Skanda Bhargav is an engineering graduate from Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belgaum, Karnataka, India. He did his majors in computer science engineering. He is currently employed with Happiest Minds Technologies, an MNC based out of Bangalore. He is a Cloudera-certified developer in Apache Hadoop. His interests are big data and Hadoop.
He has been a reviewer for the following books and a video, all by Packt Publishing:
Instant MapReduce Patterns – Hadoop Essentials How-to
Hadoop Cluster Deployment
Building Hadoop Clusters [Video]
Cloudera Administration Handbook
Randal Scott King is a global consultant who specializes in big data and network architecture. His 15 years of experience in IT consulting has resulted in a client list that looks like a "Who's Who" of the Fortune 500. His recent projects include a complete network redesign for an aircraft manufacturer and an in-store video analytics pilot for a major home improvement retailer.
He lives with his children outside Atlanta, GA. You can visit his blog at www.randalscottking.com.
Dmitry Spikhalskiy currently holds the position of software engineer in a Russian social network service, Odnoklassniki, and is working on a search engine, video recommendation system, and movie content analysis.
Previously, Dmitry took part in developing Mind Labs' platform, infrastructure, and benchmarks for a high-load video conference and streaming service, which got "The biggest online-training in the world" Guinness world record with more than 12,000 participants. As a technical lead and architect, he launched a mobile social banking start-up called Instabank. He has also reviewed Learning Google Guice and PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook, both by Packt Publishing.
Dmitry graduated from Moscow State University with an MSc degree in computer science, where he first got interested in parallel data processing, high-load systems, and databases.
Jeroen van Wilgenburg is a software craftsman at JPoint (http://www.jpoint.nl), a software agency based in the center of the Netherlands. Their main focus is on developing high-quality Java and Scala software with open source frameworks.
Currently, Jeroen is developing several big data applications with Hadoop, MapReduce, Storm, Spark, Kafka, MongoDB, and Elasticsearch.
Jeroen is a car enthusiast and likes to be outdoors, usually training for a triathlon. In his spare time, Jeroen writes about his work experience at http://vanwilgenburg.wordpress.com.
Shinichi Yamashita is a solutions architect at System Platform Sector in NTT DATA Corporation, Japan. He has more than 9 years of experience in software and middleware engineering (Apache, Tomcat, PostgreSQL, Hadoop Ecosystem, and Spark). Shinichi has written a few books on Hadoop in Japanese.