With a background at a cloud hosting company, I started learning Linux and DevOps from the bottom up as a technical writer set out to document configuration management systems. Falling in love with Linux, DevOps and tech as a whole, I eventually took my ability to explain technical concepts to wide audiences to the training area, creating courses on Red Hat, SaltStack, HashiCorp, LXD, Docker, and more.
Patrick is a Senior Consultant and IT Instructor since 2012. His technical background lies at VMware's server virtualization solution vSphere. In the last years he mainly focused on automating on-premise and public cloud environments, as well as Kubernetes clusters.
Mario Mercado is a systems engineer working in the software and IT industry for 10 years. He has held roles as a software developer and quality assurance engineer. In the last 7 years, he’s been working with AWS helping multiple companies to achieve their best architectures in the cloud. Currently Mario is focused on containerization of applications and AI in general, and developing large scalable solutions with cost efficiency and security in mind. He is an AWS Community Builder, holds the AWS
... more Solutions Architect Professional and Security Specialty certifications. He's also the author of courses like "Hands-on with Amazon EKS" and "Advanced Terraform with AWS" in Pluralsight. He’s also a musician, so he’s familiar with the “orchestration” term as a whole ;).