Ravindra Bharathi has worked in the software industry for over a decade in various domains such as education, Digital Media Marketing/Advertising, Enterprise Search, and Energy Management Systems. He has a keen interest in search-based applications that involve data visualization, mashups, and dashboards. He blogs at http://ravindrabharathi.blogspot.com.
Surendra Mohan is currently serving as a Drupal Consultant cum Drupal Architect at a well-known Software Consulting Ltd. organization in India. Prior to joining this organization, he served a few Indian MNCs and a couple of startups in varied roles such as Programmer, Technical Lead, Project Lead, Project Manager, Solution Architect, and Service Delivery Manager. He has around nine years of work experience in web technologies covering media and entertainment, real estate, travel and tours, publishing, e-learning, enterprise architecture, and so on. He is also a well-known speaker who delivers talks on Drupal, Open Source, PHP, Moodle, and so on, along with organizing and delivering TechTalks in Drupal meetups and Drupal Camps in Mumbai, India.
He also reviewed other technical books such as Drupal 7 Multi Site Configuration, by Matt Butcher, Drupal Search Engine Optimization, by Ric Shreves, Building e-commerce Sites with Drupal Commerce Cookbook, by Richard Carter. In addition to technical reviewing activities, he is also writing a book on Apache Solr which is scheduled to be published by the end of October, 2013.
Marcelo Ochoa works at the System Laboratory of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas of the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires and is the CTO at Scotas.com, a company specialized in Near Real Time Search solutions using Apache Solr and Oracle. He divides his time between University jobs and external projects related to Oracle and big data technologies. He has worked in several Oracle-related projects such as translation of Oracle manuals and multimedia CBTs. His background is in database, network, web, and Java technologies. In the XML world he is known as the developer of DB Generator for the Apache Cocoon project, the open source projects DBPrism and DBPrism CMS, the Lucene-Oracle integration by using Oracle JVM Directory implementation and in the Restlet.org project the Oracle XDB Restlet Adapter, an alternative to write native REST web services inside the database-resident JVM.
Since 2006, he is a part of the Oracle ACE program; Oracle ACEs are known for their strong credentials as Oracle community enthusiasts and advocates, with candidates nominated by ACEs in the Oracle Technology and Applications communities.
He is the author of Chapter 17, 360-Degree Programming the Oracle Database of the book, Oracle Database Programming Using Java and Web Services, by Kuassi Mensah, at Digital Press and Chapter 21, DB Prism: A Framework to Generate Dynamic XML from a Database of the book Professional XML Databases, by Kevin Williams, at Wrox Press.