Mathieu Nayrolles was born in France where he started his studies in Computing Sciences at Cesi.eXia and passed the diploma of Manager of Informations Systems. He traveled across Europe thanks to his various internships, where he learned how to optimize in industrial environments.

For his fourth year of engineering, he decided to follow a double diploma course at UQAM, Québec, Canada. During his study at UQAM, he was awarded for one of his publications Specification and Detection of SOA Antipatterns at the 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing. He is still processing his final year in both schools, where he is writing two Masters theses in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Quality.

He has worked for global companies such as Eurocopter and Saint-Gobain. Currently, Mathieu Nayrolles gives courses on agile development, service oriented architectures, business intelligence, and data mining at bachelor level in UQAM and CESI.eXia, while he pursues his own studies.

Mathieu Nayrolles have also written a book for optimizing Magento stores called Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to published by Packt Publishing.

You can find even more about Mathieu Nayrolles at his website, www.mathieu-nayrolles.com.

Kalpesh Mehta is a Magento Certified Developer working for an US company as a Lead Magento Developer. He has over 6 years of experience in open source technologies like PHP/MySQL and 3 years of experience in Magento. He has been helping Magento developers since 2011 through his Magento dedicated blog http://ka.lpe.sh (which is very popular among Magento developers) and frequently answers questions on Stack Overflow. In his free time he likes to take freelance projects and review articles/books written in PHP or Magento framework.

If you would like to reach him, send him an e-mail to <[email protected]>.