Raymundo Armendariz is a software developer with over 10 years of experience in building software for Java and .NET platforms, but he is currently devoted to JavaScript.
He is the author of a book based on a JavaScirpt micro-famework.
He has been working for the automotive industry for the most part of his professional life. He has worked for companies such as Autozone, Alldata, TRW, and 1A Auto.
He is the author of Getting Started with Backbone Marionette, Packt Publishing, which can be found at https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/getting-started-backbone-marionette.
Abu Kamruzzaman is a web programmer and database analyst at The City University of New York. For over 10 years, he has developed and maintained web applications for class grading and registration that can be used by colleges and universities. Since November 2014, he has been working as a PeopleSoft development specialist for CUNY's central office. His current project is about building Data Warehouse for CUNY using OBIEE with the Business Intelligence team. Before joining the central office, he worked at various CUNY campuses since 2001. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate IT courses, instructing the very students who depend on his applications. Since 2001, he has been teaching courses on J2EE, DBMS, data warehouse, object-oriented programming, web design, and web programming. He is a faculty member of the Department of Computer Information Systems at Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business. He has a passion for education and a great interest in open source technologies, such as Hadoop, Hive, Pig, NoSQL databases, Java, cloud computing, and mobile app development. He received his master's degree from Brooklyn College/CUNY and his bachelor's degree in computer science from Binghamton University/SUNY. His web address is http://faculty.baruch.cuny.edu/akamruzzaman/.
Jean-Pol Landrain holds a BSc degree in software engineering with an orientation in network and real-time and distributed computing since 1998. He gradually became a software architect with more than 17 years of experience in object-oriented programming, in particular with C++, Java/JEE, various application servers, operating systems (Windows and Linux), and related technologies.
He works for Agile Partner, an IT consulting company based in Luxembourg, which is already dedicated to the promotion, education, and application of agile development methodologies since 2006. Over the last 5 years, he has participated in the selection and the validation of tools and technologies targeting the development teams of the European Parliament.
He also collaborated with Packt Publishing to review HornetQ Messaging Developer's Guide and with Manning Publishing to review Docker in Action, Git in Practice, ActiveMq in Action, and Spring in Action, First Edition.
Wayne Lund is a PaaS and field engineer for Pivotal. He has over 25 years of experience in enterprise software development and distributed environments, majorly specializing in Spring, Enterprise Java, Groovy, and Grails and extending to systems built with Smalltalk and C++, always with an emphasis on custom and emerging technologies. His objective is to continue enjoying the next great generation of technology with PaaS along with the new generations of the Spring portfolio. This includes an expertise in the Cloud Native applications built with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring XD so as to enable Fast Data, Big Data, social, and mobile.
He is currently working for Pivotal with the intersection of Cloud, Data, and Agile. He previously worked for a Fortune 500 health care company and a large global consulting company for many years.
He has also worked on Learning Spring Application Development, Packt Publishing.