Adarsh Deshratnam is a senior consultant (big data and cloud) whose focus is on designing, developing, and deploying Hadoop solutions for many MNCs. In this position, he has worked with customers to build several Hadoop applications with multiple database technologies, providing a unique perspective on moving customers beyond batch processing. An avid technologist, he focuses on technological innovations. Since 2006, he has been working full time and part time with big data and multiple database technologies. Adarsh completed his engineering at Staffordshire University with a computing major.

Gianluca Tiepolo has been programming since Windows 3.11 was around. As a cofounder of Sixth Sense Solutions, a start-up that is a global leader in retail solutions, he has worked with some of the world's biggest brands to deliver engaging, interactive experiences to their customers. He specializes in high-performance implementations of database services and computer vision. Currently, he's deeply involved in the open source community and has a lot of interest in big data.

Tsanyo Tsanev is a senior web developer at Dressler LLC in New York, USA. From the whiteboard to production, he has experience in building a variety of web applications. He began experimenting with Neo4j for the social networking website SongSilo and has since found many other uses for it. Tsanyo's passion is coding; he does it both for a living and as a hobby.

Manuel Vives is a software engineer, who focuses on Python and C++. He specializes in backend parts of distributed software and NoSQL databases. He used to work in France for a company that specializes in cybersecurity and training, and he now works in Canada.