# Introductions to the group **URL:** \ **Category:** Welcome\ **Created:** [9 January 2019 14:31 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/introductions-to-the-group/20 "2019-01-09T14:31:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![olly](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/datashield.discourse.group/olly/32/33_2.png) [@olly](https://datashield.discourse.group/u/olly)\ **Post date:** [9 January 2019 14:31 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/introductions-to-the-group/20/1 "2019-01-09T14:31:44Z")
Hi! I’m Olly Butters. I am part of the Newcastle University group under Paul Burton. I am mostly interested in the infrastructural side of DataSHIELD. ---
**Author:** ![becca.wilson](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/datashield.discourse.group/becca.wilson/32/14_2.png) [@becca.wilson](https://datashield.discourse.group/u/becca.wilson)\ **Post date:** [10 January 2019 15:28 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/introductions-to-the-group/20/2 "2019-01-10T15:28:35Z")
Becca Wilson, Newcastle University working in Paul Burton’s group. Interested in expanding DataSHIELD to additional data types such as geospatial and text. Also interested in VR/AR data visualisation. ---
**Author:** ![asm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@asm](https://datashield.discourse.group/u/asm)\ **Post date:** [23 January 2019 13:19 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/introductions-to-the-group/20/3 "2019-01-23T13:19:22Z")
Hello, my name is Andrei and I’m a researcher currently based at INSERM in Paris, France. I have a background in medicine, epidemiology, data analysis and free (open source) software, and I’m very much looking forward to contributing to and being part of this community! ---
**Author:** ![becca.wilson](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/datashield.discourse.group/becca.wilson/32/14_2.png) [@becca.wilson](https://datashield.discourse.group/u/becca.wilson)\ **Post date:** [10 July 2019 14:03 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/introductions-to-the-group/20/4 "2019-07-10T14:03:15Z")
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**Author:** ![vvcb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/50afbb/32.png) [@vvcb](https://datashield.discourse.group/u/vvcb)\ **Post date:** [6 January 2024 07:56 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/introductions-to-the-group/20/5 "2024-01-06T07:56:36Z")
Hi All, I am Vishnu V Chandrabalan ([Vishnu V Chandrabalan - Lancaster University | LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vvcb/)). I am a Consultant Surgeon in the NHS (NW England) with _above average_ technical skills. I am particularly interested in contributing to reproducible, containerised, auto-scaling deployments of DataSHIELD. I am working with @olly on a Kubernetes version of the entire DataSHIELD stack and have several of the components working on Azure Kubernetes Service already. I am also working on a ‘DataSHIELD-in-a-box’ deployment - more on this in the coming months. Look forward to working with the wider community, ---
**Author:** ![swheater](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/datashield.discourse.group/swheater/32/182_2.png) [@swheater](https://datashield.discourse.group/u/swheater)\ **Post date:** [6 January 2024 14:30 UTC](https://datashield.discourse.group/t/introductions-to-the-group/20/6 "2024-01-06T14:30:38Z")
Hi Vishnu, Good to hear from you, I am also interested in containerisation of DataSHIELD, in particular to improve maintainable and easy of deployment. As I am sure you know there are docker compose based deployments of DataSHIELD. I have also been using Kubernetes (podman, minikube, and a bit of openshift) on the DataSHIELD related project. Stuart