Sunil Gulabani is a technical geek in software development based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. He graduated in commerce from S. M. Patel Institute of Commerce (SMPIC) and has a master's degree in computer applications from Ahmedabad Education Society Institute of Computer Studies (AESICS). He had been a top ranker while pursuing his master's degree.
He has also presented a paper Effective Label Matching For Automated Evaluation of Use -- Case Diagrams on Technology For Education (T4E)—IIIT Hyderabad, an IEEE conference, along with senior lecturers, Vinay Vachharajani and Dr. Jyoti Pareek.
Since 2011, he has been working as a software engineer and is cloud technology savvy. He has experience in developing enterprise solutions using Java (EE), Apache Solr, RESTful Web Services, GWT, Smart GWT, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Redis, Memcache, MongoDB, and others. He has a keen interest in system architecture and integration, data modeling, relational databases, and mapping with NoSQL for high throughput.
He is the author of Developing RESTful Web Services with Jersey 2.0, Packt Publishing, that looks at JAX-RS 2.0, which is an enhanced framework based on the RESTful architecture. He also reviewed the book RESTful Web Services with Dropwizard, Packt Publishing.
He also takes interest in writing tech blogs and is actively involved in knowledge-sharing communities such as JUG-Ahmedabad, GDG Ahmedabad, and Ahmedabad University.
You can visit him online at http://www.sunilgulabani.com and follow him on Twitter at @sunil_gulabani.He can be reached directly at <[email protected]>.
Stefan Matheis is a freelance backend engineer, currently living in Zurich, Switzerland. He likes to work on projects around API development, natural language processing, graph databases, and infrastructure management. Lately, he got involved in payment and logistics projects. Stefan is an Apache Lucene/Solr committer since 2012 as well as a member of the project management committee. His main contribution was the new Admin UI, which is shipped with all Solr releases since 4.0.
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 on 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 the DB Generator for the Apache Cocoon project, the open source projects DBPrism and DBPrism CMS, the Lucene-Oracle integration using Oracle JVM Directory implementation, and in the Restlet.org project, the Oracle XDB Restlet Adapter (an alternative to writing native REST web services inside the database-resident JVM).
Since 2006, he has been 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, Kuassi Mensah, Elsevier Digital Press, and Chapter 21, DB Prism: A Framework to Generate Dynamic XML from a Database, of the book, Professional XML Databases, Kevin Williams, Wrox Press.
Walt Stoneburner is a software architect with over 25 years of commercial application development and consulting experience. Fringe passions involve quality assurance, configuration management, and security. If cornered, he might actually admit to liking statistics and authoring documentation as well.
He is easily amused by programming language design, collaborative applications, Big Data, knowledge management, data visualization, and ASCII art. Self-described as a closet geek, Walt also evaluates software products and consumer electronics, draws comics, runs a freelance photography studio specializing in portraits and art (CharismaticMoments.com), writes humor pieces, performs sleights of hand, enjoys game design, and can occasionally be found on ham radio.
Walt can be reached directly via email at <[email protected]> or <[email protected]>. He publishes a tech and humor blog called the Walt-O-Matic at http://www.wwco.com/~wls/blog/.
His other book reviews and contributions include:
AntiPatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management, John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 978-0-471-32929-9, p. xi)
Exploiting Software: How to Break Code, Addison-Wesley Professional (ISBN 978-0-201-78695-8, p. xxxiii)
Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects, Packt Publishing (ISBN 978-1-847193-93-3)
Building Dynamic Web 2.0 Websites with Ruby on Rails, Packt Publishing (ISBN 978-1-847193-41-4)
Instant Sinatra Starter, Packt Publishing (ISBN 978-1782168218)
C++ Multithreading Cookbook, Packt Publishing (978-1-78328-979-0)
Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python, Packt Publishing (978-1-78398-350-6)
Whittier (ASIN B00GTD1RBS)
Cooter Brown's South Mouth Book of Hillbilly Wisdom, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (ISBN 978-1-482340-99-0)
Ning Sun is a software engineer currently working for a China-based start-up, LeanCloud, providing one-stop Backend as a Service (BaaS) for mobile apps. Being a startup engineer, he solves various kinds of problems and plays different kinds of roles. However, he has always been an enthusiast for open source technology. He contributes to several open source projects and has also learned a lot from them.
Ning worked on Delicious.com in 2013, which is known as one of the most important websites in early Web 2.0 EAR. The search for Delicious is fully powered by a Solr cluster, and it might be one of the largest deployments for Solr.
You can always find Ning on Github.com/sunng87 and Twitter.com/Sunng.