Guillaume Lazar is a software engineer living near Paris in France. He has worked for different companies, from startups to multinationals, for the last 7 years. He took the opportunity to observe and learn from many team organizations and technologies.
He eventually founded his own software development company, NeuronalMotion, at the age of 27 with his friend Robin Penea in 2014. Information about it and its open source projects can be found on the comapny's website, www.neuronalmotion.com.
NeuronalMotion represents to Guillaume "a different way of working." The current hierarchical organization that applies to most companies seems obsolete to him. With his own company, he wants to try something different, where each employee will be autonomous.
Although he defines himself as a Qt framework lover, he likes to mix different technologies and platforms. He also spends time on game development, machine learning, and electronics, because "things" become "alive."
Creating examples and writing chapters for this book was a serious challenge this year. Some sections were fundamentally changed to match Qt evolution. I would not have been able to achieve this task alone. I wish to thank Robin Penea, my friend and the coauthor of this book. He gave his all to create with me a robust Qt book with modern C++. Our review team, Rohit Kumar Singh, Ray Rischpater, Quentin Canu, Chistophe Dongieux, and Hugo Loi, have done excellent work: they corrected us and raised some important issues. I also want to thank Packt for the good follow up during the writing process. Finally, I thank my family and, particularly, Sophie, my girlfriend, for her support.
Robin Penea is a software engineer living in France. He has worked for several companies over the last 7 years, on many different technologies (ranging from server application development to embedded programming).
He founded NeuronalMotion with Guillaume Lazar in 2014 to implement his vision of entrepreneurship and project development. He aims to achieve a self-organized company. More information is available at www.neuronalmotion.com.
Besides developing with Qt, he likes to tinker with the Android AOSP framework, learn new programming language paradigms, and discover how to interweave technology and real life.
This book would not have existed without Guillaume Lazar, my friend and the coauthor of the book. He was truly dedicated to designing and crafting the best possible book. I wish to thank our reviewers, Rohit Kumar Singh, Ray Rischpater, Quentin Canu, Christophe Dongieux, and Hugo Loi. Their input was invaluable and definitely raised the quality of the book. Packt played a sensible role, listening to our requests and changes, guiding us through the writing, and monitoring our mental states during this year with benevolence. I also wish to thank my father, Calin, for believing in me. A last word for Flore, my girlfriend, who kept my motivation up and supported me.