About the Reviewers

Troy Dawson is most famous as one of the two original developers of Scientific Linux. His work on Scientific Linux first began during his 18 years at Fermilab. He started out at Fermilab running and operating the Tevatron accelerator, but has shifted to computers for the last 12 years. Troy not only worked as a system administrator, but also helped create the operating systems he administered. He was half of the team that built and maintained Fermi Linux. That same team later created Scientific Linux for labs and universities outside of Fermilab.

In 2011, Troy stepped out of the Scientific Linux spotlight and started working behind the scenes on the OpenShift project. He began work on OpenShift during the first year of its creation. Troy is currently on the OpenShift Online Operations team, but his packaging and debugging work spans the entire project.

Andrea Mostosi is a technology enthusiast. He has been an innovation lover since he was a child. He began his professional career in 2003 and worked on several projects, playing almost every role in the computer science environment. He is currently the CTO of The Fool, a company that tries to make sense of web and social data.

I would like to thank my geek friends: Simone M., Daniele V., Luca T., Luigi P., Michele N., Luca O., Luca B., Diego C., and Fabio B. They are the smartest people I know, and comparing myself to them has always pushed me to do better.

Rahul Sharma is a senior developer with Mettl. He has 9 years of experience in building and designing applications on Java/J2EE platforms. He loves to develop open source projects, and has contributed to a variety of them, such as HDT, Crunch, Provisionr, and so on. He often shares his knowledge at http://devlearnings.wordpress.com/.