About the Authors

Omar Khedher is a systems and network engineer who has worked for a few years in cloud computing environment and has been involved in several private cloud projects based on OpenStack. He has also worked on projects targeting public cloud AWS.

Leveraging his skills as a system administrator in virtualization, storage, and networking, Omar works as a cloud system engineer for a leading advertising technology company, Fyber, based in Berlin. He is part of a highly skilled team working on several projects which include building and migrating infrastructure to the cloud using latest open source tools and DevOps philosophy.

He is also the author of the first edition of Mastering OpenStack and OpenStack Sahara Essentials, Packt Publishing. He has also authored a few academic publications based on a new research for cloud performance improvement.

Chandan Dutta Chowdhury is a tech lead at Juniper Networks Pvt. Ltd, working on OpenStack Neutron plugins. He has over 11 years of experience in the deployment of Linux-based solutions. In the past, he has been involved in developing Linux-based clustering and deployment solutions. He has contributed to setting up and maintaining a private cloud solution in Juniper Networks.

He was a speaker at the OpenStack Tokyo summit, where he presented the idea of adding firewall logs and other Neutron enhancements. He is speaker at the Austin summit where he talks about making enhancements to the Nova scheduler. He loves to explore technology and he blogs at https://chandanduttachowdhury.wordpress.com.