About the Reviewers

Cyrille Le Clerc is a senior software engineer at CloudBees with more than 12 years of experience in Java technologies. He came to CloudBees from Xebia, where he was CTO and Architect. He was an early adopter of the "You Build It, You Run It" model that he had put in place for a number of high volume websites. He naturally embraced the DevOps culture as well as Cloud computing which he implements for his customers. Cyrille is very active in the Java community, as the creator of the open source project embedded-jmxtrans, and as a speaker at various conferences.

Saeed Afzal, also known as Smac Afzal, is a young software engineer with more than six years of solid hands-on experience, specializing in solution architect and implementing scalable high performance applications.

He joined the IT field and started his career at a very early age. He is purely self-trained, and has moved forward with an entrepreneur spirit in different technologies in timely manners.

More detailed information about his skills and experience can be found at http://sirsmac.com. He can be contacted at <sirsmac@gmail.com>.

Rémi Goyard started his career in 1998. Initially, he worked as a network technician (MCSE), then as a network consultant, he started his own Web agency (programming in PHP, HTML, JavaScript, and Hosting websites) in 2004. Today, he is a web architect at Sqli (Bordeaux), a French IT services company.

Rémi is passionate about Internet technologies, and keeps reading and learning to improve his skills. He likes teaching others (developers, marketers, project managers, and so on) to share his passion and help people to understand the Internet ecosystem better.

Being involved in the local developer communities such as Java User Groups, PHP User Groups, or JavaScript User Groups, Rémi likes to share his experiences, news, or business with others.

Rémi is also a blogger who writes about his tests and gives feedback on new web solutions.

Michael Neale has been developing software that goes in boxes and now to the Cloud for the past 20 years. He is a long-time contributor to various open source projects. He became a fan of PaaS Clouds from the minute he first heard about them.

In 2010, Michael along with others helped to start CloudBees. He didn't set out to build this, but only to use it! Since then, he has seen things grow in popularity as PaaS Clouds matured.

Prior to CloudBees, he worked at Red Hat on the Drools rule engine project and the Deltacloud API project.