Justin Menga is a full-stack technologist with over 20 years experience of working with organizations to build large-scale applications and platforms, with a focus on end-to-end application architecture, the cloud, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation. Justin started his career as an infrastructure and network engineer/architect, working with many large enterprise and service provider customers. In the past few years, Justin has switched his focus to building applications and full-service platforms, working with a wide array of technologies, yet still maintaining and applying his prior infrastructure and network expertise to containers and public clouds. He has programmed in Objective C, C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Java, and Go, and has a keen interest in continuous delivery, Docker, and automation tools that speed the path from development to production.

Rickard von Essen works as a continuous delivery and cloud consultant at Diabol. He helps companies deliver faster, improve continuously, and worry less. In his spare time, he helps maintain Packer and contributes to numerous other FOSS projects. He has been tinkering with Linux and BSD since the late 1990s, and has been hacking since the Amiga era. He lives with his wife and two children in Stockholm, Sweden, and he has a Master of Computer Science and Engineering from Linköping University.

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