Hrijul Parekh has a B.Eng. degree in Information Technology with a research interest in Cloud and infrastructure automation. He is always enthusiastic to work on multiple platforms at a time and has the ability to integrate open source technologies. He is a Cloud Engineer at PMC Retail Pvt. Ltd.

With over 3 years of hands-on experience in open source technologies, he manages to guide the team and deliver projects and training sessions, meeting client expectations all along. He's responsible for designing and managing a Cloud environment/infrastructure and server architecture in his organization. He is also active in Shell scripting, autodeployment, supporting hundreds of Linux and Windows physical and virtual servers hosting databases, and applications with continuous delivery using Jenkins/Hudson with Chef scripting.

Akshay Surve is in the pursuit of making meaning through his initiatives, be it for profit or for the good of society. At heart, he is a midnight code junkie and occasionally dabbles with prose.

He is also the cofounder and CTO at DeltaX, where he drives the technology and product roadmap. His expertise in Cloud computing and building web-scale distributed systems, coupled with a deep understanding of the ad-tech ecosystem over the last 8 years, has been one of the key drivers of the rapid pace of development of DeltaX's product line.

You can connect with him on Twitter. His Twitter handle is @AkshaySurve.

Riddhi Thaker has more than 4 years of software engineering experience in software design, analysis, development, testing, and implementation of web and client-server large-scale applications, as well as customized desktop applications based on Microsoft technologies and AWS infrastructure. She has extensive experience in design and development of applications using .NET and web technologies, such as XML, CSS, CSS3, Ajax, JavaScript, jQuery, UI designing, HTML, and HTML5 in n-tier architecture across platforms and even Cloud platforms.

She has a Bachelor's degree in Engineering in Information Technology from Gujarat University. She was in the Developer team as senior developer at BarodaWeb, during which time she worked on SaaS, private clouds, Azure, and virtualization. She is now working on Cloud deployment and various other Cloud platforms.