Alex Bachuk is a web developer with over 7 years of experience, specializing in custom JavaScript and WordPress web applications. Alex has been working with WordPress since Version 2.5 and has worked on projects ranging from a single-page website to interactive web applications and social platforms.
These days, Alex mostly works on single-page web applications powered by Angular.js and full stack Javascript applications using Meteor. His current projects include http://classmate.io, a web application for education, and www.timebooklet.com, a timesheet-focused reporting application.
Alex also organizes and talks at WordPress meetups throughout New England. He writes about technology on his blog, www.alexbachuk.com.
In his free time, Alex likes to travel the world with his wife Oksana, and when there is even more time, he practices Judo and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Baljeet Singh is a web programmer, mobile application developer, consultant, and trainer. He is the creator of Cinnabar WordPress Framework (a WordPress theme framework based on Bootstrap 3). A github repo link for this is available at http://goo.gl/7z2Zom. He is very passionate about web technologies. In his free time, he likes to write about WordPress and various emerging technologies at http://baljeetsingh.in/blog/.
His objective is to make a positive impact on clients, co-workers, and the Internet, using his skills and experience to design and develop compelling and attractive websites, web applications, and mobile applications. He enjoys working on projects that involve a mix of web design, web development, and mobile application development.
Doug Sparling works as a technical architect and software developer for Andrews McMeel Universal, a publishing and syndication company in Kansas City, MO. At AMU, he uses Go for web services and backend processing, Ruby on Rails for web development, and Objective-C, Swift, and Java for iOS and Android development. The sites include www.gocomics.com, www.uexpress.com, www.puzzlesociety.com, and www.dilbert.com.
He is also the director of technology for a small web development firm called New Age Graphics (www.newage-graphics.com). After creating a custom CMS using C# and ASP.NET, all his work has moved to WordPress since the time WordPress 3.0 was released.
He is a passionate advocate for WordPress and has written several WordPress plugins. He can occasionally be found on the WordPress (https://wordpress.org) forums answering questions (and writing sample code) under the username scriptrunner.
He was also the co-author of a Perl book, Instant Perl Modules, for McGraw-Hill and is a reviewer for other Packt Publishing books, including jQuery 2.0 Animation Techniques: Beginner's Guide, and its first edition. He was also a reviewer for The Well-Grounded Rubyist, Second Edition, Manning Publications, and a technical proofer for Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists.
He is currently the technical directing editor for Programming in Haskell and reviewer for Go In Action, among others.