Tasos Bekos is a software engineer and has been working with web technologies for over a decade. He has worked as a freelance developer and consultant for some of the biggest international telecom and financial companies. He is currently working as a frontend architect for ZuluTrade, where he makes use of the latest in frontend technologies. He has deep knowledge of AngularJS and is active in the open source community as a major contributor to the AngularUI Bootstrap project. When not coding, Tasos spends time playing with his two sons.
Jack Hsu is a web developer specializing in frontend tools and technologies. He is the lead frontend developer at Nulogy, bringing his JavaScript and AngularJS expertise to the team. Prior to joining Nulogy, he worked at a variety of companies, including The Globe & Mail, Ontario Institute of Cancer Research, and Wave Accounting. During his spare time, Jack can be found playing video games, experiencing the diverse neighborhoods of Toronto, or travelling the world. You can find an assortment of programming-related posts on his personal blog.
Ole B. Michelsen has been working with full-stack web development for more than 12 years, and has completed his BSc in computer science from DIKU, University of Copenhagen. In recent years, he has specialized in frontend JavaScript development, with particular emphasis on WebRTC and single-page app frameworks.
Jurgen Van de Moere was born in 1978, grew up in Evergem, Belgium, with his parents, sister, and pets. At the age of 6, he started helping his dad, who owned a computer shop, with assembling computers for clients. While his friends were playing computer games, Jurgen was rather fascinated by writing custom scripts and programs to solve problems that his dad's clients were dealing with. After graduating in Latin-Mathematics from Sint-Lievens college in Ghent, Jurgen continued his education at University of Ghent, where he studied computer science. His Unix username at the university was "jvandemo," the nickname he still goes by on the Internet today. In 1999, Jurgen started his professional career at Infoworld. After years of hard work and dedication as a developer and network engineer, he was awarded different management positions in 2005 and 2006. Being a true developer at heart, he missed writing code, and in 2007, he decided to end his management career to pursue his true passion again—development. Since then, he has been studying and working from his home office in Belgium, where he currently lives with his girlfriend, son, and dogs. In a rapidly evolving world of data-intensive, real-time applications, he now focuses on JavaScript-related technologies with a heavy emphasis on AngularJS and Node.js. His many private and public contributions have helped form the foundation of numerous successful projects around the world. If you need help with your project, Jurgen can be reached at <[email protected]>. You can follow him on Twitter at @jvandemo. You can go through his blog at http://www.jvandemo.com.