Hrishikesh Choudhari has been developing single-page rich applications using a host of client-side technologies. He has a special preference for JSON-emitting servers and popular interfaces on the frontend. He has worked on the backend for innovative social networks.
He is a professional data visualization expert, and he builds his own visualization microlibraries for SVG. He has also contributed to FusionCharts Beginner's Guide, Packt Publishing. He helped design dashboards for clients ranging from Fortune 10 companies to start-ups.
He works on his skills to be a full stack web architect. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in B.S. in Software Engineering from Champlain College, USA.
In his free time, he speed-reads, cooks, and goes for long walks. You can follow him on Twitter at @hchoudhari or on LinkedIn at https://linkedin.com/in/hrishikeshchoudhari. His website is http://hrishikeshchoudhari.com/.
Chris Leonello has been programming for over 30 years. He began web programming in 1996, developing websites and remote data monitoring systems in HTML and Java. He has experience with programming languages from Awk to XSLT, but prefers to work in Python and JavaScript. He is also well-versed in database design and administration.
Chris works as an engineer, developing and running computer simulations. He also creates systems to store, mine, and visualize data. He became active in the open source community in 2009, when, needing a browser-based chart that allowed client-side data manipulation with automatically updating trend lines, he created jqPlot.
Although this is the first book he has been invited to review, he enjoys helping people learn. In the past, he has taught courses on HTML, networking, and Internet standards. When not working, he enjoys making his kids laugh, running, bicycling, and watching movies.
Alex Libby works in IT support. He has been involved in supporting end users for the last 15 years in a variety of different environments. He currently works as a technical analyst, supporting a medium-sized SharePoint estate for a global parts distributor based in the U.K. Although he gets to play with different technologies in his day job, his first true love has always been with the open source movement, and in particular, experimenting with CSS3, HTML5, and jQuery. To date, he has worked on a number of books for Packt Publishing, including HTML5 Video How-To, jQuery Tools UI Library, and jQuery UI 1.10: The User Interface Library for jQuery.
Mihir Mone is a postgraduate from Monash University, Australia. Although he did his postgraduation in Network Computing, he mainly does web and mobile development these days.
After spending some time fiddling around with routers and switches, he quickly decided to build upon his passion for web development; not design, but development. Building web systems and applications rather than websites with all the fancy flash animations was something that was very interesting and alluring to him. He even returned to his alma mater to teach all about web development in order to pay forward what he had learned.
These days, he works for a small software/engineering house in Melbourne doing web development and prototyping exciting new ideas in the data visualization and UX domain.
He is also a big JavaScript fan and previously reviewed the book Instant jQuery Flot Visual Data Analysis, Packt Publishing.
He is a Linux enthusiast and a big proponent of the OSS movement, and believes that software should always be free to actualize its true potential. A true geek at heart, he spends some of his leisure time writing code in the hope that it may be helpful to the masses.
He is also a motorsport junkie, so you may find him loitering around the race tracks from time to time (especially if there is Formula 1 involved).
Anirudh Prabhu is a software engineer at Xoriant Corporation with 4 years of experience in web designing and development. He is responsible for JavaScript development and maintenance in his project. His areas of expertise are HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery. When not working, Anirudh loves reading, listening to music, and photography.
He did his MSc in Information Technology. He has also reviewed a few titles related to JavaScript and CSS for Packt Publishing and Apress Publications.
Taroon Tyagi is a dreamer, designer, and solution architect. He is a rationalistic optimist, with a lust for food, technology, and knowledge. He has over 5 years of professional and industrial experience in web, UX, and UI design and frontend development. He is currently working as the Head of Design and Interaction at Fizzy Software Pvt. Ltd, based out of Gurgaon, India.
When online, he is constantly involved in the web communities, experimenting with new technologies and looking for inspiration. When offline, he is found enjoying music, books, wireframing, and digging philosophy.
He has worked as a technical reviewer on a few books for Packt Publishing.