Yaroslav Bigus is an expert in building cross-platform web and mobile applications. He has 7 years of experience in development and has worked for companies everywhere, from Leeds to New York. In development, Yaroslav uses the .NET Framework, Python, JavaScript, AngularJS, jQuery, Underscore, and Xamarin.
He is currently working at an Israeli start-up called Tangiblee as a full-stack developer. Previously, Yaroslav reviewed Xamarin Mobile Application Development for iOS, Paul F. Johnson, Packt Publishing; iOS Development with Xamarin CookBook Dimitris Tavlikos, Packt Publishing; Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms Loiane Groner, Packt Publishing; and Mastering JavaScript High Performance Chad R. Adams, Packt Publishing.
William Harrington lives and works at his family's cattle station, Olga Downs, in Northwest Queensland, Australia. He attended James Cook University, Townsville. At the age of 20, he established his own company, Harrington Systems Electronics, which sells the NLIS RFID tag reader—The Pipe Reader—that he designed and manufactures. He also received the AgForce President's Innovation Award in 2005. In 2006, he graduated with honors as a computer systems engineer and received the Queensland Primary Industries Young Achiever Award. Since then, he has gone on to design the uSee remote monitoring system, a revolutionary and low-cost remote monitoring solution.
Having a home-based company has become part of a unique diversification strategy for the family and has provided them with the opportunity to stay on the land. Due to a never-ending passion for technology, William speaks regularly on many topics, so he can bring a futuristic version of the technology that will possibly exist in the next decade.
Since 2011, he has also been a director and programmer for Farm Apps Pty Ltd, developing smartphone and tablet apps that increase farming efficiency.
He enjoys traveling and brewing beer at home.
William works alongside his wife, Hollie, having recently welcomed their young son, Jack, into the world.
Christopher Martin has been a software developer for over 20 years. He started his career working for Advanced Development Methods for Ken Schwaber, who codeveloped the Scrum process with Jeff Sutherland in the early days of the Agile development movement. He went on to write the user interface for the award-winning and top-selling e-commerce software, Online Merchant and Online Merchant Gold.
For the past 5 years, Christopher has concentrated mainly on mobile development and has published several native developed applications for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. For the past year, he has worked on several projects, using Xamarin and utilizing his native development experience along with C# and the .NET development stack.
Today, Christopher consults through his company, Desert Gadgets, for Alpha Software as a solutions engineer. He creates demo mobile applications and instruction videos using Alpha Anywhere—a low code, rapid application development environment to build HTML5 and hybrid business apps that look and feel like native apps. You can find more information about Christopher and Desert Gadgets at www.desertgadgets.com.
Frédéric Mauroy discovered computers in the mid-eighties along with the joy of programming with BASIC. This new-found passion naturally led him to pursue an education in IT, where he learned C and C++. His first job let him hone his skills in C, and he later slid toward C# with the amazing .NET Framework. Having worked mainly in ASP.NET, he also developed Windows applications and, more recently, mobile applications for Android and iOS, using PhoneGap and Xamarin.
He has made mobile applications for Viashopia and Alert112, which can be found at http://mauroy.eu, http://fredericmauroy.com, http://viashopia.com, and http://alert112.com.