Subhash Shah works as a head of technology at AIMDek Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He is an experienced solutions architect with over 12 years of experience. He holds a degree in information technology from a reputable university. He is an advocate of open source development and its use in solving critical business problems at a reduced cost. His interests include microservices, data analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and databases. He is an admirer of quality code and TDD. His technical skills include translating business requirements into scalable architecture, designing sustainable solutions, and project delivery. He is a co-author of MySQL 8 Administrator's Guide and Hands-on High Performance with Spring 5.

Doug Ortiz is an experienced enterprise cloud, big data, data analytics, and solutions architect who has architected, designed, developed, re-engineered, and integrated enterprise solutions. His other expertise includes Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, business intelligence, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases, and SharePoint. He is the founder of Illustris.