Grigory Chernyshev is senior release manager / DevOps engineer in the Online Games department at Mail.Ru Group. He specializes in managing configurations, automating the build pipeline, monitoring, releasing versions, and writing scripts in Python. He has experience in projects such as Allods Online and Skyforge—AAA MMORPG games that are known around the globe. In his regular work, he uses Zabbix to monitor internal game servers, heterogeneous build agents, and a lot of infrastructure servers.
Besides that, he writes plugins for Atlassian Jira and JetBrains Teamcity—for the latter, he even won the 2015 WordPress Plugins contest!
Nitish Kumar is a Wintel lead at HT Media Ltd. and an independent tech blogger on various technologies. He has been working on several Microsoft technologies and open source solutions (including, but not limited to, Spiceworks, ManageEngine products, Zabbix, MS Active Directory, MS Exchange Servers, and so on) for 8 years now, of which the last couple of years have been spent on bringing cost-effective solutions to corporates to simplify their complex requirements and improve the time management of their staff. Nitish is a technology enthusiast and has been a participant at various corporate events and public webinars. Mobile technologies are of special interest to him and he often writes about various gadgets and technologies. Nitish holds an MS degree in software from J.K Institute of Applied Physics and Technology, and his areas of interest include Microsoft technologies, open source software, and mobile gadgets. He occasionally blogs at http://nitishkumar.net and can be reached at <[email protected]>.
Nitish coauthored Getting Started with Spiceworks, Packt Publishing. Also, he has been a technical reviewer for other books on topics such as Zabbix and Spiceworks.
Nicholas Pier is a network engineer in the managed services and professional services fields. His experience includes web development, designing data center network infrastructures with virtualization and SAN solutions, and writing middleware for business applications. As of this date, Nicholas holds a number of industry certifications, including Cisco CCNP, VMware VCP-DCV, and various other Cisco and CompTIA certifications. He has a passion for craft beer, long-distance running, and reading, in which he indulges in his free time.
Timothy Scoppetta is a systems engineer who specializes in automation, continuous integration, and creating fault-tolerant infrastructures. Having held positions at Google and a number of start-ups, he now focuses on bringing cutting-edge tools and industry best practices to higher education.