Wesley Seidel Carvalho got his Master's degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of São Paulo (IME-USP), Brazil, where he researched on (his dissertation) Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Portuguese language. He is a Database Specialist from the Federal University of Pará (UFPa). He has a degree in Mathematics from the State University of Pará (Uepa).
Since 2010, he has been working with Pentaho and researching Open Data government. He is an active member of the communities and lists of Free Software, Open Data, and Pentaho in Brazil, contributing software "Grammar Checker for OpenOffice - CoGrOO" and CoGrOO Community.
He has worked with technology, database, and systems development since 1997, Business Intelligence since 2003, and has been involved with Pentaho and NLP since 2009. He is currently serving its customers through its startups:
Daniel Lemire has a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique and the Université de Montréal. He is a Computer Science professor at TELUQ (Université du Québec) where he teaches Primarily Online. He has also been a research officer at the National Research Council of Canada and an entrepreneur. He has written over 45 peer-reviewed publications, including more than 25 journal articles. He has held competitive research grants for the last 15 years. He has served as a program committee member on leading computer science conferences (for example, ACM CIKM, ACM WSDM, and ACM RecSys). His open source software has been used by major corporations such as Google and Facebook. His research interests include databases, information retrieval, and high performance programming. He blogs regularly on computer science at http://lemire.me/blog/.
Coty Sutherland was first introduced to computing around the age of 10. At that time, he was immersed in various aspects of computers and it became apparent that he had a propensity for software manipulation. From then until now, he has stayed involved in learning new things in the software space and adapting to the changing environment that is Software Development. He graduated from Appalachian State University in 2009 with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. After graduation, he focused mainly on software application development and support, but recently transitioned to the Business Intelligence field to pursue new and exciting things with data. He is currently employed by the open source company, Red Hat, as a Business Intelligence Engineer.