Stefan Bunciak is a Quality Assurance Engineer for Red Hat JBoss Middleware, and is currently focusing his efforts on improving the quality of the SOA Governance solution within JBoss Fuse Service Works.
While trying to do his best as the Quality Assurance Engineer, he earned several professional certificates, including Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Red Hat Certified JBoss Administrator (RHCJA), and ISTQB Certified Tester (CTFL). Furthermore, he took part in the Business Process Modeling and Analysis course held by Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske to deepen his knowledge regarding the BPM discipline.
Although he is not an experienced writer, he has found some free time and published several articles, which can be found at https://community.jboss.org/people/sbunciak.
He currently lives in Brno, Czech Republic, where he also finished his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Applied Informatics at Masaryk University.
Hassan Ebied has more than 9 years of experience in the field of software development, and has specialized in JEE applications, middleware integration, and SOA/EAI. He was introduced to BPM 3 years ago when he started using IBM BPM technologies starting from 7.5, 8.0, 8.5, IBM ILOG, JBoss jBPM, and Drools.
He has been working for well-known software companies in Egypt and the Gulf area, including RAYA Integration Services, Cairo; Diyar Middle East, Kuwait; and SAPiT, Cairo. Currently, he is working at SAPiT, a leading system integrator in the Gulf area, as a Senior BPM Specialist.
Peter Johnson has over 34 years of enterprise computing experience. He has been working with Java for 16 years, and for the last 12 years has been heavily involved in Java performance tuning. He is a frequent speaker on Java performance topics at various conferences, including the Computer Measurement Group annual conference, JBoss World, and Linux World. He is a moderator for the build tools and JBoss forums at Java Ranch. He is also the co-author of the book JBoss in Action, Manning Publications, and has been a reviewer on numerous books on topics ranging from Java to Windows PowerShell.
Toshiya Kobayashi is a support engineer at Red Hat, Inc. He has over 10 years of experience in Java and open source software. Since joining Red Hat, he has been supporting various technologies such as JBoss AS, Seam, SOA platform, and Portal. He has been focusing on the BRMS/BPM suite for over three years while contributing to Drools, jBPM, and Designer, among others.
He is also a subleader of Japan JBoss User Group and is happy to encourage open source community activities.
Marcelo Daniel Martini is a BPM consultant. He is responsible for sales and technical analysis and provides advice on technologies and patterns to implement a BPM Middleware/SOA. He is associated with BPM/SOA technologies such as jBPM, Bonita, Intallio, ProcessMaker, Activiti, Bizagi, Lombardi IBM, TIBCO BPM, and Oracle BPM/SOA/OSB (Fusion Middleware) 11g (Decision Tables, BPEL, Business Rules, ADF Task Forms for Human tasks, Mediator services, and Adapter services). He has also worked on the BPEL component of Oracle SOA Suite 11g. He was the Network Administrator for the Oracle database of the Ministry of Economy and Production.
At Garbarino S.A. (http://www.garbarino.com/), he worked with jBPM6 Business Process Management (BPM), WebLogic, BAM, and Confluence. Also, he worked on Drools, CEP, BPEL, and Oracle projects. At Grupo OSDE (http://www.osde.com.ar/), he worked as the Drools Guvnor (Business Rules Manager) and on jBPM6 and CEP projects as well. He was also involved in the implementation of Biometric Electoral Register in Bolivia. He is also a Java architect. He has worked at NEC (http://ar.nec.com/) on Biometrics projects. He worked at Prefectura Nacional Argentina (http://www.prefecturanaval.gov.ar/) on migrating of systems to BPM processes.
Edem Morny is a passionate consultant and evangelist of enterprise Java technologies who has over 8 years of experience in the enterprise Java field. He spent much of his career working for Genkey, architecting and leading a team in building its multimodal, multialgorithm, and fully clustered biometric deduplication product. This product has become the reference point for deduplication services by many African governments including Ghana, Cameroon, and Mozambique. He is now the co-founder and CTO of Queauji Consulting, an enterprise systems integration consultancy in Ghana, specializing in the healthcare sector.
He currently lives in Accra, Ghana. He is married with one little boy. He has also been a reviewer of three other books by Packt Publishing:
JBoss Tools 3 Developer's Guide, Anghel Leonard
JBoss AS 5 Development, Francesco Marchioni
JSF 2.0 Cookbook, Anghel Leonard
Antonio Mendoza Pérez is a software developer with over 8 years of experience in designing and implementing Java Enterprise applications. Always curious to find out and try new ways to build software, three years ago, he grew interested in BPM technologies—in particular jBPM, which he immediately adopted in his projects, together with Drools. From then on, he has been passionately following the Drools world and its evolution. He is also interested in Scala, Groovy, and other JVM programming languages.
You can get in touch with him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/antmendoza or through his blog at http://antmendoza.com.