Magnus Edenhill is a freelance systems developer living in Stockholm, Sweden, with his family. He specializes in high-performance distributed systems but is also a veteran in embedded systems.

For ten years, Magnus played an instrumental role in the design and implementation of PacketFront's broadband architecture, serving millions of FTTH end customers worldwide. Since 2010, he has been running his own consultancy business with customers ranging from Headweb—northern Europe's largest movie streaming service—to Wikipedia.

Iuliia Proskurnia is a doctoral student at EDIC school of EPFL, specializing in Distributed Computing. Iuliia was awarded the EPFL fellowship to conduct her doctoral research. She is a winner of the Google Anita Borg scholarship and was the Google Ambassador at KTH (2012-2013). She obtained a Masters Diploma in Distributed Computing (2013) from KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, and UPC, Barcelona, Spain. For her Master's thesis, she designed and implemented a unique real-time, low-latency, reliable, and strongly consistent distributed data store for the stock exchange environment at NASDAQ OMX. Previously, she has obtained Master's and Bachelor's Diplomas with honors in Computer Science from the National Technical University of Ukraine KPI. This Master's thesis was about fuzzy portfolio management in previously uncertain conditions. This period was productive for her in terms of publications and conference presentations. During her studies in Ukraine, she obtained several scholarships. During her stay in Kiev, Ukraine, she worked as Financial Analyst at Alfa Bank Ukraine.