Arvind Ravulavaru is a full-stack consultant with over 6 years of experience in software development. For the last 2 years, he has been working extensively on JavaScript, both on the server side and the client side. Prior to that, Arvind worked on big data analytics, cloud provisioning, and orchestration. He has good exposure to various databases and has also developed and architected an application that was built using Java and ASP.NET.

A year and a half ago, Arvind started a blog titled The Jackal of JavaScript (http://thejackalofjavascript.com), where he writes about developing full-stack applications using JavaScript alone as the server-side and client-side programming language. He has written articles on various topics, such as DNA analysis, sentiment analysis with JavaScript, programming Raspberry Pi with JavaScript, and building a node-webkit and a WebRTC-based video chat client, to name a few.

Apart from this, Arvind provides training, empowering companies with the latest and greatest technology available in the market. He also conducts start up workshops, where he teaches rapid prototyping with today's amazing tool stack. Arvind also provides information on how to take ideas to the market in a very short span of time.

He always looks for ways to contribute to the open source community, making this world a better place for developers. As a consultant, Arvind always tries to power amazing business ideas with awesome technology solutions (language-agnostic), moving the human race up the evolution chain.

Arvind recently started his own company in Hyderabad, where he is building products in the Internet of Things space. The aim of the company is to build IoT products for the world at an affordable price so that everyone can enjoy technology that powers lives.

You can reach Arvind on his blog at http://thejackalofjavascript.com.

Arvind has also reviewed Data-oriented Development with AngularJS, Manoj Waikar, Packt Publishing.