About the Reviewers

Ravi Bhure is basically an IT engineer with niche skills, such as Chef, Cloud Ansible, SaltStack, Python, Ruby, and Shell/Bash. He also writes code for infrastructure, daily IT operations, and so on. In short, he is fond of using his skills and knowledge of fault-tolerant solutions for the day-to-day maintenance of mission-critical production infrastructure.

Ravi started interacting with computers since 1996 when he got his first computer at home. Things changed very fast, and in 1998, he entered the magical world of the Internet ? for the first time ever, which changed his life! He started his own cyber cafe in 1999. In 2004, he got his first job as a field engineer, hired to maintain and support VRI UFO systems. After 2 years, he moved to Pune and worked with many organizations, such as Vyom Labs, Glam India, Symphony, and Dhingana.

The most happening and interesting fact about his diverse exposure is that he is from an arts background. Yes, he holds a bachelor's degree in arts from SRTM University, Nanded, Maharashtra, India. And we all will have to agree that he has the art to solve problems ?, a great inspiration for people who are non engineers!

Currently, Ravi is associated with OpexSoftware as a senior DevOps engineer.

Nicholas Pier is a network engineer in the managed services / professional services field. His experience includes designing data center network infrastructures with virtualization and SAN solutions, web development, and writing middleware for business applications. At the time of writing this, Nicholas holds a number of industry certifications, including the Cisco CCNP, VMware VCP5-DCV, and various other Cisco and CompTIA certifications. In his free time, he indulges in his passion for craft beer, distance running, and reading.

Nicola Volpini has been playing with technology from a young age, having a hard time resisting the urge to disassemble complex toys or kitchen appliances.

The love for computers originated around his tenth birthday, when he accidentally toasted his first CPU. This episode only increased his fascination for computers, and the accidents, fortunately, stopped.

For the past 10 years, he's been working as an IT professional, specializing in enterprise networking and system administration. Experimenting with the most diverse technologies in the field and being an avid fan of the FOSS philosophy, Linux, and *BSD, he dreams of seeing the collaborative thinking of the FOSS movement help inspire the world.

He's currently working at Stockholm, Sweden, where he resides with his girlfriend.