Debasish Banerjee, Ph.D., is an executive architect who is a seasoned thought leader, hands-on architect, and practitioner of cutting-edge technologies with a proven track record of advising and working with Fortune 500 customers in the USA, Europe, and Asia with various IBM products and strategies. He is presently leading the collaborative development effort with IBM Research for Mono2Micro, an AI-based utility for transforming monoliths to microservices. Application modernization, microservice generation, and deployment are his current areas of interest. Debasish obtained his Ph.D. in combinator-based functional programming languages.

Cole Calistra is an accomplished hands-on technology leader with over 20 years of diverse industry experience that includes leading fast-growing SaaS start-ups, senior architecture roles within Fortune 500 giants, and acting as a technical adviser to a mix of start-ups and established businesses. He is currently CTO at LEON Health Science. Prior to this, he served as a founding team member and CTO of the SaaS-based facial recognition and emotion analysis API provider, Kairos.

His credentials include multiple professional level certifications at both AWS and GCP, and he is currently pursuing an MS in computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Cole is the proud father of two daughters, Abigail and Jill.

Jimmy Song reviewed the section on Linkerd. He is a developer advocate on cloud native and a co-founder of the ServiceMesher community. Jimmy currently works for Ant Financial.

Huabing Zhao reviewed the section on Consul. He has been involved in the information technology industry for almost 20 years, most of it at ZTE, where he works on telecommunication management systems and network function virtualization. Currently, he is a software expert at ZTE, a member of Istio, and a PTL of ONAP.