Jeremy R. Budnack is a software engineer and consultant from Buffalo, NY. His career includes almost 15 years of experience in software development and systems administration, spanning many diverse technology stacks and programming languages (including C#, Ruby, and Go). He currently works for Stark & Wayne, LLC., specializing in building cloud-based solutions using a variety of technologies including Cloud Foundry, BOSH, OpenStack, and vSphere.

János Fehér has been involved in a wide variety of projects since 1996, including technical support for NATO operations and development of high-performance computing grids, national TV and radio websites, and web applications for universities and adult learning. In recent years, he has been heavily involved in distributed and concurrent software architectures. He is currently the Head of Development for Intern Avenue.

Aleksandar Stefan Sokolovski is a project manager and an ICT research engineer from Skopje, Macedonia. He has a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Computer Science from the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University and a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship from the University of Sheffield, U.K. He has been a member of an organization committee (CITYR'09 / CITYR'11), a participant (CIIT'11), and a presenter (XIX Scientific Conference IT 2014) at multiple international research conferences; he is also a published author of many research papers for international conferences including a published paper in a journal (ETF Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2014). He has worked as a research associate and teaching assistant at the Faculty for Informatics and Computer Science in Skopje, Macedonia. He currently works as a research associate at the Institute for Digital Forensics and as an IT engineer, a research engineer, and a R&D project coordinator at telecommunications and Internet provider Neotel, Skopje from Republic of Macedonia. He is a member of the Executive Committee of IEEE R8, Section in Republic of Macedonia as Professional Activities Officer and is also a member of Project Management Institute (PMI)

Michele Della Torre is a software engineer, programmer, and geek born in Italy in 1982. In love with computers since he was a child, he started studying computer science at high school and obtained his Master's degree in Computer Engineering in 2007 at the Politecnico of Milan university. After university, he continued to learn about software design and architectures, agile methodologies, concurrent systems, and algorithms. He currently works in a home automation company and is occasionally involved in open source projects.