Joseph Heck has broad development and management experience across start-ups and large companies. He has architected, developed, and deployed a wide variety of solutions, ranging from mobile and desktop applications to cloud-based distributed systems.
He builds and directs teams and mentors individuals to improve the way they build, validate, deploy, and run software. He also works extensively with and in open source, collaborating across many projects, including Kubernetes.
Paul Adamson has worked as an Ops engineer, a developer, a DevOps engineer, and all variations and mixes of these. When not reviewing this book, he keeps busy helping companies embrace the AWS infrastructure. His language of choice is PHP for all the good reasons and even some of the bad ones, but mainly habit. Apart from reviewing this book, he has been working for Healthy Performance Ltd., helping to apply cutting-edge technology to a cutting-edge approach to wellbeing.
Jakub Pavlik is a co-founder, former CTO, and chief architect of tcp cloud who has worked several years on the IaaS cloud platform based on OpenStack-Salt and OpenContrail projects, which were deployed and operated for global large service providers. Currently as the director of product engineering, he collaborates on a new Mirantis Cloud Platform for NFV/SDN, IoT, and big data use cases based on Kubernetes, containerized OpenStack, and OpenContrail. He is a member of the OpenContrail Advisory Board and is also an enthusiast of Linux OS, ice hockey, and films. He loves his wife, Hanulka.
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