Mark Andrews has had a varied career in technology. Over the last 18 years, he has held several different positions, ranging from customer service to quality assurance. Throughout all these positions, the responsibility of configuration management and build management has always fallen either on Mark personally or on one of the groups that he managed. Because of his "keeping a hand in" management style, he has been involved closely with the scripting and automation framework for these areas. Creating scripted frameworks that intercommunicate across machine / operating system / domain boundaries is a passion for him.
He has worked on PowerShell 3.0 Advanced Administration Handbook, Packt Publishing, and Windows PowerShell 4.0 for .NET Developers, Packt Publishing.
Peter Johnson has over 34 years of enterprise computing experience. He started working with PowerShell when it first surfaced from Microsoft as Monad. He has been working with Java for 17 years, and for the last 12 years, he has been heavily involved in Java performance tuning. He is a frequent speaker on Java performance topics at various conferences, including the Computer Measurement Group annual conference, JBoss World, and Linux World. He is a moderator for the IDE and WildFly/JBoss forums at Java Ranch. He is also the coauthor of the book JBoss in Action, Manning Publications, and has been a reviewer on numerous books on topics ranging from Java to Windows PowerShell.
Rahul Singla is the founder of Imbibe Technologies Private Limited (http://imbibe.in), an independent software services vendor located at Karnal, India, and serves as its managing director and chief solutions architect.
Having worked with a wide spectrum of technologies and platforms, he sees technology as a means and not an end. He has helped companies, big and small, rethink their IT strategies and streamline their operations. As a developer, he has delivered solutions that work for today's enterprises and provided all sorts of integrations, ranging from payment gateways, geomapping APIs, custom COM SDKs, and a variety of cloud services.
Currently, he also serves as a senior consultant to a couple of multinational IT organizations and has previously served in similar roles for government projects and other organizations.
You can find more about him on his portal at http://www.rahulsingla.com. You can also find useful PowerShell-related stuff and other technical material on his blog (http://www.rahulsingla.com/blog). He can be contacted directly at <[email protected]>.