About the Reviewer

Álvaro Soto is a cloud and open source enthusiast. He was born in Chile, but he has been living in Mexico for more than 10 years now. He is an active member of OpenStack and Ceph communities in Mexico. He holds an engineering degree in computer science from Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN México) and he is on his way to getting a master's degree in computer science at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

Álvaro currently works as a Ceph consultant at Sentinel.la doing architecting, implementing, and performance tuning on Ceph clusters, data migration, and new ways to adopt Ceph solutions.

He enjoys his time reading about distributing systems, automation, Linux, security-related papers and books.
You can always contact him by email alsotoes@gmail.com, on IRC using the nickname khyr0n, or on Twitter @alsotoes.

I would like to thank Haidee, my partner in life, and Nico for his affect and pleasant company while reviewing this book.

To the guys at Sentinel.la, their advices and work for OpenStack and Ceph communities.