Aaron Torres received his master's of science degree in computer science from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He has worked on distributed systems in high-performance computing and in large-scale web and microservices applications.

Aaron has published a number of papers and has several patents in the areas of storage and I/O. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and ideas with others. He is also a fan of the Go language and open source for backend systems and development.

Vishal Rana is the creator of the Echo web framework and many other popular open source projects. Currently, he is working as a staff engineer for PayPal, where he is involved in building distributed and scalable systems to process millions of events per day using Go, REST, Java, Docker, microservices, Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Elasticsearch, and other open source technologies.