Gokhan Atil is a Senior Applications DBA working at one of the leading IT consultancy companies in Turkey. He has a strong background in UNIX systems and hands-on experience in Oracle Database versions 11g/10g/9i/8i and Oracle E-Business Suite R12/11i. He is an active member of the Oracle community and a founding member of the Turkish Oracle User Group (TROUG). He has written and presented papers at various conferences. He's one of the co-authors of the book Expert Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c, published in 2013.
Gokhan Atil holds various Oracle certifications such as Oracle Database 10g/11g Administrator Certified Professional, Oracle E-Business Suite R12 Applications DBA Certified Professional, and Oracle Exadata Database Machine X3 Administrator Certified Expert. He was honored with the Oracle ACE award in 2011. He has a blog where he shares his experiences with Oracle since 2008. You can get in touch with Gokhan at http://www.gokhanatil.com.
Wissem El Khlifi is the first Oracle ACE in Spain and an Oracle Certified Professional DBA with over 12 years of IT experience.
He earned a Computer Science Engineer's degree from FST, Tunisia, and a Master's in Computer Science from the UPC, Barcelona.
His areas of interest are Linux System Administration, Oracle Database including high availability (RAC, Dataguard), and Oracle applications.
He has worked with Oracle Database since version 7.
His career has included the roles of Oracle programmer, Java analyst/programmer, Oracle DBA, architect, project manager, and team leader. He currently works as the Senior Oracle DBA for Schneider Electric/APC.
He writes numerous articles on his Oracle website: http://www.oracle-class.com.
Bjorn Naessens is a Senior Oracle DBA at Uptime Technologies N.V. based in Belgium. Prior to his work with Uptime, he was a system engineer/DBA at a leading Belgian media company. Most of Bjorn's projects are for new infrastructure setups, hence using RMAN for backup/recovery has been constant in these projects.
Next to Oracle databases, Bjorn is specialized in Oracle VM and Oracle Linux and has a passion for the Oracle Database Appliance.
Arup Nanda has been an Oracle DBA for the last 19 years and counting. He works as the Principal Database Architect at a New York multinational company, has co-authored four books, has written around 300 articles, and presented at 150 different conferences around the world. Honoring professional accomplishments and contributions to the user community, Oracle chose him as the DBA of the Year in 2003 and Enterprise Architect of the Year in 2012. He blogs frequently at http://www.arup.blogpsot.com, is a member of the Oak Table Network, is an Oracle ACE Director, and tweets with handle @arupnanda.
Alessandro Parisi is an Enterprise Software Architect, Data Scientist and Ethical Hacker, working as an IT Consultant for nearly 20 years now. He is keen on experimenting with non-conventional solutions to problem solving in complex and dynamic contexts, mixing new technologies with lateral thinking and a holistic approach.
Founder of InformaticaSicura.com, specializing in IT Security Consultancy, he is the curator of the Hacking Wisdom column on the blog http://www.informaticasicura.altervista.org.
He is also the author of Sicurezza Informatica e Tutela della Privacy, published by Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Italy, 2006.
Laurent Schneider is working as a database administrator for a leading bank in Switzerland. He is the author of the blog http://laurentschneider.com. He has written and reviewed multiple books and articles on Oracle technologies.
Laurent loves to play chess with his friends and to hike and bike with his kids Dora and Loïc in the beautiful Swiss mountains.