Saurabh Chhajed is a Cloudera Certified Developer for Apache Hadoop and Sun (Oracle) Certified Java/J2EE Programmer with 5 years of professional experience in the enterprise application development life cycle using the latest frameworks, tools, and design patterns. He has extensive experience of working with Agile and Scrum methodologies and enjoys acting as an evangelist for new technologies such as NoSQL and big data and analytics. Saurabh has helped some of the largest U.S. companies to build their product suites from scratch. While not working, he enjoys traveling and sharing his experiences on his blog (http://saurzcode.in).
Halil Karaköse is a freelance software architect. He graduated from Işık University in Turkey as a computer engineer in 2005.
He has worked in the telecommunications industry for 10 years, and has worked for Turkcell and Ericsson. In 2014, he quit his job at Ericsson to establish his own software consultancy company, KODFARKI (http://kodfarki.com).
His primary focus is Java, Java EE, Spring, and Primefaces. He also likes to give Java trainings. He has a keen interest in Java tools that speed up development, such as NetBeans and IntelliJ IDEA. In his spare time, he likes running, skiing, and playing PES.
Mario Pérez Madueño was born in 1975 in Turin and lives in Barcelona. He graduated in computer engineering from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Spain, in 2010. Mario is a Java SE, ME, and EE enthusiast and has been a member of the NetBeans Community Acceptance Testing program (NetCAT) for many years. He was also the technical reviewer of the books, Java EE 5 Development with NetBeans 6 and Building SOA-based Composite Applications Using NetBeans IDE 6, both by Packt Publishing.
David Salter is an enterprise software developer and architect who has been developing software professionally since 1991. His relationship with Java goes back to the beginning, when Java 1.0 was used to write desktop applications and applets for interactive websites. David has been developing enterprise Java applications using both Java EE (and J2EE) and open source solutions since 2001. David wrote the books, NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook and Seam 2.x Web Development, both by Packt Publishing. He has also co-authored the book, Building SOA-Based Composite Application Using NetBeans IDE 6, Packt Publishing.
Manjeet Singh Sawhney currently works for a large IT consultancy in London, UK, as a Principal Consultant - Enterprise Data Architect within the Global Enterprise Architecture Consulting practice. Previously, he worked for global organizations in various roles, including development, technical solutions consulting, and data management consulting. Although Manjeet has worked across a range of programming languages, he specializes in Java. During his postgraduate studies, he also worked as a Student Tutor for one of the top 100 universities in the world, where he was teaching Java to undergraduate students and was involved in marking exams and evaluating project assignments. Manjeet acquired his professional experience by working on several mission-critical projects serving clients in the financial services, telecommunications, manufacturing, retail, and public sectors.