Oleg Aravin is a passionate engineer with an interest in distributed systems, highly available web services, and virtualization technologies. He received a Master's degree in Computer Science from Saratov State University, Russia. He also worked as a teacher and researcher at the university, studying the application of artificial neural networks for scientific research and has several publications on artificial neural networks. His skills have been enhanced by working for Grid Dynamics, where he worked with large retail customers such as eBay and Kohl's, designing and implementing distributed e-commerce platform solutions. He is presently a senior software engineer at VMware and lives and works in Palo Alto, California.
Ryan Johnson is a staff technical account manager for VMware as part of professional services. He has over 18 years of enterprise experience, ranging from engineering, research and development, enterprise technology, business architecture, service management to professional services.
Prior to joining VMware, he was the Enterprise Technology Architect for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation of Florida, where he led the Enterprise Architecture program and was responsible for the aspects of technology, applications, and information architecture.
He holds numerous industry certifications from VMware, Microsoft, EMC, Red Hat, and others. He has also been a technical reviewer for various Packt Publishing books, including VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials, Peter von Oven, Peter Björk, and Joel Lindberg as well as Getting Started with VMware Fusion, Michael Roy.
For a mix of hypertext fragments, pixels, and all things underanalyzed, follow him on Twitter at @tenthirtyam, or LinkedIn, at linkedin.com/in/tenthirtyam.
Daniel Langenhan is a client-focused virtualization expert with more than 18 years of international industry experience.
His skills span the breadth of virtualization, ranging from architecture, design, and implementation of large multi-tier enterprise client systems to delivering captivating education and training sessions in security technologies and practices to diverse audiences.
Utilizing his extensive knowledge, experience, and skills, he has a proven track record of successfully integrating virtualizations into different business areas, while minimizing cost and maximizing the reliability and effectiveness of solutions for his clients.
He gained extensive experience with Australian, European, and international enterprise clients. His consulting company is well established with strong industry ties in many verticals, for example, finance, telecommunications, and print. His consulting business also provided services to VMware International.
He has authored books such as Instant VMware vCloud Starter, VMware View Security Essentials, and VMware vCloud Director Cookbook, all by Packt Publishing. He is currently writing a book on vCenter Orchestrator for Packt Publishing