David das Neves is a former software developer who has worked for Microsoft and works now as a Cloud Program Manager at Google. In his daily work he primarily helps enterprise customers to leverage the power of the Google Cloud Platform and to help them transform their businesses. Besides his work, he writes books and blog articles, organizes user groups, and speaks at conferences and other events all over the world.

He is very integrated in the PowerShell community, and he organizes the PowerShell user groups in Germany and Munich and speaks frequently at PowerShell conferences.

Jan-Hendrik Peters is an automation and DevOps professional by day and a developer for the AutomatedLab framework by night.

After working at an international retailer automating distributed POS support systems, he started working as a Premier Field Engineer for Microsoft Germany, where he helps customers automate their infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud.

When he is not working, he likes to spend his time brewing his own beer, curing his own bacon, and generally doing manual labor.

Friedrich Weinmann helps companies with IT automation and code management tasks. He is an expert in PowerShell and knows his way around most Microsoft products.

He is actively engaged in the PowerShell community, running a user group, contributing to open source projects, maintaining several major projects himself, and speaking at other user groups and international conferences.

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