Bahaaldine Azarmi, Baha for short, is a Solutions Architect at Elastic. Prior to this position, Baha co-founded reachfive, a marketing data-platform focused on user behavior and social analytics. Baha also worked for different software vendors such as, Talend or Oracle, where he held the positions of Solutions Architect and Architect. Before Learning Kibana 5.0, Baha authored books such as Scalable Big Data Architecture, by Apress and Talend for Big Data, by Packt Publishing. Baha is based in Paris and has a Master's Degree in computer science from Polytech'Paris.
There are a few people I would like to acknowledge, as this book is not just me writing chapters but the work of many folks from Elastic regrouped into one book:
Alan Hardy, EMEA Director of Solutions Architecture, for his mentoring, support, and for his excellent review
Steve Mayzak, VP of Solutions Architecture, for supporting innovation in the SA team and me writing this book :-)
Christian Dahlqvist, Solution Architect, for providing the Apache web logs demo used in Chapter 4, Logging Analytics with Kibana 5.0
Rich Collier, Steve Dodson, and Sophie Chang, respectively Solutions Architect, Machine Learning Tech, and Team Lead, for helping me to understand the concept of anomaly detection and providing the demo used in Chapter 8, Anomaly Detection in Kibana 5.0
Court Ewing and Spencer Alger, respectively Tech Lead and Javascript Developer, and actually, the whole Kibana team, for answering all my questions!
