Agus Kurniawan is a lecturer, researcher, IT consultant, and author. He has more than 16 years of experience in various software and hardware development projects for various companies. He also has been delivering materials in training and workshops, and delivering technical writing. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for 13 years in a row. He is currently doing some research related to software engineering, machine learning, networking and security systems at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia, Indonesia.
I would like to thank the Amazon AWS and IoT communities anywhere in the world for contributing and making learning AWS IoT easy. Last, a thank you to my wife, Ela and my children, Thariq and Zahra for their great support to complete this book.
Ruben Oliva Ramos is a computer systems engineer from Tecnologico of León Institute, with a master's degree in computer and electronics systems engineering, with a specialization in teleinformatics and networking from University of Salle Bajio in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. He has more than 5 years of experience of developing web applications to control and monitor devices connected with Arduino and Raspberry Pi using web frameworks and cloud services to build the IoT applications.
I would like to thank my lord, Jesus Christ for giving me strength and courage to pursue this project; to my dearest wife, Mayte; our two lovely sons, Ruben and Dario; to my father (Ruben); my dearest mom (Rosalia); my brother (Juan Tomas); and my sister (Rosalia), whom I love, for all their support while reviewing this book, for allowing me to pursue my dream, and tolerating me not being with them because of my busy job.
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