René Enríquez works as technical leader in a multinational company headquartered in Silicon Valley. He worked on different projects using Java Enterprise Edition and Spring Framework. He currently works with different Spring projects to maintain legacy code and write microservices applying best practices to deliver products using Agile techniques with a strong focus on testing at different levels. During the last years, he worked as a software consultant for private and government companies and as an instructor of courses to develop enterprise and mobile applications. He was also a speaker at the ScrumDay and JavaDay conferences in Quito-Ecuador.
Alberto Salazar is an entrepeneur, passionate Java consultant, JUG leader, Auth0 ambassador and founder of the Java User Group of Ecuador, an associate member of the Java community process and a Java evangelist/trainer. He founded a consulting company in Latin America 10 years ago, where he creates and offers technical solutions based on Java. He has been working for 2 decades creating higly scalable and transactional systems. He is a regular speaker at multiple Java conferences and meetings. He recently organized a Java Conference in Ecuador with Java Champions and co-organized a Java Hackdays event in Spanish that brought together 11 different cities from around the world and 9 Spanish-speaking countries.
Yogendra Sharma is a developer with experience in the architecture, design, and development of scalable and distributed applications. He was awarded a bachelor's degree from Rajasthan Technical University in computer science with a core interest in microservices and Spring. He also has hands-on experience in technologies such as AWS Cloud, Python, J2EE, NodeJS, Angular, MongoDB, and Docker. He is currently working as an IoT and cloud architect at Intelizign Engineering Services. He constantly explores technical novelties, and is open-minded and eager to learn about new technologies and frameworks. He has also technically reviewed books and video courses for Packt.
Roland Alden has been the founder as well as co-founder of three technology startups and has decades of experience managing software engineering teams distributed around the world (Armenia, China, India, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, UAE, Ukraine, and Zambia). His background includes large companies (Data General and AT&T) and venture capital backed startups (Forethought, Go, and Eo). Currently, he works at ioet Inc., a software outsourcing firm based in Silicon Valley and Ecuador. He is a co-author of the Working with Computers and Working with Microsoft Office series of textbooks published by Houghton Mifflin.
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