Thierry Carrez is an open source project management expert and has been working on OpenStack since 2010, as the project's Release Manager, sponsored by Rackspace.
An Ubuntu Core developer and Debian maintainer, he was previously the Technical Lead for Ubuntu Server edition at Canonical and an Operational Manager for the Gentoo Linux Security Team. He has also worked as an IT Manager for small and large companies.
Atul Kumar Jha has been an ardent Linux enthusiast and free software evangelist for more than eight years. He holds an engineering degree in IT and has been working for over four years on different job roles. He also happens to be one of the co-founders of the free software event series called mukt.in
.
He currently works as an Evangelist for CSS Corp. Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India, where most of his work involves free/open software technologies and cloud platforms.
He's been involved with OpenStack since the Bexar release and has been contributing to the project since then. Most of his contributions have been around documentation, bug reporting, and helping folks on IRC.
He can be seen lurking on Freenode, under the #ubuntu-server
or #openstack
channels, using the handle koolhead17
. More information about him can be found at http://www.atuljha.com.