Emilien Kenler began focusing on game development after working on small web projects in 2008, when he was in High School. Until 2011, he worked for different groups and specialized in system administration.

A student of computer science engineering, Emilien founded a company that sold Minecraft servers in 2011. He created a lightweight IaaS (https://github.com/HostYourCreeper/) based on new technologies such as Node.js and RabbitMQ.

Thereafter, Emilien worked for TaDaweb as a system administrator, building its infrastructure and creating tools to manage deployment and monitoring.

In 2014, he began a new adventure at Wizcorp, Tokyo. In 2014, Emilien graduated from the University of Technology Compiègne, France.

He also contributed as a reviewer to Learning Nagios 4, MariaDB High Performance, OpenVZ Essentials, Vagrant Virtual Development Environment Cookbook, and Getting Started with MariaDB Second Edition, all by Packt Publishing.

Federico Razzoli is a software developer, database consultant, and free software supporter. He has been working on websites and database applications since 2000 and used MySQL and other relational databases extensively during this period. He is now a MariaDB Ambassador.