Ahmed Azraq is a Cloud Solutions Leader in IBM. He works as part of IBM Cloud Solutioning Center, and his primary responsibility is to help clients across Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Asia Pacific to realize their journey towards adopting IBM Cloud and IBM Watson. Since joining IBM in 2012, Ahmed worked as a technical team leader and architect. He has successfully led and won several IBM Cloud Private deals as a pre-sales architect in the region, and eagerly participated in Academy of Technology studies related to IBM Cloud Private. Ahmed has acquired several professional certifications, including Open Group IT Specialist, and contributed to developing and authoring six professional IBM Cloud Certification Exams. Ahmed has also delivered training on IBM Cloud, DevOps, hybrid cloud Integration, Node.js, and Watson APIs to IBM clients, IBM Business Partners, university students, and professors around the world. He is the recipient of several awards, including Eminence and Excellence Award in the IBM Watson worldwide competition Cognitive Build, the IBM Service Excellence Award for showing excellent client value behaviors, and knowledge-sharing award. Ahmed is a platinum IBM Redbooks author and has authored several other IBM Redbooks publications.

Wlodek Dymaczewski is a Cloud Solution Architect in IBM Poland. He has over 25 years of experience in IT in the field of systems and network management. He was part of IBM Cloud unit since the beginning, focusing on hybrid cloud management and devops solutions. Since 2017, he works as IBM Cloud Private Technical Lead for Central and Eastern Europe. Wlodek holds MSc degree from Pozna· University of Technology and MBA degree from Warwick Business School.

Fernando Ewald holds a Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and a Masters Degree in Computer Networking. Currently he works as the IBM Cloud Private Technical Team Lead - L2 Support in IBM Austin. He has over 20 years of experience in IT solutions. Fernando joined IBM Brazil in 2009 and there he was a member of the Innovation and Technical Leadership Team. In 2016, Fernando relocated to Austin, TX to work at the Hybrid Cloud division with DevOps tools and in 2018 he become the Technical Team Lead for IBM Cloud Private Support L2 team. Before joining IBM, Fernando worked with a Sugar and Alcohol Company, creating high availability solutions for the industry and headquarters. He also has worked as a Teacher at Universidade de Franca - Brazil, where he taught at the Computer Science and System of Information Bachelor courses.

Luca Floris is a Cloud Technical Consultant in IBM EMEA. Luca joined IBM 4 years ago as a graduate through the IBM Graduate Scheme and he has 8 years of experience in IT, graduating from Plymouth University with a degree in Computer Science. His primary focus is containerization and application modernization through IBM Cloud Private and related technologies. He is well recognized as a technical focal point for IBM Cloud Private from IBM Cloud Innovation Labs in EMEA, and has written extensively about IBM Cloud Private on Kubernetes.

Rahul Gupta is a Cloud Native Solutions Architect in IBM Cloud Solutioning Centre in USA. Rahul is a IBM Certified Cloud Architect with 14 years of professional experience in IBM Cloud technologies, such as Internet of Things, Blockchain, and Container Orchestration Platforms. Rahul has been a technical speaker in various conferences worldwide. Rahul has authored several IBM Redbooks publications about messaging, mobile, and cloud computing. Rahul is a IBM Master Inventor and also works on MQTT protocol in OASIS board for open source specifications.

Vasfi Gucer is an IBM Redbooks Project Leader with the IBM International Technical Support Organization. He has more than 23 years of experience in the areas of cloud computing, systems management, networking hardware, and software. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide about IBM products. His focus has been on cloud computing for the last three years. Vasfi is also an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist, Project Management Professional (PMP), IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) V2 Manager, and ITIL V3 Expert.

Anil Patil is a senior Solution Architect at IBM US. He is a Certified Cloud Solution Architect and Solution Advisor - DevOps with more than 18 years of IT experience in Cognitive Solutions, IBM Cloud, Microservices, IBM Watson API, and Cloud-Native Applications. His core experience is in Microservices, AWS, Cloud Integration, API Development, and Solution Architecture. He is currently a Lead Solution Architect and Cloud Architect for various clients in North America. Anil has been a Redbooks author and technical contributor for various IBM material and blogs, such as Cognitive Solution, IBM Cloud, API Connect, and Docker Container.

Sanjay Singh is a senior Software Engineer. He has worked on various cloud products over 11 years of his career with IBM. As a technical consultant and Lab Advocate he has been engaged with customers in making their Cloud Adoption and implementation successful. He has lead adoption of IBM Cloud Private in one of the largest Telecom providers in India over eight months of engagement. His core experience is in Kubernetes, Openstack, AWS, Node.JS, JavaScript, Python, and Scripting. He holds a Btech degree in Computer Science from NIT Trichy (India).

Sundaragopal Venkatraman (Sundar) is a cloud evangelist and a Thought Leader on application infrastructure, application modernization, performance, scalability, and high availability of enterprise solutions. With experience spanning over two decades, he has been recognized as a trusted advisor to various MNC Banks & other IBM clients in India/Asia-Pacific. He has been recognized as a technical focal point for IBM Cloud Private from IBM Cloud Innovation Labs in India. He has delivered deep dive sessions on IBM Cloud Private on International forums and conducts boot camps worldwide. He pioneered the IBM Proactive Monitoring toolkit, a lightweight Monitoring solution which was highlighted on IBM showcase events. He has authored various IBM Redbooks publications and Redpapers, and is a recognized author. He thanks his wife and his family for supporting him in all his endeavors.

Dominique Vernier is a Senior Software Developer in IBM US. He holds a degree in Computer Science from the Université libre de Bruxelles. Over his 30 years of IT experience he covered different technologies including system integration, service-oriented architecture, and Cloud public and private as a developer, IT architect, analyst, and technical sales with worldwide positions. He has a broad knowledge of IT environments, working in banking, supply chain management, telecommunications, and other IT Sectors. He has written several articles on developer Works, IBM Social media platform, and his own blog. During his carrier, he applied for a number of patents. His current expertise is on the private cloud, where he automates the installation of Cloud Foundry on IBM Cloud Private.

Zhi Min Wen is a senior managing consultant at IBM Singapore. He has 20+ years of experience in IT industry specialised in IT service management and cloud. He is passionate about open source solutions, and he enjoys exploring the new edge of technology. He was an early explorer of Docker and Kubernetes, and he has written extensively on IBM Cloud Private and Kubernetes. He attained IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards 2018.