Thorsten Böttger is a senior software developer from Hamburg, Germany. He loves coding in all kinds of languages, mainly using Ruby. Besides that, he speaks at conferences about his work, plays the guitar, and also enjoys photography. He loves coffee and talking about geography and history.
Thorsten has worked on many projects in Germany and New Zealand, from start-ups to enterprises, and sometimes spiking (tiny) projects as well. He and his team have won the Rails Rumble award for the Most Useful Application in 2010.
He has reviewed various books in the past, covering topics such as Java, Spring, Hibernate, and Ruby on Rails.
Chad Lung is a cloud engineer in the EMC Rubicon Cloud Services Group. Currently, he is an active OpenStack contributor and has over 17 years of industry experience in various roles.
Originally born in Canada, he moved to the United States in 1997 and began his software engineering career with full force. He has worked with various technologies and with large cloud-based companies such as Rackspace and EMC.
Chad has three boys and lives with his wife in San Antonio, Texas.
Andrea Pavoni is a passionate Italian programmer. He's mostly focused on web and mobile development, always looking for the best tools available. In his 15-year career, Andrea has had the opportunity to work in several IT fields such as governments and big company brands.
Andrea currently works at Cantiere Creativo, a 12-year-old Florentine company, an agile-oriented web agency and partner in various start-ups.
Sometimes, Andrea posts on his blog and loves to experiment with new tools and languages, releasing them as open source whenever possible. He is also an active member of the Italian Ruby community. He has helped in the organization of past Ruby Day editions and also coached at the first Italian Rails Girls event in Rome.
Jaspal Singh is a technology evangelist with decades of professional experience in the IT sector. Jaspal has hands-on as well as strategic-level experience of working on the latest leading-edge technologies such as PHP, Solr, Redis, Node.js, and MongoDB.
Jaspal has also been a fairly active tech entrepreneur with engagements in many web applications and portals. In his spare time, Jaspal likes to read and keep abreast of the latest technologies and trends in the IT space.
Jaspal has expertise in building enterprise scale applications with high availability and scalable real-time production systems delivering high performance.
Jaspal can be added as professional contact on http://www.linkedin.com/in/jsxtech and you may e-mail him at <[email protected]>.