About the Reviewers

Pedro Algarvio was a Sound Technician until May 2015. He likes to keep himself busy. Therefore, Pedro set out to make computers work for him. In his endeavor to deepen his knowledge of computers, he started with shell scripting and then moved on to learn Perl, and finally settled with Python. Pedro was involved with several open source projects. However, he credits Salt for giving him the opportunity to learn the most. He joined SaltStack in May 2015 and dedicated his time to improve the Salt software.

Darrel Clute is an IT infrastructure architect. Throughout his career, he has predominately focused on network engineering. Darrel has also spent an equal amount of time focusing on systems engineering, primarily with Unix-based systems. Apart from his job, he is also an advocate of the open source software. This is used in enterprise as well as for individuals. Darrel will never advocate the use of open source purely for the sake of it.

Outside his core competencies, he also has extensive experience with proprietary and open source virtualization platforms. His knowledge and experience with IaaS solutions—such as OpenStack—is constantly increasing as well. Additionally, with his systems engineering experience, Darrel has been exposed to and has supported various web and enterprise applications. His most recent exposure has been to PaaS solutions. This has led him to advocate that a public or private cloud offering is not complete without coupling IaaS and PaaS solutions designed and deployed in lockstep.

Beyond his core infrastructure, Darrel has recently been developing programing skills to augment his daily activities. Throughout his career, he has utilized various languages and utilities to automate infrastructure. Some of Darrel's programming has been with the use of Bash, net-snmp, sed, awk, and holistically Python.

JiWei Liu graduated in 2011. He is employed as a cloud computing and operation and maintenance engineer at Gamewave Group Limited (PRC), China's largest web game provider. It is also the leader of the Chinese web game industry and the professional provider of interactive entertainment services.

Hoàng ?ình Quan is a junior system administrator and network infrastructure engineer. He has extensive experience in designing, deploying, hardening, and maintaining Linux systems and the network infrastructure for small-and medium-sized companies.

Peng Yao is an operations engineer with more than 8 years of experience in infrastructure automation, data visualization, and cloud computing. He is the founder and coordinator of the China SaltStack user group.