Doug Ortiz is an experienced enterprise cloud, big data, data analytics, and solutions architect who has architected, designed, developed, re-engineered, and integrated enterprise solutions. His other expertise includes Amazon Web Services, Azure, Google Cloud platform, business intelligence, Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases, and SharePoint.

He is the founder of Illustris.

Sandipan Dey is a data scientist with a wide range of interests, including topics such as machine learning, deep learning, image processing, and computer vision. He has worked in numerous data science fields, including recommender systems, predictive models for the events industry, sensor localization models, sentiment analysis, and device prognostics. He earned his master's degree in computer science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and has published in a few IEEE data mining conferences and journals.

He has earned certifications from 100+ MOOCs on data science, machine learning, deep learning, image processing, and related courses/specializations. He is a regular blogger on his blog (sandipanweb) and is a machine learning education enthusiast.