About the Reviewers
Amit Agarwal is a senior software engineer working with Great Software Laboratory (GS Lab), Pune, in its Cloud and infrastructure practice.
He is a VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization, VMware Certified Associate – Data Center Virtualization, and a VMware Certified Associate – Cloud. He is also a frequent contributor to the VMware Technology Network (VMTN).
He has more than three years' experience working with PowerShell and VMware vSphere PowerCLI for building test automation frameworks and scripts, contributing to quality assurance for complex virtualization and network security products.
GS Lab is a product development partner for software product companies with customers that include world-leading technology vendors, as well as start-ups. Our customer engagements span the entire product journey right from prototyping, to development, support, DevOps, and professional services.
Jason Gaudreau has over 24 years of industry experience. He is currently working as a senior product marketing engineer at VMware, a leading information technology provider of enterprise application solutions.
He focuses on virtualization solutions and aligning infrastructure technologies to meet strategic business objectives. He has been concentrating on data center virtualization, desktop virtualization, and building internal private clouds in a variety of technical roles the past 10 years and more. He has been an active blogger on virtualization since 2012 at www.jasongaudreau.com and can be found on Twitter at @JAGaudreau. He is honored to have been designated as a vExpert by VMware in 2013-2015 and an EMC Elect in 2014.
Before VMware, he was an IT architect for AdvizeX Technologies and in IT leadership at Unum Group, where he helped to develop the organization's IT strategy.
When not talking shop, he enjoys spending time with his wife, Christine, and his two kids, Dylan and Tyler.
Kyle Ruddy is a senior technical consultant. He has over 10 years of experience in the IT field. He has obtained multiple certifications, including VCAP-DCD and DCA, held the VCP since Version 3, GCWN (GIAC Certified Windows Security Administrator), and MCITP: SA, MCSE, among others. He has also been a VMware vExpert since 2012, a Cisco Champion since 2014, and a leader for the Indy VMUG since 2011.
You can contact him on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/kmruddy, Twitter at @kmruddy, or through his blog at www.thatcouldbeaproblem.com.
Brian Wuchner is a deputy IT director of a government agency. He has over 15 years of industry experience in infrastructure automation, directory services, server hosting, storage, and data center virtualization. He holds the EMC proven professional cloud architect and VMware VCP5-DCV certifications. He was awarded the VMware vExpert title from VMware in 2011-2015. He can be contacted on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/bwuch, Twitter at @bwuch, or through his blog at http://enterpriseadmins.org.