Simone Bianchi lives in Italy, where he got a degree in electronic engineering.
Now he works full time for a software house as a Java developer. In his spare time, he likes to feed his curious side by exploring other topics so that he can develop components for the Talend platform, an app for the Android system, delight himself by building IoT projects using different micro controllers (such as the Arduino and Spark Core) with the help of his 6-year-old nephew, Leonardo, or simply learn new things such as AngularJS or 3D graphics.
Wilson da Rocha França is a system architect in a leading online retail company in Latin America. He is an IT professional, computer science passionate, and an open source enthusiast; he graduated with a university degree from Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2005 and also holds a master of business administration degree from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 2010.
He is passionate about e-commerce and the Web; he had the opportunity to work not only in online retail, but also in other markets, such as comparison shopping and online classifieds. He has dedicated most of his time to being a Java web developer.
He is currently working on a MongoDB book and had also worked as a reviewer on Instant Varnish Cache How-to, Packt Publishing.
Vincent Gijsen is an all-rounder. With a bachelor's in embedded systems and a master's in information science, he has also worked in a big data start-up and is currently working as a security officer and cyber security consultant regarding vital infrastructure. He has been a reviewer on Storm Blueprints: Patterns for Distributed Real-time Computation, Packt Publishing.
He has a broad range of interests. In his spare time, he likes to fiddle with lasers, microcontrollers, and other related electronics, hence this review. He hopes you like this book as much as he enjoyed reviewing it.
Francis Perea is a professional education professor at Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Andalucía in Spain with more than 14 years of experience.
He specializes in system administration, web development, and content management systems. In his spare time, he works as a freelancer and collaborates, among others, with ñ multimedia, a little design studio in Córdoba working as a system administrator and main web developer.
He has also collaborated as a technical reviewer for SketchUp 2013 for Architectural Visualization, Arduino Home Automation, and Internet of Things with the Arduino Yún, by Packt Publishing.
When not sitting in front of a computer or tinkering in his workshop, he can be found mountain biking or kitesurfing or as a beekeeper taking care of his hives in Axarquía County, where he lives.