Dhruv Ahuja is a senior DevOps engineer at a leading financial data vendor. He specializes in orchestration and configuration management in an enterprise, heterogeneous setting. His first brush with Puppet was in 2011 when he developed a solution for dynamically scaling compute nodes for a multipurpose grid platform. He also holds a Master's degree in Advanced Software Engineering from King's College London, and won the Red Hat UK Channel Consultant of the Year award in 2012 for delivering progressive solutions. A long history in conventional software development and traditional systems administration equip him with aptness in both areas. In this era of infrastructure as code, he believes that declarative abstraction is essential for a maintainable systems life-cycle process.

C. N. A. Corrêa (@cnacorrea) is an IT operations manager and consultant, and is also a Puppet enthusiast and an old-school Linux hacker. He has a Master's degree in Systems Virtualization and holds CISSP and RHCE certifications. Backed by a 15-year career in systems administration, Carlos leads the IT operations teams for companies in Brazil, Africa, and the USA. He is also a part-time professor for graduate and undergraduate courses in Brazil. Carlos has co-authored several research papers on network virtualization and OpenFlow, and has presented at peer-reviewed IEEE and ACM conferences worldwide.

Brice Figureau works at Days of Wonder, a board game publisher best known for its award-winning train game Ticket to Ride, where he designs, manages, and programs distributed online game servers and the infrastructure they run on. In several previous job roles, he programmed 3D-rendering engines, Photoshop plugins, early mobile Internet services, and voice-recognition-based phone services and learned system administration. He likes to spend time contributing to various open source projects and has started some of his own. He's been using Puppet since Version 0.23.7 and contributed several major features to the Puppet core code that helped make Puppet what it is now. He also maintains www.planetpuppet.org and helps to organize the Paris DevOps Meetups and the DevopsDays Paris conference when time permits. You might find him hanging around in IRC under the masterzen nickname on Twitter with the @_masterzen_ handle, or at different open source, DevOps, or Configuration Management conferences around the world.