Naoya Hashimoto has been working on system design and integration with open source software for years. In the past few years, his career and interests have been shifting toward cloud engineering mainly for AWS with orchestration tools such as Chef or CloudFormation.

He has reviewed Icinga Network Monitoring, Home Security System with BeagleBone, and Building networks and servers using BeagleBone, both by Packt Publishing:

Pei JIA holds a PhD degree in computer science from the University of Essex, with full financial aid by Overseas Research Studentship (ORS). He specializes in various computer vision algorithms (particularly, 2D and 3D morphable models) and has extensive embedded machine vision experience. He is the pioneer of advocating all kinds of open source, both software and hardware. He has just designed his own smart house in beautiful British Columbia using a BeagleBone Black-based control center. Recently, he launched his enterprise, Longer Vision Tech., in ShenZhen, China, which focuses on designing intelligent vision systems. He has been keeping a close eye on the electronics market and a cooperating closely with the connections with in Seattle and Silicon Valley.

Chidananda Matada Shivananda is an electrical engineering graduate who specializes in system dynamics and controls at Villanova University. He has 2 years of industry experience that involves automotive engine management software development at Robert Bosch, India. His interests lie in embedded systems, mobile robotics, and control systems.