such as IEEE, ACM, Springer-Verlag, and Inderscience. He has authored 7 books thus far and he focuses on some of the emerging technologies such as:

• Software-defined Cloud Environments (SDCEs)
• Big, Fast, Streaming and IoT Data Analytics
• DevOps through Docker-enabled Containerization
• Microservices Architecture (MSA)
• Context-aware Computing
• Edge / Fog and Cognitive Analytics
• Blockchain Technology for IoT Data and Device Security
• Smarter Cities Technologies and Tools

Jeeva S. Chelladhurai has been working as a DevOps specialist at the IBM Global Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) in India for the past 8 years. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. In various capacities, he has technically managed and mentored diverse teams across the globe in envisaging and building pioneering telecommunication products. He specializes in DevOps and cloud solution delivery, with a focus on data center optimization, Software-defined Environments (SDEs), and distributed application development, deployment, and delivery using the newest Docker technology. Jeeva is also a strong proponent of agile methodologies, DevOps, and IT automation. He holds a master's degree in computer science from Manonmaniam Sundaranar University and a graduate certificate in project management from Boston University. He has been instrumental in crafting reusable assets for IBM solution architects and consultants in Docker-inspired containerization technology.

Vinod Singh held various positions across development, architecture, and engagement with clients throughout his career.

Currently, he is a senior cloud architect with IBM's cloud flagship offering Bluemix, supporting customers across the world. Vinod's experience with networking and data communication spans software design, development, and testing. The cloud, cognitive computing, and Linux are his passions, and he feels cognitive computing is once again going to change the world.

Vinod is a regular speaker at IBM's internal conferences, IEEE conferences, and technology meetups. Vinod's latest day job revolves around IBM Bluemix, Kubernetes, Docker, IBM Watson and Amazon AWS.

Shrikrishna Holla is a full stack developer and entrepreneur based in Bengaluru. He builds and maintains sigalrm.io, a service that provides provides actionable alerts, allowing engineers to take immediate remedial measures.

Oskar Hane is a full stack developer, with 15 years of experience in the development and deployment of web applications. During this period, he mostly worked with start-ups and small, fast-moving companies. He is the cofounder of several companies and has been working as an independent contractor for the past few years. These days, Oskar works with Neo4j, the world's leading graph database, where he spends most of his time on the frontend, writing JavaScript.

He lives in Sweden with his wife and daughter. He enjoys programming as well as all kinds of sports and outdoor activities, such as hunting and fishing.

Neependra Khare is Founder and Principal Consultant at CloudYuga. CloudYuga provides training and consulting on Docker, Kubernetes, GO Programming etc. He is one of the Docker Captain as well and running Docker Meetup Group in Bangalore for around 4 years. In 2015 he authored a book on Docker, Docker Cookbook. In 2016 he co-authored a course on Cloud Infrastructure Technologies at Edx for Linux Foundation. Recently he authored a course on Kubernetes on Edx, for the Linux Foundation.

Rajdeep Dua has over 18 years of experience in the cloud, big data, and machine learning space. He has worked in the advocacy team for Google's big data tools, BigQuery. He has worked on the Greenplum big data platform at VMware in the developer evangelist team. He also worked closely with a team on porting Spark to run on VMware's public and private cloud as a feature set. He has taught Spark and big data at some of the most prestigious tech schools in India--IIIT Hyderabad, ISB, IIIT Delhi, and College of Engineering, Pune.

Currently, he leads the developer relations team at Salesforce India. He has published numerous blogs and hands-on labs for Einstein, a machine learning library from Salesforce and Apache Prediction IO.

He has published several big data and Spark tutorials at cluddatalab. He has also presented BigQuery and Google App Engine at the W3C conference in Hyderabad. He has led the developer relations teams at Google, VMware, and Microsoft, and he has spoken at hundreds of other conferences on the cloud.

His contributions to the open source community are for Docker, Kubernetes, Android, OpenStack, Prediction IO, and cloudfoundry projects.

Vaibhav Kohli at present is working in VMware's R&D Department and earlier taught computer engineering for a year at the esteemed University of Mumbai. He works for the office of the CTO, VMware IoT (Internet of Things) project. He has published many research papers in leading journals, IEEE transactions, and has filed patents at VMware on container technology. One of his big data projects has won the top prize at the national-level project showcase event. He has conducted workshops, hackathons, training sessions, and trade shows in many countries and is a reputed & established speaker at conferences on IoT and Docker technology. He is an active open source code contributor, repository manager and has also published many online Docker & Kubernetes tutorials. He has helped many customers and organizations to understand cloud-native apps, DevOps model and migrate to micro-service architecture. He has also recently published a book on Docker Networking.

Vaibhav manages and leads various meetup groups across India on the latest cutting-edge Docker and Kubernetes technologies.

Santosh Kumar Konduri has around 5 years of IT experience. He is an expert OpenStack administrator with 3 years of experience.

Russ Mckendrick is an experienced solutions architect who has been working in IT and related industries for the better part of 21 years and have a solid understanding of client requirements from both the technical and business perspective.During his career, He have had varied responsibilities in a number of industries. This has ranged from looking after the entire IT infrastructure of a busy entertainment company to providing first line, second line and senior support, as well as being a team leader, in client facing and internal teams for corporate organisations. Managing numerous clients, and working as part of project teams, during the years has given me a unique ability to help clients, internal and external, to identify the technology solutions that will truly benefit them.

Allan Espinosa is a DevOps practitioner living in Tokyo. He is an active open source contributor to various distributed systems tools, such as Docker and Chef. Allan maintains several Docker images for popular open source software that were popular even before their official release from the upstream open source groups.

In his career, Allan has worked on large distributed systems containing hundreds to thousands of servers in production. He has built scalable applications on various platforms ranging from large supercomputing centers in the U.S. to production enterprise systems in Japan.

Allan can be contacted through his Twitter handle @AllanEspinosa. His personal website at http://aespinosa.github.io contains several blog posts on Docker and distributed systems in general.

Scott Gallagher has been fascinated with technology since he played Oregon Trail in elementary school. His love for it continued through middle school as he worked on more Apple IIe computers. In high school, he learned how to build computers and program in BASIC. His college years were all about server technologies such as Novell, Microsoft, and Red Hat. After college, he continued to work on Novell, all the while maintaining an interest in all technologies. He then moved on to manage Microsoft environments and, eventually, what he was most passionate about: Linux environments. Now, his focus is on Docker and cloud environments.