Snig Bhaumik is the Technical Director at InfoAxon Technologies Limited (www.infoaxon.com) and is responsible for designing solutions for content and knowledge management powered by open source technologies. He has diverse experience of over 13 years in open source technologies such as Alfresco, Liferay, and Pentaho, and Microsoft .NET.
Snig's areas of expertise include knowledge management, collaborative content management, business process automation, social networks, business intelligence, search, and emerging technologies. He acts as a senior consultant on many projects, driving BI, KM, and ECM agendas with senior stakeholders. He is a sought-after speaker in these areas and also writes regularly in the form of white papers and blogs. His works can be accessed at http://blog.infoaxon.com/, http://onalfresco.blogspot.in/, and https://github.com/SnigBhaumik/.
He has a lot of experience in delivering open-source-powered solutions to global customers in the fields of international development, social housing, construction, banking, retail, and insurance. He is an active participant in various open source communities and has contributed functionalities to some of the leading open source platforms.
As an open source enthusiast, Snig is an active contributor to several open source communities:
He has authored Alfresco Cookbook 3, Packt Publishing (http://www.amazon.com/Alfresco-3-Cookbook-Snig-Bhaumik/dp/184951108X)
He led the development and management of the roadmap for Alfresco add-ons on Alfresco and InfoAxon's marketplace (http://www.infoaxon.com/solutions/addons/#all)
His key add-ons released on Alfresco include:
Bootfresco (https://github.com/SnigBhaumik/Bootfresco)
Calendar Event Participant (https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/calendar-event-participant)
Alfresco Category Browser (https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/category-browser)
Task Document Previewer (http://www.infoaxon.com/add-on/task-document-previewer/)
Content Uploader Pro (https://addons.alfresco.com/addons/content-uploader-pro)
He manages projects at Google Code for the open source portlet for Twitter in Liferay (http://code.google.com/p/liferay-twitter-portlet/)
He manages projects at Google Code for the open source portlet for Facebook in Liferay (http://code.google.com/p/liferay-facebook-portlet/)
Alfresco ECM (he is the author of the Alfresco Calendar components that are now included and distributed in Alfresco Version 3.0)
He solely manages the Liferay Portal practice at InfoAxon
He is one of the key stakeholder and technical decision maker of the Pentaho BI business stream at InfoAxon
Dhaval Joshi has more than 10 years of experience in software development. For the past 6 years, he has been working with Alfresco. He has executed more than 10 projects in Alfresco and more than five projects in different Java-based open source technologies. He is also an Alfresco-recognized Alfresco developer.
He has huge experience in providing open source content management enterprise solutions. He has written more than 100 Alfresco web scripts for different clients in various projects.
He has huge experience in Alfresco DM, WCM, Share, DAM, and the Record Management system. He also has expertise in customizing and extending Alfresco. Other than Alfresco, he has good experience in CMS/WCM such as OpenCMS, CQ5, and Documentum.
Bernd Krumböck is a self-employed IT professional. In the last 7 years, he has implemented and supported many projects for the NGO/NPO Volkshilfe NÖ (NPO for nursing and other services with about 1,000 employees in Lower Austria). One of these projects is a document management system based on Alfresco, which is needed for an ISO standardization process. As a result, he has become the new maintainer of the Oracle Server support for the Alfresco Community extension.
Besides this, he is working on various business applications that are mainly based on Java/J2EE. However, his skills are also used for server, database, and network administration.
A few years ago, he was employed as a system administrator at REWE Group, Austria. His principal task was the administration of the HP-UX, Linux, and Oracle database systems. During this time, he contributed various code to CUPS and other projects.
In his free time, he works on various small projects that extend his smart home system. One of these projects resulted in a Linux kernel driver for a USB CAN adapter from 8 devices (https://github.com/krumboeck/usb2can).
Piergiorgio Lucidi is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) specialist and a certified Alfresco trainer at Sourcesense. Sourcesense is a European open source systems integrator providing consultancy, support, and services around key open source technologies.
He works as a mentor, technical leader, and software engineer, and has 10 years of experience in the areas of ECM and system integration. He is an expert in integrating ECM solutions in web and portal applications.
He regularly contributes to the Alfresco community as an Alfresco Wiki Gardener. During Alfresco DevCon 2012 in Berlin, he was named the Alfresco Community Star.
He contributes to the Apache Software Foundation as a PMC member and committer of Apache ManifoldCF and is the project leader of the CMIS, Alfresco, and Elasticsearch connectors. He is a project leader and committer of the JBoss community. He also contributes to some of the projects of the JBoss Portal platform.
He is a speaker at various conferences dedicated to Java, Spring Framework, open source products, and technologies related to the ECM and WCM world.
He is an author, technical reviewer, and affiliate partner at Packt Publishing. For Packt Publishing, he has co-authored Alfresco 3 Web Services, Ugo Cei, and GateIn Cookbook, Ken Finnigan and Luca Stancapiano. As a technical reviewer, he has also contributed to the books Alfresco 3 Cookbook, Alfresco Share, and Alfresco 4 Enterprise Content Management Implementation, all published by Packt Publishing.
As an affiliate partner, he also writes and publishes book reviews on his website Open4Dev (http://www.open4dev.com/).