Daniel Beland was an early adopter of Maven 1.0 from 2004 and has since used it in many projects across diverse industries, ranging from Formula One, Music, DNA laboratories to Defense and Security.

He currently works for Thales' Research and Technology Center in Quebec City, Canada, where part of his work has been to develop cognitive assessment tools for Android devices.

David Bernard is an experienced software developer. Over the past 15 years, he worked as a freelancer for the bank, automotive, and game industries.

He also contributed to a lot of open source projects. He is the creator of several plugins for Maven, Gradle, jEdit, Netbeans, Eclipse, Blender, and so on. His current interest is in 3D and the gamedev pipeline.

He shares his latest contributions on GitHub at http://github.com/davidB.

Brad Leege has a myriad of software development experience from across a variety of industries as well as the public sector. This has given him the passion for open source and open data and the desire to share it with others.

Sujit Pal is a Java/Python programmer, whose main areas of interest are information retrieval, distributed processing, natural language processing, and machine learning. He was an early adopter and proponent of Maven at his company. He loves what he does for a living, believes in lifelong learning, and shares his experiences at http://sujitpal.blogspot.in/.

He works for Healthline Networks, Inc., a startup in the consumer healthcare space.