Gabriel Garrido is a multifaceted and versatile software engineer with more than 7 years of experience in developing web applications for companies such as Telefonica, Trivago, and Base7Booking. He has a degree in computer science from the University of Granada, Spain.
He is passionate about coding, focusing on its quality and spending hours working on personal projects based on technologies such as computer vision, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality. Taking part in hackathons is one of his hobbies. He has won a couple of prizes for implementing beta software for a Google Cardboard hackathon and another for a travel assistant at a TNOOZ hackathon.
I'd like to thank each one of the colleagues that I've had close to me throughout all these years working in the software industry for helping me enhance my knowledge and my experience in this amazing world of hacking.
Prateek Joshi is an artificial intelligence researcher, an author of eight published books, and a TEDx speaker. He has been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30, CNBC, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business Journal, and many more publications. He is the founder of Pluto AI, a venture-funded Silicon Valley start-up building an intelligence platform for water facilities. He has been an invited speaker at technology and entrepreneurship conferences including TEDx, Global Big Data Conference, Machine Learning Developers Conference, Sensors Expo, and more. His tech blog has more than 1.6 million page views from over 200 countries, and he has more than 7,400 followers. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a master's degree specializing in Artificial Intelligence. He has previously worked at NVIDIA and Microsoft Research. You can learn more about him on his personal website.
Naren Yellavula, better known as Naren Arya in the developer community, is a Python and Go developer from Bangalore, India. He works as software engineer level two for Citrix R&D India, and as a full stack developer, he develops single-page applications and microservices. He loves the UNIX philosophy and blogs about programming. He has also been a speaker at various developer conferences, such as PyCon India 2015 and 2017. When he's not staring at his computer screen, he enjoys reading books.
I really appreciate Prateek and Gabriel for their passion in writing this amazing book. This book covers a wide range of topics on computer vision and AI. As an initial reader in the reviewing process, I enjoyed reading this book thoroughly. I also sincerely congratulate the editorial team for their hard work in polishing and iterating the book. All the best!
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