Jon Auman has been a systems administrator for over 15 years with his current focus on DevOps and WebOps methodologies. He holds certifications in Redhat, NetApp, Amazon Web Services, and Puppet. Jon has worked for a wide range of employers like Duke University, Analysts International, and NetApp in the U.S, as well as Mind Candy, Medicanimal.com, Monitise, and HMRC in the UK. Jon currently runs his own consultancy named DaveOps Ltd, in London.
He started working with DevOps tools in 2009. His favorite DevOps toolset includes Puppet, Ansible, AWS CLI, and Jenkins.
Jon was also a reviewer of the Packt Publishing book Mastering Citrix XenServer (ISBN 139781783287390).
Tom Geudens was given a choice by his parents at the age of 15; either become a baker or go into IT. That Christmas, Santa brought an MSX home computer and the choice was made. At 20, he had a Bachelor's degree in IT under his belt and joined the IT department of Colruyt, a Belgian retailer specializing in 'Lowest Price' and doing this through automation. Recently, he set up his own IT consultancy company, Elephant Bird Consulting, which specializes in Resource-Oriented Computing solutions. He has worked with technologies from PL/1 to HPUX and Linux, and has also battled distributed applications development and configuration management issues. He is the author of the O'Reilly book Resource-Oriented Computing with NetKernel, and blogs at http://practical-netkernel.blogspot.com/.
Sami Rönkä is an ICT professional with a keen interest in different automation methodologies. His motto is "Manually doing the same thing twice is learning, doing it three times is stupidity." He has worked in various roles in ICT from maintaining and developing different software build automation systems in very large enterprises to data center ramp-ups including tasks varying from racking and cabling to defining virtual networks and high available services. He is delighted with the progress of tools and methods for using infrastructure as a code, which really has made his life at work easier and more interesting. He believes that changing mindsets takes time, but he knows it is worth it.
After some years of trying to find efficient routes through bureaucracy and change management in large enterprises, he currently works with a smaller IT service provider company aiming to give small businesses a productivity boost with lean and working IT resources.
Diego Woitasen has more than 10 years of experience in Linux and open source consulting industry. Diego Woitasen is (with Luis Vinay) the co-founder of flugel.it. This is Self-denominated Infrastructure Developers, they have applied all those years of experience in helping all sorts of companies to embrace the DevOps culture and the new movements related with interdisciplinary cooperative working. He is focused on DevOps Engineering, OpenStack, Linux, and Open Source.