About the Reviewers

Mostafa A. Hamid is a CISSP (2013), CEH v8, MCSD, IBM RUP Architect, and MCP (SUNY Potsdam USA).

He is also certified in PHP, JavaScript, Backbone, Java, Spring, Node.js, and XML web services (SUNY Potsdam, USA).

He has a bachelor's degree in management information systems (Modern Academy for Computer Science and Management Technology).

He is also certified in Java (The American University in Cairo).

He has been a technical support at Hilton, a technical support at United Systems, an IT manager at Media Plans, an ICT and IT teacher and software engineer at MOIS, a software engineer at Wasaq, and a computer programmer at Advanced Security Systems.

He is the technical reviewer of OpenStack Essentials and Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron), both by Packt Publishing, and the author of OOP in PHP and MVC and Linux for System Administrators and DevOps at BookBoon.com.

Maksym Lobur is an enthusiastic OpenStack hacker. He has worked with the technology since 2013, starting with Grizzly. He has been involved in almost all key OpenStack components such as Nova, Glance, Neutron, and Heat, and was a member of the Ironic core team during the Icehouse cycle.

Currently, he adopts OpenStack for massive telecom companies, on behalf of a private company. They are one of the top-five contributors to OpenStack worldwide.