N. Bharadwaj is a software developer at Glassbeam Inc. He has over 12 years of experience in enterprise product development and managing development teams. His experience covers software design and development in the areas of network-data and application-data analysis. He counts Scala and Java among his primary development languages, and PostgreSQL and Cassandra among the databases he is experienced with. Bharadwaj's interests include building high scalability systems, distributed computing, and machine learning. He received his bachelor of engineering degree in electronics and communication systems from Visvesvaraya Technological University, Karnataka, in 2002 and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in 2012.

Mark Kerzner holds degrees in law, math, and computer science. He has been designing software for many years and has been working on Hadoop-based systems since 2008. He is the president of SHMsoft, a provider of Hadoop applications for various verticals, a cofounder of Elephant Scale, a training and consulting company, as well as the coauthor of the open source book, Hadoop Illuminated. His book HBase Designed Patterns, written together with Sujee Maniyam, was recently published by Packt Publishing.

Michael Klishin is an experienced software engineer primarily working on data infrastructure. A long-time open source contributor, he maintains over 50 open source projects.

Sanjay Sharma has been building enterprise-grade solutions in the software industry for around 16 years and using Big Data and Cloud technologies over the past 5 or 6 years to solve complex business problems. He has extensive experience with cardinal technologies, including Cassandra, Hadoop, Hive, MongoDB, MPP DW, and Java/J2EE/SOA, which allowed him to pioneer the LinkedIn group Hadoop India.