Christopher Dambamuromo is a MongoDB evangelist who is an active contributor to StackOverflow on the MongoDB tag. Chris frequently engages the open source community and foster adoption of MongoDB. He helps engineering teams build scalable and performant applications in MongoDB. He also assesses the health, scalability, and capacity of distributed systems and advises engineering teams on the schema design, architecture, and deployment planning. He is a passionate and proficient C#/BI developer with more than 10 years of experience producing code to a consistently high standard. Chris has constantly been honing his skills in the technical aspects of software and business intelligence engineering (JavaScript, Node.js, HTML5, CSS3, Python, R, Java, ASP.NET MVC, C# Microsoft BI stack—MS SQL server, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, SharePoint, and PowerPivot), data modeling, systems architecture, as well as business applications for BI solutions. He has an MSc degree in intelligent computer systems from the University of Glamorgan (UK), an MSc degree in mathematics and computing for finance from Swansea University, UK, and a BSc degree with honours in applied mathematics from the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe. Chris is very fond of anything closely or remotely related to data and mathematics, and as long as it can be represented as a string of ones and zeros and then analyzed and visualized, you've got his attention! His GitHub handle is http://github.com/chrisdamba and can be found on StackOverflow as http://stackoverflow.com/users/122005/chridam.

Laurence Putra Franslay is a software engineer working in Singapore and runs the Singapore MongoDB user group. In his free time, he hacks away on random stuff and picks up new technologies. His key interests lie in security and distributed systems. For more information, view his profile at http://geeksphere.net/.