Kai Blin is a computational biologist by trade and an open source developer by passion. As he is more of a network and systems programmer in his spare time, the Samba Team member feels lucky to also be able to work on open source software in his day job. He holds a PhD in Microbiology from the University of Tübingen in Germany and is currently working on his post-doc in Cologne.

Henry Gultom is a Linux consultant for an IT company that operates out of Indonesia, Nigeria, and the Kingdom of Tonga. With more than 10 years' experience in Linux administration, he has acquired a deep technical background in the management, design, assessment, and systems integration of information technologies. Since 2010, he has been helping many IT companies in Indonesia to use Samba 4 and has been successful until now.

Iulian-Nicu Șerbănoiu is a graduate of Politehnica University of Bucharest. He also holds a master's degree in Advanced Computer Architectures from the same institution. He is a senior software engineer, with a specialization in imperative programming languages, such as Java, C++, and Python. He has a passion for free/libre software and always tries to be up to date with the latest technologies. He loves scripting languages and uses them to automate tasks as much as possible.

Manikandan Somasundaram has over three years of experience in the field of Linux administration. He is a BE Computer Science graduate. Being a Linux enthusiast, he has his specialization in RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) and RHCSS (Red Hat Certified Security Specialist). He started his career as a Linux system engineer in a small, Chennai-based start-up company, where he had the freedom to explore/implement the world of open source, so he has migrated a number of software from proprietary to open source, such as the openfire intranet chat server. Then, he moved to SafeScrypt, a business unit part of Sify Technologies Limited, which is the India's first CA (Certificate Authority). Here, he had an opportunity to work with the PKI infrastructure and certification practices that helped him relate his RHCSS studies to reality in a better way. Currently, he is working for MindTree Ltd. as a Linux system administrator and pursuing an MS Software Systems degree from BITS Pilani, India. His main hobby is to provide freelance training on Linux administration, and his other hobbies are yoga, martial arts, gymnastics, and playing the guitar.