Carlos Hulot has been working in the IT area for more than 20 years in different capabilities, from software development, project management to IT marketing product development and management. Carlos has worked for multinational companies like Royal Philips Electronics, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Microsoft. Currently, Carlos is working as an independent IT consultant. Carlos is a Computer Science lecturer at two Brazilian universities. Carlos holds a Ph.D in Computer Science and Electronics from the University of Southampton, UK, and a B.Sc. in Physics from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

Ahmed Ilyas has a bachelor's degree in engineering from Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has majored in software development. He has 15 years of professional experience in software development.

After leaving Microsoft, he ventured into setting up his consultancy company offering the best possible solutions for a magnitude of industries and providing real-world answers to problems. They only use the Microsoft stack to build these technologies, to be able to bring in best practice, patterns, and software to their client base. Thus, enabling long term stability and compliance in the ever changing software industry and also improving software developers around the globe—pushing the limits in technology as well as develop themselves to become better.

This went on to being awarded the MVP in C# three times by Microsoft for providing excellence and independent real-world solutions to problems that developers face.

With the breadth and depth of knowledge he as obtained not only from his research but also with the valuable wealth of information and research at Microsoft, the motivation and inspirations come from this, with 90 percent of the world using at least one form of Microsoft technology.

Ahmed Ilyas has worked for a number of clients and employers. With the great reputation that he has, this has resulted in having a large client base for his consultancy company, Sandler Ltd (UK) which includes clients from different industries from, media to medical and beyond. Some clients have included him on their "approved contractors/consultants" list, which include ICS Solution Ltd and he has been placed on their "DreamTeam" portal and also CODE Consulting/EPS Software (www.codemag.com, based in the US).

Ahmed Ilyas has also been involved, in the past, in reviewing books for Packt Publishing and wishes to thank them for the opportunity once again.

Sergiy Suchok graduated in 2004 with honors from the Faculty of Cybernetics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), and has since then been keen on information technology. He currently works in the banking area and has a PhD in Economics. Sergiy is the coauthor of more than 45 articles and has participated in more than 20 scientific and practical conferences devoted to economic and mathematical modeling. He is a member of the New Atlantis Youth Public Organization (newatlantida.org.ua) and devotes his leisure time to environmental protection issues, historical, and patriotic development and popularization of a grateful attitude towards the Earth. He also writes poetry and short stories and makes macramé.

Ken Tucker is a web developer for Sea World, and has been a Microsoft MVP since October 2003. In his spare time he enjoys writing Windows Phone and Windows Store apps.