Pasquale Boemio fell in love with Linux and the open source philosophy at the age of 12. Following this passion, he studied computer engineering at University of Naples Federico II from where he graduated with a master's degree.
Currently, he is working as a researcher in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (DIETI) in the University of Naples Federico II, contributing to the development of real-time communication technologies. His efforts in this field are concretized by supporting the Meetecho project (www.meetecho.com).
Meetecho is a university spin-off and a tool for the collaborative work currently used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to provide remote participation to the working groups. Meetecho leverages some state-of-the-art technologies (such as WebRTC and Docker) to implement a comprehensive architecture that can be lightweight and portable. Meetecho's best project is the Janus WebRTC Gateway (http://janus.conf.meetecho.com/), mentioned later in this book, which allows a user the ability to integrate different, real-time technologies without any pains.
In his spare time, Pasquale works on some personal open source projects (https://github.com/helloIAmPau) and helps the community by giving his contributions to cool projects found on the GitHub platform.
He has already worked with Packt Publishing by reviewing WebRTC Integrator's Guide, a useful guide for anyone who needs to integrate WebRTC with a retro technology such as SIP.
Jose López was born in Galicia, Spain. He is a telecommunications engineer with a large amount of experience in software development, and is also focused on real-time audio/video communications. He started working for Quobis Networks in 2013, a leading company in WebRTC solutions.
Marcos de Vera Piquero is a software engineer who has mainly worked with Python and CoffeeScript. His area of development is now focused on the server side of real-time multimedia applications at Quobis, his current employer. He's also a free software enthusiast and is trying to make it a real alternative.