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Akshat Paul is the author of three books on the topics like RubyMotion, ReactNative and a technologist based out of India with more than 10 years of experience in web and mobile development using Ruby, RoR, React Native, React, Node.js. In other avatars, Akshat frequently speaks at conferences and meetups on various technologies. He has given talks at React Native EU, Devops@scale Amsterdam, TheDevTheory India, RubyConf India, #Inspect conference Brussels and was the keynote speaker at technology leadership events in Bangkok and KL. Besides writing code, Akshat spends time with his family, is an avid reader, and is obsessed with healthy eating. Peter Philips has been a Ruby on Rails developer since 2006. Since then he has evolved into a systems architect, CTO, and entrepreneur co-founding a silicon valley design agency called PlanetIO and the enterprise employee recognition platform, RecognizeApp. His specialty is systems architecture and clean, scalable design patterns for the enterprise. Peter is passionate about using technology to help the world and has also founded the organization, TechForProgress, to report on how technology can be used to this end. Peter is an avid rock climber and also an amateur electronics engineer prototyping all kinds of projects from led origami flowers to wireless speakers. Dániel Szabó is a 28-year-old IT geek. He is currently working as a DevOps Engineer for an American company in Hungary. His main profile is automation and custom solutions based on different languages covering Windows and Linux. His favorite language is Python, but he is also fluent in Ruby, PowerShell, and C#. He loves learning, teaching, and sharing his knowledge with other people. In his free time, he is a YouTuber and a ferret owner. Cheyne Wallace is a full stack developer with over a decade of industry experience. He is currently working with Ruby, Rails, GoLang, JavaScript, AngularJS, D3JS, SASS, AWS EC2/RDS, Heroku, Ubuntu, Postgres, API design and cloud service architecture. Previously a Microsoft developer working with C#, PowerShell, SSIS and ASP MVC for the enterprise world, he worked in the financial services and banking sectors around Sydney and London for many years until eventually jumping ship and joining a startup in 2012. He is the creator of the encrypted note application NoteShred, the photography analytics web app The Lightroom Dashboard, and has been written about in VentureBeat and The Next Web.