Christopher Brito lives and works in Philadelphia, PA, where he designs and develops systems that manipulate and display operational data in real time. He got started with Splunk in 2009 and is the author and maintainer of splunk-client, the most popular Splunk search API client for Ruby.

Dr. Benoit Hudzia is a cloud/system architect working on designing the next-generation cloud technology as well as running the Irish operations for Stratoscale.

Previously, he worked as a senior researcher and architect for SAP on the HANA Enterprise Cloud.

He has authored more than 20 academic publications and is also the holder of numerous patents in the domains of virtualization, OS, cloud, distributed system, and more. His code and ideas are included in various SAP commercial solutions as well as open source solutions, such as QEMU / KVM hypervisor, Linux kernel, OpenStack, and more.

His research currently focuses on bringing together the flexibility of virtualization, cloud, and high-performance computing (also called the Lego cloud). This framework aims at providing memory, I/O, and the CPU resource disaggregation of physical servers, while enabling dynamic management and aggregation capabilities to native Linux applications as well as Linux / KVM VMs using commodity hardware.