Joshua Black has been working with computers professionally for 20 years. He has a broad range of experience and expertise including systems and network administration, mobile app development, and production web applications. He earned a BS in Computer Science with a minor in Math from California State University, Chico, in 2005. He currently resides in Chico, California, with his wife, Rachel, and their four children.

Thabo Fletcher is a software developer at Degreed and co-founder of Coderbits with a background in network appliance engineering, web application development, and JavaScript injection.

Lauren Malhoit has been in the IT field for over 10 years and has acquired several data center certifications. She's currently a technical virtualization architect specializing in virtualization and storage in the data center. She has been writing for a few years for TechRepublic, TechRepublic Pro, and VirtualizationSoftware.com. As a Cisco Champion, EMC Elect, VMware vExpert, and PernixPro; Lauren stays involved in the community. She also hosts a bi-weekly technology podcast called AdaptingIT (http://www.adaptingit.com/). She has been a delegate for Tech Field Day several times as well. She recently published her first book, VMware vCenter Operations Manager Essentials, Packt Publishing.