Mads Hartmann is a software engineer with a fondness for automation and programming languages, especially statically typed functional ones. He holds a masters degree in computer science from the University of Copenhagen and he is currently working as a full-stack engineer at Family.

He is active in the Copenhagen developer scene and he has organized a meetup group for people interested in Scala and co-organized a meetup group for people generally interested in programming languages.

Ruslan Shevchenko is a system architect and a software developer who is focused on building reliable software systems. He specializes in programming languages and frameworks such as Scala, Java (J2SE, J2EE, Android), O/R Mapping, C++ , C, JavaScript, Perl, Tcl, and TermWare.

The domains he specializes in are telecommunications, OSS/billing systems, finance, code analysis, social integration, system utilities architecture domains, large-scale software systems, and distributed processing.

In terms of architecture, his specialist domains are large-scale software systems and distributed processing.