Simon Elliston Ball is a solutions engineer at Hortonworks, where he helps a wide range of companies get the best out of Hadoop. Before that, he was the head of big data at Red Gate, creating tools to make HDInsight and Hadoop easier to work with. He has also spoken extensively on big data and NoSQL at conferences around the world.
Anindita Basak works as a big data cloud consultant and a big data Hadoop trainer and is highly enthusiastic about Microsoft Azure and HDInsight along with Hadoop open source ecosystem. She works as a specialist for Fortune 500 brands including cloud and big data based companies in the US. She has been playing with Hadoop on Azure since the incubation phase (http://www.hadooponazure.com). Previously, she worked as a module lead for the Alten group and as a senior system analyst at Sonata Software Limited, India, in the Azure Professional Direct Delivery group of Microsoft. She worked as a senior software engineer on implementation and migration of various enterprise applications on the Azure cloud in healthcare, retail, and financial domains. She started her journey with Microsoft Azure in the Microsoft Cloud Integration Engineering (CIE) team and worked as a support engineer in Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt. Ltd.
With more than 6 years of experience in the Microsoft .NET technology stack, she is solely focused on big data cloud and data science. As a Most Valued Blogger, she loves to share her technical experience and expertise through her blog at http://anindita9.wordpress.com and http://anindita9.azurewebsites.net. You can find more about her on her LinkedIn page and you can follow her at @imcuteani on Twitter.
She recently worked as a technical reviewer for the books HDInsight Essentials and Microsoft Tabular Modeling Cookbook, both by Packt Publishing. She is currently working on Hadoop Essentials, also by Packt Publishing.
Rami Vemula is a technology consultant who loves to provide scalable software solutions for complex business problems through modern day web technologies and cloud infrastructure. His primary focus is on Microsoft technologies, which include ASP.Net MVC/WebAPI, jQuery, C#, SQL Server, and Azure. He currently works for a reputed multinational consulting firm as a consultant, where he leads and supports a team of talented developers. As a part of his work, he architects, develops, and maintains technical solutions to various clients with Microsoft technologies. He is also a Microsoft Certified ASP.Net and Azure Developer.
He has been a Microsoft MVP since 2011 and an active trainer. He conducts online training on Microsoft web stack technologies. In his free time, he enjoys exploring different technical questions at http://forums.asp.net and StackOverflow, and then contributes with prospective solutions through custom written code snippets. He loves to share his technical experience and expertise through his blog at http://intstrings.com/ramivemula.
He holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from California State University, Long Beach, USA. He is married and lives with this wife and parents in Hyderabad, India.