Patrick Desjardins has been working as a senior software developer for Netflix since 2017 and also is a senior software developer at Microsoft, working on MSDN, VSTS, and Teams. He was Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in ASP.NET for the years of 2013 and 2014. His area of interest is web development, which he has embraced since the early 2000s.
Patrick is a huge fan of Microsoft technologies, such as .NET, which he has developed with professionally since 2004. By contrast, in 2002 he started to develop many projects in PHP, which provides him multiple perspectives on how the web can be developed.
Patrick owns many open source projects and has written several books recently.
I dedicate this book to my wife, Melodie Savaria, who has been patient during the time I took to write this book and all the other projects I am incubating. I also dedicate this work to my parents, who opened the path to all my realizations, present and future. Finally, I dedicate this book to my daughter, Alicia, who I hope will never give up and always stretch beyond her dreams.
Alejandro Lora Gomez is a software developer residing in Seville, Spain. He is an instructor at Udemy, where he teaches his best-selling courses on Android and Kotlin to over 30,000 students. Alejandro has a keen interest in web development with Angular and TypeScript, and has been working with Angular for several years in multiple contexts (consulting, start-ups, and contracting) and countries (Spain, Ireland, and France), which has added professional value and experience to his career.
Alejandro is also an organizer of the GDG Seville, where he organizes meetups about Angular, TypeScript, and NestJS. He is currently working remotely for a multinational corporation based in USA as an Angular developer.
Thanks to my friends and family for their support and patience during those long working days. Especially to Monica, my girlfriend, who always has a smile for me and for being by my side throughout my career.
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