Aurobindo Sarkar is a consulting CTO at BYOF Studios. With a career spanning 22 plus years, he has consulted at some of the leading organizations in the U.S., the UK, and Canada. He specializes in Software as a Service product development, cloud computing, cloud economics, big data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, and web-scale architectures. His domain expertise runs across financial services, media, mobile gaming, public and automotive sectors. Aurobindo has been actively working with technology start-ups for over 5 years now. As a member of the top leadership team at various start-ups, he has mentored several founders and CxOs, provided technology advisory services, developed cloud strategies, drawn up product roadmaps, and set up large engineering teams. Aurobindo has an MS (Computer Science) from New York University, M.Tech (Management) from Indian Institute of Science, and B.Tech (Engineering) from IIT Delhi.

Amit Shah has a bachelor's degree in electronics. He is a senior manager at Western Outdoor Interactive. He has been programming since the early '80s with the first wave of personal computing—initially as a hobbyist and then as a professional. His areas of interest include embedded systems, Internet of Things (IoT), analog and digital hardware design, systems programming, cloud computing, and enterprise architecture. He has been working extensively in the field of cloud computing and enterprise architecture for the past 4 years.