About the reviewers

Paul Adamson has worked as an Ops engineer, a developer, a DevOps engineer, and everything in between. When not reviewing this book, Paul keeps busy helping companies embrace the AWS infrastructure. His language of choice is PHP, for all the good reasons and even some of the bad, but mainly out of habit. While reviewing this book, Paul has been working for Healthy Performance Ltd, helping to apply cutting-edge technology to a cutting-edge approach to well being.

Mert Cubukcuoglu is a senior information technology leader with more than 12 years experience in implementing and leading enterprise-level, next-generation platform solutions within large data centers and the public cloud. His expertise in delivering mission-critical innovative technology solutions that are aligned with overall strategy and business goals provides him with a competitive advantage in any industry. Currently, Mert is leading compute engineering and automation teams at Intuit, a leader in the small business and personal finance software industry.

Rod Foster is an innovative, pro-active, and performance-driven Solutions Architect with more than 14 years of experience in the Information Technology and Services industry, including 10 years of direct focus on Virtualization. Rod is currently one of the leaders on Intuit's exceptional Cloud and Hypervisor Team, he is directly responsible for the engineering and implementation of Intuit's Cloud (AWS) and VMware vSphere architecture that support its TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mint offerings. When Rod isn't busy innovating, mentoring and providing quality assurance oversight to Intuit's vast portfolio of services, he enjoys fitness, music, and traveling! Special thanks to Earl Waud for allowing me to take part in the creation of this book!

Jitesh Marathe is an IT professional with a Bachelor degree in Computer Application; he has spent most of his career being a System Administrator in various IT companies and specialized in the System and DevOps Role. Jitesh enjoys traveling to new places with his family. Jitesh has reviewed a few other books including Linux Utilities Cookbook, and Mastering Linux Network Administration.

Vishnu Gopal is an engineer with strong product and user-experience skills, with experience in product development, web development, and engineering management. He was part of the initial team that built SlideShare Inc., which then went on to be acquired by LinkedIn. He has been working in the web and mobile development field for over 10 years. He is currently CTO of SV.CO, a product accelerator for students based in India. He lives in Kochi, India.