Arturas Lebedevas is a Software Developer who has been working on various projects in both Lithuania and Ireland. Previously, he was the co-founder and CTO of an Irish legal startup LawSimply, where he used Node.js extensively along with MongoDB.

Currently he is doing software consultancy, focusing mainly on using the Meteor framework, and has been an active member of the Meteor framework community and a technical reviewer for the book Getting Started with Meteor.js JavaScript Framework.

Prashant Venkatasubban started his professional career in a startup where he helped build a proprietary product on speech recognition for Indian languages. During this time, he also built a framework that communicates with the Python framework, Plone, and a telephony interface. After the successful launch of this product, he moved on to join his friends who started to build a social networking product based on the user's intentions; he then focused on implementing the design frontend of this product.

Currently, he has co-founded a non-profit organization that organizes events related to technology, media, and design to promote the ecosystem of innovation and exploration.

He loves all things technology and loves to work on Leap Motion and Meteor.

As a part of the non-profit organization, he runs an initiative called Devthon that aims at promoting the exploration and innovation culture. The websites for this initiative, devthon.org and proposals.devthon.org, are built on Meteor. After reviewing this book, he was very happy to have chosen Meteor as the framework.

I'd like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to review this book.

I'd also like to thank my parents for their continued support, and for never questioning my motives or goals and instead shaping it up with ideas and calculated risks. A big shoutout to all my friends.