Cedric Gatay has an engineering degree in computer science. He likes well-crafted and unit-tested code. He is an independent contractor located in Tours, France. He is the cofounder of the Code-Troopers software development team (http://www.code-troopers.com).
He has a very good understanding of the Java languages. He gives courses at engineering schools and talks at Java Users Groups.
He has been using Java EE technologies in various software projects since 2006. He is also the founder of a collaborative blog for developers called Bloggure, which can be found at http://www.bloggure.info.
Sandeep Nair has been working for Liferay for more than seven years and has more than nine years of experience in Java and Java EE technologies overall. He has executed projects using Liferay in various domains such as the construction, financial, and medical fields, providing solutions such as collaboration, enterprise content management, and web content management systems.
He has created a free and open source Google Chartlet plugin for Liferay, which has been downloaded and used by people across 90 countries as per SourceForge statistics. Besides developing, consulting, and implementing solutions, he has also been involved in giving training in Liferay in other countries. Before he jumped into Liferay, he had experience in the Java and Java EE platforms and has worked in EJB, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, and Servicemix. He also has experience in using JitterBit, which is an ETL tool.
He has authored Liferay Beginner's Guide and Liferay Portal 6 Starter both by Packt Publishing.
He has also reviewed Liferay 6.2 User Interface Development, Packt Publishing. When he is not coding, he loves to read books and write blogs.