Loiane Groner lives in São Paulo, Brazil, and has over 8 years of software development experience. While at university, she demonstrated a great interest in IT. She worked as an assistant teacher for two and a half years teaching Algorithms, Data Structures, and Computing Theory. She represented her university at the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest—Brazilian finals (South America regionals), and also worked as student delegate of the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) for 2 years. She won a merit award in her senior year for being one of the top three students in the Computer Science department and graduated with honors.

She has previously worked at multinational companies such as IBM. Her areas of expertise include Java SE and Java EE as well as Sencha technologies (Ext JS and Sencha Touch). Nowadays, she works as a software development manager at a financial institution, where she manages overseas solutions. She also works as an independent Sencha consultant and coach.

Loiane is also the author of Ext JS 4 First Look, Mastering Ext JS, and Sencha Architect App Development, all published by Packt Publishing.

She is passionate about Sencha and Java, and is the Campinas Java Users Group (CampinasJUG) leader and Espirito Santo Java Users Group (ESJUG) coordinator, both Brazilian JUGs.

Loiane also contributes to the software development community through her blogs at http://loianegroner.com (English) and http://loiane.com (Brazilian Portuguese), where she writes about her IT career, Ext JS, Sencha Touch, PhoneGap, Spring Framework, and general development notes as well as publishing screencasts.

If you want to get in touch, you can find Loiane on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/loianegroner) and Twitter (@loiane).