Sarath Lakshman is a software engineer at Couchbase. He is a core developer for Couchbase MapReduce View Engine, and he works on storage and indexing problems at Couchbase. Before Couchbase, he worked at Zynga for over 2 years, building ZBase—a distributed storage platform that powered the entire social games infrastructure at Zynga. He was attracted to Linux in his teenage years, and he created a user-friendly Linux distribution called Slynux. He is also the author of Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Packt Publishing. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Model Engineering College, India. He is an open source software enthusiast and has contributed to various projects in the past. To find out more about Sarath, you can visit www.sarathlakshman.com.
Bruno Vernay has been working with all forms of web application design and development for the last 15 years—a bit of CSS/JavaScript and a lot of Java, SQL, Linux, and network. He even had the chance to work with Complex Event Processing, Rules Engines, and Geographic Information Systems. He also touched on large clusters as well as embedded devices and has been through various paradigms, from modeling via UML to Test or Domain Driven Development and Domain Specific Language. If he has time, he would like to work on Synthetic Biology and Biohacking. Now, he is focusing on IoT Security, enjoying the variety of systems and opportunities.
Ms. Samia Yousif holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees from the University of Bahrain as well as CCNA, CCNP, and CCDA from Bahrain Training Institute and Diploma Mr. Tabatabai in culture Quranic from Islamic Enlightenment Society. She has developed extensive knowledge and skills in various technical fields of Computer Science and IT. She has published conference publications and books and received the Research Award from Ahlia University and the e-Government Excellence Award (e-Education Award). She has delivered several IT workshops and has attended many seminars. Samia has 10 years of teaching experience at an undergraduate level in Computer Science and IT. Furthermore, she has worked on the development of numerous systems and professional website applications using the most up-to-date web technologies. She is now an Assistant Director of ICT at Ahlia University, Kingdom of Bahrain, and she is planning to undertake a PhD program.
She has contributed to the book Computer Jobs & Certifications Choose & Improve Your IT Career, Dr. Mansoor Al-Aali, Lulu.com and also reviewed the book Packet Tracer Network Simulator, Jesin A, Packt Publishing. She has also written a lab manual, HTML Fundamental, for the Royal University for Women in October 2006 and AMA International University, Bahrain, in May 2006.
To find out more about her, visit her website http://samiayousif.hostoi.com.