Gareth Coffey is an automation consultant for Cachesure, based in London, developing bespoke solutions to enable companies to migrate services to public and private cloud platforms. Gareth has been working with Unix/Linux-based systems for over 15 years. During that time, he has worked with a multitude of different programming languages, including C, PHP, Node.js, and various automation and orchestration tool sets. As well as consulting, Gareth runs his own start-up – Progressive Ops, developing cloud-based services aimed at helping start-up companies deploy resources across multiple cloud providers, with a focus on security.

Iain Grant is a senior engineer with over 20 years' experience as an IT professional, in both small and enterprise companies, where he has held a wide variety of positions, including trainer, programmer, firmware engineer, and system administrator. During this time, he has worked on multiple operating systems, ranging from OpenVMS, through Windows, to Linux, where he has also contributed to the Alpha Linux kernel. He currently works in an enterprise environment looking after over 300 Linux servers, with responsibility for their automation and management.