David Cobb is a system architect for CheckAlt Payment Solutions, providers of automated and electronic check transaction processing since 2005. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, training people on SQL Server since 2002. He is also the principal consultant for Cobb Information Technologies, Inc, founded in 1996, providing technology consulting with a focus on SQL Server. David blogs occasionally at http://daveslog.com.
He has reviewed Pro PowerShell for Microsoft Azure, and Hyper-V for VMware Administrators, for Apress.
Chrissy LeMaire is a PowerShell MVP and currently works as a SQL Server DBA at NATO Special Operations Headquarters in Belgium. She is an avid scripter and has attended the Monad session at the Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles back in 2005 and has worked and played with PowerShell ever since.
She is currently pursuing an MS degree in systems engineering at Regis University. In her spare time, she tweets (@cl) and maintains two websites, https://blog.netnerds.net and http://www.realcajunrecipes.com.
She has also worked as a technical reviewer for Windows PowerShell Cookbook, by Lee Holmes, O'Reilly Media, and Automating Microsoft Azure with PowerShell by John Chapman and Aman Dhally, Packt Publishing.
Patrik Lindström has worked as an IT consultant since 1991. He has worked with SQL Server since 1997. He has worked with BI solutions on the SQL Server stack in media, retail, and finance industries. He started using PowerShell in 2008 at one of the world's largest fashion retailers for measuring the performance of a SQL Server-based system. Currently he works as a DevOps consultant at one of the largest banks in Scandinavia.
He is interested in a wide range of technologies such as C#, JavaScript, functional programming and of course, SQL and PowerShell. If there is a problem, he will find the right tool and get the problem solved.
You can find his resume at https://careers.stackoverflow.com/patriklindstrom, or you can take a look at his code at https://github.com/patriklindstrom/.
Besides facilitating development, he enjoys practicing Shorinji Kempo—in which he received a second degree black belt. He trains with his youngest son Olle, at the Stockholm Södra Branch. He and his wife Jane, regularly train with their Great Dane, Baaghida. Patrick also practices open water swimming with his older brother, Fredrik Döberl.
Fabrice Romelard is a French IT system and network engineer with great experience in development (.NET since the start of this technology). He then moved to Microsoft SQL Server DBA and SharePoint architect. He is now a DevOps engineer. He is currently working for a global company in the industrial certification in Geneva.
Microsoft gives the MVP (Most Valuable Professional) honor since 2003 to different technologies (.NET developer, SQL Server DBA, and SharePoint architect).
After doing an executive MBA in risk management, his day at work is a mix between the administration of his SharePoint farms, DBA on the corporate SQL Server, infrastructure architect for internal projects, and DevOps for all the applications he has to manage. He also manages the due diligence and risk assessments executed by the corporate IT department.
He has published many articles about Microsoft technologies, risk management, and due diligence on his blogs.
Dave Wentzel is an independent consultant who specializes in SQL Server performance management and Big Data integration. He uses PowerShell for zero downtime database deployments and automation, freeing up time for life's more important passions.