Ryan Eschinger is an independent software consultant with over 15 years of experience in operations and application development. He has a passion for helping businesses build and deploy amazing software. Using tools such as Ansible, he specializes in helping companies automate their infrastructure, establish automated and repeatable deployments, and build virtualized development environments that are consistent with production. He has worked with organizations of all shapes, sizes, and technical stacks. He's seen it all—good and bad—and he loves what he does. You can find him in one of the many neighborhood coffee shops in Brooklyn, NY, or online at http://ryaneschinger.com/.
Sreenivas Makam is currently working as a senior engineering manager at Cisco Systems, Bangalore. He has a master's degree in electrical engineering and around 18 years of experience in the networking industry. He has worked on both start-ups and big established companies. His interests include SDN, NFV, Network Automation, DevOps, and Cloud technologies. He also likes to try out and follow open source projects in these areas. You can find him on his blog at https://sreeninet.wordpress.com/.
Tim Rupp has been working in various fields of computing for the last 10 years. He has held positions in computer security, software engineering, and most recently, in the fields of Cloud computing and DevOps.
He was first introduced to Ansible while at Rackspace. As part of the Cloud engineering team, he made extensive use of the tool to deploy new capacity for the Rackspace Public Cloud. Since then, he has contributed patches, provided support for, and presented on Ansible topics at local meetups.
He is currently stationed at F5 Networks, where he is involved in Solution development as a senior software engineer. Additionally, he spends time assisting colleagues in various knowledge-sharing situations revolving around OpenStack and Ansible.
Sawant Shah is a passionate and experienced full-stack application developer with a formal degree in computer science.
Being a software engineer, he has focused on developing web and mobile applications for the last 9 years. From building frontend interfaces and programming application backend as a developer to managing and automating service delivery as a DevOps engineer, he has worked at all stages of an application and project's lifecycle.
He is currently spearheading the web and mobile projects division at the Express Media Group—one of the country's largest media houses. His previous experience includes leading teams and developing solutions at a software house, a BPO, a non-profit organization, and an Internet startup.
He loves to write code and keeps learning new ways to write optimal solutions. He blogs his experiences and opinions regarding programming and technology on his personal website, http://www.sawantshah.com, and on Medium, https://medium.com/@sawant.You can follow him on Twitter, where he shares learning resources and other useful tech material at @sawant.
Patrik Uytterhoeven has over 16 years of experience in IT. Most of this time was spent on HP Unix and Red Hat Linux. In late 2012, he joined Open-Future, a leading open source integrator and the first Zabbix reseller and training partner in Belgium.
When he joined Open-Future, he gained the opportunity to certify himself as a Zabbix Certified trainer. Since then, he has provided training and public demonstrations not only in Belgium but also around the world, in countries such as the Netherlands, Germany, Canada, and Ireland. His next step was to write a book about Zabbix. Zabbix Cookbook was born in March 2015 and was published by Packt Publishing.
As he also has a deep interest in configuration management, he wrote some Ansible roles for Red Hat 6.x and 7.x to deploy and update Zabbix. These roles, and some others, can be found in the Ansible Galaxy at https://galaxy.ansible.com/list#/users/1375.
He is also a technical reviewer of Learning Ansible and the upcoming book, Ansible Configuration Management, Second Edition, both by Packt Publishing.