Zihong Chen earned his master's and bachelor's degrees in computer science from Xiamen University in 2014 and 2011, respectively. He worked as a software engineer intern at Intel, Taobao, Longtop, and China Mobile Limited. In 2013, he worked for Intel, where he was involved in the development of iLab-Openstack and Ceph benchmark projects. His research interests lie in distributed storage, hand gesture recognition, Android software development, and data mining.
Sébastien Han is a 26-year-old French open source DevOps from Marseille, France. His involvement in the universe of open source software started while doing his bachelors, during which he had his very first taste of open source platforms. For Sébastien, this was a true revelation that radically changed his career prospects. This passion was fostered during his studies at SUPINFO, eventually leading to a position as a professor for first-, second-, and third-year students. Additionally, this led to him taking full responsibility for SUPINFO's Linux laboratory. He has gained a knack for organizing, has valuable communicational skills, and has learned how to formulate proposals to his fellow members and manage the site.
In order to complete his degree, he had to do a final year internship for a duration of 6 months. He moved to Utrecht, the Netherlands, and worked for Stone-IT (a Smile company). The purpose of the internship was to design and build their Cloud 2.0 infrastructure. Sébastien's principal focus was on two open source technologies called OpenStack and Ceph. He had to investigate the robustness, stability, scalability, and high availability of OpenStack. Finally, he migrated the entire current cloud to an OpenStack platform. The entire project was documented as an integral part of his master's thesis.
Sébastien is currently working for Smile Netherlands in Utrecht's office of eNovance Paris (a Red Hat company) as a cloud architect. His job is mainly focused on designing and architecting OpenStack and Ceph. However, he rotates between several positions, where he helps on consulting, presale, and coding. As part of a community engagement, he has been leading the effort on Ceph integration into OpenStack during each OpenStack Summit, along with Josh Durgin. He tries to do his best to evangelize Ceph and its integration in OpenStack. He devotes a third of his time to research and development around open cloud platform and open storage.
Apart from this, he writes several articles about Linux services, majorly focusing on performance, high availability, open source cloud (OpenStack), and open source storage (Ceph). Take a look at his blog at http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/. Enjoy!
Julien Recurt is an engineer who has worked in multiple roles, depending on the occasion. He started with working for SUPINFO (his school) to enhance a complex and multisite infrastructure and reduce global costs. He really started to work with Ceph at Cloud-Solution, a French start-up, to provide low cost, scalable storage. Currently, he is working at Waycom, an Internet and web services provider.
Don Talton has made a career out of solving difficult IT challenges for over 20 years. A committed engineer and entrepreneur, Don is dedicated to working with bleeding-edge technology. He has contributed significantly to the Ceph and OpenStack communities, and is the author of Kraken, the first free Ceph dashboard with feature parity to Calamari.
Don is the owner of Merrymack, Inc., a company that specializes in training for cutting-edge open source software such as Ceph, OpenStack, and Docker. Over the span of his career, he has worked as a consultant for Wells Fargo, PayPal, and Cisco Systems.